2011 Leadership Academy Congratulation to the twenty attorneys that have been selected to participate in the 2011 Arkansas Bar Association Leadership Academy. The inaugural class brings together a diverse group of attorneys from across the state who have been identified as emerging leaders. Participants attended the Opening Retreat in January, and will attend three additional sessions that focus on different areas of leadership that are designed to create a diverse network of lawyers with the knowledge, skills, and values to provide dynamic leadership to the profession, their communities, and the state. Amber Wilson Bagley
Jason L. Horton
Leon Jones, Jr.
Paul A. Prater
Keesa M. Smith
Cross, Gunter, Witherspoon & Galchus, Little Rock
Jason Horton Law Firm, Texarkana
Jones Law, LLC, Bentonville
Hosto, Buchan, Prater & Lawrence, PLLC, White Hall
Office of Governor Mike Beebe, Little Rock
Khayyam Eddings
Matthew R. House
Anthony W. Juneau
Friday, Eldredge & Clark, LLP, Little Rock
James, Fink & House, P.A., Little Rock
Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard, PLLC, Rogers
Amy Freedman
David L. Jones
Leslie J. Ligon
Wright, Lindsey & Jennings LLP, Little Rock
U.S. District Court / Western District of Arkansas, El Dorado
Wilson & Associates, PLLC, Conway
Coby W. Logan
Jay L. Shue, Jr.
The Law Offices of Amy Freedman, Texarkana
Hollie Greenway Rabal & Greenway, PLLC, Centerton
Paula Juels Jones Deputy Prosecutor, 23rd Judicial District, North Little Rock
Gwendolyn L. Rucker United States District Court, Little Rock
Jonathan P. Sellers
Jocelyn A. Stotts Barry E. Coplin, P.A., Little Rock
Vicki S. Vasser Matthews, Campbell, Rhoads, McClure, Thompson, & Fryauf, PA, Rogers
William Z. White
Arkansas Department of Finance & Administration, Little Rock
Arkansas Attorney General’s Office, Little Rock
Mays & White, PLLC, Heber Springs
Reduce Risk from Disability Cases Why expose your practice to unnecessary risk by taking on Social Security and SSI disability cases if a professional-to-professional referral will better serve your clients? Referring those cases to H. Mayo Smith, P.A., provides your client an attorney who has limited his practice to Social Security/SSI disability claims exclusively since 1986, who has a Master of Science Degree in Disability Evaluation, and who provides competent, compassionate representation on disability matters. Your practice will be safer, and you’ll have the knowledge that your clients understand that you act in their interest.
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“The Social Security Act is among the most intricate ever drafted by Congress.” It is “almost unintelligible to the uninitiated.” —Schweiker v. Gray Panthers Vol. 46 No. 1/Winter 2011 The Arkansas Lawyer
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