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Lesson One would think that the Arkansas Times, if it truly wanted to represent a cross-section of opinion in the Natural State, would rely less on its small cadre of paying internet customers and more on those who write from outside such a narrow base in publishing its letters to the editor.

Perhaps you feel that Little Rock is the last bastion of liberal thinking. I certainly understand such a sentiment.

And to an extent, you may be right. I certainly admire the many courageous stands you’ve taken on the LGBT community, for minority communities, for those in the foster care and penal systems, for the poor and those without a voice.

But in the last election, your man Gene Lyons penned a McCarthy-like hit piece on Bernie Sanders, the only candidate who truly cared about all these issues and who, remarkably, was the only candidate who wouldn’t accept donations from corporate interests. What further testimony to his dedication to truth and justice than this?

In publishing Lyons’ article, you showed the Democratic Party to be just as ruthless and partisan as the Republicans.

There’s a lesson to be learned here.

And if the Democratic Party doesn’t learn it, the Donald Trumps of the world will continue to dominate Arkansas politics, to the detriment of Arkansans.

Brad Bailey Fayetteville

continue to deteriorate in values, decency and honesty. Shame on you, Jason. You are the best instrument in the devil’s toolbox. No one debases Christianity more than you.

Jake da Snake Rapert was a lot more polite with the jerk than most would have been.

Razorblade The Friendly Atheist should just inform the local IRS office that there may be a lot of unreported income raised by Rapert hiding in his usual

guise as a “church.”

If he was smart, all that money raised has been documented by an independent auditor and the extra monies either returned to the giver or the use documented that it was spent in a charitable manner. couldn’t be better I have asked Mr. Rapert to justify his positions in the past. I’ve found that he does what many on the Religious Right do when confronted about their bigotry and hypocrisy.

He simply accuses his questioner of

Since I no longer work at the Bureau of Legislative Research, I can make this obvious statement: Stanley Rapert is a thin-skinned, smallminded asshat, and his stupid rock is going to cost the state a lot more than $100,000.

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In response to an Oct. 27 Arkansas Blog post, “Dear Little Rock, Amazon DOES matter”: Whatever chance, and it wasn’t much, that Little Rock Metro had, the General Assembly, Attorney General Leslie Rutledge and to a lesser extent the Little Rock chamber killed long ago by hating on many things that Amazon espouses for its workers. The Little Rock Tech Park is a start. Amazon is the goal. It ain’t happenin’ in our lifetimes. Now, look for something bite size. If it’s between Austin and Little Rock, where you think they’re going to go? Austin itself makes up for the rest of Texas. Little Rock isn’t there yet for Arkansas.

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“Their New Works”

I’ve spent some time in Austin, Texas, recently. Aside from the housing prices and traffic, Austin is a model for what a modern, 21st century city ought to be.

Incredible music scene, food, nightlife (and even day life). Very family-friendly. You feel safe everywhere you go. There’s a healthy balance of honoring the past vs. embracing the present. Little to no racial tensions. Discussion of ideas rather than worshiping at the altar of the Razorbacks (sports). Most everything is new or being rebuilt.

Fabulous mass transit. Imagine Hillcrest or the Heights with West Little Rock new construction money, and you’ll get an idea.

Little Rock does have a lot of nice things going for it, don’t get me wrong.

But if the choice was between Austin or Little Rock for Amazon, well, the joke’s on Little Rock for sure.

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C152Driver Last time I was in the New York subway, I noticed virtually no one was reading a paper. Not too long ago, the News, the Post were everywhere on the trains. With free Wi-Fi, everyone was on their phones — a sign of the

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print apocalypse.

Casper None of my eight grandkids, all teenagers, read newspapers. I hate to see it.

Cato1 I don’t know how I could make it every morning without the newspaper to get me started. When I worked as an assistant news editor at the Arkansas Gazette back in the 1960s, we would have 56-page daily newspapers, with a 50 to 60 percent news hole. Now, the Democrat Gazette may run 32 to 50 pages, with a 70 or 80 per cent news hole. That represents the loss of a lot of advertising. I have long wondered how the Democrat-Gazette makes it with the paucity of advertising.

Sometimes, a page will only have 10 to 20 column inches of advertising.

If it weren’t for the inserts, and the special sections, the paper would be in a much worse condition, if it had to depend on the traditional ads.

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I live in Memphis and have watched Gannett destroy the state’s newspapers like our Commercial Appeal, The Tennessean, the Knoxville NewsSentinel and the Jackson Sun. How bad it is? I would love for WEHCO to buy the Commercial Appeal, as they also own the Chattanooga paper, the closest thing we have to independent media in all of Tennessee. sjs1959 The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette needs to offer a consistent discount rate for seniors. It is difficult for those on a fixed income to plan finances with seesaw rates. This might stop bleeding in one vital area: readership.

As to young adult readers, the key is education. Always has been. Always will be.

Robert K Widding In response to an Oct. 31 Arkansas Blog post reporting that the Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport will begin offering direct flights to Washington, D.C.: Nearer, my Trump, to thee, Nearer to thee!

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WEEK THAT WAS

Quote of the week “This is not a love letter, Little Rock, though we do love you. This is an intervention. Your mom is here in tears, your ex-girlfriend, the uncle who looks like he wants to be anywhere else, the niece who always smells like pot, the works. We don’t need some intern running a Twitter account to remind us that Little Rock is great. We live here. If we didn’t love this city, we wouldn’t be having this conversation. But please listen through the fog that wafts through City Hall as we say: We have bigger fish to fry than some dumb PR campaign that will benefit exactly zero percent of the people who live here. Some of those fish have been waiting to be fried so long that they’ve rotted on the butcher paper.”— From “Dear Little Rock,” an Arkansas Times rejoinder to the #lovelittlerock PR stunt of preemptively breaking up with Amazon before the retail giant announced the location of its second headquarters. The #lovelittlerock campaign was concocted by the city, the Little Rock Regional Chamber of Commerce and the Stone Ward advertising firm. Read more of the answer letter at dearlittlerock.org.

Democratic candidate emerges in 4th District

Hayden Shamel, a 36-year-old Hot Springs teacher and chair of the Garland County Democratic Party, has announced she’s running for 4th District Congress against incumbent Republican Rep. Bruce Westerman.

On her website, she calls herself a “proud Southern Democrat” whose interests include health care and income inequality. She cares about “people, not profits.”

She plans an official announcement at 3 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 4, at the Farmers Market in Hot Springs.

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Hot Springs is embarking, with Walton Family Foundation help, on the construction of 44.6 miles of mountain bike trails, to be known as the Northwoods Trail System.

It will be built on city-owned property in the Cedar Glades area of northern Hot Springs, which includes hills and three lakes. The first segment will be 16 miles.

Visit Hot Springs, the convention and visitors agency, will match a $648,421 Walton grant to start the work.

Steve Arrison, CEO of Visit Hot Springs, said the project should be an “enormous economic engine” as a prime place for mountain bikers to visit.

Another lawsuit alleging slave labor A third lawsuit has been filed contesting the arrangement by which drug court defendants are sentenced to work unpaid, with pay going to nonprofit agencies.

Pa st compla int s, or ig ina lly disclosed by a n invest igat ive reporting project by the website

Reveal, have detailed how workers have difficult jobs in the poultry industry and live in poor conditions, performing essentially slave labor, while the operators of the nonprofits enjoy large salaries. Simmons Foods, which recently announced a major

expansion subsidized by state tax benefits in Northwest Arkansas, has been a major user of the workers (more than 100 currently, it has said). The new lawsuit added another business that has used the workers, Hendren Plastics, headed by state Sen. Jim Hendren (R-Gravette) and founded by him and his father, state Rep. Kim Hendren (R-Gravette).

“I’ve not seen or received anything about a lawsuit,” Sen. Hendren told the Arkansas Times. “I am proud of the work Hendren Plastics has done to try to give kids in drug rehab programs a second chance. While they are not employees of our company we pay the program for every hour they work consistent with all state and federal laws just as we do our other employees.

We have also hired some to become full-time employees upon completion of the program. It has been rewarding to see some of these kids turn their lives around.”

Simmons, too, has said it pays a competitive wage to the agency overseeing the worker program and has also seen several workers “graduate” and join the reg ular workforce.

On Tuesday, Hendren told the Associated Press his company had ended its relationship with the drug rehab program.

The latest lawsuit has two plaintiffs but seeks class action status. It accuses the employers and two rehabilitation programs of using people sentenced in drug court to fill a shortage in manufacturing workers.

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awmakers can get away with a lot, particularly if the courts let them.

Some cases in point: DISCRIMINATION: Sen. Bart Hester (R-Cave Springs) and Rep. Bob Ballinger (R-Berryville), leading proponents of laws to protect discrimination against gay people in Arkansas, are getting powerful help from Attorney General Leslie Rutledge in resisting efforts to give testimony and provide paperwork about their gay-discrimination legislation. The Arkansas Constitution clearly protects lawmakers from having to testify about things they’ve said in floor debate. But there is no other “legislative privilege” anywhere else in law. Lawyers defending the Fayetteville civil rights statute are seeking material outside that protected in the Constitution.

Hester and Ballinger say the court may interpret state law only by its plain language. They craftily included words saying they meant no discrimination by the law preventing Fayetteville from adopting a civil rights ordinance to protect gay

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ple sentenced in drug courts to jobs in poultry processing and other industries.

The nonprofits keep the workers’ pay, sometimes including payments for work people. Everybody — I mean everybody injuries. The latest lawsuit named the — knew the words were a sham. The law plastics company headed by state Sen. is intended precisely to protect those Jim Hendren (R-Gravette). He insisted, who want to disas the poultry company Simmons does, criminate against that he paid a fair rate for work; it just gay people and went to the nonprofits, not the workers. negate any local Hendren said he’d seen men turn their protections. lives around and stick around for jobs In an interim for which they actually receive pay after ruling last week, the MAX completion of drug court stints.

BRANTLEY Arkansas Supreme On Tuesday, however, Hendren told maxbrantley@arktimes.com Court sent a signal the Associated Press that he had terthey may let the legislators off the hook. minated his agreement with the drug The court is deferential to legislators rehabilitation program. and has exhibited resistance to equal The state Constitution says that it rights under the law for gay people. If it is illegal to make people work without makes permanent an order protecting compensation. Hundreds have been the lawmakers from providing testimony made to do so, including employees for about what motivated this law, they’ll a chicken company that was recently have done more than protect discrimina- granted a batch of state corporate weltion. They will have opened the door to fare payments for expansion of a promeaningless empty words on every law cessing facility. as a means of avoiding court challenges.

SELF-INTEREST: It’s epidemic in SLAVE LABOR: Lawsuits are grow- the legislature. Former legislative leading against nonprofit, putative drug ers Gilbert Baker and Michael Lamourehabilitation agencies that place peo- reux pocketed “consulting fees” as

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ou remember the years-long — joined him and called on Trump to Whitewater investigation of fire Mueller, pardon everyone, including President Bill Clinton by special himself, and order up a special counsel prosecutor Kenneth Starr, who indicted to go after Hillary more than a dozen small fish — a land Clinton. appraiser and a real-estate agent who This is not had never met Clinton, a Republican or going to turn out two and even old political enemies of the well. president — to get them to flip on highAs everyone ERNEST er-ups until they eventually got some figured from the DUMAS goods on the president himself. The outset, the former memory also haunts President Trump, FBI director is not another artless Kenwho, after all, shrewdly proclaimed that neth Starr. You may recall Starr’s bumhis friend Clinton’s only mistake was bling prosecution of the owners of the ever admitting that he had sex with tiny bank at Perryville for reporting a “that woman, Miss Lewinsky,” because loan to Clinton’s gubernatorial campaign it got him impeached. If you need to in 1990 to the wrong federal agency and lie, stick to it. his charging Gov. Jim Guy Tucker, a Special Counsel Robert Mueller Clinton political foe, with violating a isn’t following the Starr route. He went federal tax law that didn’t exist. All of straight for the people close to the presi- it still elevated Starr’s career until he dent, indicting his campaign manager was fired as president of Baylor Univerand a foreign-policy adviser who tried to sity for covering up sexual assaults by set up Trump contacts with the Kremlin. the school’s athletes last year, the same Trump is sick about it, and he should be. week Trump made Paul Manafort his He tweeted madly this week that they campaign chairman. should be going after Hillary Clinton and Mueller’s first indictment, on the the Democrats instead of his campaign other hand, went to the heart of the mataides and, obviously, him. Rupert Mur- ter. A young campaign adviser named doch’s U.S. media — Fox News, The Wall George Papadopoulos, whom Trump Street Journal and the New York Post last year called “an energy and oil consul-

tant — excellent guy” in bragging about his foreign-policy team, pleaded guilty to making contacts with Russians to get dirt on Hillary Clinton for the Trump campaign and lying to the FBI about it.

Papadopoulos’ work preceded the meeting with Russians by Trump’s son, campaign manager and others to get dirt on Clinton. Russians had hacked into the emails of Clinton’s campaign manager and the Democratic National Committee and subsequently fed them to WikiLeaks.

Trump tweeted that Papadopoulos was a liar who was a minor volunteer in his campaign. He said all of Manafort’s illegal activities — earning a fortune representing dictators and Kremlin-backed oligarchs and laundering the money to avoid federal law — preceded his running the presidential campaign. Moreover, he said, Manafort’s work for him was brief and insignificant. Trump had long maintained that the whole story about Russia’s intervening in the presidential campaign to defeat Hillary Clinton was a complete hoax in spite of the conclusion by all the nation’s intelligence agencies that it was real.

Papadopoulos’ correspondence with top campaign officials, including Manafort, verified it. He messaged campaign officials that the Kremlin wanted meetings with Trump or campaign officials. One with the subject line “Request

they worked to advance the interest of a payer working to protect corporations from damage lawsuits. Rep. Andy Davis (R-Little Rock), whose business is water treatment, is forever legislating things that benefit his business.

Last week, the slow wheels of justice finally ground out action against that enemy of gay people, Sen. Bart Hester.

In 2015, he jammed through a law to undo a state Assessment Coordination Division rule and allow favorable personal property tax treatment for land on which billboards sit. His law pegged taxes to cost of the property, not its market value with revenue-producing billboards. Wouldn’t you know it? Hester is an owner of such land.

You could argue that the law flouts the Constitution’s call for equal treatment in property taxation. But, more quickly to the legal point, the legislation didn’t get the constitutionally required three-fourths vote for measures addressing property tax procedures. A taxpayer lawsuit wants the Hester Handout struck down. It’s likely the circuit court will do so. But I fear the Supreme Court will ignore the plain language of the Constitution and find a way to keep the legislature happy.

from Russia to meet Mr. Trump” went to Manafort, who replied that Trump would not go and that “It should be someone low level in the campaign so as not to send any signal.” Trump’s campaign co-chair, Sam Clovis, sent Papadopoulos an email urging him to go to Moscow and work with the Russians “if it is feasible,” but that Trump himself should not go.

Trump’s account that his association with Manafort was fleeting and inconsequential looks weak. Trump had employed him to lobby Florida officials to steer air traffic at Miami International Airport away from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home. (Trump apparently stiffed the company on the lobbying fee.) Manafort kept a condo in Trump Tower. He asked Trump for a top campaign job and said he didn’t want to get paid. He clearly hoped to monetize his association with Trump as he had with other Republican presidents. When his massive payoff for managing the political affairs of the ousted Kremlin-backed Ukrainian president came to light in a New York Times story, he quickly resigned as campaign chairman. Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, thought Manafort had bungled the Republican National Convention, so Trump let the poor guy go.

If only Kenneth Starr were in charge of this investigation, the prospects would be infinitely better.

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ne prominent figure neither a real fight. Or in Trump’s case, to contaken into custody nor charged fuse the one third of voters enchanted with conspiring against United by his cult of personality.

States this week was Hillary Clinton — Another thing to keep in mind: or “Crooked Hillary,” if you follow Presi- “Crooked Hillary” dent Trump’s frenzied tweetstorms. has been servThis was a big disappointment to the ing this function embattled chief executive. The impend- for Republicans ing arrest of his Russia-friendly cam- since about 1994, paign manager Paul Manafort drove aided and abetGENE Trump up the wall. “There is so much ted by much of LYONS GUILT by Democrats/Clinton,” he the national news tweeted, “and now the facts are pour- media. New to political journalism, I ing out. DO SOMETHING!” was naive enough to be shocked when Never mind that the only reason I realized that an ABC News “Nightfor hiring so compromised a figure as line” broadcast doctored a video clip to Manafort to begin with appeared to be make the then-first lady appear to deny his Moscow connections. White House doing legal work for a failed Arkansas Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sand- Savings and Loan. ers tweeted that the “real Russia scandal” “No wonder,” Jeff Greenfield was that the “Clinton campaign paid for exclaimed, “the White House was so the fake Russia dossier, then lied about worried about what was in Vince Fosit & covered it up.” ter’s office when he killed himself.”

In fact, Mother Jones’ October 2016 Suspicious, right? But only if you news story revealing the dossier’s exis- didn’t know that Hillary’s forthright tence stated that Democrats sponsored statement that “I was what we called the it. So what? billing attorney” had been electronically Never mind, too, that a guilty plea deleted. It also helped to not underentered by Trump foreign policy advi- stand that an attorney’s death doesn’t sor George Papadopoulos proves one empower police to rummage through thing: Scant weeks after Democratic client files. Who would entrust sensiNational Committee emails were sto- tive documents to a lawyer if they could? len in March 2016, a Russian operative Hence no cause for worry existed. posing as Vladimir Putin’s niece was Because it sounded fishy to me, I dangling them in front of the Trump crosschecked the original videotape of campaign. And nobody notified the FBI. the first lady’s press conference. Uh-oh.

Papadopoulos’s guilty plea also con- Nevertheless, the fake quote appeared firmed, for those of you keeping score everywhere in the national news media, at home, yet another of the “dodgy dos- sparking widespread speculation that sier’s” allegations about Russian efforts Crooked Hillary would soon be indicted. to elect Trump: collusion over stolen Why the Clinton White House never communications. confronted this monkey business, I “Russia, if you’re listening, I hope never understood. Those responsible you’re able to find the 30,000 emails should have been run out of journalism. that are missing,” Trump said during a Too late now. Entire TV networks July 2016 news conference. now practice such dark arts daily.

Different emails, I know. There’s Every Crooked Hillary frenzy I’ve no evidence anybody hacked Hillary’s encountered since has followed the private messages. Even so, if Trump’s same pattern: Correct the errors and antics looked unseemly then, they look fill in the blanks and the scandal evapworse now. orates. Whether you’d want her to be Anyway, think about it: To buy the your president or even your neighbor, Trump/Sanders/Fox News alibi, it’s Hillary Clinton is a cautious, intelligent necessary to believe that Crooked Hill- politician who colors inside the lines — ary conspired with British sleuth Chris- even if those lines are often drawn with topher Steele and the Kremlin to throw legalistic exactitude. the election to Trump himself.

She’ll never run again, but this is Of course, this is nothing but gorilla exactly how things are done in authoridust, to use the technical term — chaff tarian countries like, well, Russia. You posturing apes fling into in the air to oppose the strongman, first they smear confuse rival primates. They also tear you, and then they throw you in jail. down trees, beat their chests, hoot and But this is still the United States of jump up and down. Anything to avoid America.

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he extension of slavery is the vital point of the whole controversy between the North and the South. … They believe slavery a sin, we do not and there lies the trouble.”

Those are the words of Arkansas Gov. Henry Massey Rector at the Arkansas Secession Convention in March 1861 in his plea to the delegates to vote to leave the Union. A few weeks later, Arkansas delegates voted to secede.

According to the Encyclopedia of Arkansas, the people of the state were initially split on the issue, but when it came time to cast ballots to stay or leave the Union, the delegate vote was nearly unanimous in favor of secession. There were a number of reasons for the people of the South to break from the Union, but slavery was at the top of the list.

Over the years, a sense of embarrassment, shame or just plain old ignorance has led to a revision of those reasons that birthed the motto “heritage, not hate.” Give me a break, OK? Echoing this revision in what can only be an effort to try to hold on to the president’s shrinking right-wing base, this week White House Chief of Staff Gen. John Kelly gave an interview to Fox News claiming the removal of Confederate statues is “a dangerous scrubbing of history” and that a “lack of ability to compromise” led to the Civil War. He did not specify further on the specifics of this failure to compromise, but I’m not sure there is common ground to be had when fighting about whether or not to own other human beings.

I am not holding out for an apology from Kelly. But if there is one, I won’t believe it is genuine. After all, this is the man who stood in the White House briefing room and “scrubbed history” himself by lying to the American people about a speech given by U.S. Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-Fla.) and calling her an “empty barrel.” He probably needs to check out her service to the people of Florida and a mentoring program she created called 5000 Role Models of Excellence that aims to help at-risk minority youths graduate from high school. Instead of criticizing her and making fun of her hats, the Trump administration should be begging her to take the place of that disaster of a secretary of education and ultimate insider, Betsy DeVos. Wilson’s graduation rate for the students in her program hovers around 95 percent. But instead of apologizing or listening, Kelly doubled down by refusing to apologize and making that

asinine comment about the Civil War. This is just one occurrence in a recent spate of attacks on people of color by this administration. Sure, Trump, reverting to his long habit of making fun of physical appearances, AUTUMN recently called felTOLBERT low GOP member and Tennessee Sen. Bob Corker “liddle.” He also continued his assault on Arizona Sen. John McCain in a series of tweets. But Trump’s favorite targets seem to be men and women of color.

The members of his administration, including Kelly and Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, are marching in lockstep behind him. The list is long: Khizir Khan, Myeshia Johnson, Jemele Hill, Colin Kaepernick, Stephen Curry, Rep. Wilson, San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz. One of the federal judges presiding over Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s indictments, Judge Deborah A. Robinson, is a woman of color, so expect to add a new name to that list.

I’ve seen more than a few people call these feuds “harmless distractions” that keep Trump and Co. from picking bigger fights with North Korea and Iran and that some of those who are targeted

by Trump, such as Wilson and Mayor Cruz, enjoy the attention. The former attitude requires us to look the other way while the victims of Trump carry the weight of our safety on their backs, and the latter is victim-blaming at its worst. It’s the same “boys will be boys” mentality, instead now it seems to be “racists will be racists.”

Trump is hoping the “heritage” brigade will continue to support him and save his presidency. He makes it easy to blame his targets as being unpatriotic, attention-seeking and too political. What is hard is to acknowledge our true “heritage,” and that many of our Southern ancestors went to war in order to preserve the right to own people as slaves. But that’s what happened. If you have any doubt, go back and read the words of Gov. Rector and think about what he said. Because the Arkansas Legislature is so keen on tinkering with school curriculum, maybe next session its members can ensure that all students in Arkansas history classes read the speech from Rector that helped drive the state from the Union. I doubt that will ever happen.

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Turning point?

T

he weekend before Halloween seemed like quite the opportune moment for Arkansas’s freakish horror show of a season to reach its essential terminus, and Ole Miss, led by a backup transfer quarterback, bolted to a 31-7 lead early in the second quarter. You’d have been foolish to stay awake for the remainder of this 11 a.m. snoozer, right?

Things got a little squirrelly after that, and stayed that way. The Hogs pecked at the deficit late in the quarter, turning a fumble and an interception return into two short fields for Cole Kelley to utilize. The redshirt freshman quarterback did so effectively, drawing the Hogs within 31-21 at the half with his legs (15-yard scramble for six) and then his arm (a well-designed out to Deon Stewart that turned into a 23-yard score). And then the Hogs opened the second half with another Kelley scoring strike, this one to Cheyenne O’Grady, and suddenly that deficit was nearly erased … all by a team that is well known for not coming back from the dead.

Ole Miss smacked home a couple of field goals, stretching the lead back to nine points, and when Arkansas ceded possession to the Rebelsharkthings with 6 minutes to play, it appeared that an unexpectedly gutsy rally was going to fall short. But things got weirder: a mishandled exchange between quarterback and tailback led to Kevin Richardson getting the easiest scoop-andscore on record, the Hogs were within 37-35 suddenly, and Vaught-Hemingway Stadium suddenly was hushed.

By now, you know that Arkansas held Ole Miss, got the ball with a little over 4 minutes left, and efficiently marched its way down to the 14-yard line to allow Connor Limpert to knock in the biggest field goal of his short career, a 32-yarder that gave the Hogs a wild 38-37 win. But what you don’t know is what effect this victory will have on Bret Bielema’s future, and I can’t pretend to know it either, but if you are one of the ever-shrinking cadre of fans that is loyal to the fifthyear coach for any reason, you probably feel like he’s given himself a new lease on life.

I don’t buy that, necessarily. It’s ironic that the Hogs finally won a game where they trailed at halftime to get rid of Bielema’s goose egg there, because to be honest, they still played

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poorly for stretches against a mediocre Ole Miss team being led by a lame duck interim coach. You can’t just casually look past giving a BEAU WILCOX first-time starting quarterback a monster game and letting a couple of lightly regarded tailbacks blister you on the ground. You can’t feel good about the fact that the team had to really grind to get over 400 total yards for the first time in a month.

Bielema probably wasn’t going to get fired if Limpert had yanked his game-winner wide of the mark, even if that would’ve left him with a 2-6, 0-5 season tally. Yet I suspect that he might well have been discharged after losing to LSU or Mississippi State in November. Now, at 3-5, 1-4, the team remains in the hunt for bowl eligibility and the sales pitch Bielema can use if this team finishes 6-6 or even 7-5 is that once again, the Hogs closed strong (a la 2014-15) and overcame injuries that shelved their leading returning rusher, their senior All-SEC caliber quarterback, their top returning wideout, and the cornerback who broke out last fall. Just think of how things might’ve turned out with a healthy squad! And, oh my, don’t forget that this is alleged to be the hardest schedule on the planet each year!

You mustn’t fall for it. Arkansas beat a terrible, depleted Ole Miss by a single point, on the heels of losing three prior SEC games in October by a combined 90 points. It is entirely possible that, by beating hapless Sun Belt bottom-feeder Coastal Carolina, the team gets a sense of swagger and sees the LSU game as an opportunity to make a statement at Death Valley the same way it did in 2015. But the stakes, the cast of characters, and the attitude surrounding the program are far different now than they were two years ago.

For a week, though, all the controversy can and should be iced down.

For all his faults and failures, Bielema has owned Ole Miss nicely, with four straight victories over the rivals in Oxford and the last three of those being nail-biting material. If these guys can be inordinately clutch against the Rebels, then some psychological deception is in order to make them think they’re hearing Hotty Toddy in their sleep.

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NOTES ON THE PASSING SCENE

f you’ve watched this space for a It was, of course, impossible. The spot while, you know that a few Hallow- where it stood was directly in the path of eens back, we ’fessed up to one of the two game cameras with automatic shutslightly more embarrassing secrets in ters, cameras that would fire a three-shot our life: that for most of The Observer’s photo burst if you even breathed on them.

20s, Yours Truly and his brother looked But standing there it was. We turned for Things That Go Bump in the Night all out our flashlights, and stood there in over the state. We tried to be as skeptical the dark, letting our eyes adjust, staring as possible, always with an eye toward across the no-man’s-land between us. the 10,000 ways the human mind can There have been death-defying fool itself. What we found during those moments in The Observer’s life, scary years was a lot of people so determined moments. But that was the only moment to find an escape hatch to mortality that when Yours Truly was outright terrified. they wished settling floor joists into Summoning every bit of our inner Fred an Etherworld, just out of reach from and Velma, we began inching toward mortal hands. That was mostly it. it. As we approached, it began bobbing Mostly. up and down visibly, almost anxiously.

There are, however, moments from We were 50 feet away when it just … disthose days that still trouble us. This is one: sipated, like murky water going down We promised the folks who run the a drain, a shadow that collapsed and place that we won’t say the name, but swirled into the doorway on its immediyou can probably figure it out without ate left, defying those hair-trigger camtoo much detective work: a massive, eras yet again. abandoned hospital, perched on a windWe stood there in the dark, trying to swept mountain like Frankenstein’s cas- get our heads around what we’d just seen. tle. Six stories, the ceilings collapsing, “I guess it’s gone,” our brother said. open doors like haunted eyes in the dark. The moment he said that, a person — the There is a feeling there. It cooks out of shadow of a person, the shade of a person the walls like radiation: the feeling of — leaned out from the OTHER side of the being, at all times, watched. hallway, a head and shoulder blocking the We had been there all night in the chilly light for a moment, peering out as if to say dark, tromping up and down the stairwells hello. Then, like a half-glimpsed creature by flashlight, walking the long wards. It receding back into murky water, whatever was approaching 3 a.m., and facing a long it was retreated back into the darkness. drive back to Little Rock with nothing At that point, it was either flee, abanholding us upright but float-a-pistol truck doning several hundred dollars’ worth of stop coffee, we decided to pack it in. equipment, or stay long enough to retrieve First, we had to climb up and retrieve it. We went with the latter, posthaste. In two motion-detecting trail cameras on the frenzied grabbing of cameras — which tripods that we’d left monitoring the worked just fine once we were in front of end of a hallway where we’d heard them — we noticed that the end of the hallthere was … something. We came up way was so cold we could see our breath. the stairs, turned, then started the long The Observer still doesn’t know what to trudge through the dark to the cameras. think about that one, children. The BrothAt the end of each hallway there was ers Grim have discussed that moment a large window — a dim yellow rectan- many times over the years, trying to find gle, lit by the streetlights outside. We a rational way to explain what we saw. were 150 feet away from the end of the But we can’t. It still haunts The Observer hallway when our brother stopped. in the dark, especially now that we are Only after The Observer strained to getting older: What did we see? What see what he was seeing did we notice waits there, at the end of that hallway? that, framed in the light from the win- They are questions that are often on our dow, there was the shape of a man. mind, especially in late October.

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TEACHING TEAMWORK: Volunteer coach Mark Farmer with young soccer players.

Soccer takes hold in SWLR

New Boys and Girls Club program helps kids envision a world beyond Little Rock.

BY JACOB ROSENBERG

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round 5 p.m. on a recent Friday, dozens of children spilled onto the field at the Dalton Whetstone Boys and Girls Club in Southwest Little Rock to play soccer. Many still clad in their school uniforms of polo shirts and long pants, they ran past Mark Farmer, a volunteer coach.

One big-eyed boy picked up a ball and sprinted away as Farmer yelled after him a reminder, “No hands!”

Soccer is new for many of the kids.

But Farmer’s not worried about producing the next Lionel Messi at the moment.

The club’s aim is simpler and perhaps harder: to provide an after-school activity for the diverse group of Southwest Little Rock kids — including a growing Latino population, and longtime black and white residents — that allows them to see that “your neighborhood, even Little Rock, is not the whole world,” Farmer said.

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that soccer, like other sports, teaches teamwork and discipline, but also opens up a global perspective to minorities in the United States.

As a jumble of kids run around with just a few balls, some cones and nonregulation goals, many consider the program already a success. But it will soon get a lot bigger.

Dr Pepper, Snapple and Kum & Go have partnered to give the club a $20,000 Let’s Play grant that will be awarded in a ceremony Thursday, Nov. 9. Along with equipment for several sports, the grant will provide the burgeoning soccer program with “soccer goals, soccer balls, goalie gloves, cones and scrimmage vests specifically to help get the soccer league started,” said Heather McIlroy, a representative from Good Sports, one of the nonprofit partners in the Let’s Play initiative.

Just a few months ago it would have been hard to imagine the soccer practices that have been occurring every Friday since mid-September, let alone

the large grant. violence. Once, however, a man ran When Scott Hamil- across the field shooting an AK-47 at ton, a local lawyer and someone he was chasing while Pettus alumni of the Central was at the club. He was scolded by an Arkansas Boys and Girls employee of the club, Pettus said, and Club, and Patrick Pre- stopped. sley, the development “Everyone knew to respect that,” Petdirector for the clubs, tus said. “Southwest Little Rock is a surveyed the same field different place with that Boys and Girls in late June, the grass Club open.” was not even mowed.

In his day, Pettus was a star foot“It was up to our chests,” ball player, and he said sports offered Presley said. structure while teaching life skills. He Hamilton, with a credits sports and the club for his life slight laugh, said, “Now now — a happy life with three kids and I feel like we’re out in a good job.

Chenal.”

When Hamilton and Presley began For those in Lit- the process of renovating the field, they tle Rock, this is coded were thinking of the kids like Pettus language with larger who came to the club each day, and had implications. Soccer is in mind other sports. often seen as a sport for But Presley wanted something that white kids who live in West Little Rock accommodated the diversity that has and other more affluent parts of town, been growing in Southwest Little Rock.

Hamilton said.

In the last 10 years, there has a large Wakefield, where the Whetstone influx of Latino residents, Presley said. club is located, has a reputation of being And, because he used to live in Southern a rough neighborhood. The club has California, he was acutely aware that long been a haven, said Nicholas Pet- the “same tensions” were creeping up tus, 34, who grew up in an apartment along racial lines. He wanted to address complex beside the club, separated from that directly with whatever the new the field only by a metal fence. program would be, and soccer, played Now a recruiter of diversity candi- commonly in Latin America, appealed. dates for the University of Arkansas Margaret Lewis, director of the for Medical Sciences, he remembers Whetstone club, said there has not been the violence and difficulty of growing too much to worry about yet, but there up in Wakefield: watching shoot-outs can be friction. he said “looked like the movies”; the “Just from attending some of the smell of urine in the hallways coming neighborhood meetings you hear that back from school; a single mother killed maybe the two [communities] are not while unloading groceries in the same getting along with each other,” she said. spot where, earlier that same evening, The soccer program provides an Pettus had been playing with a sibling. opportunity to help stop that in the He credits the Boys and Girls Club for future generations, Hamilton said, helping him survive. It was an escape. because “when they’re elsewhere: “You go from being literally hell, hell ‘Hey, that’s my buddy from soccer.’ Not: on earth in [the apartments], to heaven ‘That’s a kid that I don’t know.’ ” right there,” he said. “We would do anyThe program invited kids from the thing to get there.” local area, and made sure to reach out Pettus said kids would jump that to St. Teresa’s Catholic School, which razor wire fence or even find wire cut- is predominately Latino. ters to make holes in it because it was “Now the kids get to experience peotoo dangerous to even walk around the ple from different backgrounds and culblock to the front entrance. tures,” said James Allen, athletic direc“We had to find a way to get there tor at Whetstone. “You see now they’re that avoided the front way of danger getting along just fine.” The hope is and hostility,” he said. that this is the foundation of future The club was “sacred ground,” usu- friendships. ally respected and kept away from the Beyond the local implications, the

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global perspective of soccer, Hamilton says he hopes, will also allow kids to realize that local tiffs are less crucial, that the world is much larger.

“Now on TV they can watch soccer.

They can see kids all over the world on Facebook. They say, ‘I can do this, too.’

It just changes their mindset,” said Hamilton.

In the United States, it’s a mindset less available to poor children. As income goes up, so does soccer participation — leaving communities like Wakefield behind. It became a national talking point after the failure of the United States men’s team to qualify for the next World Cup in Russia that soccer — because of registration fees for certain clubs — costs too much, keeping potentially skilled athletes from participating. But to Hamilton that doesn’t make sense.

“It’s universal. It’s inexpensive. I mean, you need a ball,” Hamilton said with a bit of a laugh. “I mean, that’s it.

“All over the world — in some of the poorest communities of the world — they produce some of the greatest soccer talent the world has ever seen. Why in the world can’t kids right here? African-American and Latino kids — why can’t they have the same experience as someone in Chenal?” Presley added.

The volunteer coaches they’ve recruited — Farmer, Johnson and Hamilton’s childhood friend Steve Laster — said that for now, they are focusing on teamwork and giving kids an outlet and worrying about developing talent later.

“They really just want to come out here and have fun and release,” said Johnson, who also coaches with the club FC Dallas Central Arkansas.

You can see this often: A kid jumps on another’s back and beams a grin during one practice; a boy throws the fluorescent vests worn to demarcate teams into the air, letting them cascade around him as he giggles.

Laster, an engineer by day and soccer coach with Arkansas United, said that, for now, it’s just about the confidence that you can play soccer.

The kids certainly believe it.

Laster remembers one kid putting on a vest, grabbing a ball and saying to him, “I’m a real soccer player now!”

“He was really fired up,” Laster said.

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Inconsequential News Quiz:

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Play at home, while waiting for the next Trump stooge to be perp-walked!

1) The Arkansas Department of Transportation is seeking public comment on a recommended change to a regulation governing the state’s highways. What’s the change?

A) Phasing out the longstanding “large dirt ramp” method of crossing rivers in Hazzard County.

B) Legally codifying the “Gas, Grass or Ass, Nobody Rides for Free” doctrine.

C) Upping the speed limit, to 75 mph on rural understates and 65 mph on rural multilane highways.

D) Certifying “trucker bombs” as a Class One biohazard.

2) The city of Little Rock made a recent announcement. What was it?

A) The Little Rock Animal Village is offering an “Adopt a Llama, Get an Iguana” deal.

B) The city shipped a steamer trunk full of gold Krugerrands to Amazon chief Jeff Bezos as part of Little Rock’s ongoing publicity stunt to somehow show Amazon how much we didn’t need their stupid ol’ global headquarters, anyway.

C) There will be a parking ticket amnesty in November, in exchange for contributions to the city’s homeless day shelter, Jericho Way. D) The city is providing free bulletproof Kevlar/spandex pants for any bicyclists who want to ride the new Asher Avenue Bike Trail.

3) Online blogger The Friendly Atheist recently reached out to Sen. Jason Rapert (R-Golgotha) to ask how he planned to spend the extra thousands of dollars he’s raised from donations to replace the original Ten Commandments monument on the state Capitol grounds, which was destroyed within 24 hours of its installation in June. What, according to the blogger, was included in Rapert’s response to the query?

A) A Bible, in which the blogger found that Ezekiel 23:20 had been highlighted, circled repeatedly in glitter marker and annotated in the margins with the word “HOT!” B) A red baseball cap embroidered with the phrase: “Make America Stone Disobedient Children to Death Again.”

C) A rather confusing warning for the blogger to be truthful in the story, lest they “find out what real journalism can accomplish.”

D) An invitation to invest in his new venture, Bro. Rapert’s Old-Fashioned Coat Hangers (“Just Like Grandma Used Before Roe v. Wade!”).

4) Recently, a 41-year-old Little Rock man was charged with 11 felonies, including gun and drug charges. What was remarkable about the man’s arrest?

A) At the time, he was wearing a “Love, Little Rock” T-shirt.

B) He was arrested outside the Little Rock Police Department headquarters on Markham Street.

C) He worked at Better Community and Family Values, a nonprofit that seeks to help young people find positive alternatives to gang involvement and selling drugs.

D) He’s Mayor Mark Stodola’s brother-in-law.

5) Recently, KATV, Channel 7, reported on how Mountain Pine High’s star football player, who had been ruled ineligible by the Arkansas Athletic Association because he was a transfer student, became eligible to play.

According to the report, how did the student — whose team has reportedly won every game since he joined — get the green light to take the field?

A) His name happens to be Paul Manafort and Donald Trump mistakenly pardoned him. SAD! B) Complicated scheme in which Russian agents hacked the vice principal’s email.

C) He married a 17-year-old Mountain Pine student, which, under an obscure AAA rule, made him immediately eligible to play.

D) He takes a knee during the National Anthem, then sprints onto the field while the crowd is angrily tweeting its outrage.

Answers: C, C, C, C, C

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PULASKI HEIGHTS CHRISTIAN

THE PASTORS OF PULASKI HEIGHTS CHRISTIAN: (From left) Rev. Colbert S. Cartwright (minister 1954-1964), whose preaching for civil rights cost the church its members; Rev. Sam F. Freeman (1940-1948); Rev. Joseph B. Hunter (1927-1940); and Lewis H. Deer (1948-1953).

A reluctant hero Bert Cartwright preached racial equality in 1957

BY ROY REED

I hear the ancient footsteps like the motion of the sea Sometimes I turn, there’s someone there, other times it’s only me.

I am hanging in the balance of the reality of man Like every sparrow falling, like every grain of sand.

—Bob Dylan

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ulaski Heights Christian Church of Little Rock had long been one of the more freethinking congregations of the Disciples of Christ. The founding pastor, Dr. Joseph Hunter, had distinguished himself during World War II by preaching pacifism and, with his wife, going to the aid of Japanese-Americans from the West Coast who were interned in the swamps of South Arkansas. After the governor denounced the Japanese, the state refused to issue birth certificates for infants born at the Jerome and Rohwer camps and the Arkansas Medical Society urged doctors not to treat Japanese prisoners at the camps who got sick.

Another pastor had inflamed the state by presuming to introduce the “communist” Henry Wallace, the former vice president, when he brought his presi-

dential campaign to Little Rock in 1948.

The church, many years later, would be one of the first to consecrate same-sex partnerships.

Even Pulaski Heights Christian, however, was not fully prepared for the freedom of the pulpit exercised by the Rev. Colbert S. Cartwright on Sunday morning Sept. 8, 1957.

To understand how a single sermon by a shy, owlish little preacher could threaten the stability of a congregation, it is necessary to remember that in 1957 America was still openly, often officially, racist. The national government had only just begun to dismantle the legal artifact of racial segregation in Southern states. The problem of de facto segregation and entrenched racism elsewhere was not even recognized in white America outside of a few intel-

Little Rock was far from being a hotbed of white supremacy, but any preacher there who espoused racial integration from the pulpit could expect trouble.

lectual redoubts. Little Rock was far from being a hotbed of white supremacy, but any preacher there who espoused racial integration from the pulpit could expect trouble. Integration, it was commonly believed in the American South of 1957, was a communist plot to destroy the government.

The sermon was a simple story of one sprite of a girl. Elizabeth Eckford was one of nine black students who had been selected to transfer from an all-black school to Little Rock’s most prestigious all-white school, Central High. That transfer was to be the modest beginning of a slow process that would eventually desegregate the entire Little Rock School District.

The plan was sidetracked when Gov. Orval E. Faubus called out the Arkansas National Guard and blocked the admission of the nine students. A picture made famous from the news reports of Sept.

3, 1957, was one of a lonely black girl, pretty and seemingly calm, in a gingham and white dress, walking a gantlet of jeering white people as she tried to reach a bus stop to return home. That was Elizabeth Eckford.

Bert Cartwright’s sermon the next Sunday was a stark description of Eckford’s trial as he watched it unfold in front of Central High School. He quoted the psalms she had read before leaving home to face the hostile crowd. He spoke of her dream of becoming a lawyer. He spoke of visiting in her home and

of his shame, that week, at being white.

Then he declared that the nine black students who were trying to get to Central High were human beings, and that white people who lost sight of that were in danger of losing their own souls. Eckford, he said, “has more guts than anyone present here today.”

Most of the members seemed to appreciate the boldness of the pastor’s words. But a sizable minority were offended. They seized on his last statement. He had questioned their courage, they said.

The trouble boiled for a week. The next Sunday, about 30 members, the entirety of one adult Sunday School class, refused to go into the sanctuary for communion. They asked that it be served to them in their classroom. The request was turned down.

Days later, all of them moved their membership to another church. Pulaski Heights Christian had lost 10 percent of its membership overnight, thanks to one sermon.

Cartwright went on to become a leader of Little Rock’s brave little band of white integrationists. He spoke up beyond the relative safety of his pulpit and became known throughout the city.

The State Police, which kept a close and furtive eye on any person or group that might promote integration, started an investigative file on him. His sermon on Elizabeth Eckford found its way into the file. Plainclothesman watched the

church and at least once recorded the hill-country pronunciation of the word auto license plate numbers and identities militia — “milishee.” That had been conof people parked there after hours. While temptuous. Hearing their pastor preach he became a villain among segregation- the truth on the race issue was problem ists, he became a hero to those blacks enough for some members. They did not and whites struggling for racial equality. deserve to be hurt gratuitously.

Cartwright never quite understood The episode reminded him of his that. He was never a hero in his own first lesson in pastoring. He had just eyes. The idea of popularity unsettled begun his ministry at the First Chrishim, went against the grain of his theo- tian Church of Lynchburg, Va., in 1950, logical training as well as his personal fresh out of Yale Divinity School. Part of inclination. He understood the office of his childhood had been spent at Chattapastor to be appointive, not elective. He nooga, Tenn., where his father was pasbelieved that his authority came from tor of the First Christian Church. But God. He did not seek popularity inside or Bert was no Southerner. His father had outside of the church, like some office- been a leader in an interracial council holder looking for votes. That some peo- at Chattanooga, which had set him and ple considered his efforts on the race his family apart. Young Bert had been issue to be remarkable was slightly puz- teased by his classmates because he zling to him. He was simply carrying out didn’t know how to treat his family’s his duties as a pastor. That was the main black maid. Cartwright said, “Being thing he aspired to: being a good pastor. under the authority of black maids and Years later, he still suffered from yet their being inferior was a subtlety knowing that he had caused hurt in the that I had not been able to capture.” congregation of Pulaski Heights Chris- Later, at Lynchburg, he landed in a broutian Church. As the pastor, he said, he haha that reminded him how far he still should have found a way to avoid rend- lived from his adopted culture. ing the church’s body. If he could not “There were some ministers that had find a way, he felt, then he should at started a kind of Christian youth moveleast have figured out how to reach and ment that was designed to be interracial. touch the disaffected members.

They asked me to come in and join the He remembered parts of the Eck- young people. And the next thing I knew, ford sermon with embarrassment. It they had made me chairman of the group had been a mistake to say that the girl — the newest minister in town. had had more guts than anyone in his “So we planned an interracial service church; that had been unnecessary goad- at the church I served on Sunday aftering. He recalled poking fun at Faubus’ noon. We wanted publicity, and we had

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a planning session where we asked a local reporter to come, and a photographer. On a Monday morning there was this picture of these black and white youths planning a service in the First Christian Church.”

There was immediate consternation.

He got phone calls from anxious members, so many that he decided to consult the chairman of the board of church officers. As he stood on the porch ready to ring the doorbell, he overheard the chairman saying to someone on the telephone, “Yes, we’re going to have to do something about our preacher.” Instead of ringing the bell, he left.

At a board meeting later, Cartwright came prepared. He stepped forward carrying his Bible. He turned on a tape recorder, saying he wanted a record of what was said. Then he explained the purpose of the interracial service and said that if his part in it was not in line with the scriptures, he would be happy to have someone point it out. No one took the Bible to challenge him. The meeting ended quickly.

“I did all the things wrong that a minister can do,” he said as he looked back on the episode.

First, he said, he should not have lost

his nerve on the chairman’s doorstep. It would have been better to get the matter into the open at that point. As for the Bible and the tape recorder, he said, that was an attempt to intimidate the board members. “Some of them were not as facile with the language, so that I think I was really cutting off discussion. I was trying to win my points.”

Furthermore, he had fallen into the trap of thinking that a pastor can administer the church as he sees fit. The members, believing that the church belonged to them, thought he should have asked permission to use the sanctuary for an outside group. “That had not occurred to me,” he confessed.

Whom does the church belong to?

“The church belongs to the members, to the people, under the authority of Christ,” he said. “Not to the pastor. And each minister in various kinds of ways learns it. It may be that he decides to move a communion table six inches to the right, and someone will tell him that that is not his privilege.”

Bert Cartwright did not become a minister as an automatic consequence of being a minister’s son, although he felt drawn to the church early. At the age of 6 or 7 he got into the habit of slipping into

the vestry of the church after services ber of other people beyond his family to take a private “communion” because who had influenced him in the clergy. he wanted to be part of that fellowship. There was an older minister named But his earliest career aspirations ran Joseph Hunter, the founder of Pulaski toward journalism, an interest he never Heights Christian Church — the man abandoned. He wrote articles for both who had stirred up Arkansas chauvinism religious and secular publications until by going to the aid of interned Japanesehis retirement and beyond.

Americans. By the time Bert Cartwright Both his parents had family con- became a pastor at Lynchburg, Hunter nections to the Disciples of Christ in had moved there to teach at Lynchburg 19th century Ohio and Iowa. The Dis- College. The older man was supportive ciples have long been known for stub- during Cartwright’s problem with the born adherence to Christ’s own princi- race issue. ples even when they run athwart other Then there was Richard Niebuhr, his ascendant values such as greed, milita- favorite teacher at Yale Divinity School. rism and racism.

Professor Niebuhr’s brother Reinhold, Bert’s father, Lin D. Cartwright, was who taught at Union Theological Semithe pastor of a church in Coffeyville, nary in New York, was better known to Kan., when Bert was born in 1924. The the public. But the greatest influence on Ku Klux Klan was strong there, and Bert Cartwright’s theology was Richard although the elder Cartwright did not Niebuhr, a seminal thinker, a provocadenounce the Klan directly (the head of tive teacher and, for the young Disciples the local Klavern was a Sunday School minister, a personal icon. teacher in his church, and the class he One thing that he came to apprecitaught included some of the city’s most ate from his Little Rock and Lynchburg prominent men), he did denounce the experiences was another lesson from things the Klan stood for. That was a Professor Niebuhr: that the church must bold move at a time when the Klan con- not be captive to culture, but instead trolled the politics of numerous local must work to transform culture while it governments in the Middle West. transforms and converts human beings.

In later years he could name a num- Cartwright deliberately regarded him-

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self as a stranger each time he moved to a new pastorate.

One advantage in being an outsider was the fresh eye. He was able to look and analyze “and see what is the truth and what is God’s and what is to be changed.”

Another advantage in remaining a little apart from the culture he lived in was that he was not tempted to court popularity. He felt no need to curry favor with his neighbors. He was often out of step with fellow ministers. Sometimes another clergyman would say, “I can understand glimpses of what you’re talking about, Bert. But you don’t have a sense of belonging the way I have.”

Through his outsider’s eyes, he discovered that certain evils seemed to be universal in the American culture.

Having survived and grappled with the racism of Little Rock, he had looked forward to a respite after moving to Youngstown, Ohio, in 1964. He was not especially surprised to learn that Youngstown had a strong Mafia. What startled him was that it also had a strain of racism as virulent as any he had seen in the South. The town had once been a Ku Klux Klan stronghold.

His frail body shuddered as he sat in his Fort Worth home 22 years later and recalled something that had happened in Youngstown on April 4, 1968, the day Martin Luther King was assassinated. He had been in the church that evening while the choir was practicing.

Someone phoned to tell him the news.

He was stunned.

“When the choir came out, there was one of the younger men in the church that I felt drawn to. And I said, “You know, I just heard that Martin Luther King was shot.” He said, “Good! Hey, that’s great!”

Coming to terms with racism was part of Cartwright’s lifelong struggle to maintain his faith. One consequence was a slowly dawning awareness that there was more evil in the world than he had known, and that not all of it would be neatly cleared up through the efforts of well-intentioned people.

He told an interviewer in 1963, “I tend toward despair of the church, despair of white persons generally having any effect in the area of racial change.

There’s a growing sense in me of the irrelevance of what I tend to do.”

Coupled with his personal pessimism was a growing pessimism about the role of the church and the ministry in bringing about social change. He saw God more at work in the world and

less at work in the church. That was a little shocking to him. He had always believed that Christian ministers should be effective. Then he saw that that was not always possible.

“And so then I began to say that we need to begin to be faithful and — a pathetic way of expressing it — then leave it up to God to see what God makes of it. My whole self-understanding of the church and the world and God was shaken. I don’t think I got to the point of no hope, but diminished expectations.”

He never gave up what he called the hard teachings of the church: turning the other cheek, giving to the poor, the social gospel. “But then when I saw the depths of evil and my world falling apart, I began to see that I needed to depend more fully upon God’s love and grace and acceptance.”

One thing that slightly annoyed him about being a hero of the civil rights movement was the presumption that he spent all his days fighting for racial justice. The truth was that he spent most of his days visiting the sick, counseling people with problems, writing and preaching sermons, encouraging faith, caring for the flock — trying to be a good pastor. On the same day that he went to Central High and saw the mob assail Elizabeth Eckford, he went to the hospital and visited sick members of his congregation.

Jean Woolfolk was a leading member of Pulaski Heights Christian Church during Cartwright’s 10-year tenure. She recalled a pastoral visit that he made to her home. Woolfolk’s sister Mary had just received a letter from her husband of 28 years saying he had met another woman in a distant state and wanted a divorce. The distraught sister showed the letter to the pastor.

“Bert read the letter. He handed it back to her, and then he took her hand.

He just sat there. He didn’t say a word, but after a while tears ran down his face.

Finally, he said, ‘Mary, I know I ought to say something, but I don’t know what to say.’ That was all the counseling she needed. That was the finest piece of pastoring I’ve ever seen.”

He was always nagged by the theological question of what a minister should do about the evils of society beyond the walls of the church. He concluded early that God is in history, that is, that He is involved in the world as well as in the church. It was a happenstance of history that the great evil in America during Cartwright’s early

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ministry was racism. He told a group of consequences. An anonymous donor A continuing disagreement between churchmen in Little Rock in 1965, on a during the Central High turbulence — him and some women ministers was visit after he had moved to Youngstown, who turned out to be the future governor, over his use of the traditional “Father, “God is in the midst of all this racial fer- Winthrop Rockefeller — bought a set of Son and Holy Spirit” in referring to the ment working out his purposes. He stained-glass windows for the church to trinity. For one reason or another, some is at work in your community and in show his appreciation for Cartwright’s women who had suffered from sexist mine, seeking to redeem and transform, courage and the church’s support of civil discrimination saw Cartwright as not through judgment and grace, our race rights. Rozzell appreciated the gift, but sufficiently sensitive to women’s issues. relations.” he was a little indignant.

A group at South Hills confronted him He asked the ministers to consider “It was puzzling to me that anybody every Sunday for a period to make clear the role of the pastor in changing com- would be surprised that Bert would their displeasure with the sexist aspects munities. It is not enough, he said, to defend any issue on the basis of what of the service, and these women once take the pietistic view that a clergyman is morally right. My reaction was, ‘Well, threatened to walk out in mid-service. should confine himself to curing the what did they expect of our minister?’ ” Mostly, though, the disagreement was sin-sick soul. He noted that converted As the race issue began to subside, the pursued with good humor. “Through sinners did not automatically become issue of women in the clergy emerged. their persistence,” he recalled years good citizens, as witness the masses As usual, Cartwright came down on the later, “I was to some degree educated, of converts in the Southern Bible Belt side of the strugglers. He had gone to and changed my language and to some who had made no significant contribu- classes with women at Yale Divinity degree my style.” tion to racial justice. The pastor should School and he knew what they faced in Cartwright retired in 1989. He might preach on race, he said. Sermons should show how God tries to integrate and reconcile people. Outside the church, the responsible pastor should serve as a public witness not just for the moral point of view, but for God’s justice. He noted that during a recent civil rights demonstration at Youngstown, he had assumed the role of public witness in a speech on the courthouse steps.

His listeners in Little Rock were not surprised. Many remembered that at Pulaski Heights Christian, he had encouraged the congregation to reach beyond the church walls during the school crisis of 1957. When a segregationist-controlled school board fired more than 40 teachers for their suspected integrationist sympathies, dozens of members of Pulaski Heights Christian Church turned out for a pro- CARTWRIGHT SP0KE OF HER COURAGE: And offended his congregation by saying none test rally. Cartwright did not pretend was as brave as Elizabeth Eckford, who walked with dignity through the Central mob. that he had led the parishioners to the rally. But he pointedly had prepared them for what he saw as this work of male-dominated congregations. After have stayed on longer as area minister, ministry. Preparing and equipping a moving to Fort Worth’s South Hills but he began to tire of the travel and of congregation to do God’s work is part Christian Church, he encouraged the being in a different church every Sunday. of a pastor’s job, he said. members to include women as elders He and his wife, Anne, had five children, Just how does a pastor go about this and to hire a woman student as youth and most had settled in the Fort Worth preparation? At Little Rock, for exam- minister. Later, as area minister of the area. He wanted to spend more time ple, he organized a series of interracial Trinity-Brazos Area in 1979, overseeing with the grandchildren. He was also meetings. After eight Sunday evenings, the programs of 57 congregations, he tiring of being a perpetual outsider. “I several white members confessed that began suggesting names of women as felt myself yearning for a church home,” the meetings had opened their eyes. well as men to congregations searching he said.

Forrest Rozzell, the executive secre- for new pastors.

His friends remarked on the contary of the Arkansas Education AssociaNevertheless, he encountered criti- tinuing agility of his mind. He learned tion and a dominant figure in Arkansas cism from some women. Much of it cen- to operate a computer. He maintained politics for many years, was a longtime tered on the traditionally male-oriented his long interest in such organizations member of Pulaski Heights Christian. language of the Bible. Some felt that as the Texas Conference of Churches, He remembered years later advising passages of Scripture with sexist lan- the National and World Council of Cartwright to continue telling the truth guage should be rewritten for public Churches, the Consultation of Church to the congregation, no matter what the reading; he felt inadequate to the task. Union and the Disciples Division of

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Overseas Ministries. The last had once taken him to Zaire ( now the Democratic Republic of the Congo).

He also continued to write. For the first time, he could freely indulge a scholarly interest that some of his friends considered bizarre. He had been collecting the lore and songs of Bob Dylan since the 1960s. He had corresponded with other Dylan scholars around the world. He had once written a monograph on biblical references in Dylan’s lyrics. By the time of his retirement, he confessed, he had become a full-fledged Dylanologist.

With his usual modesty, he said it would be extravagant to call him an authority.

Some friends, mistakenly assuming that he looked at Dylan through the eyes of a minister, continued to ask him how he could condone Dylan’s lifestyle, his early use of narcotics, etc. He tried to explain that he studied Dylan as other scholars studied Byron or Keats.

“In terms of literary interest, I do not concern myself with making judgments about his personal life. It is a matter of indifference to me whether or not he is a Christian. It is a matter of indifference to me whether or not I agree with him in his lyrics. He is not a hero to me; he is not a role model. I do not worry about the goodness or badness of rock and roll. It is all a matter of interest in the ‘is-ness’ of Bob Dylan.”

He also thought it was time to go public with a secret in the past. He confessed that when Texas Christian University gave him an honorary doctor of divinity degree in 1976, he wore a Dylan T-shirt under his robe during the ceremony.

Just to remind himself that while he appreciated the honor, he should not take it too seriously.

Colbert Cartwright died in 1996.

His papers are in the archives of the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville.

A version of this article first appeared in the anthology “Sources of Inspiration: 15 Modern Religious Leaders,” 1992.

Roy Reed, who lives at Hogeye, was a reporter for the Arkansas Gazette and The New York Times and author of the biography “Orval Faubus: The Life and Times of an American Prodigal.”

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Cantrell, somewhere close to Pinnacle Mountain, beside these trains in North Little Rock, Chenal Mountain, places in Southwest: I had crazy spots. Anywhere with free Wi-Fi. (Shout out to anybody who ever gave me their Xfinity info.) I’d either write all night, or try to get some sleep — never really good sleep, ’cause I was constantly watching for people or cops. And the video depicted some of that. ... This song is meant for you to be honest with yourself. It’s for everybody who feels the same as I did or worse. I’ve never been suicidal, but I have wanted to give up. My heart goes out to those who’ve felt alone, stuck, stagnant or ready to quit. I want anything I make to serve as an outlet or a push, something that will get you in a progressive headspace. Yell it out, make somebody feel it.

END OF PARADISE: Solo Jaxon (left) and Goon des Garcons (right) perform with Or at the White Water Tavern on Saturday, Nov. 4.

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Goon des Garcons and Solo Jaxon on life in Los Angeles.

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oon des Garcons’ August release, “Sore Loser,” kicks off with an intro called “End of Paradise.” It clocks in at just under a minute, long enough for the watery, equatorial sounds of Eden to be usurped by a menacing guitar riff — one with a timbre we’ve come to associate with a sense of foreboding since “Enter Sandman” taught us that minor arpeggios through a chorus pedal mean trouble. We talked with GDG and fellow Little Rock expatriate Solo Jaxon about what the end of paradise sounds like, their shared acclimation to a new home in Los Angeles and their return to Arkansas ahead of their Saturday show with the band Or at the White Water Tavern.

The end of me thinking my life was this fairytale, where — if I was talented enough — the universe would look after me and make sure I ended up where I needed to be in the end. I’ll always believe in destiny, but now I believe more so in making things happen for yourself and never taking “no” for an answer.

You recorded “Sore Loser” at a place called rogue.black studios in Los Angeles. How’s it been making music out there? Is it easier for you to make the personal connections you need to make? Or harder because it’s expensive and everyone’s fighting for airtime? Or harder for other reasons?

GDG: It’s been fun. I’ve learned a lot about myself creatively, being thrown into a new environment like this. When I lived Where, exactly, is the “End of Paradise?” here, I was barely in the studio twice a GDG: To me, the “End of Paradise” month, and those sessions would be maybe represented the end of a time in my life five hours apiece. That’s no way to practice where everything was seemingly good. your 10,000 hours. Now I’m in the studio 20

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every day working my ass off and that feels great. … Things are definitely more expensive and stressful, but I’m a Gemini and I thrive off the pressure, whether I want to admit it or not.

Solo, your song “I’m Not Okay” gets at this — that basically, life pursuing an entertainment career can be totally shitty: stretching $2 into dinner at Rally’s, sleeping outside the venues.

Solo: Rally’s held me down, lol. I still get the $2 box when I go there. It’s a wild reality, but it’s not as sad or daunting as it sounds. In LA, it’s a bit different. We have our own place. We hustle like crazy to get bills paid, create and keep up with everything else. There’s this notion that just because we’re out there, we’ve “made it,” which isn’t the case, but since people believe that, sometimes their support lessens. ... I’ve only been gone for a few months, but I see now just how small and slow to progression Little Rock is and can be.

Is “I’m Not Okay” autobiographical?

Solo: Most definitely. Beginning to end, I chose to make this a very vulnerable and honest effort. ... I really used to sleep in my car. I’d park it all over Little Rock.

Clinton Library, behind the Starbucks on Broadway, in front of the River Market, across from Vino’s, Two Rivers off

Goon, what sort of direction do you give when you’re developing these sonic environments, like the one the song “Cave” takes place in? Do you use bits of film or art to get across musical ideas?

GDG: “Cave” is a funny story. I came in the studio that night wanting to make a love song, but from the perspective of a guy my age that wasn’t the corny, generic, “I love you” song. I told [producer] Idle [Kid] I wanted to make something that felt like “808s and Heartbreak,” and we sat and played around with sounds while watching Nicolas Winding Refn’s “The Neon Demon” on mute until he came up with that melody.

I love this line: “I don’t even go to God when I have questions/I hit the net and I’d rather let Google be the Reverend, Hallelujah.” What are you saying here about the way we approach facts and authority?

GDG: I feel like these days, we’re so technology-based and dependent that sometimes it feels like we don’t have time to sit and wait on blessings, or answers to our life problems. People are starving out here, people are dying. I’m not discrediting religion by any means. No matter my beliefs, I would never push them on anyone else, but I feel like we’re living in a time where we need solutions, human-based solutions to the problems and crises we’ve created ourselves as humans. So many answers to our own CONTINUED ON PAGE 32

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the digital world, as in Sondra Perry’s “netherrrrrr.” Unlike more traditional galleries, Good Weather’s exhibitions are full-fledged installations, often requiring the garage itself to be modified — painted bright blue, or its walls pierced with tiny SD cards as if flung there by hurricane-force winds. To seal the deal on a long run of over 30 shows, Philadelphia muralist Mariel Capanna will install a “permanent fresco” from lime plaster, and she and Riley will discuss the work at this Clinton School talk. SS

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ing and archiving the literature of the American South. For its 25th anniversary fundraising gala, the Oxford American invited Williams — a daughter of Arkansas by way of art, if not by birth — and the person responsible for lean, bracing jewels like “Car Wheels on a Gravel Road” and craggy laments like 2016’s “Dust.”

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NOTES OF A NATIVE SON: James Baldwin’s words are at the center of Raoul Peck’s film “I Am Not Your Negro,” to be screened at the Ron Robinson Theater on Thursday evening. Authors Daniel Black and Vincent Tolliver lead a discussion on Baldwin’s work afterward.

THURSDAY 11/2 race in his lifetime: quite the opposite. His status as an expatriate of the United States afforded him an unyieldingly objective view of the corro6 p.m. Ron Robinson Theater. Free. sive effects that racism, homophobia and “ignorance, allied with power” “To look around the United States today,” James Baldwin wrote in an had on the lives of Americans in Baldwin’s lifetime. “I Am Not Your Neessay titled “The News From All the Northern Cities,” “is enough to make gro,” the 2016 Samuel L. Jackson-narrated documentary from Raoul Peck, prophets and angels weep, and, certainly, the children’s teeth are set on cobbles together writings from Baldwin’s unfinished “Remember This edge.” That was in 1978. He died in 1987, and you’ve got to wonder if that House” with nonlinear footage depicting three of Baldwin’s influences sentiment would have been expressed with even more urgency had he and friends: Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Rev. Martin Luther King been privy to the shooting of Michael Brown, the so-called “Unite the Jr. Authors Daniel Black (“Perfect Peace”) and Vincent Tolliver (“James Right” rallies in Charlottesville, Va., or the church shooting in Charles- Baldwin: Striking a Match to America”) will lead a discussion. SS ton, S.C. Not that he was ever prone to holding back while writing about

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THURSDAY 11/2 It’s First Thursday in Hillcrest, and in addition to the food trucks, wine and shopping along Kavanaugh Boulevard, Box Turtle hosts a meetand-greet with the dogs featured in author Grace Vest’s “Home Sweet Home: Arkansas Rescue Dogs & Their Stories,” 6 p.m., free. Lucero kicks off two nights at George’s Majestic Lounge in Fayetteville, 9 p.m., also 9:30 p.m. Fri., $22-$25.

Cellist Nicholas Canellakis and pianist/composer Michael Brown perform works by Beethoven, Chopin, Gershwin and Copland as part of the Chamber Music Society of Little Rock’s concert series, 7:30 p.m., Trinity Cathedral, $25, free for students. Handmade Moments blends saxophone and jazz rhythms at the White Water Tavern, 9 p.m.

Jocko kicks off the late-week lineup at Cajun’s Wharf, 5:30 p.m., free, and later, Nerd Eye Blind takes a party mix to the stage, 9 p.m., $5.

COUNTRY BOY: Aaron Lewis, formerly of Staind, performs at Verizon Arena Thursday night.

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AARON LEWIS 7 p.m. Verizon Arena. $40-$55.

There are a few things that make Aaron Lewis a lessthan-typical headliner for a big stadium country music show. For one thing, he didn’t always play country. Before he was crooning tellingly titled two-steppers like “That Ain’t Country,” Lewis was the guy from Staind, the band responsible for monopolizing the mid-aughts airwaves with angsty pop metal rockers like “It’s Been Awhile” and “Outside,” an acoustically bent ballad about drug addiction: “And you can bring me to my knees again/All the times that I could beg you please in vain.” Speaking of drugs, Lewis was also on the cover of “High Times” in January 2002, cradling a bouquet of marijuana buds and an intricately sculpted bong. (How’s that for “outlaw country?”) He’s also, though, a hunter and a self-described “constitutional conservative,” one who’s been making a name for himself calling out the Luke Bryans of the genre and picking up with the classic country he heard growing up — as things stood pre-Kenny Rogers. He’s joined by Southern rockers Blackberry Smoke and twang rocker Alex Williams. SS

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COSMOCEAN 9 p.m. Maxine’s, Hot Springs. $5.

This funk-forward septet has no qualms with its operatic bona fides; the two lead singers — voice teachers by day — imbue their duetting with insanely high notes and still manage not to lose a continuous thread of sensuality and choreographed theater. Like any good bar band, their set is utterly danceable, coaxing even the too-cool-forschool to the floor for some late-night abandon and eliciting testimonials like: “OMG they are so fun.” SS

CITIZEN: MacArthur “Genius” Grant-winning poet Claudia Rankine speaks at Hendrix College’s Reves Recital Hall Thursday night.

THURSDAY 11/2

CLAUDIA RANKINE 7:30 p.m. Reves Recital Hall, Hendrix College, Conway. Free.

A 30-minute trek for poetry may sound like a lot of trouble, but the journey will be well worth it to hear Claudia Rankine, a MacArthur “Genius” Fellow. Rankine will read and discuss her work as well as answer questions from audience members. Although she is a multigenre author, Rankine became a literary sensation after the publication of her most recent book-length poem, “Citizen: An American Lyric.” In “Citizen,” Rankine weaves together jarring national events, images of racial discrimination and gripping personal encounters with antiblackness. Part essay, poetry, prose and art, “Citizen” elevates witness writing and the poetic genre into groundbreaking territory by dissecting the power of America’s public stage, white imagination in the context of a supposedly “post-racial” society and the psychological pressures that overwhelm individuals subjected day in and day out to racial oppression. The reading will be followed by a book signing and reception. LZ

Jamie Lou & The Hullabaloo and Adam Faucett share a bill at Four Quarter Bar, 10 p.m., $7.

Motherfunkship brings its “groove fusion” to Kings Live Music in Conway, 8:30 p.m., $5. The historic Dreamland Ballroom hosts its annual fundraiser, Dancing Into Dreamland, 7 p.m., $75. “Waylon’s Still the King,” “I Ain’t Drunk” and other declarations are on the agenda for the Whitey Morgan show at Revolution, 9 p.m., $20-$75.

Casting Crowns, a long-tenured Christian rock band, leads a live worship experience at Verizon Arena, 7:30 p.m., $20-$70. Against the Grain plays a free show at Markham Street Grill and Pub, 8:30 p.m. Cabot’s River City Overdrive performs at Cajun’s Wharf, 9 p.m., $5. Mayday

by Midnight performs at Oaklawn Racing & Gaming’s Silks Bar & Grill, 10 p.m. Fri.-Sat., free. The art galleries on Central Avenue in Hot Springs stay open late for the first Friday Gallery Walk, 5-9 p.m., downtown Hot Springs. Sculptor Lynda Benglis gives a talk at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, 7 p.m.

SATURDAY 11/4 The Bernice Garden Vintage Market kicks off at 9 a.m. in the SoMa neighborhood, with kitchenware, pottery, glass, handmade crafts and more available for purchase. Marion native Barrett Baber takes “I’d Love to Lay You Down” and other country hits to Stickyz Rock ’n’ Roll Chicken Shack, 9 p.m., $10-$12. The Federalis brings their “Delta rock leads and barfightstyle drums” brand of Southern CONTINUED ON PAGE 25

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‘ROMEO AND JULIET’ 7:30 p.m. Sat., 3 p.m. Sun., Robinson Center, $15-$65.

SYMPHONIC DANCES: The Arkansas Symphony Orchestra plays works by Prokofiev, Kabalevsky and Rachmaninoff this weekend at Robinson Center Performance Hall.

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Third time’s the charm, they say. Prokofiev, after his “Romeo and Juliet”-based ballet got the cold shoulder from the Bolshoi Theater and the Leningrad Opera and Ballet Company, was eventually able to get two concert suites heard in Moscow and the United States before the ballet’s eventual premiere in 1940. The second of those suites, which ends (is there a statute of limitations on spoiler

alerts?) with the tragic death of the two title characters, will be performed by the ASO this weekend, bookended by the overture to Dmitri Kabalevsky’s opera “Colas Breugnon” and Rachmaninoff’s final composition, “Symphonic Dances,” a three-movement suite that draws from medieval plainchant and requiem liturgy and that utilizes a too-often pigeonholed alto saxophone (cradled by bassoon, oboe and clarinet voices) to voice one of its chief haunting, contemplative melodies. SS

SATURDAY 11/4

hash it all out. Admission is free, and vendors include Harambee Market, 1 p.m. Viva Vegan, 4601 W. 12th St. Hoodveganchic, The House Of MenFree. tal, Katmandu MOMO, Little AlcheWhether you’re a lifelong devo- my Garden, Shambala Mobile Vegan tee to the plant-based diet or you Kitchen LLC, Trisha’s Treats, Thyme just found yourself suddenly and for Grace, Vegans in Space and Viva seriously freaked out by “What the Vegan, which is presenting the event Health” on Netflix, this is the spot in partnership with Little Rock’s Vegto hang with the city’s vegans and an Dinner Club. SS

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AMERICA 7:30 p.m. Reynolds Performance Hall, UCA, Conway. $27-$40.

On paper, it sounds pretty iffy: Three dudes meet at London Central High School, start jamming some wispy Crosby, Stills & Nash-style harmonies on borrowed acoustic guitars, name themselves “America” to address their own borrowed sound before it became A Thing, and go on to create some of the most recognizable folk rock riffs of the 1970s — “A Horse

With No Name,” “Sister Golden Hair,” “Ventura Highway.” Sans Dan Peek, the member who left in 1977 to chase a new artistic direction (and newfound sobriety and religion) and who died in 2011, Gerry Beckley and Dewey Bunnell are on tour playing the aforementioned classics for an auditorium audience, some of whom, no doubt, first heard “Tin Man” outstretched somewhere on a sunny festival lawn, smoking some bygone mild strain of grass. SS

SATURDAY 11/4

‘TROUBLED ISLAND’ 2 p.m. Hillary Clinton Children’s Library. Free.

From the Irish opera “Eithne” to Scott Joplin’s “Treemonisha,” operas outside the canon are getting some love these days. William Grant Still’s little-known “Troubled Island” gets a concert performance at the children’s library this weekend from a cast of Opera in the Rock singers: baritone Ronald Jensen McDaniel, mezzo soprano Nisheedah Golden,

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bass Kenneth Gaddie, mezzo soprano Satia Spencer, in 1957, but to the ways in which Still himself was soprano Candice Harris and tenor Christopher Straw, edged out of the elitist upper echelons of the New with LaSheena Gordon as narrator and Janine Tiner York opera world in his time. I can’t imagine a more as accompanist. Langston Hughes’ libretto tells the fitting place for Still’s opera to further inspire than story of Haitian slaves in 1791 who, in the wake of at a children’s library in Little Rock, the town where an exhilarating rebellion, want to establish commu- the often-overlooked composer spent so much of his nity schools and are met with resistance from the life. “Troubled Island,” to be performed in full next white power establishment, a tale that shares a bit- May at UA Pulaski Technical College’s Center for the terly poetic resemblance not only to the events sur- Humanities and Arts, will be excerpted at the library rounding the desegregation of Central High School and followed by a Q&A session with the singers. SS

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The North Little Rock Community Concert Band performs works by John Philip Sousa, Claude T. Smith and more, 3 p.m., Patrick Henry Hays Center, NLR, free. In the spirit of “dismantling the current culture of power and building an equitable, inclusive Arkansas,” Just Communities of Arkansas hosts the Walk for Community, beginning at the River Market pavilions at 1:30 p.m., free. The Arkansas Foundation for Suicide Prevention hosts its Out of the Darkness Walk beginning at Dickey-Stephens Park, 2:15 p.m., register at afsp.org/littlerock.

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With heavy guitar fuzz, an infatuation with nautical culture and mathematical etudes that would work as well on a violin as they do on electric guitar, Seattle’s Helms Alee is stepping away from its tour supporting Tokyo noise rockers Boris long enough to play a date in Little Rock with our own purveyors of relentlessly trudging doom rock, Sumokem. If you loved Sumokem’s “The Madness of Lu Shen Ti, Vol. 1” and haven’t caught up with its latest, “Guardian of Yosemite,” brace yourself. Except for the leitmotifs that open “Ogama” and “Mescalito,” the seven-track, mixed-meter monstrosity abandons every bit of its predecessor’s moodiness and slow fuzz for staccato guitar punches and crushing drums. SS

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rock to Maxine’s in Hot Springs, with Matthew McNeal and Ryan Sauders, 9 p.m. $7. The Landlubbers Boat Float on Main, a Christmasthemed parade of boats, begins at 6 p.m. at the Clinton Presidential Center, followed by a “Yacht Rock Block Party” along the 500 block of Main Street, free. Chris DeClerk kicks off Saturday night with a happy hour set at Cajun’s, and later, The Woodpeckers play some straightahead rock ’n’ roll, 9 p.m., $5. The Chili Fights in the Heights cookoff begins at noon, for the benefit of Arkansas Foodbank, 5501 Kavanaugh Blvd., donations.

TUESDAY 11/7

“DOUBLE” REEDS: Twice Sax performs Wednesday night at South on Main’s “Sessions” series.

WEDNESDAY 11/8

TWICE SAX 8 p.m. South on Main. $10.

In a YouTube video filmed at the River Market pavilions, saxophonists Dave Williams II and Brandon Dorris rip into Led Zeppelin’s “The Ocean” at a blistering tempo, showcasing both their penchant for taming songs that are rhythmically beastly and their love of tunes with full, bracing stops — the kind of stops that cut you off short when you’re loudly relating a story to a companion, suddenly yelling above four beats of hard silence. The quintet, bound together from years of session work, local jams and wedding gigs, aims to head into the studio and record an album, and this concert raises funds for that project. SS

Author, humorist and former host of “A Prairie Home Companion” Garrison Keillor makes a visit to the Robinson Center, 7 p.m., $49$75. Works from Sarasate, SaintSaens and Jefferson Friedman are on the program for “Spanish Dance,” a River Rhapsodies Chamber Concert from the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra, 7 p.m., Clinton Presidential Center, $10-$23. The White Water Tavern hosts a rock ’n’ roll show with Fiscal Spliff, Pumpkinseed and William Blackart, 9 p.m. Argenta Community Theater screens Jeff Nichols’ “Mud” as part of the Dogtown Film Series, 7 p.m., $5. The Museum of Discovery honors Arkansans with notable careers in science, math and technology at “Spark! Igniting a Passion for Science, Technology & Math,” 6:30 p.m., donations and silent auction.

WEDNESDAY 11/8 As part of its “Fiction & Fact: A War Dialogue with Veterans,” the Central Arkansas Library System hosts a screening of “The Fog of War,” Ron Robinson Theater, 6:30 p.m., free.

The Junior League of Little Rock kicks off its annual four-day shopping event, Holiday House, with a toy drive and preview party, 6 p.m., see jllr.org for details.

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VESUVIO BISTRO, AT 1315 Breckenridge Drive, has a new look, a new menu and new hours, all with an eye to family friendly and casual service, letting folks enjoy a good meal out without having to put on the dog. Gone (mostly) are the white tablecloths; the waiters have traded in their white shirts and ties for clean-cut T-shirts and jeans. The walls have been dressed down, too, with barn wood, and there are now mounted TVs for sports fans. Kelli Criswell, who owns Vesuvio with her husband, Bill, noted the bigger change: Vesuvio, which opened nine years ago for dinner service only, is now open daily at 11 a.m. for lunch, and sandwiches and pizzas have been added to the menu. Sandwiches include crab cake, Caprese grilled cheese, pancetta and cheese paninis and more. Specialty pizzas include the Melanzane Vesuvio, made with thinly sliced and breaded eggplant and mozzarella; the Carni Italiana, with sausage, pepperoni and meatballs; the Rosario, with mortadella and pancetta; and several others, along with made-to-order pies. There’s a kids’ menu now, too, along with a grill menu that will change monthly. Among its offerings now are a Fillito alla Griglia, a 10-ounce beef tenderloin, and a Tonno alla Balsamico, grilled ahi tuna with a balsamic reduction. Fans of the old Vesuvio will be glad to see the menu has retained some old favorites — lasagna, manicotti, cannelloni, spaghetti, et cetera — along with the new. You can order meals to go, either by calling the restaurant at 225-0500 or going to its website, vesuviobistro.com, which uses Waitr app for to-go orders, either delivery or pickup. Vesuvio also caters.

CORE BREWING & DISTILLING CO., headquartered in Springdale, will open its second Central Arkansas bar at 1214 Main St., in SoMa, perhaps as soon as mid-December. Marketing head Jeff Starling said the new Core (the other Central Arkansas Core is in Argenta) will have a kitchen and may serve “fun, small batch” beers at times, but primarily will be supplied by the brewery in Springdale.

On tap find Leg Hound Lager, Barney’s Imperial Red, Oatmeal Stout and others, as well as seasonals Pumpkin Pie Ale, Schwartzbier black lager, Coffee Milk Stout and Exit 65 Porter. Core, voted best beer by the people at the 2013 Arkansas Times Craft Beer Festival, was founded in 2010 by Jesse Core; a drawing of his late wiener dog, Barney, is featured on his labels. Starling didn’t know how many the new pub, in the space formerly occupied by the Escape Room, will seat nor whether hiring has started, but Core is seeking delivery drivers in Little Rock. Core also has pubs in Bentonville, Rogers and Fort Smith.

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CROWD PLEASER: Blue crab topped with tuna and jalapenos.

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cheese over house special sauce.” What came from the kitchen was what another restaurant might call crab rangoon, but better, we thought. It was one of the best versions of the dish we’ve had. It was light on the crab, heavier on the cream cheese, but the wonton wasn’t KamiKaito tries its hand overstuffed. The wrapper was thin and fried to a crisp golden brown. They were at seemingly snake-bit site in Argenta. delicious, they teased the appetite and here’s something to be said about player piano in the corner of the res- they were not too heavy. staking a claim on a piece of terri- taurant offset the bar’s modern design.

We would place a safe bet on Kamitory that has not been kind to its There were some rough spots, as you Kaito’s Pork Gyoza ($5.50) being made previous inhabitants. Half the battle for might expect from a new place. On a in house. They’re not like the prepacka restaurant’s success seems to be won recent Tuesday evening we visited, the aged ones you find in most other reson location alone. (Even a great location crowd was thin, but the servers seemed taurants. If you are familiar with Kamiwon’t always do the trick.) overwhelmed.

Kaito’s sister restaurant, Kiyen’s, this KamiKaito in North Little Rock It seems the menus were finalized version will be familiar. The large dumpfaces that challenge at Sixth and Main before a thorough proofreading. Some lings were stuffed with well-seasoned in Argenta. Can it succeed where others, of the wording was a bit bizarre. The ground pork and served with a sweet including the well-received Butcher and blurb below a chili shrimp appetizer and spicy dipping sauce.

Public/Good Food combo and the neigh- described a dish of “crunch fried beef.”

The Calamari Tempura ($7.50) may borhood favorite Argenta Market, faltered? Unfortunately our server was having a have been the most bizarre version of KamiKaito is off to a good start. The little trouble making heads or tails of fried calamari we’ve had. The pieces of restaurant is open and bright, like that some of the items, as well. After a trip calamari were in discs, not rings. While of its predecessors. The ambiance is fun, to the kitchen, he was able to paint us the taste and texture were fine, they modern and clean. The blown glass light- a clearer picture. weren’t reminiscent of traditional fried ing fixtures look great next to the lightly We started with a few appetizers. The calamari. We wouldn’t be surprised to stained wood paneling and over the sleek, Crispy Blue Crab ($6) was described as learn we were mistakenly served shrimp. white bar. Warm lighting and a grand “5 deep fried flour thin skin with cream It wasn’t bad, just different.

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It took us a while to read through all of the sushi options. There’s a healthy range of creations, from nigiri and sashimi to house and specialty rolls.

KamiKaito also offers other entrees like hibachi and poke bowls, but we were set on sushi. Our sushi expectations were pretty high, considering Kiyen’s is one of our go-to sushi joints in town.

KamiKaito delivered. The Burning Troi ($12.95), a roll of spicy tuna and avocado topped with smoked salmon, was wrapped in foil and served on a

flaming dish. It was the table’s favorite roll, with a good mix of textures and its smoky flavor.

Another crowd pleaser was the Vesame Mucho ($14.95). It was stuffed with spicy blue crab and vegetables and topped with tuna and thin slices of jalapeno. The sweetness in the mango chili sauce topping helped offset the heat.

We can’t say enough good things about the food at KamiKaito. Just about everything we ordered exceeded our expectations. If there was any drawback, it was the servers’ lack of attention to detail. Customers shouldn’t have to ask for their table to be cleared or for clean plates, and only so much can be blamed on a busy night. With a bit more staff training and a copy-edited menu, KamiKaito will be on its way to providing an all-around exceptional dining experience, and, hopefully, one that will last.

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CONTINUITY: The long-awaited revival of “Blade Runner” may be set in the future, but like all good science fiction, it asks unsettling questions about now.

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years. (Seriously, though, go look at how many cuts Scott put the movie through. There’s a reason it suffered out of the gate.) The sequel will suffer no such anonymity.

The world of “Blade Runner” 2049 looks eerily familiar.

The question will remain, though, whether “2049” will have the long afterlife that “Blade Runner,” against

BY SAM EIFLING any reasonable expectation, has managed to enjoy. My guess is that it will, in part because it suffers some of hen you see enough movies, most of them the city with rain and snow) and yet seemingly within the same flaws as the original: namely, an opaque plot tend to blur around the edges a bit. The mis- reach. It’s murky, grim and besieged with advertising. that you can debate and tease apart over beers, days chievous boner comedies all run together. You have to allow the movie its remarkable “replicants” or weeks after you see it.

Pretty much anything with the word “Bad” in the title — cyborgs, essentially — because humans play them.

In a nutshell, a replicant cop played by Ryan Gosadopts a certain sameness. The found-footage horror Aside from those too-beautiful machines, though, this ling has a job similar to Harrison Ford’s Decker in flicks become a series of wobbly, blurry close-ups; the future feels familiar, like a dream you’re remembering the first film, i.e., tracking down and destroying old, Liam Neeson revenge flicks merge with the Denzel before you have it. rogue replicants. In this version, however, it becomes Washington revenge flicks. Sequels, too, become a So here’s why “2049” is worth the trip: It’s that rare, clear that the replicants have changed — and possibly parade of sameness, until you worry that the $15 and deeply conceived movie world that will haunt you evolved — in a way that upends the ethics of that practwo hours you spend sitting in dark rooms staring at long after the money is spent. Screenwriter Hampton tice. The mechanisms of what happens next remain a a lit screen simply aren’t creating enough memories Fancher worked on both films, keeping the mythology little hinky, in the way that almost all sci-fi will round to justify the costs. on track; cinematographer Roger Deakins, whose 13 a corner now and again, but it’s those messy joints that Then a film like “Blade Runner 2049” shoulders Oscar nominations include those for the Coen broth- make it ripe for discussion. its way into theaters, an unlikely masterpiece 35 years ers’ “True Grit” and “No Country for Old Men,” gives Then, there’s the cinema of it all; the “Grapes of Wrath”behind the original, and you’re ready to forgive the the West a spare, haunted feel once you break out worthy framing of a dead tree in the desert. Or the improbentire moviegoing enterprise. The gap since “Blade of the city proper. Hans Zimmer’s score is likewise able yet totally plausible hologram girlfriend Joi, played by Runner” has to make “2049” one of the longest-delayed ambiently stripped down, dissociative and beautiful. Ana de Armas — a person playing a machine that’s trying true sequels in history; that Harrison Ford returns in Atmospherically, “2049” is this year’s “Arrival” — a to appear human — that gives the film a spooky recognithe same role lends a continuity that almost no proj- movie that, even if you can’t explain it to your friends tion of the now. “Blade Runner” was set in 2019. We’re ect so delayed could hope to match. Director Denis in detail later, lingers in your mind as a mood. still a long way from the replicants that film promised, and Villeneuve picks up from Ridley Scott’s occasionally Like “Arrival,” too, it’s likely to receive an Oscar we’re a long way from the year 2049. But in its treatment muddled vision to create a Los Angeles at once dis- nomination for Best Picture. Overlooked in its day, the of artificial intelligence and climate catastrophe, “2049” tant (the climate, gone berserk, now constantly pelts original “Blade Runner” has grown in stature over the feels like a future that isn’t all that far out.

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invites everyone to come view and purchase original artwork made by their very own Museum School faculty and students. Arkansas State Fairgrounds Complex - Hall of Industry! Member Only Preview Party - Friday evening November 17 from 6-9pm, Light hors d’oeuvres, wine and a first-hand look at this year’s sale items. You can purchase a membership at the door. Public sale is Saturday, the 18th from 9am-3pm. The best holiday gifts will be found here and you can even add to your personal art collection.

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DRIVERS PLEASE BE AWARE, IT’S ARKANSAS STATE LAW: USE OF BICYCLES OR ANIMALS

Every person riding a bicycle or an animal, or driving any animal drawing a vehicle upon a highway, shall have all the rights and all of the duties applicable to the driver of a vehicle, except those provisions of this act which by their nature can have no applicability.

OVERTAKING A BICYCLE

The driver of a motor vehicle overtaking a bicycle proceeding in the same direction on a roadway shall exercise due care and pass to the left at a safe distance of not less than three feet (3’) and shall not again drive to the right side of the roadway until safely clear of the overtaken bicycle.

AND CYCLISTS, PLEASE REMEMBER...

You’re vehicles on the road, just like cars and motorcycles and must obey all traffic laws— signal, ride on the right side of the road and yield to traffic normally. Make eye contact with motorists.

Be visible. Be predictable. Heads up, think ahead.

THE PERSONAL INJURY

MADE HEADLINES THE JURY AWARD

MADE HISTORY Victories are always important.

Justice even more valued.

But of all the victories, all the winning verdicts, and all the accolades in the history of Arkansas litigation, this is the Highest Personal Injury Award Ever Recorded in the State. And it is one of the highest jury awards in the nation, as noted by Big Money Wins which is published by The National Law Journal.

Robert M. Cearley Jr. was included in the 2018 Edition of The Best Lawyers in America© for Personal Injury Litigation — Plaintiffs, and Product Liability Litigation — Plaintiffs.

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Let’s talk about drugs! The internet is full of music geared toward specific (and mostly illegal) chemical experiences, but on “Sore Loser,” there’s a lot of what I think of as a sort of “Robitussin” feel — loss of sense of time, paranoia, overlapping voices, repetition, echoes. How do you see drugs as part of the creative process?

GDG: Even though I reference codeine in my song “Taboo,” my main drugs of choice when making “Sore Loser” were psychedelics; acid and mushrooms are my favorite. I don’t see them as a necessity for creating, or believe anyone should use drugs as a tool for creating exclusively, but I love to use psychedelics to help escape myself and see things from new perspectives before I start projects or after I finish them.

After we finished recording “Sore Loser,” me and Idle Kid decided to trip mushrooms on the beach to celebrate his birthday. It was one of the greatest days of my life. I listened to the album on the train ride back home from Santa Monica, looking over LA, that day before we released it, and knew at that moment we had done something special. It was one of the craziest moments, but I knew 100 percent without a doubt that we were moving in the right direction.

Musically, I feel beats like “Shia Labeouf” have a lot more in common with metal and EDM than with hiphop, and there’s a lot of mixed-genre programming at DIY shows these days — Terminal Nation with y’all earlier this year at The Parlor, for example. Do you feel like breaking music down into genres is a thing of the past?

GDG: I feel like a lot of people just need a label to classify things in their minds. For that reason, I fuck with genres, but to limit sounds to them is a huge “no-no” to me. If you like something, listen to it. Don’t label sounds, and definitely don’t assign them human traits as to who should and shouldn’t be able to enjoy those sounds. It’s music. This isn’t some tangible thing. It’s art. It’s magic. It’s for everyone, always.

The Plaintiff’s Attorney: Robert M. Cearley Jr.

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JASON J. CAMPBELL Litigation - Construction Anderson, Murphy & Hopkins 501-372-1887 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2400 Little Rock, AR 72201-4851

MARK H. ALLISON Environmental Law Dover Dixon Horne 501-375-9151 425 West Capitol Ave., 37th Floor Little Rock, AR 72201

KEVIN P. KEECH Litigation - Bankruptcy Keech Law Firm 501-221-3200 2011 South Broadway St. North Little Rock, AR 72206

MICHAEL P. VANDERFORD Professional Malpractice Law Defendants Anderson, Murphy & Hopkins 501-372-1887 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2400 Little Rock, AR 72201-4851

JOHN B. PEACE Trusts and Estates Dover Dixon Horne 501-375-9151 425 West Capitol Ave., 37th Floor Little Rock, AR 72201

EDWARD T. OGLESBY Construction Law Kutak Rock 501-975-3000 124 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3706

CHRISTOPHER J. HELLER Appellate Practice Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522

JESS L. ASKEW III First Amendment Law Kutak Rock 501-975-3000 124 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3706

MICHAEL S. MOORE Employment Law - Management Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522

GORDON M. WILBOURN Municipal Law Kutak Rock 501-975-3000 124 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3706

DANIEL L. HERRINGTON Litigation - Labor and Employment Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522

H. WATT GREGORY III Securities Regulation Kutak Rock 501-975-3000 124 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3706

SARAH COTTON PATTERSON Litigation - Trusts and Estates Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522

DAVID A. SMITH Tax Law Kutak Rock 501-975-3000 124 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3706

K. COLEMAN WESTBROOK, JR. Non-Profit / Charities Law Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522

ROGER D. ROWE Bet-the-Company Litigation Lax, Vaughan, Fortson, Rowe & Threet 501-376-6565 11300 Cantrell Road, Ste. 201 Little Rock, AR 72212

J. SHEPHERD RUSSELL III Public Finance Law Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522

THOMAS C. VAUGHAN, JR. Mergers and Acquisitions Law Lax, Vaughan, Fortson, Rowe & Threet 501-376-6565 11300 Cantrell Road, Ste. 201 Little Rock, AR 72212

STEPHEN K. CUFFMAN Energy Law Gill Ragon Owen 501-376-3800 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 3800 Little Rock, AR 72201

JOHN D. COULTER Employment Law - Individuals McMath Woods 501-396-5400 711 West Third St. Little Rock, AR 72201

JEFF ROSENZWEIG Criminal Defense: White-Collar Jeff Rosenzweig 501-372-5247 300 Spring Building, Ste. 310 Little Rock, AR 72201

MELVA HARMON Labor Law - Union Melva Harmon 501-372-1133 111 Center St., Ste. 1200 Little Rock, AR 72201

JOHN WESLEY HALL, JR. Criminal Defense: General Practice John Wesley Hall 501-295-4010 1202 Main St., Ste. 210 Little Rock, AR 72202-5057

CLAYTON R. BLACKSTOCK Education Law Mitchell, Blackstock, Ivers & Sneddon 501-378-7870 1010 West Third St., P.O. Box 1510 Little Rock, AR 72203

RANDY P. MURPHY Workers’ Compensation Law Employers Anderson, Murphy & Hopkins 501-372-1887 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2400 Little Rock, AR 72201-4851 CURTIS L. NEBBEN Workers’ Compensation Law Employers Bassett Law Firm 479-521-9996 221 North College Ave., P.O. Box 3618 Fayetteville, AR 72702-3618 BARRY E. COPLIN Family Law Coplin & Hardy 501-707-0300 124 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1650 Little Rock, AR 72201 RICHARD A. RODERICK Labor Law - Management Cross, Gunter, Witherspoon & Galchus 501-371-9999 500 President Clinton Ave., Ste. 200 Little Rock, AR 72201 M. STEPHEN BINGHAM Litigation - Insurance Cross, Gunter, Witherspoon & Galchus 501-371-9999 500 President Clinton Ave., Ste. 200 Little Rock, AR 72201 WILLIAM M. CLARK, JR. Litigation - Bankruptcy Cypert, Crouch, Clark & Harwell 479-751-5222 111 Holcomb St.. P.O. Box 1400 P.O. Box 1400 Springdale, AR 72765-1400 DON A. TAYLOR Personal Injury Litigation Defendants Davis, Clark, Butt, Carithers & Taylor 479-521-7600 19 East Mountain St., P.O. Box 1688 Fayetteville, AR 72702-1688

DOAK FOSTER Administrative / Regulatory Law Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1800 Little Rock, AR 72201-3525

TIMOTHY L. BOONE Medical Malpractice Law Defendants Munson, Rowlett, Moore & Boone 501-374-6535 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1900 Little Rock, AR 72201

STAN D. SMITH Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1800 Little Rock, AR 72201-3525

JULIE DEWOODY GREATHOUSE Litigation - Environmental PPGMR Law 501-603-9000 101 Morgan Keegan Drive, Ste. A P.O. Box 251618 Little Rock, AR 72225-1618

WALTER E. MAY Corporate Law Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1800 Little Rock, AR 72201-3525 CHARLES B. CLIETT, JR. Health Care Law Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1800 Little Rock, AR 72201-3525 M. SAMUEL JONES III Litigation - Securities Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1800 Little Rock, AR 72201-3525 HAROLD W. HAMLIN Project Finance Law Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1800 Little Rock, AR 72201-3525 C. DOUGLAS BUFORD, JR. Securities / Capital Markets Law Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1800 Little Rock, AR 72201-3525 CHRISTOPHER T. ROGERS Trusts and Estates Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 479-464-5650 5414 Pinnacle Point Drive, Ste. 500 Rogers, AR 72758-8131 BEVERLY A. ROWLETT Insurance Law Munson, Rowlett, Moore & Boone 501-374-6535 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1900 Little Rock, AR 72201

TIMOTHY W. GROOMS Land Use and Zoning Law Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center St., Ste. 1900 Little Rock, AR 72201-4420 THOMAS G. WILLIAMS Product Liability Litigation Defendants Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center St., Ste. 1900 Little Rock, AR 72201-4420 MICHAEL R. RAINWATER Personal Injury Litigation - Plaintiffs Rainwater, Holt & Sexton 800-767-4815 801 Technology Drive Little Rock, AR 72223 PAUL D. MCNEILL Personal Injury Litigation Defendants RMP 870-394-5200 710 Windover Road, Ste. B Jonesboro, AR 72401 BENJAMIN H. SHIPLEY III Litigation - Labor and Employment Robertson, Beasley, Shipley & Redd 479-782-8813 315 North Seventh St., P.O. Drawer 848 Fort Smith, AR 72902-0848 BRYANT CRANFORD Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131 120 East Fourth St. Little Rock, AR 72201-2893 RICHARD T. DONOVAN Litigation - Banking and Finance Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131 120 East Fourth St. Little Rock, AR 72201-2893

BRIAN ROSENTHAL Real Estate Law Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131 120 East Fourth St. Little Rock, AR 72201-2893 PAUL D. WADDELL Medical Malpractice Law Defendants Waddell, Cole & Jones 870-931-1700 310 East St., Ste. A P.O. Box 1700 Jonesboro, AR 72403 RICHARD N. WATTS Personal Injury Litigation Defendants Watts, Donovan & Tilley 501-372-1406 Arkansas Capital Commerce Center, Ste. 200 200 River Market Ave. Little Rock, AR 72201-1769 BUD B. WHETSTONE Product Liability Litigation Plaintiffs Whetstone Law Firm 501-376-3564 Pavilion Centre, 8315 Cantrell Road, Ste. 230 Little Rock, AR 72227 JOHN KOOISTRA III Banking and Finance Law Williams & Anderson 501-859-0575 111 Center St., Ste. 2200 Little Rock, AR 72201 STEPHEN R. LANCASTER Litigation - Real Estate Wright Lindsey & Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2300 Little Rock, AR 72201-3699 GORDON S. RATHER, JR. Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Defendants Wright Lindsey & Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2300 Little Rock, AR 72201-3699 J. CHARLES DOUGHERTY Trademark Law Wright Lindsey & Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2300 Little Rock, AR 72201-3699

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These Arkansas lawyers have been excerpted from The Best Lawyers in America© 2017 which includes listings for more than 54,000 lawyers in 145 specialties, in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.

ADMINISTRATIVE / REGULATORY LAW

ANTITRUST LAW

FRANK B. NEWELL Barber Law Firm 501-372-6175 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 3400 Little Rock, AR 72201 ALLAN W. HORNE Dover Dixon Horne 501-375-9151 425 West Capitol Ave., 37th Floor Little Rock, AR 72201 FREDERICK K. CAMPBELL Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1800 Little Rock, AR 72201-3525 DOAK FOSTER Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1800 Little Rock, AR 72201-3525 T. ARK MONROE III Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1800 Little Rock, AR 72201-3525 DERRICK W. SMITH Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1800 Little Rock, AR 72201-3525 JEFFREY THOMAS Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1800 Little Rock, AR 72201-3525 JOHN D. DAVIS Wright Lindsey & Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2300 Little Rock, AR 72201-3699 LEE J. MULDROW Wright Lindsey & Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2300 Little Rock, AR 72201-3699 N. M. NORTON Wright Lindsey & Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2300 Little Rock, AR 72201-3699

ADMIRALTY AND MARITIME LAW

REX M. TERRY Hardin, Jesson & Terry 479-452-2200 5000 Rogers Ave., Ste. 500 P.O. Box 10127 Fort Smith, AR 72917-0127

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R. CHRISTOPHER LAWSON Friday Eldredge & Clark 479-695-2011 3425 North Futrall Drive, Ste. 103 Fayetteville, AR 72703-6252

PHILIP S. ANDERSON Williams & Anderson 501-859-0575 111 Center St., Ste. 2200 Little Rock, AR 72201

TIMOTHY W. GROOMS Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center St., Ste. 1900 Little Rock, AR 72201-4420

JAMES F. DOWDEN James F. Dowden 501-324-4700 212 Center St., Tenth Floor Little Rock, AR 72201

ROBERT S. SHAFER Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522

PHILIP E. KAPLAN Williams & Anderson 501-859-0575 111 Center St., Ste. 2200 Little Rock, AR 72201

JEB H. JOYCE Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center St., Ste. 1900 Little Rock, AR 72201-4420

KEVIN P. KEECH Keech Law Firm 501-221-3200 2011 South Broadway St. North Little Rock, AR 72206

JESS L. ASKEW III Kutak Rock 501-975-3000 124 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3706

TROY A. PRICE Wright Lindsey & Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2300 Little Rock, AR 72201-3699

DAVID B. VANDERGRIFF Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center St., Ste. 1900 Little Rock, AR 72201-4420

OVERTON S. ANDERSON Anderson, Murphy & Hopkins 501-372-1887 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2400 Little Rock, AR 72201-4851

ROGER D. ROWE Lax, Vaughan, Fortson, Rowe & Threet 501-376-6565 Cantrell West Building, Ste. 201 11300 Cantrell Road Little Rock, AR 72212

ARBITRATION

LANCE R. MILLER Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1800 Little Rock, AR 72201-3525

SIDNEY H. MCCOLLUM ADR 501-376-2121 1501 North University Ave., Ste. 552 Little Rock, AR 72207

BRIAN ROSENTHAL Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131 120 East Fourth St. Little Rock, AR 72201-2893

DAVID A. LITTLETON Anderson, Murphy & Hopkins 501-372-1887 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2400 Little Rock, AR 72201-4851

BEVERLY A. ROWLETT Munson, Rowlett, Moore & Boone 501-374-6535 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1900 Little Rock, AR 72201

G. SPENCE FRICKE Barber Law Firm 501-372-6175 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 3400 Little Rock, AR 72201

JULIE DEWOODY GREATHOUSE PPGMR Law 501-603-9000 101 Morgan Keegan Drive, Ste. A P.O. Box 251618 Little Rock, AR 72225-1618

JON B. COMSTOCK Comstock Conflict Resolution Services 479-659-1767 206 South Second St., Ste. C P.O. Box 555 Rogers, AR 72757-0555

E. B. CHILES IV Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center St., Ste. 1900 Little Rock, AR 72201-4420

FRANK S. HAMLIN Hamlin Dispute Resolution 501-850-8888 1101 West 2nd St. Little Rock, AR 72201

JOSEPH R. FALASCO Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center St., Ste. 1900 Little Rock, AR 72201-4420

MELVA HARMON Melva Harmon 501-372-1133 111 Center St., Ste. 1200 Little Rock, AR 72201

MICHAEL B. HEISTER Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center St., Ste. 1900 Little Rock, AR 72201-4420

ROBERT E. HORNBERGER Robert E. Hornberger Attorney/ Mediator 479-459-7878 P.O. Box 8064 Fort Smith, AR 72902

ROBERT SHULTS Shults Law Firm 501-375-2301 200 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1600 Little Rock, AR 72201-3637 PHILIP S. ANDERSON Williams & Anderson 501-859-0575 111 Center St., Ste. 2200 Little Rock, AR 72201 PETER G. KUMPE Williams & Anderson 501-859-0575 111 Center St., Ste. 2200 Little Rock, AR 72201

APPELLATE PRACTICE

FRANK B. NEWELL Barber Law Firm 501-372-6175 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 3400 Little Rock, AR 72201 BRETT D. WATSON Brett D. Watson, Attorney at Law 501-281-2468 P.O. Box 707 Searcy, AR 72145-0707 BRIAN G. BROOKS Brooks Law Firm 501-733-3457 P.O. Box 605 Greenbrier, AR 72058 TIMOTHY CULLEN Cullen & Company 501-370-4800 124 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1750 P.O. Box 3255 Little Rock, AR 72203 CONSTANCE G. CLARK Davis, Clark, Butt, Carithers & Taylor 479-521-7600 19 East Mountain St. P.O. Box 1688 Fayetteville, AR 72702-1688 CHRISTOPHER J. HELLER Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522

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CHAD W. PEKRON Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center St., Ste. 1900 Little Rock, AR 72201-4420 PATRICK J. GOSS Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131 120 East Fourth St. Little Rock, AR 72201-2893 STACI DUMAS CARSON Watts, Donovan & Tilley 501-372-1406 Arkansas Capital Commerce Center, Ste. 200 200 River Market Ave. Little Rock, AR 72201-1769

JOHN DEWEY WATSON ADR 501-376-2121 1501 North University Ave., Ste. 552 Little Rock, AR 72207

BANKING AND FINANCE LAW

RALPH W. WADDELL Waddell, Cole & Jones 870-931-1700 310 East St., Ste. A P.O. Box 1700 Jonesboro, AR 72403 JOHN KOOISTRA III Williams & Anderson 501-859-0575 111 Center St., Ste. 2200 Little Rock, AR 72201 DAVID F. MENZ Williams & Anderson 501-859-0575 111 Center St., Ste. 2200 Little Rock, AR 72201

BANKRUPTCY AND CREDITOR DEBTOR RIGHTS / INSOLVENCY AND REORGANIZATION LAW RICHARD L. RAMSAY Eichenbaum Liles 501-376-4531 124 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1900 Little Rock, AR 72201-3717

JASON N. BRAMLETT Friday Eldredge & Clark 479-695-2011 3425 North Futrall Drive, Ste. 103 Fayetteville, AR 72703-6252

TODD P. LEWIS Conner & Winters 479-582-5711 4375 North Vantage Drive, Ste. 405 Fayetteville, AR 72703

HARRY A. LIGHT Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522

GARLAND W. BINNS, JR. Dover Dixon Horne 501-375-9151 425 West Capitol Ave., 37th Floor Little Rock, AR 72201

DAVID A. GRACE Hardin & Grace 501-378-7900 500 Main St., Ste. A P.O. Box 5851 North Little Rock, AR 72119-5851

RANDAL B. FRAZIER Kutak Rock 501-975-3000 124 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3706

JILL R. JACOWAY Jacoway Law Firm 479-521-2621 223 South East Ave. P.O. Drawer 3456 Fayetteville, AR 72702

STAN D. SMITH Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1800 Little Rock, AR 72201-3525 GEOFFREY B. TREECE Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center St., Ste. 1900 Little Rock, AR 72201-4420 CHARLES W. BAKER Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131 120 East Fourth St. Little Rock, AR 72201-2893 BIANCA RUCKER Rucker Law 479-445-6340 One East Center St., Ste. 215 Fayetteville, AR 72701 THOMAS S. ST.MAN St.Man, Meeks & Gibson 870-229-0604 302 Main St. P.O. Drawer A Crossett, AR 71635 CHARLES T. COLEMAN Wright Lindsey & Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2300 Little Rock, AR 72201-3699 JUDY SIMMONS HENRY Wright Lindsey & Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2300 Little Rock, AR 72201-3699 KIMBERLY WOOD TUCKER Wright Lindsey & Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2300 Little Rock, AR 72201-3699

BET-THE-COMPANY LITIGATION

H. WILLIAM ALLEN Allen Law Firm 501-374-7100 212 Center St. Little Rock, AR 72201-2416

JIM L. JULIAN Barber Law Firm 501-372-6175 425 West Capitol Aveunue, Ste. 3400 Little Rock, AR 72201

CHRISTOPHER J. HELLER Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522

H. DAVID BLAIR Blair & Stroud 870-793-8350 500 East Main St., Ste. 201 P.O. Box 2135 Batesville, AR 72501

ELIZABETH ROBBEN MURRAY Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522

STEPHEN A. MATTHEWS Bridges Law Firm 870-534-5532 315 East Eighth Ave. P.O. Box 7808 Pine Bluff, AR 71611 ROBERT L. JONES III Conner & Winters 479-582-5711 4375 North Vantage Drive, Ste. 405 Fayetteville, AR 72703 JOHN C. EVERETT Wales Comstock 479-443-0292 1944 East Joyce Boulevard P.O. Box 8370 Fayetteville, AR 72703-8370 KEVIN A. CRASS Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522 WILLIAM MELL GRIFFIN III Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522

CLIFFORD W. PLUNKETT Friday Eldredge & Clark 479-695-2011 3425 North Futrall Drive, Ste. 103 Fayetteville, AR 72703-6252 JAMES M. SIMPSON Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522 WILLIAM A. WADDELL, JR. Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522 ROGER D. ROWE Lax, Vaughan, Fortson, Rowe & Threet 501-376-6565 Cantrell West Building, Ste. 201 11300 Cantrell Road Little Rock, AR 72212 M. SAMUEL JONES III Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1800 Little Rock, AR 72201-3525

LANCE R. MILLER Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1800 Little Rock, AR 72201-3525

STEVEN T. SHULTS Shults Law Firm 501-375-2301 200 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1600 Little Rock, AR 72201-3637

PETER G. KUMPE Williams & Anderson 501-859-0575 111 Center St., Ste. 2200 Little Rock, AR 72201

BEVERLY A. ROWLETT Munson, Rowlett, Moore & Boone 501-374-6535 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1900 Little Rock, AR 72201

WARNER H. TAYLOR Taylor Law Partners 479-316-6300 303 East Millsap Road P.O. Box 8310 Fayetteville, AR 72703

DAVID M. POWELL Williams & Anderson 501-859-0575 111 Center St., Ste. 2200 Little Rock, AR 72201

E. B. CHILES IV Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center St., Ste. 1900 Little Rock, AR 72201-4420

FLOYD M. THOMAS, JR. Thomas Law Firm 870-866-8451 1615 North Calion Road El Dorado, AR 71730

STEVEN W. QUATTLEBAUM Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center St., Ste. 1900 Little Rock, AR 72201-4420

TIMOTHY O. DUDLEY Timothy O. Dudley 501-372-0080 114 South Pulaski St. Little Rock, AR 72201-1924

MICHAEL N. SHANNON Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center St., Ste. 1900 Little Rock, AR 72201-4420

RICHARD N. WATTS Watts, Donovan & Tilley 501-372-1406 Arkansas Capital Commerce Center, Ste. 200 200 River Market Ave. Little Rock, AR 72201-1769

JOHN E. TULL III Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center St., Ste. 1900 Little Rock, AR 72201-4420 RICHARD T. DONOVAN Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131 120 East Fourth St. Little Rock, AR 72201-2893

PHILIP S. ANDERSON Williams & Anderson 501-859-0575 111 Center St., Ste. 2200 Little Rock, AR 72201 PHILIP E. KAPLAN Williams & Anderson 501-859-0575 111 Center St., Ste. 2200 Little Rock, AR 72201

CHARLES T. COLEMAN Wright Lindsey & Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2300 Little Rock, AR 72201-3699 STEPHEN R. LANCASTER Wright Lindsey & Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2300 Little Rock, AR 72201-3699 TROY A. PRICE Wright Lindsey & Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2300 Little Rock, AR 72201-3699 GORDON S. RATHER, JR. Wright Lindsey & Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2300 Little Rock, AR 72201-3699

BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS (INCLUDING LLCS AND PARTNERSHIPS)

JAMES C. MCCASTLAIN Dover Dixon Horne 501-375-9151 425 West Capitol Ave., 37th Floor Little Rock, AR 72201

DAVID A. SMITH Kutak Rock 501-975-3000 124 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3706

CIVIL RIGHTS LAW

DAVID M. FUQUA Fuqua Campbell 501-374-0200 Riviera Tower, Ste. 205 3700 Cantrell Road Little Rock, AR 72202

CIVIL RIGHTS LAW

AUSTIN PORTER, JR. Porter Law Firm 501-244-8200 Tower Building, Ste. 1035 323 Center St. Little Rock, AR 72201 PHILIP E. KAPLAN Williams & Anderson 501-859-0575 111 Center St., Ste. 2200 Little Rock, AR 72201

CLOSELY HELD COMPANIES AND FAMILY BUSINESSES LAW

DAVID A. SMITH Kutak Rock 501-975-3000 124 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3706

COMMERCIAL FINANCE LAW

FRED M. PERKINS III Wright Lindsey & Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2300 Little Rock, AR 72201-3699

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STEPHEN A. MATTHEWS Bridges Law Firm 870-534-5532 315 East Eighth Ave. P.O. Box 7808 Pine Bluff, AR 71611

JASON J. CAMPBELL Anderson, Murphy & Hopkins 501-372-1887 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2400 Little Rock, AR 72201-4851

SUZANNE G. CLARK Clark Law Firm 476-856-6380 244 West Dickson St., Ste. 201 P.O. Box 4248 Fayetteville, AR 72702-4248

H. WILLIAM ALLEN Allen Law Firm 501-374-7100 212 Center St. Little Rock, AR 72201-2416

JIM L. JULIAN Barber Law Firm 501-372-6175 425 West Capitol Aveunue, Ste. 3400 Little Rock, AR 72201 WOODSON BASSETT III Bassett Law Firm 479-521-9996 221 North College Ave. P.O. Box 3618 Fayetteville, AR 72702-3618

JOHN R. ELROD Conner & Winters 479-582-5711 4375 North Vantage Drive, Ste. 405 Fayetteville, AR 72703 ROBERT L. JONES III Conner & Winters 479-582-5711 4375 North Vantage Drive, Ste. 405 Fayetteville, AR 72703 TODD P. LEWIS Conner & Winters 479-582-5711 4375 North Vantage Drive, Ste. 405 Fayetteville, AR 72703

H. DAVID BLAIR Blair & Stroud 870-793-8350 500 East Main St., Ste. 201 P.O. Box 2135 Batesville, AR 72501 ROBERT F. THOMPSON III Branch, Thompson, Warmath, & Dale 870-239-9581 414 West Court St. Paragould, AR 72450 BRETT D. WATSON Brett D. Watson, Attorney at Law 501-281-2468 P.O. Box 707 Searcy, AR 72145-0707

JOHN M. SCOTT Conner & Winters 479-582-5711 4375 North Vantage Drive, Ste. 405 Fayetteville, AR 72703 GARY D. CORUM Corum-Law 501-375-6454 200 River Market Ave., Ste. 600 Little Rock, AR 72201

CONSTANCE G. CLARK Davis, Clark, Butt, Carithers & Taylor 479-521-7600 19 East Mountain St. P.O. Box 1688 Fayetteville, AR 72702-1688 BARRY DEACON Deacon Law Firm 479-582-5353 100 West Center St., Ste. 200 P.O. Box 1506 Fayetteville, AR 72702 JOHN C. EVERETT Wales Comstock 479-443-0292 1944 East Joyce Boulevard P.O. Box 8370 Fayetteville, AR 72703-8370 JASON WALES Wales Comstock 479-443-0292 1944 East Joyce Boulevard P.O. Box 8370 Fayetteville, AR 72703-8370 KEVIN A. CRASS Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522 WILLIAM MELL GRIFFIN III Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522 CHRISTOPHER J. HELLER Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522

ELIZABETH ROBBEN MURRAY Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522

DONALD B. KENDALL Kendall Law Firm 479-464-9828 3706 Pinnacle Hills Parkway, Ste. 201 Rogers, AR 72758

JAMES G. LINGLE Lingle Law Firm 479-636-7899 110 South Dixieland Road Rogers, AR 72758

MARSHALL S. NEY Friday Eldredge & Clark 479-695-2011 3350 South Pinnacle Hills Parkway Ste. 301 Rogers, AR 72758

JESS L. ASKEW III Kutak Rock 501-975-3000 124 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3706

JOHN KEELING BAKER Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1800 Little Rock, AR 72201-3525

CLIFFORD W. PLUNKETT Friday Eldredge & Clark 479-695-2011 3425 North Futrall Drive, Ste. 103 Fayetteville, AR 72703-6252 JAMES M. SIMPSON Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522 WILLIAM A. WADDELL, JR. Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522 DAVID D. WILSON Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522 JEFFREY H. MOORE Jeffrey H. Moore 501-414-6894 One Carrolton Little Rock, AR 72211

RUSSELL C. ATCHLEY Kutak Rock 479-973-4200 234 East Millsap Road, Ste. 200 Fayetteville, AR 72703-4099 EDWARD T. OGLESBY Kutak Rock 501-975-3000 124 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3706 TERESA M. WINELAND Kutak Rock 501-975-3000 124 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3706 GLENN LOVETT, JR. Law Offices of Glenn Lovett 870-336-1900 256 Southwest Drive Jonesboro, AR 72401 ROGER D. ROWE Lax, Vaughan, Fortson, Rowe & Threet 501-376-6565 Cantrell West Building, Ste. 201 11300 Cantrell Road Little Rock, AR 72212

R. T. BEARD III Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1800 Little Rock, AR 72201-3525 M. SAMUEL JONES III Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1800 Little Rock, AR 72201-3525 BRUCE E. MUNSON Munson, Rowlett, Moore & Boone 501-374-6535 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1900 Little Rock, AR 72201 BEVERLY A. ROWLETT Munson, Rowlett, Moore & Boone 501-374-6535 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1900 Little Rock, AR 72201 HARRY S. HURST, JR. Parker Hurst & Burnett 870-268-7600 3000 Browns Lane Jonesboro, AR 72401

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BRIAN H. RATCLIFF PPGMR Law 870-862-5523 100 East Church St. P.O. Box 1718 El Dorado, AR 71731-1718 BRANDON B. CATE Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 479-444-5200 4100 Corporate Center Drive, Ste. 310 Springdale, AR 72762 E. B. CHILES IV Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center St., Ste. 1900 Little Rock, AR 72201-4420 JOSEPH R. FALASCO Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center St., Ste. 1900 Little Rock, AR 72201-4420 CHAD W. PEKRON Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center St., Ste. 1900 Little Rock, AR 72201-4420 STEVEN W. QUATTLEBAUM Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center St., Ste. 1900 Little Rock, AR 72201-4420 MICHAEL N. SHANNON Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center St., Ste. 1900 Little Rock, AR 72201-4420 EVERETT C. TUCKER IV Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center St., Ste. 1900 Little Rock, AR 72201-4420 JOHN E. TULL III Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center St., Ste. 1900 Little Rock, AR 72201-4420 DAVID B. VANDERGRIFF Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center St., Ste. 1900 Little Rock, AR 72201-4420 R. RYAN YOUNGER Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center St., Ste. 1900 Little Rock, AR 72201-4420 RICHARD T. DONOVAN Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131 120 East Fourth St. Little Rock, AR 72201-2893 PATRICK J. GOSS Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131 120 East Fourth St. Little Rock, AR 72201-2893 JOHN T. HARDIN Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131 120 East Fourth St. Little Rock, AR 72201-2893 STEPHEN N. JOINER Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131 120 East Fourth St. Little Rock, AR 72201-2893

DEBRA K. BROWN Shults Law Firm 501-375-2301 200 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1600 Little Rock, AR 72201-3637 STEVEN T. SHULTS Shults Law Firm 501-375-2301 200 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1600 Little Rock, AR 72201-3637 DON A. SMITH Smith Cohen & Horan 479-782-1001 1206 Garrison Ave., Ste. 200 P.O. Box 10205 Fort Smith, AR 72917-0205 FLOYD M. THOMAS, JR. Thomas Law Firm 870-866-8451 1615 North Calion Road El Dorado, AR 71730 TIMOTHY O. DUDLEY Timothy O. Dudley 501-372-0080 114 South Pulaski St. Little Rock, AR 72201-1924 DAVID M. DONOVAN Watts, Donovan & Tilley 501-372-1406 Arkansas Capital Commerce Center, Ste. 200 200 River Market Ave. Little Rock, AR 72201-1769 RICHARD N. WATTS Watts, Donovan & Tilley 501-372-1406 Arkansas Capital Commerce Center, Ste. 200 200 River Market Ave. Little Rock, AR 72201-1769 PHILIP S. ANDERSON Williams & Anderson 501-859-0575 111 Center St., Ste. 2200 Little Rock, AR 72201 PHILIP E. KAPLAN Williams & Anderson 501-859-0575 111 Center St., Ste. 2200 Little Rock, AR 72201 PETER G. KUMPE Williams & Anderson 501-859-0575 111 Center St., Ste. 2200 Little Rock, AR 72201 DAVID M. POWELL Williams & Anderson 501-859-0575 111 Center St., Ste. 2200 Little Rock, AR 72201 STEPHEN R. LANCASTER Wright Lindsey & Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2300 Little Rock, AR 72201-3699 GORDON S. RATHER, JR. Wright Lindsey & Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2300 Little Rock, AR 72201-3699

COMMUNICATIONS LAW

JESS L. ASKEW III Kutak Rock 501-975-3000 124 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3706

CONSTRUCTION LAW

JOHN M. SCOTT Conner & Winters 479-582-5711 4375 North Vantage Drive, Ste. 405 Fayetteville, AR 72703 CYRIL HOLLINGSWORTH Dover Dixon Horne 501-375-9151 425 West Capitol Ave., 37th Floor Little Rock, AR 72201

CONGRATULATIONS TO

JUDSON KIDD

DAVID A. GRACE Hardin & Grace 501-378-7900 500 Main St., Ste. A P.O. Box 5851 North Little Rock, AR 72119-5851 JACK EAST III Jack East III 501-372-3278 2725 Cantrell Road, Ste. 202 Little Rock, AR 72202 JEFFREY H. MOORE Jeffrey H. Moore 501-414-6894 One Carrolton Little Rock, AR 72211 SUSAN KELLER KENDALL Kendall Law Firm 479-464-9828 3706 Pinnacle Hills Parkway, Ste. 201 Rogers, AR 72758 EDWARD T. OGLESBY Kutak Rock 501-975-3000 124 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3706 DAVID M. POWELL Williams & Anderson 501-859-0575 111 Center St., Ste. 2200 Little Rock, AR 72201

COPYRIGHT LAW

HARRY A. LIGHT Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522 HERMANN IVESTER Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1800 Little Rock, AR 72201-3525 J. CHARLES DOUGHERTY Wright Lindsey & Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2300 Little Rock, AR 72201-3699

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CORPORATE COMPLIANCE LAW

H. WATT GREGORY III Kutak Rock 501-975-3000 124 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3706 H. WATT GREGORY III Kutak Rock 501-975-3000 124 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3706

CORPORATE LAW

GREG S. SCHARLAU Conner & Winters 479-582-5711 4375 North Vantage Drive, Ste. 405 Fayetteville, AR 72703 GARLAND W. BINNS, JR. Dover Dixon Horne 501-375-9151 425 West Capitol Ave., 37th Floor Little Rock, AR 72201

DODDS, KIDD, RYAN & ROWAN 501.375.9901 313 West Second St.

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JAMES C. MCCASTLAIN Dover Dixon Horne 501-375-9151 425 West Capitol Ave., 37th Floor Little Rock, AR 72201 STEVE L. RIGGS Dover Dixon Horne 501-375-9151 425 West Capitol Ave., 37th Floor Little Rock, AR 72201 PAUL B. BENHAM III Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522 WALTER M. EBEL III Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522 PRICE C. GARDNER Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522 DONALD T. JACK, JR. Jack Nelson & Jones 501-375-1122 One Cantrell Center, Ste. 500 2800 Cantrell Road Little Rock, AR 72202 H. WATT GREGORY III Kutak Rock 501-975-3000 124 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3706

C. DOUGLAS BUFORD, JR. Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1800 Little Rock, AR 72201-3525 D. NICOLE LOVELL Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1800 Little Rock, AR 72201-3525 WALTER E. MAY Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1800 Little Rock, AR 72201-3525 T. ARK MONROE III Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1800 Little Rock, AR 72201-3525 ROBERT SHULTS Shults Law Firm 501-375-2301 200 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1600 Little Rock, AR 72201-3637 JAMES W. SMITH Smith Hurst 479-301-2444 226 West Dickson St., Ste. 201 Fayetteville, AR 72701 RALPH W. WADDELL Waddell, Cole & Jones 870-931-1700 310 East St., Ste. A P.O. Box 1700 Jonesboro, AR 72403

PHILIP S. ANDERSON Williams & Anderson 501-859-0575 111 Center St., Ste. 2200 Little Rock, AR 72201

JACK T. LASSITER Lassiter & Cassinelli 501-370-9300 813 West Third St. Little Rock, AR 72201

FRED M. PERKINS III Wright Lindsey & Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2300 Little Rock, AR 72201-3699

BOBBY R. MCDANIEL McDaniel Law Firm 870-336-4747 400 South Main St. Jonesboro, AR 72401

CRIMINAL DEFENSE: GENERAL PRACTICE

DOUG NORWOOD Norwood & Norwood 479-636-1262 2001 South Dixieland Road Rogers, AR 72758

BILL W. BRISTOW Bristow & Richardson 870-935-9000 216 East Washington Ave. Jonesboro, AR 72401-3102 JOHN C. EVERETT Wales Comstock 479-443-0292 1944 East Joyce Boulevard P.O. Box 8370 Fayetteville, AR 72703-8370 J. BLAKE HENDRIX Fuqua Campbell 501-374-0200 Riviera Tower, Ste. 205 3700 Cantrell Road Little Rock, AR 72202 JEFF ROSENZWEIG Jeff Rosenzweig 501-372-5247 300 Spring Building, Ste. 310 Third And Spring St. Little Rock, AR 72201 JOHN WESLEY HALL, JR. John Wesley Hall 501-295-4010 1202 Main St., Ste. 210 Little Rock, AR 72202-5057

CRIMINAL DEFENSE: WHITECOLLAR

BILL W. BRISTOW Bristow & Richardson 870-935-9000 216 East Washington Ave. Jonesboro, AR 72401-3102

GARY D. CORUM Corum-Law 501-375-6454 200 River Market Ave., Ste. 600 Little Rock, AR 72201 JOHN C. EVERETT Wales Comstock 479-443-0292 1944 East Joyce Boulevard P.O. Box 8370 Fayetteville, AR 72703-8370

WARNER H. TAYLOR Taylor Law Partners 479-316-6300 303 East Millsap Road P.O. Box 8310 Fayetteville, AR 72703 CHAD L. ATWELL The Atwell Law Firm 476-521-2423 2827 East Millennium Place, Ste. One Fayetteville, AR 72703 TIMOTHY O. DUDLEY Timothy O. Dudley 501-372-0080 114 South Pulaski St. Little Rock, AR 72201-1924 SHANE WILKINSON Wilkinson Law Firm 479-273-2212 700 South Walton Boulevard, Ste. 200 Bentonville, AR 72712

J. BLAKE HENDRIX Fuqua Campbell 501-374-0200 Riviera Tower, Ste. 205 3700 Cantrell Road Little Rock, AR 72202 JEFF ROSENZWEIG Jeff Rosenzweig 501-372-5247 300 Spring Building, Ste. 310 Third And Spring St. Little Rock, AR 72201 JOHN WESLEY HALL, JR. John Wesley Hall 501-295-4010 1202 Main St., Ste. 210 Little Rock, AR 72202-5057 JACK T. LASSITER Lassiter & Cassinelli 501-370-9300 813 West Third St. Little Rock, AR 72201

BOBBY R. MCDANIEL McDaniel Law Firm 870-336-4747 400 South Main St. Jonesboro, AR 72401 WARNER H. TAYLOR Taylor Law Partners 479-316-6300 303 East Millsap Road P.O. Box 8310 Fayetteville, AR 72703 FLOYD M. THOMAS, JR. Thomas Law Firm 870-866-8451 1615 North Calion Road El Dorado, AR 71730 TIMOTHY O. DUDLEY Timothy O. Dudley 501-372-0080 114 South Pulaski St. Little Rock, AR 72201-1924

DUI/DWI DEFENSE

JOHN C. COLLINS Collins, Collins & Ray 501-603-9911 912 West Fourth St. Little Rock, AR 72201

CHRISTINA D. COMSTOCK Wales Comstock 479-443-0292 1944 East Joyce Boulevard P.O. Box 8370 Fayetteville, AR 72703-8370 DOUG NORWOOD Norwood & Norwood 479-636-1262 2001 South Dixieland Road Rogers, AR 72758

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ELECTRONIC DISCOVERY AND INFORMATION MANAGEMENT LAW

RALPH BLAGG Blagg Law Firm 501-745-4302 168 Court St. P.O. Box 1169 Clinton, AR 72031 DAVID H. WILLIAMS The Law Office of David H. Williams 501-372-0038 211 South Spring St., 2nd Floor Little Rock, AR 72201

EDUCATION LAW

KHAYYAM M. EDDINGS Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522 CHRISTOPHER J. HELLER Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522 ELLEN OWENS SMITH Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522 CLAYTON R. BLACKSTOCK Mitchell, Blackstock, Ivers & Sneddon 501-378-7870 1010 West Third St. P.O. Box 1510 Little Rock, AR 72203

ELDER LAW

RAYMON B. HARVEY Raymon B. Harvey 501-221-3416 650 South Shackleford Road, Ste. 400 Little Rock, AR 72211

KAREN S. HALBERT Roberts Law Firm 501-476-7391 20 Rahling Circle Little Rock, AR 72223

EMINENT DOMAIN AND CONDEMNATION LAW

RANDAL B. FRAZIER Kutak Rock 501-975-3000 124 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3706 BRANDON B. CATE Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 479-444-5200 4100 Corporate Center Drive, Ste. 310 Springdale, AR 72762 TIMOTHY W. GROOMS Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center St., Ste. 1900 Little Rock, AR 72201-4420

EMPLOYEE BENEFITS (ERISA) LAW

DAVID M. GRAF Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522 JOSEPH B. HURST, JR. Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522

ALEXANDRA A. IFRAH Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522

ELIZABETH ROBBEN MURRAY Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522

A. WYCKLIFF NISBET, JR. Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522

SUSAN KELLER KENDALL Kendall Law Firm 479-464-9828 3706 Pinnacle Hills Parkway, Ste. 201 Rogers, AR 72758

THOMAS L. OVERBEY Overbey, Strigel, Boyd & Westbrook 479-442-3554 211 North Block Ave., Ste. 102 Fayetteville, AR 72701-5268

JOHN L. BURNETT Lavey and Burnett 501-376-2269 904 West Second St. Little Rock, AR 72201

CRAIG H. WESTBROOK Overbey, Strigel, Boyd & Westbrook 501-664-8105 10809 Executive Center Drive, Ste. 310 Little Rock, AR 72211-6022

JOHN D. COULTER McMath Woods 501-396-5400 711 West Third St. Little Rock, AR 72201

E. B. CHILES IV Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center St., Ste. 1900 Little Rock, AR 72201-4420 BRYANT CRANFORD Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131 120 East Fourth St. Little Rock, AR 72201-2893

EMPLOYMENT LAW INDIVIDUALS

KHAYYAM M. EDDINGS Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522

J. BRUCE CROSS Cross, Gunter, Witherspoon & Galchus 501-371-9999 500 President Clinton Ave., Ste. 200 Little Rock, AR 72201

RICHARD A. RODERICK Cross, Gunter, Witherspoon & Galchus 501-371-9999 500 President Clinton Ave., Ste. 200 Little Rock, AR 72201 AMBER WILSON BAGLEY Cross, Gunter, Witherspoon & Galchus 501-371-9999 500 President Clinton Ave., Ste. 200 Little Rock, AR 72201

JANET L. PULLIAM Mitchell, Blackstock, Ivers & Sneddon 501-378-7870 1010 West Third St. P.O. Box 1510 Little Rock, AR 72203

CAROLYN B. WITHERSPOON Cross, Gunter, Witherspoon & Galchus 501-371-9999 500 President Clinton Ave., Ste. 200 Little Rock, AR 72201

PAUL D. WADDELL Waddell, Cole & Jones 870-931-1700 310 East St., Ste. A P.O. Box 1700 Jonesboro, AR 72403

EMPLOYMENT LAW MANAGEMENT

OSCAR E. DAVIS, JR. Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522

BRIAN A. VANDIVER Cox, Sterling, McClure & Vandiver 501-954-8073 8712 Counts Massie Road North Little Rock, AR 72113

FANTASTIC FOUR

MISSY MCJUNKINS DUKE Cross, Gunter, Witherspoon & Galchus 501-371-9999 500 President Clinton Ave., Ste. 200 Little Rock, AR 72201

KHAYYAM M. EDDINGS Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522

CHRISTOPHER J. HELLER Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522 DANIEL L. HERRINGTON Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522 MICHAEL S. MOORE Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522 ELIZABETH ROBBEN MURRAY Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522 FREDERICK S. URSERY Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522 H. WAYNE YOUNG Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522 MICHAEL R. JONES Gilker & Jones 479-369-4294 9222 North Highway 71 Mountainburg, AR 72946 JAMES M. GARY Kutak Rock 501-975-3000 124 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3706

And the rest of our team is pretty fantastic too.

Congrats to our four attorneys included in the 24th edition of The Best Lawyers in America.©

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SAM LEDBETTER

JAMES BRUCE MCMATH

WILL BOND

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Personal Injury Litigation — Plaintiffs

Neil Chamberlin

Charles Harrison

Carter Stein

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Julie DeWoody Greathouse 2018 Best Lawyers® “Lawyer of the Year” for Litigation – Environmental in Little Rock 2018 Best Lawyers for Appellate Practice, Environmental Law, and Litigation - Environmental John F. Peiserich 2018 Best Lawyers for Environmental Law and Litigation – Environmental

DAVID P. MARTIN Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131 120 East Fourth St. Little Rock, AR 72201-2893

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JOHN D. DAVIS Wright Lindsey & Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2300 Little Rock, AR 72201-3699 WILLIAM STUART JACKSON Wright Lindsey & Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2300 Little Rock, AR 72201-3699

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LAWRENCE E. CHISENHALL, JR. Barber Law Firm 501-372-6175 425 West Capitol Aveunue, Ste. 3400 Little Rock, AR 72201 STEPHEN K. CUFFMAN Gill Ragon Owen 501-376-3800 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 3800 Little Rock, AR 72201

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PAUL D. WADDELL Waddell, Cole & Jones 870-931-1700 310 East St., Ste. A P.O. Box 1700 Jonesboro, AR 72403 PHILIP E. KAPLAN Williams & Anderson 501-859-0575 111 Center St., Ste. 2200 Little Rock, AR 72201

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KATHLYN GRAVES Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1800 Little Rock, AR 72201-3525

TIM BOE Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131 120 East Fourth St. Little Rock, AR 72201-2893

Brian H. Ratcliff 2018 Best Lawyers for Commercial Litigation, Personal Injury Litigation - Defendants, and Workers’ Compensation Law - Employers

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BYRON L. FREELAND Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1800 Little Rock, AR 72201-3525

SPENCER F. ROBINSON Ramsay, Bridgforth, Robinson & Raley 870-535-9000 Simmons First National Bank Building, 11th Floor P.O. Box 8509 Pine Bluff, AR 71611-8509

James D. Rankin III 2018 Best Lawyers for Oil and Gas Law

America© for Commercial Litigation, Litigation - Real Estate and Litigation – Mergers and Acquisitions in Fayetteville.

JANET L. PULLIAM Mitchell, Blackstock, Ivers & Sneddon 501-378-7870 1010 West Third St. P.O. Box 1510 Little Rock, AR 72203

DENISE REID HOGGARD Rainwater, Holt & Sexton 800-767-4815 801 Technology Drive Little Rock, AR 72223

G. Alan Perkins 2018 Best Lawyers for Environmental Law, Litigation – Environmental, and Oil and Gas Law

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JOHN D. COULTER McMath Woods 501-396-5400 711 West Third St. Little Rock, AR 72201

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Best Lawyers® – 24th Edition of The Best Lawyers in America© Seven Anderson, Murphy & Hopkins lawyers were recognized as 2018 Best Lawyers: Overton S. Anderson Randy P. Murphy, Mariam T. Hopkins, Michael P. Vanderford, David A. Littleton, Julie M. Hancock, and Jason J. Campbell

“Lawyer of the Year” honorees – Little Rock – 2018 Randy P. Murphy: Workers’ Compensation Law – Employers Michael P. Vanderford: Professional Malpractice Law – Defendants Jason J. Campbell: Litigation – Construction

ENVIRONMENTAL LAW

CHARLES R. NESTRUD Barber Law Firm 501-372-6175 425 West Capitol Aveunue, Ste. 3400 Little Rock, AR 72201 JOHN R. ELROD Conner & Winters 479-582-5711 4375 North Vantage Drive, Ste. 405 Fayetteville, AR 72703 MARK H. ALLISON Dover Dixon Horne 501-375-9151 425 West Capitol Ave., 37th Floor Little Rock, AR 72201 SAMUEL E. LEDBETTER McMath Woods 501-396-5400 711 West Third St. Little Rock, AR 72201 SHERRY P. BARTLEY Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1800 Little Rock, AR 72201-3525 MARCELLA J. TAYLOR Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1800 Little Rock, AR 72201-3525 WALTER G. WRIGHT, JR. Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1800 Little Rock, AR 72201-3525 JULIE DEWOODY GREATHOUSE PPGMR Law 501-603-9000 101 Morgan Keegan Drive, Ste. A P.O. Box 251618 Little Rock, AR 72225-1618

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JOHN F. PEISERICH PPGMR Law 501-603-9000 101 Morgan Keegan Drive, Ste. A P.O. Box 251618 Little Rock, AR 72225-1618 G. ALAN PERKINS PPGMR Law 501-603-9000 101 Morgan Keegan Drive, Ste. A P.O. Box 251618 Little Rock, AR 72225-1618 BRIAN ROSENTHAL Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131 120 East Fourth St. Little Rock, AR 72201-2893

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FAMILY LAW

BARRY E. COPLIN Coplin & Hardy 501-707-0300 One Union Plaza 124 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1650 Little Rock, AR 72201

DAVID R. MATTHEWS Matthews, Campbell, Rhoads, McClure & Thompson 479-282-2586 119 South Second St. Rogers, AR 72756

JUDSON C. KIDD Dodds, Kidd, Ryan and Rowan 501-386-9508 313 West Second St. Little Rock, AR 72201

STEPHEN C. ENGSTROM Stephen Engstrom Law Office 501-375-6453 200 River Market Ave., Ste. 600 P.O. Box 71 Little Rock, AR 72203

GARY B. ROGERS Dover Dixon Horne 501-375-9151 425 West Capitol Ave., 37th Floor Little Rock, AR 72201

JACK WAGONER III Wagoner Law Firm 501-663-5225 1320 Brookwood, Suites D & E Little Rock, AR 72202

ROGER D. ROWE Lax, Vaughan, Fortson, Rowe & Threet 501-376-6565 Cantrell West Building, Ste. 201 11300 Cantrell Road Little Rock, AR 72212

GOVERNMENT RELATIONS PRACTICE

T. ARK MONROE III Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1800 Little Rock, AR 72201-3525

H. WATT GREGORY III Kutak Rock 501-975-3000 124 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3706

HENRY HODGES Henry Hodges 501-375-0400 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1520 Little Rock, AR 72201-3435 CARROL ANN HICKS Hicks & Lickert 501-771-1817 5321 John F. Kennedy Boulevard, Ste. A North Little Rock, AR 72116 SAM HILBURN Hilburn, Calhoon, Harper, Pruniski & Calhoun 501-372-0110 US Bank Building, Eighth Floor One Riverfront Place P.O. Box 5551 North Little Rock, AR 72119 DAVID W. KAMPS Kamps & Stotts 501-708-2911 Centre Place Building, Sixth Floor 212 Center St. Little Rock, AR 72201 BRYAN J. REIS Legacy Law Group 501-525-3130 135 Section Line Road, Third Floor Hot Springs, AR 71913 MARCIA BARNES Marcia Barnes & Associates 501-492-3438 400 West Capitol, Ste. 1700 Little Rock, AR 72201

HAROLD H. SIMPSON The Health Law Firm 501-221-7100 5224 Sherwood Road Little Rock, AR 72207

DAVID M. POWELL Williams & Anderson 501-859-0575 111 Center St., Ste. 2200 Little Rock, AR 72201

FINANCIAL SERVICES REGULATION LAW

HARRY TRUMAN MOORE Goodwin Moore 870-239-2225 200 South Pruett St. P.O. Box 726 Paragould, AR 72450

HEALTH CARE LAW

ELIZABETH ANDREOLI Andreoli Law 501-690-5069 72 Pine Manor Drive Little Rock, AR 72207-5151

DONALD H. HENRY Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1800 Little Rock, AR 72201-3525

BRUCE B. TIDWELL Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522

FIRST AMENDMENT LAW

JAMES M. SIMPSON Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522 JESS L. ASKEW III Kutak Rock 501-975-3000 124 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3706 JOHN E. TULL III Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center St., Ste. 1900 Little Rock, AR 72201-4420 PHILIP S. ANDERSON Williams & Anderson 501-859-0575 111 Center St., Ste. 2200 Little Rock, AR 72201

FRANCHISE LAW

WILLIAM A. WADDELL, JR. Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522

CHARLES B. CLIETT, JR. Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1800 Little Rock, AR 72201-3525

LEE J. MULDROW Wright Lindsey & Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2300 Little Rock, AR 72201-3699

IMMIGRATION LAW

MISSY MCJUNKINS DUKE Cross, Gunter, Witherspoon & Galchus 501-371-9999 500 President Clinton Ave., Ste. 200 Little Rock, AR 72201 KATHY W. GOSS Kathy Woodward Goss 501-676-6522 604 South Center St. P.O. Box 448 Lonoke, AR 72086-0000

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY LAW

DONALD T. JACK, JR. Jack Nelson & Jones 501-375-1122 One Cantrell Center, Ste. 500 2800 Cantrell Road Little Rock, AR 72202

N. M. NORTON Wright Lindsey & Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2300 Little Rock, AR 72201-3699

BRYAN G. LOONEY Kutak Rock 479-973-4200 234 East Millsap Road, Ste. 200 Fayetteville, AR 72703-4099

OVERTON S. ANDERSON Anderson, Murphy & Hopkins 501-372-1887 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2400 Little Rock, AR 72201-4851

DEBBY THETFORD NYE Kutak Rock 479-973-4200 234 East Millsap Road, Ste. 200 Fayetteville, AR 72703-4099

MARIAM T. HOPKINS Anderson, Murphy & Hopkins 501-372-1887 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2400 Little Rock, AR 72201-4851

DAVID L. IVERS Mitchell, Blackstock, Ivers & Sneddon 501-378-7870 1010 West Third St. P.O. Box 1510 Little Rock, AR 72203

MICHAEL P. VANDERFORD Anderson, Murphy & Hopkins 501-372-1887 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2400 Little Rock, AR 72201-4851

MICHAEL W. MITCHELL Mitchell, Blackstock, Ivers & Sneddon 501-378-7870 1010 West Third St. P.O. Box 1510 Little Rock, AR 72203

INSURANCE LAW

SCOTT M. STRAUSS Barber Law Firm 501-372-6175 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 3400 Little Rock, AR 72201

ALLAN W. HORNE Dover Dixon Horne 501-375-9151 425 West Capitol Ave., 37th Floor Little Rock, AR 72201

STEVEN W. QUATTLEBAUM Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center St., Ste. 1900 Little Rock, AR 72201-4420

JAMES C. BAKER, JR. Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522

JERRY L. LOVELACE Roy, Lambert, Lovelace, Bingaman & Wood 479-756-8510 2706 South Dividend Drive Springdale, AR 72766

FREDERICK K. CAMPBELL Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1800 Little Rock, AR 72201-3525 DOAK FOSTER Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1800 Little Rock, AR 72201-3525 T. ARK MONROE III Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1800 Little Rock, AR 72201-3525 SCOTT D. PROVENCHER Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1800 Little Rock, AR 72201-3525

LABOR LAW - MANAGEMENT

J. BRUCE CROSS Cross, Gunter, Witherspoon & Galchus 501-371-9999 500 President Clinton Ave., Ste. 200 Little Rock, AR 72201 RICHARD A. RODERICK Cross, Gunter, Witherspoon & Galchus 501-371-9999 500 President Clinton Ave., Ste. 200 Little Rock, AR 72201 CAROLYN B. WITHERSPOON Cross, Gunter, Witherspoon & Galchus 501-371-9999 500 President Clinton Ave., Ste. 200 Little Rock, AR 72201 OSCAR E. DAVIS, JR. Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522

JEFFREY THOMAS Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1800 Little Rock, AR 72201-3525

DANIEL L. HERRINGTON Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522

MARK BREEDING Munson, Rowlett, Moore & Boone 501-374-6535 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1900 Little Rock, AR 72201

MICHAEL S. MOORE Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522

JOHN E. MOORE Munson, Rowlett, Moore & Boone 501-374-6535 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1900 Little Rock, AR 72201

MICHAEL R. JONES Gilker & Jones 479-369-4294 9222 North Highway 71 Mountainburg, AR 72946

BEVERLY A. ROWLETT Munson, Rowlett, Moore & Boone 501-374-6535 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1900 Little Rock, AR 72201

SUSAN KELLER KENDALL Kendall Law Firm 479-464-9828 3706 Pinnacle Hills Parkway, Ste. 201 Rogers, AR 72758

EMILY RUNYON Munson, Rowlett, Moore & Boone 501-374-6535 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1900 Little Rock, AR 72201

JAMES M. GARY Kutak Rock 501-975-3000 124 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3706

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JOHN D. COULTER McMath Woods 501-396-5400 711 West Third St. Little Rock, AR 72201 BYRON L. FREELAND Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1800 Little Rock, AR 72201-3525 KATHLYN GRAVES Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1800 Little Rock, AR 72201-3525 SPENCER F. ROBINSON Ramsay, Bridgforth, Robinson & Raley 870-535-9000 Simmons First National Bank Building, 11th Floor P.O. Box 8509 Pine Bluff, AR 71611-8509 TIM BOE Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131 120 East Fourth St. Little Rock, AR 72201-2893

PHILIP S. ANDERSON Williams & Anderson 501-859-0575 111 Center St., Ste. 2200 Little Rock, AR 72201

JANET L. PULLIAM Mitchell, Blackstock, Ivers & Sneddon 501-378-7870 1010 West Third St. P.O. Box 1510 Little Rock, AR 72203

LAND USE AND ZONING LAW

RANDAL B. FRAZIER Kutak Rock 501-975-3000 124 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3706

MARSHALL S. NEY Friday Eldredge & Clark 479-695-2011 3350 South Pinnacle Hills Parkway Ste. 301 Rogers, AR 72758

TIMOTHY W. GROOMS Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center St., Ste. 1900 Little Rock, AR 72201-4420

WILLIAM A. WADDELL, JR. Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522

J. CLIFF MCKINNEY II Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center St., Ste. 1900 Little Rock, AR 72201-4420

RANDAL B. FRAZIER Kutak Rock 501-975-3000 124 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3706

LEGAL MALPRACTICE LAW DEFENDANTS

DONALD H. HENRY Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1800 Little Rock, AR 72201-3525

G. SPENCE FRICKE Barber Law Firm 501-372-6175 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 3400 Little Rock, AR 72201

JOHN D. DAVIS Wright Lindsey & Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2300 Little Rock, AR 72201-3699

DONALD H. BACON Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522

LABOR LAW - UNION

EDWIN L. LOWTHER, JR. Wright Lindsey & Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2300 Little Rock, AR 72201-3699

JOHN L. BURNETT Lavey and Burnett 501-376-2269 904 West Second St. Little Rock, AR 72201 MELVA HARMON Melva Harmon 501-372-1133 111 Center St., Ste. 1200 Little Rock, AR 72201

H. WILLIAM ALLEN Allen Law Firm 501-374-7100 212 Center St. Little Rock, AR 72201-2416

MICHELLE M. KAEMMERLING Wright Lindsey & Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2300 Little Rock, AR 72201-3699

DAVID P. MARTIN Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131 120 East Fourth St. Little Rock, AR 72201-2893

SUSAN KELLER KENDALL Kendall Law Firm 479-464-9828 3706 Pinnacle Hills Parkway, Ste. 201 Rogers, AR 72758

LITIGATION - BANKING AND FINANCE

JOHN E. TULL III Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center St., Ste. 1900 Little Rock, AR 72201-4420 DAVID B. VANDERGRIFF Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center St., Ste. 1900 Little Rock, AR 72201-4420

LEVERAGED BUYOUTS AND PRIVATE EQUITY LAW

H. WATT GREGORY III Kutak Rock 501-975-3000 124 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3706

LITIGATION - ANTITRUST

JAMES M. SIMPSON Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522

RICHARD T. DONOVAN Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131 120 East Fourth St. Little Rock, AR 72201-2893

KIMBERLY WOOD TUCKER Wright Lindsey & Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2300 Little Rock, AR 72201-3699

GEOFFREY B. TREECE Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center St., Ste. 1900 Little Rock, AR 72201-4420

RUSSELL C. ATCHLEY Kutak Rock 479-973-4200 234 East Millsap Road, Ste. 200 Fayetteville, AR 72703-4099

LITIGATION - BANKRUPTCY

CHARLES T. COLEMAN Wright Lindsey & Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2300 Little Rock, AR 72201-3699

EDWARD T. OGLESBY Kutak Rock 501-975-3000 124 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3706

LITIGATION - CONSTRUCTION

JAMES G. LINGLE Lingle Law Firm 479-636-7899 110 South Dixieland Road Rogers, AR 72758

WILLIAM M. CLARK, JR. Cypert, Crouch, Clark & Harwell 479-751-5222 111 Holcomb St. P.O. Box 1400 Springdale, AR 72765-1400 CONSTANCE G. CLARK Davis, Clark, Butt, Carithers & Taylor 479-521-7600 19 East Mountain St. P.O. Box 1688 Fayetteville, AR 72702-1688 HARRY A. LIGHT Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522

MARSHALL S. NEY Friday Eldredge & Clark 479-695-2011 3350 South Pinnacle Hills Parkway Ste. 301 Rogers, AR 72758 DAVID A. GRACE Hardin & Grace 501-378-7900 500 Main St., Ste. A P.O. Box 5851 North Little Rock, AR 72119-5851 JAMES F. DOWDEN James F. Dowden 501-324-4700 212 Center St., Tenth Floor Little Rock, AR 72201 KEVIN P. KEECH Keech Law Firm 501-221-3200 2011 South Broadway St. North Little Rock, AR 72206 LANCE R. MILLER Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1800 Little Rock, AR 72201-3525

PHILIP S. ANDERSON Williams & Anderson 501-859-0575 111 Center St., Ste. 2200 Little Rock, AR 72201

STAN D. SMITH Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1800 Little Rock, AR 72201-3525

PHILIP E. KAPLAN Williams & Anderson 501-859-0575 111 Center St., Ste. 2200 Little Rock, AR 72201

JOHN DEWEY WATSON ADR 501-376-2121 1501 North University Ave., Ste. 552 Little Rock, AR 72207 JASON J. CAMPBELL Anderson, Murphy & Hopkins 501-372-1887 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2400 Little Rock, AR 72201-4851

RICHARD T. DONOVAN Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131 120 East Fourth St. Little Rock, AR 72201-2893

H. DAVID BLAIR Blair & Stroud 870-793-8350 500 East Main St., Ste. 201 P.O. Box 2135 Batesville, AR 72501

RICHARD N. WATTS Watts, Donovan & Tilley 501-372-1406 Arkansas Capital Commerce Center, Ste. 200 200 River Market Ave. Little Rock, AR 72201-1769

JOHN M. SCOTT Conner & Winters 479-582-5711 4375 North Vantage Drive, Ste. 405 Fayetteville, AR 72703

STEPHEN R. LANCASTER Wright Lindsey & Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2300 Little Rock, AR 72201-3699

CYRIL HOLLINGSWORTH Dover Dixon Horne 501-375-9151 425 West Capitol Ave., 37th Floor Little Rock, AR 72201

LITIGATION ENVIRONMENTAL

JASON WALES Wales Comstock 479-443-0292 1944 East Joyce Boulevard P.O. Box 8370 Fayetteville, AR 72703-8370

JOSEPH HENRY BATES III Carney Bates & Pulliam 501-312-8500 519 West Seventh St. Little Rock, AR 72201 JOHN R. ELROD Conner & Winters 479-582-5711 4375 North Vantage Drive, Ste. 405 Fayetteville, AR 72703

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JB CROSS CONSTRUCTION LAW JB Cross Construction Law 501-374-2512 308 East Eighth St. Little Rock, AR 72202

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BRANDON B. CATE Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 479-444-5200 4100 Corporate Center Drive, Ste. 310 Springdale, AR 72762 E. B. CHILES IV Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center St., Ste. 1900 Little Rock, AR 72201-4420

LITIGATION - FIRST AMENDMENT

JAMES G. LINGLE Lingle Law Firm 479-636-7899 110 South Dixieland Road Rogers, AR 72758 JOHN E. TULL III Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center St., Ste. 1900 Little Rock, AR 72201-4420 PHILIP S. ANDERSON Williams & Anderson 501-859-0575 111 Center St., Ste. 2200 Little Rock, AR 72201 PHILIP E. KAPLAN Williams & Anderson 501-859-0575 111 Center St., Ste. 2200 Little Rock, AR 72201

EDWARD T. OGLESBY Kutak Rock 501-975-3000 124 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3706

AMY LEE STEWART Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131 120 East Fourth St. Little Rock, AR 72201-2893

MICHAEL S. MOORE Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522

JOHN L. BURNETT Lavey and Burnett 501-376-2269 904 West Second St. Little Rock, AR 72201

MARK BREEDING Munson, Rowlett, Moore & Boone 501-374-6535 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1900 Little Rock, AR 72201

N. M. NORTON Wright Lindsey & Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2300 Little Rock, AR 72201-3699

ELIZABETH ROBBEN MURRAY Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522

JOHN E. MOORE Munson, Rowlett, Moore & Boone 501-374-6535 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1900 Little Rock, AR 72201

LITIGATION - LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT

EVA C. MADISON Littler Mendelson 479-582-6100 The Fulbright Building, Ste. 204 217 East Dickson St. Fayetteville, AR 72701

MARSHALL S. NEY Friday Eldredge & Clark 479-695-2011 3350 South Pinnacle Hills Pkwy., Ste. 301 Rogers, AR 72758

SHANE STRABALA Munson, Rowlett, Moore & Boone 501-374-6535 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1900 Little Rock, AR 72201

LITIGATION - INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

TROY A. PRICE Wright Lindsey & Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2300 Little Rock, AR 72201-3699

H. WILLIAM ALLEN Allen Law Firm 501-374-7100 212 Center St. Little Rock, AR 72201-2416

LITIGATION - INSURANCE

MARSHALL S. NEY Friday Eldredge & Clark 479-695-2011 3350 South Pinnacle Hills Parkway Ste. 301 Rogers, AR 72758

M. STEPHEN BINGHAM Cross, Gunter, Witherspoon & Galchus 501-371-9999 500 President Clinton Ave., Ste. 200 Little Rock, AR 72201 MARK W. DOSSETT Kutak Rock 479-973-4200 234 East Millsap Road, Ste. 200 Fayetteville, AR 72703-4099

HERMANN IVESTER Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1800 Little Rock, AR 72201-3525

J. BRUCE CROSS Cross, Gunter, Witherspoon & Galchus 501-371-9999 500 President Clinton Ave., Ste. 200 Little Rock, AR 72201 MISSY MCJUNKINS DUKE Cross, Gunter, Witherspoon & Galchus 501-371-9999 500 President Clinton Ave., Ste. 200 Little Rock, AR 72201 CHRISTOPHER J. HELLER Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522

FREDERICK S. URSERY Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522 H. WAYNE YOUNG Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522 DANIEL R. CARTER James, Carter & Priebe 866-716-3242 500 Broadway, Ste. 400 Little Rock, AR 72203

DANIEL L. HERRINGTON Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522 R. CHRISTOPHER LAWSON Friday Eldredge & Clark 479-695-2011 3425 North Futrall Drive, Ste. 103 Fayetteville, AR 72703-6252

SUSAN KELLER KENDALL Kendall Law Firm 479-464-9828 3706 Pinnacle Hills Parkway, Ste. 201 Rogers, AR 72758 JAMES M. GARY Kutak Rock 501-975-3000 124 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3706

JOHN D. COULTER McMath Woods 501-396-5400 711 West Third St. Little Rock, AR 72201 JANET L. PULLIAM Mitchell, Blackstock, Ivers & Sneddon 501-378-7870 1010 West Third St. P.O. Box 1510 Little Rock, AR 72203 KATHLYN GRAVES Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1800 Little Rock, AR 72201-3525 E. B. CHILES IV Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center St., Ste. 1900 Little Rock, AR 72201-4420 DENISE REID HOGGARD Rainwater, Holt & Sexton 800-767-4815 801 Technology Drive Little Rock, AR 72223

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WILLIAM STUART JACKSON Wright Lindsey & Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2300 Little Rock, AR 72201-3699 MICHELLE M. KAEMMERLING Wright Lindsey & Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2300 Little Rock, AR 72201-3699

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L. KYLE HEFFLEY Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 479-464-5650 5414 Pinnacle Point Drive, Ste. 500 Rogers, AR 72758-8131

SUZANNE G. CLARK Clark Law Firm 476-856-6380 244 West Dickson St., Ste. 201 P.O. Box 4248 Fayetteville, AR 72702-4248

M. SAMUEL JONES III Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1800 Little Rock, AR 72201-3525

LITIGATION - REAL ESTATE

JOSEPH R. FALASCO Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center St., Ste. 1900 Little Rock, AR 72201-4420

DAVID P. MARTIN Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131 120 East Fourth St. Little Rock, AR 72201-2893

SUZANNE G. CLARK Clark Law Firm 476-856-6380 244 West Dickson St., Ste. 201 P.O. Box 4248 Fayetteville, AR 72702-4248

PAUL D. WADDELL Waddell, Cole & Jones 870-931-1700 310 East St., Ste. A P.O. Box 1700 Jonesboro, AR 72403

THOMAS A. DAILY Daily & Woods 479-782-0361 58 South Sixth St. P.O. Box 1446 Fort Smith, AR 72902

PHILIP E. KAPLAN Williams & Anderson 501-859-0575 111 Center St., Ste. 2200 Little Rock, AR 72201

CONSTANCE G. CLARK Davis, Clark, Butt, Carithers & Taylor 479-521-7600 19 East Mountain St. P.O. Box 1688 Fayetteville, AR 72702-1688

JOHN D. DAVIS Wright Lindsey & Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2300 Little Rock, AR 72201-3699

JOHN KEELING BAKER Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1800 Little Rock, AR 72201-3525

LITIGATION - SECURITIES

H. WILLIAM ALLEN Allen Law Firm 501-374-7100 212 Center St. Little Rock, AR 72201-2416

KERRI E. KOBBEMAN Conner & Winters 479-582-5711 4375 North Vantage Drive, Ste. 405 Fayetteville, AR 72703 KEVIN A. CRASS Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522 M. SAMUEL JONES III Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1800 Little Rock, AR 72201-3525 RICHARD T. DONOVAN Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131 120 East Fourth St. Little Rock, AR 72201-2893

TIMOTHY W. GROOMS Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center St., Ste. 1900 Little Rock, AR 72201-4420

LITIGATION - TRUSTS AND ESTATES

DAVID B. VANDERGRIFF Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center St., Ste. 1900 Little Rock, AR 72201-4420 STEPHEN R. LANCASTER Wright Lindsey & Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2300 Little Rock, AR 72201-3699

WILLIAM JACKSON BUTT II Davis, Clark, Butt, Carithers & Taylor 479-521-7600 19 East Mountain St. P.O. Box 1688 Fayetteville, AR 72702-1688

SARAH COTTON PATTERSON Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522 RICHARD F. HATFIELD Richard F. Hatfield 501-374-9010 401 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 502 Little Rock, AR 72201 RITA REED HARRIS Rita Reed Harris 870-633-9900 208 North Izard St. Forrest City, AR 72335 ADAM H. CROW Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131 120 East Fourth St. Little Rock, AR 72201-2893 CRAIG S. LAIR Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131 120 East Fourth St. Little Rock, AR 72201-2893 ROBERT S. JONES Waddell, Cole & Jones 870-931-1700 310 East St., Ste. A P.O. Box 1700 Jonesboro, AR 72403 STEPHEN R. LANCASTER Wright Lindsey & Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2300 Little Rock, AR 72201-3699

LITIGATION AND CONTROVERSY - TAX

MICHAEL O. PARKER Dover Dixon Horne 501-375-9151 425 West Capitol Ave., 37th Floor Little Rock, AR 72201 PRICE C. GARDNER Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522 JOHN KEELING BAKER Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1800 Little Rock, AR 72201-3525 CRAIG S. LAIR Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131 120 East Fourth St. Little Rock, AR 72201-2893

MASS TORT LITIGATION / CLASS ACTIONS DEFENDANTS WOODSON BASSETT III Bassett Law Firm 479-521-9996 221 North College Ave. P.O. Box 3618 Fayetteville, AR 72702-3618

JOHN R. ELROD Conner & Winters 479-582-5711 4375 North Vantage Drive, Ste. 405 Fayetteville, AR 72703

ALLISON J. CORNWELL Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522

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SHERRY P. BARTLEY Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1800 Little Rock, AR 72201-3525

ROBERT E. HORNBERGER Robert E. Hornberger Attorney/ Mediator 479-459-7878 P.O. Box 8064 Fort Smith, AR 72902

REBECCA D. HATTABAUGH Ledbetter Cogbill Arnold & Harrison 479-782-7294 622 Parker Ave. P.O. Box 185 Fort Smith, AR 72902-0185

LYN P. PRUITT Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1800 Little Rock, AR 72201-3525

MEDICAL MALPRACTICE LAW - DEFENDANTS

KEN COOK Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1800 Little Rock, AR 72201-3525

JOHN E. MOORE Munson, Rowlett, Moore & Boone 501-374-6535 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1900 Little Rock, AR 72201 E. B. CHILES IV Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center St., Ste. 1900 Little Rock, AR 72201-4420 STEVEN W. QUATTLEBAUM Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center St., Ste. 1900 Little Rock, AR 72201-4420 JOHN E. TULL III Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center St., Ste. 1900 Little Rock, AR 72201-4420 EDWIN L. LOWTHER, JR. Wright Lindsey & Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2300 Little Rock, AR 72201-3699 GORDON S. RATHER, JR. Wright Lindsey & Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2300 Little Rock, AR 72201-3699

MASS TORT LITIGATION / CLASS ACTIONS - PLAINTIFFS

ANTHONY C. JOHNSON The Johnson Firm 501-777-7777 2226 Cottondale Lane, Ste. 210 Little Rock, AR 72202 CLYDE TALBOT TURNER Turner & Associates 501-791-2277 4705 Somers Ave., Ste. 100 North Little Rock, AR 72116

MEDIA LAW

JAMES M. SIMPSON Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522 JESS L. ASKEW III Kutak Rock 501-975-3000 124 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3706 JOHN E. TULL III Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center St., Ste. 1900 Little Rock, AR 72201-4420

MEDIATION

JOHN DEWEY WATSON ADR 501-376-2121 1501 North University Ave., Ste. 552 Little Rock, AR 72207 FRANK S. HAMLIN Hamlin Dispute Resolution 501-850-8888 1101 West 2nd St. Little Rock, AR 72201 48 48

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OVERTON S. ANDERSON Anderson, Murphy & Hopkins 501-372-1887 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2400 Little Rock, AR 72201-4851 JASON J. CAMPBELL Anderson, Murphy & Hopkins 501-372-1887 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2400 Little Rock, AR 72201-4851 MARIAM T. HOPKINS Anderson, Murphy & Hopkins 501-372-1887 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2400 Little Rock, AR 72201-4851 WALKER DALE GARRETT Bassett Law Firm 479-521-9996 221 North College Ave. P.O. Box 3618 Fayetteville, AR 72702-3618 WALTER B. COX Cox, Cox & Estes 479-251-7900 3900 North Front St., Ste. 203 P.O. Box 9630 Fayetteville, AR 72703 JAMES R. ESTES Cox, Cox & Estes 479-251-7900 3900 North Front St., Ste. 203 P.O. Box 9630 Fayetteville, AR 72703 KELLY CARITHERS Davis, Clark, Butt, Carithers & Taylor 479-521-7600 19 East Mountain St. P.O. Box 1688 Fayetteville, AR 72702-1688 MICHELLE ATOR Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522 DONALD H. BACON Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522 BRADLEY S. RUNYON Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522 LAURA HENSLEY SMITH Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522

JEFFREY W. HATFIELD Hardin, Jesson & Terry 501-850-0015 1401 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 190 Little Rock, AR 72201-2939 MARK W. DOSSETT Kutak Rock 479-973-4200 234 East Millsap Road, Ste. 200 Fayetteville, AR 72703-4099

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L. KYLE HEFFLEY Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 479-464-5650 5414 Pinnacle Point Drive, Ste. 500 Rogers, AR 72758-8131 M. SAMUEL JONES III Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1800 Little Rock, AR 72201-3525 SCOTT D. PROVENCHER Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1800 Little Rock, AR 72201-3525 TIMOTHY L. BOONE Munson, Rowlett, Moore & Boone 501-374-6535 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1900 Little Rock, AR 72201 BRUCE E. MUNSON Munson, Rowlett, Moore & Boone 501-374-6535 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1900 Little Rock, AR 72201 PAUL D. MCNEILL RMP 870-394-5200 710 Windover Road, Ste. B Jonesboro, AR 72401 ROBERT J. LAMBERT, JR. Roy, Lambert, Lovelace, Bingaman & Wood 479-756-8510 2706 South Dividend Drive Springdale, AR 72766 PAUL D. WADDELL Waddell, Cole & Jones 870-931-1700 310 East St., Ste. A P.O. Box 1700 Jonesboro, AR 72403 DAVID P. GLOVER Wright Lindsey & Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2300 Little Rock, AR 72201-3699 EDWIN L. LOWTHER, JR. Wright Lindsey & Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2300 Little Rock, AR 72201-3699

MEDICAL MALPRACTICE LAW - PLAINTIFFS

H. DAVID BLAIR Blair & Stroud 870-793-8350 500 East Main St., Ste. 201 P.O. Box 2135 Batesville, AR 72501

RANDY HALL Hall & Taylor Law Partners 501-353-8278 P.O. Box 242055 Little Rock, AR 72233

BOBBY R. MCDANIEL McDaniel Law Firm 870-336-4747 400 South Main St. Jonesboro, AR 72401

DAVID F. MENZ Williams & Anderson 501-859-0575 111 Center St., Ste. 2200 Little Rock, AR 72201

MEREDITH K. LOWRY Wright Lindsey & Jennings 479-986-0888 3333 Pinnacle Hills Parkway, Ste. 510 Rogers, AR 72758

MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS LAW

JOHN WILLIAM SPIVEY III Wright Lindsey & Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2300 Little Rock, AR 72201-3699

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PAUL B. BENHAM III Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522

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MARIAM T. HOPKINS Anderson, Murphy & Hopkins 501-372-1887 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2400 Little Rock, AR 72201-4851

BRYAN W. DUKE Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522

BYRON M. EISEMAN, JR. Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522

DAVID A. LITTLETON Anderson, Murphy & Hopkins 501-372-1887 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2400 Little Rock, AR 72201-4851

WALTER M. EBEL III Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522

SARAH COTTON PATTERSON Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522

RANDY P. MURPHY Anderson, Murphy & Hopkins 501-372-1887 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2400 Little Rock, AR 72201-4851

JOSEPH G. NICHOLS Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522

K. COLEMAN WESTBROOK, JR. Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522

MICHAEL P. VANDERFORD Anderson, Murphy & Hopkins 501-372-1887 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2400 Little Rock, AR 72201-4851

RAYBURN W. GREEN Kutak Rock 479-973-4200 234 East Millsap Road, Ste. 200 Fayetteville, AR 72703-4099

W. WILSON JONES Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131 120 East Fourth St. Little Rock, AR 72201-2893

JIM L. JULIAN Barber Law Firm 501-372-6175 425 West Capitol Aveunue, Ste. 3400 Little Rock, AR 72201

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J. COTTEN CUNNINGHAM Barber Law Firm 501-372-6175 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 3400 Little Rock, AR 72201

H. WATT GREGORY III Kutak Rock 501-975-3000 124 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3706 DAVID A. SMITH Kutak Rock 501-975-3000 124 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3706 THOMAS C. VAUGHAN, JR. Lax, Vaughan, Fortson, Rowe & Threet 501-376-6565 Cantrell West Building, Ste. 201 11300 Cantrell Road Little Rock, AR 72212 C. DOUGLAS BUFORD, JR. Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1800 Little Rock, AR 72201-3525 JAMES W. SMITH Smith Hurst 479-301-2444 226 West Dickson St., Ste. 201 Fayetteville, AR 72701

MORTGAGE BANKING FORECLOSURE LAW

JENNIFER WILSON-HARVEY Wilson & Associates 501-216-9388 1521 Merrill Drive, Ste. D-220 Little Rock, AR 72211

MUNICIPAL LAW

J. SHEPHERD RUSSELL III Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522 GORDON M. WILBOURN Kutak Rock 501-975-3000 124 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3706

THOMAS A. DAILY Daily & Woods 479-782-0361 58 South Sixth St. P.O. Box 1446 Fort Smith, AR 72902

ROBERT M. HONEA Hardin, Jesson & Terry 479-452-2200 5000 Rogers Ave., Ste. 500 P.O. Box 10127 Fort Smith, AR 72917-0127 CAROLYN J. CLEGG Keith, Clegg & Epley 870-234-3550 124 South Jackson, Ste. 205 Magnolia, AR 71753 G. ALAN PERKINS PPGMR Law 501-603-9000 101 Morgan Keegan Drive, Ste. A P.O. Box 251618 Little Rock, AR 72225-1618 JAMES D. RANKIN III PPGMR Law 501-603-9000 101 Morgan Keegan Drive, Ste. A P.O. Box 251618 Little Rock, AR 72225-1618

PATENT LAW

STEPHEN D. CARVER Patent Law Offics of Stephen D. Carver 501-224-1500 Pleasant Valley Corporate Center, Ste. 800 2024 Arkansas Valley Drive Little Rock, AR 72212-4147 MARK MURPHEY HENRY Henry Law Firm 479-695-1330 240 North Block, Ste. 101 P.O. Box 4800 Fayetteville, AR 72702 J. CHARLES DOUGHERTY Wright Lindsey & Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2300 Little Rock, AR 72201-3699

WILLIAM H. EDWARDS, JR. Barber Law Firm 501-372-6175 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 3400 Little Rock, AR 72201 G. SPENCE FRICKE Barber Law Firm 501-372-6175 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 3400 Little Rock, AR 72201 ROBERT L. HENRY III Barber Law Firm 501-372-6175 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 3400 Little Rock, AR 72201 WALKER DALE GARRETT Bassett Law Firm 479-521-9996 221 North College Ave. P.O. Box 3618 Fayetteville, AR 72702-3618 CURTIS L. NEBBEN Bassett Law Firm 479-521-9996 221 North College Ave. P.O. Box 3618 Fayetteville, AR 72702-3618 STEPHEN A. MATTHEWS Bridges Law Firm 870-534-5532 315 East Eighth Ave. P.O. Box 7808 Pine Bluff, AR 71611 BILL W. BRISTOW Bristow & Richardson 870-935-9000 216 East Washington Ave. Jonesboro, AR 72401-3102 CLARK S. BREWSTER Clark S. Brewster 501-315-6000 P.O. Box 2310 Benton, AR 72018

ROBERT L. JONES III Conner & Winters 479-582-5711 4375 North Vantage Drive, Ste. 405 Fayetteville, AR 72703

JAMES M. SIMPSON Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522

JOHN E. MOORE Munson, Rowlett, Moore & Boone 501-374-6535 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1900 Little Rock, AR 72201

G. ALAN WOOTEN Conner & Winters 479-582-5711 4375 North Vantage Drive, Ste. 405 Fayetteville, AR 72703

LAURA HENSLEY SMITH Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522

BRUCE E. MUNSON Munson, Rowlett, Moore & Boone 501-374-6535 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1900 Little Rock, AR 72201

WALTER B. COX Cox, Cox & Estes 479-251-7900 3900 North Front St., Ste. 203 P.O. Box 9630 Fayetteville, AR 72703

FREDERICK S. URSERY Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522

BEVERLY A. ROWLETT Munson, Rowlett, Moore & Boone 501-374-6535 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1900 Little Rock, AR 72201

GUY ALTON WADE Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522

BRIAN H. RATCLIFF PPGMR Law 870-862-5523 100 East Church St. P.O. Box 1718 El Dorado, AR 71731-1718

JAMES R. ESTES Cox, Cox & Estes 479-251-7900 3900 North Front St., Ste. 203 P.O. Box 9630 Fayetteville, AR 72703 KELLY CARITHERS Davis, Clark, Butt, Carithers & Taylor 479-521-7600 19 East Mountain St. P.O. Box 1688 Fayetteville, AR 72702-1688 DON A. TAYLOR Davis, Clark, Butt, Carithers & Taylor 479-521-7600 19 East Mountain St. P.O. Box 1688 Fayetteville, AR 72702-1688 TODD WOOTEN Dover Dixon Horne 501-375-9151 425 West Capitol Ave., 37th Floor Little Rock, AR 72201 JASON WALES Wales Comstock 479-443-0292 1944 East Joyce Boulevard P.O. Box 8370 Fayetteville, AR 72703-8370 MICHELLE ATOR Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522 DONALD H. BACON Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522 JAMES C. BAKER, JR. Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522 KEVIN A. CRASS Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522 WILLIAM MELL GRIFFIN III Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522

DAVID D. WILSON Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522 JEFFREY W. HATFIELD Hardin, Jesson & Terry 501-850-0015 1401 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 190 Little Rock, AR 72201-2939

E. B. CHILES IV Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center St., Ste. 1900 Little Rock, AR 72201-4420 STEVEN W. QUATTLEBAUM Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center St., Ste. 1900 Little Rock, AR 72201-4420

D. MICHAEL HUCKABAY, JR. Huckabay Law Firm 501-375-5600 Metropolitan Tower, Ste. 1575 425 West Capitol Ave. Little Rock, AR 72201

MICHAEL N. SHANNON Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center St., Ste. 1900 Little Rock, AR 72201-4420

TERESA M. WINELAND Kutak Rock 501-975-3000 124 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3706

JOHN E. TULL III Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center St., Ste. 1900 Little Rock, AR 72201-4420

SHERRY P. BARTLEY Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1800 Little Rock, AR 72201-3525

THOMAS G. WILLIAMS Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center St., Ste. 1900 Little Rock, AR 72201-4420

R. T. BEARD III Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1800 Little Rock, AR 72201-3525 MICHELLE L. BROWNING Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1800 Little Rock, AR 72201-3525 STUART P. MILLER Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1800 Little Rock, AR 72201-3525 SCOTT D. PROVENCHER Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1800 Little Rock, AR 72201-3525

JOSEPH P. MCKAY Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522

LYN P. PRUITT Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1800 Little Rock, AR 72201-3525

CLIFFORD W. PLUNKETT Friday Eldredge & Clark 479-695-2011 3425 North Futrall Drive, Ste. 103 Fayetteville, AR 72703-6252

TIMOTHY L. BOONE Munson, Rowlett, Moore & Boone 501-374-6535 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1900 Little Rock, AR 72201

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PAUL D. MCNEILL RMP 870-394-5200 710 Windover Road, Ste. B Jonesboro, AR 72401 ALFRED F. ANGULO, JR. Robertson, Beasley, Shipley & Redd 479-782-8813 315 North Seventh St. P.O. Drawer 848 Fort Smith, AR 72902-0848 JERRY L. LOVELACE Roy, Lambert, Lovelace, Bingaman & Wood 479-756-8510 2706 South Dividend Drive Springdale, AR 72766 FLOYD M. THOMAS, JR. Thomas Law Firm 870-866-8451 1615 North Calion Road El Dorado, AR 71730 DAVID M. DONOVAN Watts, Donovan & Tilley 501-372-1406 Arkansas Capital Commerce Center, Ste. 200 200 River Market Ave. Little Rock, AR 72201-1769 JAMES W. TILLEY Watts, Donovan & Tilley 501-372-1406 Arkansas Capital Commerce Center, Ste. 200 200 River Market Ave. Little Rock, AR 72201-1769

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RICHARD N. WATTS Watts, Donovan & Tilley 501-372-1406 Arkansas Capital Commerce Center, Ste. 200 200 River Market Ave. Little Rock, AR 72201-1769 JOHN V. PHELPS Womack Phelps Puryear Mayfield & McNeil 870-932-0900 Century Center 301 West Washington Ave. P.O. Box 3077 Jonesboro, AR 72403 MICHAEL D. BARNES Wright Lindsey & Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2300 Little Rock, AR 72201-3699 ROGER A. GLASGOW Wright Lindsey & Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2300 Little Rock, AR 72201-3699 EDWIN L. LOWTHER, JR. Wright Lindsey & Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2300 Little Rock, AR 72201-3699

PERSONAL INJURY LITIGATION - PLAINTIFFS

FRANK H. BAILEY Bailey & Oliver Law Firm 479-202-5200 3606 West Southern Hills Boulevard Ste. 200 Rogers, AR 72758 H. DAVID BLAIR Blair & Stroud 870-793-8350 500 East Main St., Ste. 201 P.O. Box 2135 Batesville, AR 72501 BILL W. BRISTOW Bristow & Richardson 870-935-9000 216 East Washington Ave. Jonesboro, AR 72401-3102 ROBERT M. CEARLEY, JR. Cearley Law Firm 501-372-5600 1001 La Harpe Boulevard Little Rock, AR 72201 B. MICHAEL EASLEY Easley & Houseal 870-633-1447 510 East Cross St. Forrest City, AR 72335

RODNEY P. MOORE Wright Lindsey & Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2300 Little Rock, AR 72201-3699

JASON WALES Wales Comstock 479-443-0292 1944 East Joyce Boulevard P.O. Box 8370 Fayetteville, AR 72703-8370

GORDON S. RATHER, JR. Wright Lindsey & Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2300 Little Rock, AR 72201-3699

FREDERICK S. URSERY Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522

JERRY J. SALLINGS Wright Lindsey & Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2300 Little Rock, AR 72201-3699

PAUL J. JAMES James, Carter & Priebe 866-716-3242 500 Broadway, Ste. 400 Little Rock, AR 72203

JEFFREY L. SINGLETON Wright Lindsey & Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2300 Little Rock, AR 72201-3699

JEFF R. PRIEBE James, Carter & Priebe 866-716-3242 500 Broadway, Ste. 400 Little Rock, AR 72203

KYLE R. WILSON Wright Lindsey & Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2300 Little Rock, AR 72201-3699

KEN KIEKLAK Ken Kieklak, Attorney at Law 479-251-7767 3900 North Front St., Ste. 103 Fayetteville, AR 72703 JAMES F. SWINDOLL Law Offices of James F. Swindoll 501-374-1290 212 Center St., Ste. 300 Little Rock, AR 72201

BOBBY R. MCDANIEL McDaniel Law Firm 870-336-4747 400 South Main St. Jonesboro, AR 72401

DAVID H. WILLIAMS The Law Office of David H. Williams 501-372-0038 211 South Spring St., 2nd Floor Little Rock, AR 72201

WILL BOND McMath Woods 501-396-5400 711 West Third St. Little Rock, AR 72201

FLOYD M. THOMAS, JR. Thomas Law Firm 870-866-8451 1615 North Calion Road El Dorado, AR 71730

JAMES BRUCE MCMATH McMath Woods 501-396-5400 711 West Third St. Little Rock, AR 72201

TIMOTHY O. DUDLEY Timothy O. Dudley 501-372-0080 114 South Pulaski St. Little Rock, AR 72201-1924

MICHAEL N. SHANNON Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center St., Ste. 1900 Little Rock, AR 72201-4420

CLYDE TALBOT TURNER Turner & Associates 501-791-2277 4705 Somers Ave., Ste. 100 North Little Rock, AR 72116

THOM DIAZ Rainwater, Holt & Sexton 800-767-4815 801 Technology Drive Little Rock, AR 72223

JACK WAGONER III Wagoner Law Firm 501-663-5225 1320 Brookwood, Suites D & E Little Rock, AR 72202

MICHAEL R. RAINWATER Rainwater, Holt & Sexton 800-767-4815 801 Technology Drive Little Rock, AR 72223

PHILLIP J. WELLS Wells & Wells 870-782-4084 225 South Church St. Jonesboro, AR 72401

ROBERT SEXTON Rainwater, Holt & Sexton 800-767-4815 801 Technology Drive Little Rock, AR 72223

BUD B. WHETSTONE Whetstone Law Firm 501-376-3564 Pavilion Centre, Ste. 230 8315 Cantrell Road Little Rock, AR 72227

BRENT L. MOSS Reddick Moss 877-907-7790 One Information Way, Ste. 105 Little Rock, AR 72202 JERRY L. LOVELACE Roy, Lambert, Lovelace, Bingaman & Wood 479-756-8510 2706 South Dividend Drive Springdale, AR 72766 TED BOSWELL The Boswell Law Firm 501-847-3031 P.O. Box 798 Bryant, AR 72089-0798 GEORGE R. WISE, JR. The Brad Hendricks Law Firm 501-221-0444 500 Pleasant Valley Drive, Building C Little Rock, AR 72227

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BARRY DEACON Deacon Law Firm 479-582-5353 100 West Center St., Ste. 200 P.O. Box 1506 Fayetteville, AR 72702

THOMAS G. WILLIAMS Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center St., Ste. 1900 Little Rock, AR 72201-4420 JERRY L. LOVELACE Roy, Lambert, Lovelace, Bingaman & Wood 479-756-8510 2706 South Dividend Drive Springdale, AR 72766

J. R. CARROLL Kutak Rock 479-973-4200 234 East Millsap Road, Ste. 200 Fayetteville, AR 72703-4099 SCOTT D. PROVENCHER Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1800 Little Rock, AR 72201-3525

RICHARD N. WATTS Watts, Donovan & Tilley 501-372-1406 Arkansas Capital Commerce Center, Ste. 200 200 River Market Ave. Little Rock, AR 72201-1769

LYN P. PRUITT Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1800 Little Rock, AR 72201-3525

MICHAEL D. BARNES Wright Lindsey & Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2300 Little Rock, AR 72201-3699

MARK BREEDING Munson, Rowlett, Moore & Boone 501-374-6535 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1900 Little Rock, AR 72201

SCOTT A. IRBY Wright Lindsey & Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2300 Little Rock, AR 72201-3699

SARAH GREENWOOD Munson, Rowlett, Moore & Boone 501-374-6535 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1900 Little Rock, AR 72201

EDWIN L. LOWTHER, JR. Wright Lindsey & Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2300 Little Rock, AR 72201-3699

BRUCE E. MUNSON Munson, Rowlett, Moore & Boone 501-374-6535 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1900 Little Rock, AR 72201

GORDON S. RATHER, JR. Wright Lindsey & Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2300 Little Rock, AR 72201-3699

E. B. CHILES IV Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center St., Ste. 1900 Little Rock, AR 72201-4420

KYLE R. WILSON Wright Lindsey & Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2300 Little Rock, AR 72201-3699

JULIE M. HANCOCK Anderson, Murphy & Hopkins 501-372-1887 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2400 Little Rock, AR 72201-4851

STEVEN W. QUATTLEBAUM Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center St., Ste. 1900 Little Rock, AR 72201-4420

PRODUCT LIABILITY LITIGATION - PLAINTIFFS

MICHAEL P. VANDERFORD Anderson, Murphy & Hopkins 501-372-1887 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2400 Little Rock, AR 72201-4851

MICHAEL N. SHANNON Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center St., Ste. 1900 Little Rock, AR 72201-4420

G. SPENCE FRICKE Barber Law Firm 501-372-6175 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 3400 Little Rock, AR 72201

JOHN E. TULL III Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center St., Ste. 1900 Little Rock, AR 72201-4420

RODNEY P. MOORE Wright Lindsey & Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2300 Little Rock, AR 72201-3699

PRODUCT LIABILITY LITIGATION - DEFENDANTS

H. DAVID BLAIR Blair & Stroud 870-793-8350 500 East Main St., Ste. 201 P.O. Box 2135 Batesville, AR 72501

ROBERT M. CEARLEY, JR. Cearley Law Firm 501-372-5600 1001 La Harpe Boulevard Little Rock, AR 72201 MICHAEL N. SHANNON Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center St., Ste. 1900 Little Rock, AR 72201-4420

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JOHN E. TULL III Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center St., Ste. 1900 Little Rock, AR 72201-4420 JERRY L. LOVELACE Roy, Lambert, Lovelace, Bingaman & Wood 479-756-8510 2706 South Dividend Drive Springdale, AR 72766 GEORGE R. WISE, JR. The Brad Hendricks Law Firm 501-221-0444 500 Pleasant Valley Drive, Building C Little Rock, AR 72227 CLYDE TALBOT TURNER Turner & Associates 501-791-2277 4705 Somers Ave., Ste. 100 North Little Rock, AR 72116 BUD B. WHETSTONE Whetstone Law Firm 501-376-3564 Pavilion Centre, Ste. 230 8315 Cantrell Road Little Rock, AR 72227

PROFESSIONAL MALPRACTICE LAW DEFENDANTS

DAVID A. LITTLETON Anderson, Murphy & Hopkins 501-372-1887 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2400 Little Rock, AR 72201-4851 MICHAEL P. VANDERFORD Anderson, Murphy & Hopkins 501-372-1887 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2400 Little Rock, AR 72201-4851 H. DAVID BLAIR Blair & Stroud 870-793-8350 500 East Main St., Ste. 201 P.O. Box 2135 Batesville, AR 72501 SCOTT D. PROVENCHER Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1800 Little Rock, AR 72201-3525 DAVID M. POWELL Williams & Anderson 501-859-0575 111 Center St., Ste. 2200 Little Rock, AR 72201

PROFESSIONAL MALPRACTICE LAW PLAINTIFFS

H. DAVID BLAIR Blair & Stroud 870-793-8350 500 East Main St., Ste. 201 P.O. Box 2135 Batesville, AR 72501

DAVID H. WILLIAMS The Law Office of David H. Williams 501-372-0038 211 South Spring St., 2nd Floor Little Rock, AR 72201 TIMOTHY O. DUDLEY Timothy O. Dudley 501-372-0080 114 South Pulaski St. Little Rock, AR 72201-1924

PROJECT FINANCE LAW

J. SHEPHERD RUSSELL III Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522 HAROLD W. HAMLIN Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1800 Little Rock, AR 72201-3525

THOMAS P. LEGGETT Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522 J. SHEPHERD RUSSELL III Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522 JAMES E. HATHAWAY III Kutak Rock 501-975-3000 124 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3706 GORDON M. WILBOURN Kutak Rock 501-975-3000 124 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3706 DAVID F. MENZ Williams & Anderson 501-859-0575 111 Center St., Ste. 2200 Little Rock, AR 72201 W. JACKSON WILLIAMS Williams & Anderson 501-859-0575 111 Center St., Ste. 2200 Little Rock, AR 72201

JOHN ALAN LEWIS Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 479-464-5650 5414 Pinnacle Point Drive, Ste. 500 Rogers, AR 72758-8131

JOHN WILLIAM SPIVEY III Wright Lindsey & Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2300 Little Rock, AR 72201-3699

DAVID F. MENZ Williams & Anderson 501-859-0575 111 Center St., Ste. 2200 Little Rock, AR 72201

BARRY DEACON Deacon Law Firm 479-582-5353 100 West Center St., Ste. 200 P.O. Box 1506 Fayetteville, AR 72702

W. JACKSON WILLIAMS Williams & Anderson 501-859-0575 111 Center St., Ste. 2200 Little Rock, AR 72201

PUBLIC FINANCE LAW

ROBERT B. BEACH, JR. Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522 RYAN BOWMAN Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522

RAILROAD LAW

JOSEPH P. MCKAY Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522 SCOTT H. TUCKER Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522 FREDERICK S. URSERY Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522

REAL ESTATE LAW

HAROLD W. HAMLIN Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1800 Little Rock, AR 72201-3525

DON EILBOTT Don A. Eilbott 501-225-2885 1701 Centerview Drive, Ste. 112 Little Rock, AR 72221

JOHN ALAN LEWIS Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 479-464-5650 5414 Pinnacle Point Drive, Ste. 500 Rogers, AR 72758-8131

JAMES PAUL BEACHBOARD Dover Dixon Horne 501-375-9151 425 West Capitol Ave., 37th Floor Little Rock, AR 72201

JAMES C. CLARK Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522 PRICE C. GARDNER Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522 JAMES M. SAXTON Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522 JAY T. TAYLOR Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522 DANIEL GOODWIN Gill Ragon Owen 501-376-3800 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 3800 Little Rock, AR 72201 STUART W. HANKINS Hankins Law Firm 501-833-0168 1515 East Kiehl Ave. Sherwood, AR 72120 J. MARK SPRADLEY J. Mark Spradley 501-537-4290 1501 North University Ave., Ste. 155 Little Rock, AR 72207 RANDAL B. FRAZIER Kutak Rock 501-975-3000 124 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3706 MARIAN M. MCMULLAN McMullan & Brown 501-376-9119 815 West Markham St. P.O. Box 2839 Little Rock, AR 72201

TIMOTHY W. GROOMS Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center St., Ste. 1900 Little Rock, AR 72201-4420

ROBERT T. SMITH Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522 H. WATT GREGORY III Kutak Rock 501-975-3000 124 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3706 C. DOUGLAS BUFORD, JR. Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1800 Little Rock, AR 72201-3525

JEB H. JOYCE Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center St., Ste. 1900 Little Rock, AR 72201-4420

D. NICOLE LOVELL Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1800 Little Rock, AR 72201-3525

J. CLIFF MCKINNEY II Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center St., Ste. 1900 Little Rock, AR 72201-4420

ROBYN P. ALLMENDINGER Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131 120 East Fourth St. Little Rock, AR 72201-2893

BRIAN ROSENTHAL Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131 120 East Fourth St. Little Rock, AR 72201-2893

JAMES W. SMITH Smith Hurst 479-301-2444 226 West Dickson St., Ste. 201 Fayetteville, AR 72701

CARL J. CIRCO University of Arkansas School of Law 479-575-5601 Waterman Hall, 1045 West Maple St. Fayetteville, AR 72701

PAUL B. BENHAM III Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522

JOHN WILLIAM SPIVEY III Wright Lindsey & Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2300 Little Rock, AR 72201-3699

H. WATT GREGORY III Kutak Rock 501-975-3000 124 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3706

SECURITIES / CAPITAL MARKETS LAW

C. DOUGLAS BUFORD, JR. Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1800 Little Rock, AR 72201-3525

GARLAND W. BINNS, JR. Dover Dixon Horne 501-375-9151 425 West Capitol Ave., 37th Floor Little Rock, AR 72201 PAUL B. BENHAM III Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522 WALTER M. EBEL III Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522

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J. SHEPHERD RUSSELL III Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522 H. WATT GREGORY III Kutak Rock 501-975-3000 124 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3706

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W. JACKSON WILLIAMS Williams & Anderson 501-859-0575 111 Center St., Ste. 2200 Little Rock, AR 72201

JOSEPH HICKEY Joseph Hickey 870-862-3478 100 West Cedar, Ste. B El Dorado, AR 71730

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DAVID A. SMITH Kutak Rock 501-975-3000 124 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3706

ADAM REID Barber Law Firm 501-372-6175 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 3400 Little Rock, AR 72201 SAMUEL R. BAXTER Baxter Jewell & Dobson 501-664-9555 One Information Way, Ste. 210 Little Rock, AR 72202-2290

THOMAS C. VAUGHAN, JR. Lax, Vaughan, Fortson, Rowe & Threet 501-376-6565 Cantrell West Building, Ste. 201 11300 Cantrell Road Little Rock, AR 72212

TED N. DRAKE Bridges Law Firm 870-534-5532 315 East Eighth Ave. P.O. Box 7808 Pine Bluff, AR 71611

THOMAS L. OVERBEY Overbey, Strigel, Boyd & Westbrook 479-442-3554 211 North Block Ave., Ste. 102 Fayetteville, AR 72701-5268

JAMES C. MCCASTLAIN Dover Dixon Horne 501-375-9151 425 West Capitol Ave., 37th Floor Little Rock, AR 72201

CRAIG H. WESTBROOK Overbey, Strigel, Boyd & Westbrook 501-664-8105 10809 Executive Center Drive, Ste. 310 Little Rock, AR 72211-6022

MICHAEL O. PARKER Dover Dixon Horne 501-375-9151 425 West Capitol Ave., 37th Floor Little Rock, AR 72201

ANTHONY A. HILLIARD Ramsay, Bridgforth, Robinson & Raley 870-535-9000 Simmons First National Bank Building, 11th Floor P.O. Box 8509 Pine Bluff, AR 71611-8509

JOHN B. PEACE Dover Dixon Horne 501-375-9151 425 West Capitol Ave., 37th Floor Little Rock, AR 72201 W. THOMAS BAXTER Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522 J. LEE BROWN Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522 BRYAN W. DUKE Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522 WALTER M. EBEL III Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522 BYRON M. EISEMAN, JR. Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522 PRICE C. GARDNER Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522 ROBERT T. SMITH Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522 JOHN C. LESSEL John C. Lessel 501-954-9000 Pleasant Ridge Town Center, Ste. 301 11601 Pleasant Ridge Road Little Rock, AR 72212

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JAMES LEE MOORE III RMP 479-443-2705 75 North East Ave., Ste. 500 P.O. Box 1788 Fayetteville, AR 72702-1788 STEVE BAUMAN Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131 120 East Fourth St. Little Rock, AR 72201-2893 C. BRANTLY BUCK Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131 120 East Fourth St. Little Rock, AR 72201-2893 BRYANT CRANFORD Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131 120 East Fourth St. Little Rock, AR 72201-2893 W. WILSON JONES Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131 120 East Fourth St. Little Rock, AR 72201-2893 CRAIG S. LAIR Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131 120 East Fourth St. Little Rock, AR 72201-2893 DAN C. YOUNG Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131 120 East Fourth St. Little Rock, AR 72201-2893 REBECCA B. HURST Smith Hurst 479-301-2444 226 West Dickson St., Ste. 201 Fayetteville, AR 72701 JAMES W. SMITH Smith Hurst 479-301-2444 226 West Dickson St., Ste. 201 Fayetteville, AR 72701

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ELIZABETH ROBBEN MURRAY Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522

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STEPHEN D. CARVER Patent Law Offics of Stephen D. Carver 501-224-1500 Pleasant Valley Corporate Center, Ste. 800 2024 Arkansas Valley Drive Little Rock, AR 72212-4147 MARK MURPHEY HENRY Henry Law Firm 479-695-1330 240 North Block, Ste. 101 P.O. Box 4800 Fayetteville, AR 72702 HERMANN IVESTER Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1800 Little Rock, AR 72201-3525 KATHRYN BENNETT PERKINS Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131 120 East Fourth St. Little Rock, AR 72201-2893 J. CHARLES DOUGHERTY Wright Lindsey & Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2300 Little Rock, AR 72201-3699

TRANSPORTATION LAW

BARRETT DEACON Deacon Law Firm 479-582-5353 100 West Center St., Ste. 200 P.O. Box 1506 Fayetteville, AR 72702

SUSAN KELLER KENDALL Kendall Law Firm 479-464-9828 3706 Pinnacle Hills Parkway, Ste. 201 Rogers, AR 72758 BRUCE E. MUNSON Munson, Rowlett, Moore & Boone 501-374-6535 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1900 Little Rock, AR 72201

TRUSTS AND ESTATES

TED N. DRAKE Bridges Law Firm 870-534-5532 315 East Eighth Ave. P.O. Box 7808 Pine Bluff, AR 71611

JAMES C. MOSER, JR. Bridges Law Firm 870-534-5532 315 East Eighth Ave. P.O. Box 7808 Pine Bluff, AR 71611 WILLIAM JACKSON BUTT II Davis, Clark, Butt, Carithers & Taylor 479-521-7600 19 East Mountain St. P.O. Box 1688 Fayetteville, AR 72702-1688 MICHAEL O. PARKER Dover Dixon Horne 501-375-9151 425 West Capitol Ave., 37th Floor Little Rock, AR 72201 JOHN B. PEACE Dover Dixon Horne 501-375-9151 425 West Capitol Ave., 37th Floor Little Rock, AR 72201 JEFFREY H. DIXON Eichenbaum Liles 501-376-4531 124 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1900 Little Rock, AR 72201-3717 W. THOMAS BAXTER Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522 J. LEE BROWN Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522 ALLISON J. CORNWELL Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522 BYRON M. EISEMAN, JR. Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522 SARAH COTTON PATTERSON Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522 K. COLEMAN WESTBROOK, JR. Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522 WILLIAM DIXON HAUGHT Haught & Wade 501-375-5257 111 Center St., Ste. 1320 Little Rock, AR 72201 JOHN COGAN WADE Haught & Wade 501-375-5257 111 Center St., Ste. 1320 Little Rock, AR 72201 JOHN C. LESSEL John C. Lessel 501-954-9000 Pleasant Ridge Town Center, Ste. 301 11601 Pleasant Ridge Road Little Rock, AR 72212

JOSEPH HICKEY Joseph Hickey 870-862-3478 100 West Cedar, Ste. B El Dorado, AR 71730

JAMES W. SMITH Smith Hurst 479-301-2444 226 West Dickson St., Ste. 201 Fayetteville, AR 72701

DAVID A. SMITH Kutak Rock 501-975-3000 124 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3706

ROBERT S. JONES Waddell, Cole & Jones 870-931-1700 310 East St., Ste. A P.O. Box 1700 Jonesboro, AR 72403

TRAV BAXTER Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1800 Little Rock, AR 72201-3525 JENNIFER R. PIERCE Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1800 Little Rock, AR 72201-3525 CHRISTOPHER T. ROGERS Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 479-464-5650 5414 Pinnacle Point Drive, Ste. 500 Rogers, AR 72758-8131 THOMAS L. OVERBEY Overbey, Strigel, Boyd & Westbrook 479-442-3554 211 North Block Ave., Ste. 102 Fayetteville, AR 72701-5268 ANTHONY A. HILLIARD Ramsay, Bridgforth, Robinson & Raley 870-535-9000 Simmons First National Bank Building, 11th Floor P.O. Box 8509 Pine Bluff, AR 71611-8509 JAMES LEE MOORE III RMP 479-443-2705 75 North East Ave., Ste. 500 P.O. Box 1788 Fayetteville, AR 72702-1788 JOSEPH D. REECE RMP 479-443-2705 75 North East Ave., Ste. 500 P.O. Box 1788 Fayetteville, AR 72702-1788 STEVE BAUMAN Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131 120 East Fourth St. Little Rock, AR 72201-2893 C. BRANTLY BUCK Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131 120 East Fourth St. Little Rock, AR 72201-2893 ADAM H. CROW Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131 120 East Fourth St. Little Rock, AR 72201-2893 W. WILSON JONES Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131 120 East Fourth St. Little Rock, AR 72201-2893 CRAIG S. LAIR Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131 120 East Fourth St. Little Rock, AR 72201-2893 DAN C. YOUNG Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131 120 East Fourth St. Little Rock, AR 72201-2893

TOM D. WOMACK Womack Phelps Puryear Mayfield & McNeil 870-932-0900 Century Center 301 West Washington Ave. P.O. Box 3077 Jonesboro, AR 72403

UTILITIES LAW

SCOTT C. TROTTER Trotter Law Firm 501-353-1069 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 216 Little Rock, AR 72201

VENTURE CAPITAL LAW

H. WATT GREGORY III Kutak Rock 501-975-3000 124 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3706

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WALTER G. WRIGHT, JR. Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1800 Little Rock, AR 72201-3525 BRIAN ROSENTHAL Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131 120 East Fourth St. Little Rock, AR 72201-2893

WORKERS’ COMPENSATION LAW - CLAIMANTS

KEN KIEKLAK Ken Kieklak, Attorney at Law 479-251-7767 3900 North Front St., Ste. 103 Fayetteville, AR 72703

JASON M. HATFIELD Law Office of Jason M. Hatfield 479-527-3921 300 North College Ave., Ste. 309 Fayetteville, AR 72701 GREGORY GILES Moore, Giles & Matteson 870-774-5191 1206 North State Line Ave. Texarkana, AR 71854 PHILIP M. WILSON Philip M. Wilson Law 501-374-4000 1501 North University Ave., Ste. 255 Little Rock, AR 72207 LAURA BETH YORK Rainwater, Holt & Sexton 800-767-4815 801 Technology Drive Little Rock, AR 72223 EDDIE H. WALKER, JR. Walker, Shock & Harp 479-783-7600 400 North Sixth St. P.O. Box 998 Fort Smith, AR 72902-0998 PHILLIP J. WELLS Wells & Wells 870-782-4084 225 South Church St. Jonesboro, AR 72401

WORKERS’ COMPENSATION LAW EMPLOYERS

RANDY P. MURPHY Anderson, Murphy & Hopkins 501-372-1887 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2400 Little Rock, AR 72201-4851 FRANK B. NEWELL Barber Law Firm 501-372-6175 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 3400 Little Rock, AR 72201 TOD C. BASSETT Bassett Law Firm 479-521-9996 221 North College Ave. P.O. Box 3618 Fayetteville, AR 72702-3618 CURTIS L. NEBBEN Bassett Law Firm 479-521-9996 221 North College Ave. P.O. Box 3618 Fayetteville, AR 72702-3618 MICHAEL J. DENNIS Bridges Law Firm 870-534-5532 315 East Eighth Ave. P.O. Box 7808 Pine Bluff, AR 71611 BETTY J. HARDY Coplin & Hardy 501-707-0300 One Union Plaza 124 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1650 Little Rock, AR 72201

CONSTANCE G. CLARK Davis, Clark, Butt, Carithers & Taylor 479-521-7600 19 East Mountain St. P.O. Box 1688 Fayetteville, AR 72702-1688 JOSEPH H. PURVIS Dover Dixon Horne 501-375-9151 425 West Capitol Ave., 37th Floor Little Rock, AR 72201 GUY ALTON WADE Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522 JAMES A. ARNOLD II Ledbetter Cogbill Arnold & Harrison 479-782-7294 622 Parker Ave. P.O. Box 185 Fort Smith, AR 72902-0185 R. SCOTT ZUERKER Ledbetter Cogbill Arnold & Harrison 479-782-7294 622 Parker Ave. P.O. Box 185 Fort Smith, AR 72902-0185 BRIAN H. RATCLIFF PPGMR Law 870-862-5523 100 East Church St. P.O. Box 1718 El Dorado, AR 71731-1718 MICHAEL E. RYBURN Ryburn Law Firm 501-228-8100 650 South Shackleford, Ste. 231 Little Rock, AR 72211 JOHN D. DAVIS Wright Lindsey & Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2300 Little Rock, AR 72201-3699 LEE J. MULDROW Wright Lindsey & Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2300 Little Rock, AR 72201-3699

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