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J. Lee Brown is the head of the firm’s Trust and Estate Planning Practice Group, serves on the Management Committee, and is a Fellow and former Arkansas State Chair of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel. Lee concentrates his practice on estate planning, tax, corporate, and nonprofit matters. He serves private clients in the areas of estate planning, wills and trusts (including multi-generational trusts), probate, small business planning, life insurance planning, asset prot...

James C. Baker focuses his practice on the areas of casualty insurance defense, gas and electrical utility defense, railroad and trucking defense, and commercial and construction litigation. He has first-chaired more than 125 jury trials to verdict and represented clients in more than 400 non-jury trials, arbitrations, and mediations. J.C. has extensive experience in responding to real-time catastrophic accidents and leading accident scene investigations and inspections, including for trains,...

Mary Carole Young is a trial attorney with RMP LLP in Little Rock, Arkansas, whose practice focuses on insurance law and litigation involving insurance matters, as well as medical malpractice defense. She represents physicians, nurses, hospitals, nursing homes, rehabilitation centers, and medical clinics in civil litigation. Her work also includes the defense of public, private, and nonprofit entities, including large healthcare systems across the United States, in medical malpractice, person...

Mr. Goodwin is a shareholder and director of Gill Ragon Owen, P.A. Mr. Goodwin’s practice focuses on structuring and documenting corporate and public finance transactions (including commercial loan closings), structuring asset acquisitions and dispositions, and general corporate, securities and real estate development law. Mr. Goodwin serves on the Editorial Board of the Retail Law Strategist, a publication of the International Council of Shopping Centers and is a frequent speaker and a...

David M. Fuqua is a lawyer recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice areas of Civil Rights Law and Mediation. David M. practices law in Little Rock, Arkansas Best Lawyers has recognized David M. Fuqua since 2011. The Best Lawyers recognition is based on a peer-review survey of lawyers in the same geographic region and legal practice area. The recognition reflects the professional regard in which David M. Fuqua is held by other lawyers.

B.A. Rhodes College, 1964 J.D. University of Virginia, 1967 Over 40 years experience as a trial lawyer and as a construction lawyer. Served as trial lawyer in securities, contract, errors and omissions and casualty disputes, as well as construction and business litigation. Represented owners, general contractors, subcontractors, material suppliers, and architects and engineers. Counsel to individuals and companies for trials, appeals, arbitration, and mediation. Serves on the Panel of Mediato...

Ashley Edwards concentrates her practice in areas of business and commercial transactions. She advises individual and business clients in all commercial transactions including a variety of real estate, public finance, entity formation, corporate governance and general business matters. She has experience in taxable and tax-exempt and public and private finance transactions, as well as real estate and project development. Ashley also has experience with tax matters related to estate planning a...

Ms. Beth Echols is a shareholder and director of Gill Ragon Owen, P.A. She was educated at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and University of Arkansas School of Law. Ms. Echols joined the Arkansas Bar in 2002. She served as a Deputy Prosecuting Attorney in Benton and Pulaski Counties and then served as staff attorney for the Bella Vista Village Property Owners Association before entering private practice. Her practice focuses on domestic relations and probate litigation. She appears ...

Walter Wright has more than 30 years of experience in environmental, energy (petroleum marketing), and water law. His expertise includes counseling clients on issues involving environmental permits, compliance strategies, enforcement defense, property redevelopment issues, environmental impact statements, and procurement/management of water rights. He routinely advises developers, lenders, petroleum marketers, and others about effective strategies for structuring real estate and corporate tra...

Jerry Sallings has been engaged in active trial practice for over 25 years. During that time he has tried approximately 200 jury trials to conclusion dealing with a variety of complex issues. His practice centers on litigation, including nursing home defense, transportation defense, medical malpractice, product liability and tort. Sallings’ more recent experience includes: Lead trial counsel for national nursing home chains and insurers defending multiple lawsuits. Lead trial counsel fo...