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Hillary in Arkansas

BY JAY BARTH

Her campaign has made her two decades in Arkansas a central theme,

but she is still poised to lose the state handily

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Swine is swill Nah, ya know what’s “Dismal” (re: last week’s Pearls About Swine column, “Dismal”)? That a geopolitical division of these United States would be so bereft of wisdom that its smartest news outlet finds it necessary to devote precious column space to commentary on the typically atrocious sports teams of a single university. No offense to Beau Wilcox; he’s an unusually good writer for this topic area (even if the unparalleled successes of the track and field program are given woefully short shrift in his keystrokes). But it has always hit me like a blindside clip that the Arkansas Times can maintain such vigilant and righteous monitoring of the sadly unbalanced distribution of funds between athletics and academics at the state’s flagship school while simultaneously pretending that a sizable fraction of its readership cares one flying flag about whatever embarrassing performance the Razorbacks turn out from week to week.

The ethically challenged slave-labor status of collegiate athletics notwithstanding, how can you justify wasting ink on cultivation of fan-boy foppery? If you must have a “sports section,” it would seem much truer to our state’s unique excellence in energy exertion to focus on what is the genuine feather in our athletic cap: outdoor recre-

ation/competition.

The Natural State boasts mountainbike races, rock-climbing contests and trail runs that are nationally renowned.

Believe it or not, the most successful athletes in these contests become local heroes whose exploits snap-crackle across their devotees’ Tweets and whose careers last decades beyond the latest Hog to be arrested. What’s more, those Arkies lacking a competitive bone still find great sport in getting outside for a hike or a float down the country’s first (and best) national river.

Friends who were unlucky enough to get transferred to other locales tell me they never realized how much they would miss the amazing resource that is the River Trail.

Indeed, I would lay dollars to hickory nuts that a far greater fraction of our populace finds participatory inspiration (versus the spectator form inspired by UA athletics) in the woods and streams than inside the painted lines of ball sports. The benefits to our health (and, by extension, our economy) provided by such participation are beyond question. Informing your readers about their outdoor opportunities, perhaps infecting them with the excitement that can come from an XTERRA podium finish, would seem a far greater service than feeding the pretense that the Razorbacks will ever again win a conference champi-

onship by putting (hot) air in a ball.

Steve Barger Conway

Foster care nightmare What a horrible story, the federal court pleading of sexual abuser Clarence Garretson, a foster and adoptive parent. It makes me sick. What terrible memories those young people will carry around with them all their lives because adults who were responsible for protecting them, including the Arkansas government, betrayed, abused, neglected and ignored them. I am disturbed because for two years I have read articles, reports, graphs and comments about the Arkansas’s foster care program and the growing number of children that are trapped, separated from family, friends, in a state agency that has multiple problem areas that our state government seems incapable of dealing with.

Money is more important to them than protecting the lives of the foster care children and they resent any money they have to spend on the program. This subject has been over-studied, analyzed, assigned to multiple, redundant legislative committees, and Hornby Zeller Associates did studies for the governor. The Arkansas Times has done several in-depth articles about the reasons for the backlog of par-

ents waiting to be approved and why the numbers have increased. One of their best issues on the subject is “Cost of incarceration: When moms jailed, kids sentenced to foster care,” by Kathryn Joyce.

The governor knows the weak links in the program. He knew them in 2015 when Rep. Justin Harris gave his adoptive children to a rapist. None of his Republican colleagues in the state legislature or Governor Hutchinson demanded that he resign. The governor and the legislature pretend they care about life and will aggressively protect a fetus in a womb to justify their discriminatory laws to control women’s reproductive organs. At the same time, they contradict themselves, by not doing what needs to be done to ensure that the lives of the living, breathing children in the foster care program are protected, and that there are enough caseworkers and inspectors to make home visits to check on the children after they have been placed in a home.

ShineonLibby Little Rock

From the web In response to last week’s cover story, “Leslie Rutledge, the absent attorney general”: Chastised for loving her state and country! Left will be left.

Mike Linn She has served the will of the majority of Arkansans.

Your article is your opinion, not news.

I miss the days when reporters and news media would just print the facts less their opinions. It was much more compelling to the masses of readers. We the readers like to form our own opinions. The win for your publication is you get a broader audience. arkmom If nothing else, I’d ask her to keep her mind on what’s going on here and quit worrying about what’s going on in other states.

Well, and one other thing: When she goes on TV, please don’t mention she’s from Arkansas.

Rick Fahr CORRECTION Last week’s cover story, “Leslie Rutledge, absent AG,” incorrectly said that Rutledge was the first female Arkansas attorney general. She is the first elected female; Gov. Bill Clinton appointed Mary Stallcup attorney general in 1991 after AG Steve Clark resigned. Stallcup, who went on to be general counsel at the University of Central, died in 1997.

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EYE ON ARKANSAS

WEEK THAT WAS

Quote (and hypocrite) of the week:

BRIAN CHILSON

“Brandt supports creating more Pre-K and early childhood education opportunities for our kids.”

— From a Facebook post on the “Brandt Smith for Arkansas State Representative District 58” page. In a videotaped August debate in Jonesboro, Rep. Smith (R-Jonesboro) derided Democratic challenger Nate Looney for his strong pre-K platform. Among other things, Smith said pre-K was a waste of money that “offset family responsibilities.”

Burned by the Court On Thursday, Oct. 27, after over 140,000 early votes had been cast statewide, the Arkansas Supreme Court killed Issue 7, the initiated act to allow medical marijuana. The court said the Arkansas Medical Cannabis Act was disqualified due to deficiencies in signature gathering; votes on it will not be counted. Issue 6, the constitutional amendment that would allow medical marijuana, remains on the ballot. An attorney for the Issue 7 campaign has requested a rehearing, but it’s a longshot that the court will reverse itself.

The lawsuit challenging the Issue 7 signatures was brought by Kara Benca, a Little Rock lawyer and self-described supporter of decriminalizing marijuana. Issue 7 supporters noted that Benca’s complaint relied on information developed by backers of Issue 6.

Nonetheless, the campaign for Issue 7 has said voters should now vote “yes” on Issue 6 (and also 7, just in case the rehearing is successful).

In a 5-2 decision, the Supreme Court disallowed more than 12,000 signatures collected by Issue 7 canvassers, enough to leave the petition drive 2,465 signatures short of the 67,887 needed.

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BEFORE SENTENCING: Ted Suhl told Arkansas Times photographer Brian Chilson, “One day God will repay you for what you’re doing.

One day!”

who said most of the signatures challenged by Benca were acceptable. Two justices (Chief Justice Howard Brill and Associate Justice Paul Danielson) dissented from the majority opinion.

Benca’s arguments were about technical compliance with strict new laws on canvassing requirements passed by the state legislature. The largest portion of disqualified signatures related to rules on background checks for paid canvassers. Issue 7 relied heavily on volunteers who were to be paid only if money became available (it didn’t).

Nonetheless, the court said the law interpreted “paid canvassers” to include those with whom an agreement existed to pay money.

But Issue 6 backers may have shot themselves in the foot with their tooclever bid to undo their rival. For one thing, many Issue 7 supporters who early-voted before the court’s decision didn’t vote for 6 — but likely would have cast their votes for both measures if they’d known 7 was about to be kicked off the ballot. And second, the fact that the backers of Issue 6 were partly responsible for killing 7 has so

enraged some diehard Issue 7 advocates that they’re now saying they won’t support 6 under any circumstances.

Failure to protect A former foster parent and truck driver from Van Buren pleaded guilty last week to federal charges related to his transportation of at least five children across state lines to commit rape or sexual assault; a number of the victims were placed in his home by the state Department of Human Services in the early 2000s. The crimes of Clarence Garretson, 65, came to light only when a girl stepped forward earlier this year to report that Garretson had raped her on a cross-country trip in 2014, when she was 10. The FBI investigation that followed uncovered the other victims. According to court documents, DHS investigated Garretson following allegations of sexual abuse, and

the agency closed his home to foster children in 2004 — but it remained an adoptive home until 2015. DHS has said it can’t comment on the case due to confidentiality laws.

Suhl sentenced Ted Suhl, the Northeast Arkansas businessman who once operated the behavioral health facility for children known as the Lord’s Ranch, was sentenced to seven years in federal prison and ordered to pay a $200,000 fine in the court of U.S. District Judge Billy Roy Wilson. This summer, a jury found Suhl guilty on four federal counts stemming from his under-the-table payments to a top-level state DHS administrator and former legislator, Steven Jones. (DHS handled the Medicaid reimbursements that provided the bulk of revenue for Suhl’s companies.) Suhl’s lawyers plan to appeal.

OPINION

Scary election

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write my final column before election day on Halloween, appropriate given the terrifying outlook.

Might we wake up Nov. 9 to find ourselves a bit more than two months from a reality TV presidency?

Another scary thought: Were the decision left to Arkansas voters, the answer would be yes.

The philosophical inclination of Arkansas voters means the prospects down the ballot are just about as discouraging. It is hard, for example, to find a Democrat who doesn’t believe the party’s legislative minority won’t be eroded further this session.

Democrats fielded fewer candidates but they have several good ones battling the red tide. You couldn’t find a more competent public servant, for example, than Susan Inman, the retired elections supervisor, who’s trying to win a House seat in West Little Rock. She faces a tea party Republican, Jim Sorvillo, who’s donned a moderate disguise this election season because his part of town still has moderate voters. He declines to reveal his presidential choice, though his record is Trumpian.

He must be careful. The same area he seeks to represent has continued to elect a hardworking Democrat, MAX Kathy Lewison, to BRANTLEY maxbrantley@arktimes.com the Quorum Court, the county governing body. A Republican, running in tandem with Sorvillo, is trying again to unseat Lewison.

Democrats seem to be making some headway with issues — specifically expansion of pre-K education. Up in Jonesboro, Republican Rep. Brandt Smith announced his support for pre-K education on his Facebook page. This followed an astonishing debate performance with Democrat Nate Looney in which Smith said young children should stay home with their families and that expanding pre-K was typical wasteful Democratic spending. Another Republican, Rep. DeAnn Vaught, also bought newspaper advertising touting her love of pre-K. More rank hypocrisy. The Arkansas Republican Party intention-

Email, again

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ssuming that the bizarre 2016 presidential campaign does not represent the new normal, the great Hillary Clinton email snipe hunt will go down as the most preposterous presidential election issue ever.

Just as the email furor seemed about to subside, the forlorn FBI director, James B. Comey, revived it by telling Congress that some emails in the computer of sex pervert Anthony Weiner might have something to do with Clinton, the boss of Weiner’s estranged wife, although it could be meaningless. Clinton sagged in the polls, Donald Trump surged, and his crowds roared “lock her up” with new fury.

To Trump, Comey went from loser to man of principle, and Republicans praised him, but Democrats and former Republican Justice Department officials blamed him for inserting the FBI into a political campaign in violation of longstanding policy.

Comey was a lifelong Republican and a high Bush administration official who sank more than $20,000 into the campaigns of John McCain and Mitt Romney, who ran against Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012, but canceled his party

registration after Obama made him FBI director in 2013. He has waffled from one side to the other to try ERNEST to prove that he is DUMAS nonpartisan, first announcing that the FBI had found no evidence that Clinton had committed a crime by using the government server and then saying the FBI was going to look again.

After his murky note to Congress about Weiner’s emails, he sent a longer one to FBI colleagues explaining that regardless of the likelihood that there was nothing damaging for Clinton he was obliged to keep Congress abreast of things.

Clinton’s public approval ratings after leaving the State Department were sky-high before her bête noire, the New York Times, disclosed that she had used a private server while she was secretary of state. Media coverage mushroomed and Republicans made it the crime of the century. Might she have inadvertently revealed secrets to Russia or Middle Eastern jihadists, such as the identities of CIA agents or the fact that the

ally removed support for pre-K from its tutional amendments. We have three party platform because of philosophical this year and one, Issue 3, is another opposition.

Trojan horse. Styled an “economic There’ll be no gains for Democrats in development” measure, it’s simply Congress. Only one member of Congress unlimited corporate welfare. It allows drew a Democratic opponent, Dianne unlimited city, county and state bonded Curry’s low-profile challenge to incum- debt to provide freebies to private busibent Republican Rep. French Hill in the nesses. The Koch lobby — right for once 2nd District.

— says that it allows governors to picks The big news will be issues, though winners and losers for handouts, and most of the big news has already occurred. they should know when they opine Two ballot measures — one for more casi- on how the system can be politically nos and another to limit damages against manipulated. Worse still is the amendnursing homes for patient abuse — were ment’s explicit authorization of taxremoved by the Arkansas Supreme Court payer subsidies for local chambers of for flaws in the ballot title. For that, you can commerce. The money is used less for thank Attorney General Leslie Rutledge for tangible economic development than dropping the ball on adequate vetting of it is to lobby for the corporate politithe ballot titles. The court also dumped an cal agenda — tax breaks for the rich, a initiated medical marijuana act by disquali- cruel workers comp law, opposition to fying petition signatures that Secretary of health care and other people-friendly State Mark Martin and a special master had programs such as environmental profound were valid. The court reinforced an tection. In Little Rock, the chamber led earlier bad decision that the new petition the state takeover of the Little Rock canvassing rules did not unduly infringe School District. on clear constitutional language AGAINST Corporate lobbyists want handrestricting the people’s power to petition. outs and they’ve also thrown in with I’ll be voting for the medical marijuana Governor Hutchinson’s irrational war amendment, Issue 6, and I hope all do, even against putting medical marijuana in those who preferred Issue 7. the hands of people it could comfort.

If only the Supreme Court would be That alone is reason enough to VOTE tougher on legislatively referred consti- NO ON ISSUE 3.

CIA was killing civilians in drone attacks in Pakistan and Yemen? The Russians or WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange might have hacked into her server, although Trump urged them to do it and investigators found no evidence that they had.

WikiLeaks had, however, published online millions of secret documents from electronic government files, including many that were indeed damaging to national security. Assange’s interference in the election on Trump’s behalf, not Clinton’s emails, may yet prove to be the story of the year. Clinton had denounced WikiLeaks’ attacks on national security and called for Assange’s prosecution.

The real oddity of the campaign is the assertion by Trump, Republican congressmen and crowds that Clinton should be locked up for using a private server when policy seemed to dictate that people use government domains for official business, even if no harm to national security had been shown. The law is the law, they say, and anyone but her would be prosecuted.

If that were true, thousands would be in jail, including former Secretary of State Colin Powell, whose advice led to Clinton’s using a private server like he did, and nearly everyone in the George W. Bush White House. Memories are too short.

A few people at least ought to remem-

ber the Bush administration email scandal, which surfaced ever so briefly in 2007 when Congress looked into White Housedirected firings of seven U.S. attorneys, including our own good Republican (and now Trump state director) Bud Cummins.

It turned out that, sometime after the Iraq invasion, units in the White House converted from a government server to servers run by the Republican National Committee. Eventually, the White House explained that it had decided that the White House political operations run by Karl Rove (and including Arkansas aide Tim Griffin) were violating the Hatch Act, which prohibits political work on government time and facilities, so they converted to domains run by the Republican Party, gwb43.com, mchq.org and georgewbush.com. Other facets of government began to use them, too, because the media could not access them through the Freedom of Information Act. Rove and others eventually deleted at least 22 million emails to avoid their recovery. It was a clear violation of the Presidential Records Act, a post-Watergate reform that made it a crime to destroy presidential records.

Congressional committees were not interested in pursuing the scandal. The media reaction was ho-hum. It did not involve a Clinton.

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orry, but I’ve seen this movie before and I know how it ends.

There will never be a criminal prosecution of Hillary Clinton for two basic reasons: First, she’s a cautious, intelligent politician who doesn’t take reckless chances. How many failed “investigations” before Republicans get that?

Second, bogus charges against prominent individuals with first-rate attorneys endanger the prosecution more than the defense. You think the formerly eminent Kenneth Starr fled to Waco, Texas, because he was insufficiently partisan? His ace prosecutors lost every Whitewater trial except the one where they convicted his own star witness, poor, sick Jim McDougal.

But let’s go back to the starting place, October 1992, because what happened then has a direct bearing on today’s headlines.

Based upon some inept, not particularly honest articles in the New York Times, an unqualified partisan in the Treasury Department — she later admitted selling “Presidential Bitch” coffee mugs from her government office — cobbled together criminal referrals naming just about every prominent Democrat in Arkansas as a suspect in Jim McDougal’s financial shenanigans.

They included Bill and Hillary Clinton, who the evidence would show — and Kenneth Starr’s prosecutors eventually argued in open court — had been swindled and lied to in McDougal’s vain attempt to keep his foundering savings and loan, Madison Guaranty, from going under.

As the 1992 presidential election grew closer, the partisan L. Jean Lewis began to pressure the Little Rock FBI office and U.S. Attorney Charles “Chuck” Banks to investigate the Clintons. Banks was a lifelong Republican who’d been nominated to a federal judgeship by President George H.W. Bush. Unless the president was re-elected, Banks would lose two good jobs.

Having previously prosecuted McDougal, Banks and his staff found Lewis’ work both factually deficient and politically motivated. Soon, pressure began to come from FBI headquarters in Washington. Bush administration Attorney General William Barr demanded action. But Banks declined to investigate further.

Banks understood that whoever won the 1992 election, his political career was over. He preferred to keep his honor.

History records that he was also right

on the merits.

“Legitimize what can’t be proven.” Remember that phrase as you watch cable GENE TV hucksters LYONS hyperventilate about FBI Director James Comey’s illadvised and arguably illegal “October surprise.”

Meanwhile, don’t tell me what a terrific lawyer and standup guy Comey used to be. That guy no longer exists.

What we have instead is a spineless partisan who planted an IED in the middle of the 2016 presidential election — apparently because he feared criticism from GOP congressmen who drink from “Presidential Bitch” coffee mugs. And who tried to explain away his original weasel-worded letter to Congress with an even more craven apology to his FBI colleagues.

“Given that we don’t know the significance of this newly discovered collection of emails,” Comey whined, “I don’t want to create a misleading impression.”

Oh no, anything but that!

He also admitted “There is significant risk of being misunderstood.”

Well I’m sorry, but there’s just no chance that a Washington insider as experienced and ambitious as Comey could possibly not anticipate the feverish speculation his letter was certain to set off.

My goodness, does the man not own a TV set? Has he never seen Wolf Blitzer in action? Breaking news! Bombshell!!

Was Comey unaware of Donald J. Trump barnstorming around the country promising to put “Crooked Hillary” in prison while his supporters chant “Lock her up?”

Psychologists call it projection: The only way to rationalize supporting a moral cripple like Trump is to convince yourself his opponent’s worse.

Such antics risk a descent into the kind of society where the only real police are the Secret Police, and the judiciary exists to rationalize brutality.

A society like Vladimir Putin’s Russia, for example, where the bureaucracy is filled with useful drones who have bartered their honor for comfortable positions.

Comey could undo some of the terrible harm he’s done to American democracy if he’d simply admit error and resign.

Alas, I just don’t think it’s in him.

Conservatives don’t own moral high ground

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ald Trump for his once heard that the only things necessary to succeed in Arkansas words and behavpolitics were a high school diploma ior toward women. and a certificate from a six-week preachA few years earlier, ing course. That joke is not so funny he pointed out on Election Day that now that we are firmly entrenched in a AUTUMN period marked by style over substance a particular GOP TOLBERT and appearance over works. It seems to candidate was a be enough to win an election in Arkan- “good man.” It does not take a genius to sas by proclaiming to be a conservative understand that, by these postings, he Christian, lamenting the loss of schoolis encouraging his congregants to vote sponsored prayer and promising to outa particular way. The few who spoke law abortion. A campaign photo taken out were quickly made to feel like lesser in full camouflage while holding a gun Christians because of their different also seems to help sway Arkansas voters. political beliefs.

Politics and religion are similar in that It is time to end this false claim that we must seek out the small and quiet right-wing evangelicals have the moral truths in addition to the broad themes. high ground. How is it moral for many One truth is that so many of these legisRepublican legislators to argue that our lators, especially Republicans, who love children should be protected from imagito loudly proclaim they are serving Jesus, nary threats while using the bathroom quietly support poliwhile causing real harm by cies that do the most How is it moral for many refusing to adeharm to our children Republican legislators to and families. Clearly quately fund our argue that our children there is a disconnect public schools should be protected from and therapy for between the average imaginary threats while special needs Arkansas voter and the legislative pro- using the bathroom while children? These cess. Most Arkansans same legislacausing real harm by tors loudly cry are either too busy or refusing to adequately do not know how to they want to end fund our public schools and abortion, yet they check to see how his or her state represen- therapy for special need deny funding for tative or senator voted children? policies that are on a particular issue. proven to drive down the aborOften I see friends, especially teachers, who are outraged tion rate, such as better access to birth over the decreased funding to services control, paid family leave and affordable daycare. for children and schools, yet continue to support the very GOP candidates who It is time for the Christians and nonsupport and propose the cuts. As long as Christians on the left to speak up when we our state legislators say the right things are criticized and made to seem immoral. on the stump about religion, abortion My liberal friends fight to help families in and guns, it seems they get a pass on their all sorts of ways, including advocating for actual votes when they get to Little Rock. better safety nets when a parent becomes This disconnect is further comunemployed, welcoming refugees with pounded by many of the right-wing open arms and hearts and fighting to fund evangelical preachers who use the power early childhood education. It is time for of the pulpit every Sunday to further Arkansas evangelical voters to rememintertwine fear, religion and patriotism. ber that we are to love not in words, but in deeds and truth. It is time for those of I argue that these men are the most powus on the left to stop allowing the right to erful men in Arkansas politics, not our legislators. Just last month, the preacher believe they have seized the high ground. at my hometown congregation posted We need to fight to take it back or at least an article to the church Facebook group be allowed to share the space. WWJD claiming that we should not judge Donindeed.

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Road to recovery

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fter eight weeks, the Razorback rollercoaster finally got a needed, belated servicing.

Some probably expected 5-3 at this point; others are likely infuriated with the fact that the team’s pass protection has thoroughly vanished in the span of months, and that in those three losses, the opposition has averaged 50 points on the snout.

The bye week was necessary and, in the view of many, the intermission that may well precede the final act of Robb Smith’s tragedy. Let’s not mince words: This defense has been terrible, even in winning, and the personnel decisions there have been curious at best.

If Smith is to survive, then it starts this Saturday with a rare CBS televised date against Florida.

I’m not a betting man, but the Gators’ sketchy offense is improving at just the wrong time for the weary Hogs to muster any sort of blowback. Then there’s the inescapable history: a full quartercentury after triggering the Southwest Conference’s crumbling, Arkansas remains winless in SEC play against Florida. No, it’s not an annual dance, but it’s almost always ended with the Razorbacks being toyed with by disparate talent, crappy officiating, or theaterof-the-absurd late-game developments.

You can ask Reggie Fish and Tony Bua to weigh in on the latter.

If the Cubs and Indians can take a joint hatchet to the edifices of failure, maybe Arkansas too can find escape from the clutches of its past in 2016.

There are reasons to believe, and thusly, in no order, they are: 1. Not your father’s Gators. Not Spurrier’s. Not Meyer’s. Hell, not even Zook’s!

Jim McElwain’s incredible success so far smells a little fishy. There’s been a quarterback carousel powered by injuries, suspensions and the like. Many of the wins have been narrow and garish, and the losses he has overseen have been flat ugly. As ever the Gators have robust athleticism everywhere on the field, but at times look handcuffed by it all. Case in point for 2016, the loss at Tennessee, where McElwain called a brilliant first half en route to a 21-0 lead that made Butch Jones’ dismissal at halftime seem realistic. The Vols, with an inconsistent quarterback of their own, somehow fired off 38 straight points.

2. The defense will be inspired.

Arkansas players have had time to wash out the ill flavor of the Auburn loss, and

undoubtedly they still maintain a degree of confidence in themselves even if outsiders are dubiBEAU ous. Expect some WILCOX shakeups at most positions, and as is common in so-called “gut check” scenarios, some of those will pay dividends. It won’t hurt that the weather and the home crowd will juice the team up beyond its presumed performance ceiling.

3. Austin Allen has not, to anyone’s knowledge, been flattened by another human in the past 10-12 days. The junior quarterback’s poise and toughness has been hailed here and else all year. But even someone with his makeup can’t take beating after beating without consequence. And he can take cues from the way his elder sibling finished 2015 as well: Brandon was on fire permanently once the leaves turned, and the Razorbacks’ once-dismal fortunes reversed accordingly. For all that Austin has been through, he remains an efficient and productive guy under circumstances that have been less than hospitable, and he can count, too: He knows that this team still has a shot at hitting the nine- or 10-win mark, starting this weekend.

Don’t expect him to chalk that up as folly.

4. A few guys still have to prove they’ve got professional aspirations, and this is their last hurrah. Jeremy Sprinkle’s been too quiet. Dominique Reed has rarely shown up. Keon Hatcher and Drew Morgan still need to demonstrate that they can be of service to teams in need of possession receivers.

Don’t underestimate the urgency that these seniors can and should demonstrate, knowing their futures hinge on it.

5. Bret Bielema seems completely unwilling to sit on the hot seat. In 2014, needing some spark, he guided the team to a 3-1 finish after his Razorback coaching tenure began so inauspiciously.

Losses to Texas Tech and Toledo threatened his job security again last fall, and the team rallied again with a flourish.

If the aforementioned nine- or 10-win season materializes with the Florida monkey cast off his and the program’s back, the team’s record will continue its steady if less than glamorous rise, and he’ll be in line to be the first Hog coach to ever win three consecutive bowls.

That distinction alone should buoy him and the team for the short term.

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he Observer tries mightily to get up to Eureka Springs the last weekend in October every year for its Halloween Zombie Crawl, which sees hordes of the costumed undead shuffling down the city’s picturesque Spring Street.

It’s a very good time in the dark, followed by a big Halloween-themed dance party in Basin Park, smack dab in the middle of the weirdest, most wonderful little town in Arkansas.

Even as muggy as it was this year, Saturday night found Yours Truly and our loving Spouse — she all made up as Living Dead Girl — stalking the streets of Eureka with the rest of the ghouls, goblins, haints and haunters. The event has grown considerably in recent years, so by the time we crept on down to Basin Park, it was already packed, with a DJ spinning the platters that matter up in the band shell and faux blood-splattered kids, teens and oldsters doing the Whip, the Hustle and the Charleston there in the lovely yellow light from the streetlamps.

For weeks, The Observer has been routinely expressing our ongoing displeasure with this foul 90-degree October and clingy Summer 2016, a season that has overstayed her welcome. Standing there in Basin Park, however, we actually found ourselves happy for the warmish night, so like the summer nights the crooners sing odes to, as opposed to Arkansas summer nights, which are like being boiled in mineral oil. No jackets to weigh down the dancers. No skeeters to slap at in the dark. No need for frigid hands in warming pockets. None of that.

Just a light sweater, the music, the movement, and the hope that come that next week, we’ll be taking the jacket down from the hook for the first of many times before Thanksgiving.

The next morning, still a little bleary, Spouse and Her Loving Man sprung from our slumber like two Nosferati and headed out in search of breakfast. After a very nice nosh at the Crescent Hotel, we went driving around a bit to see the sights

before heading back to rouse Junior and lurch toward Little Rock.

We were motorvating down South Main on the way to the old train station in Eureka when we saw it, perched on a mailbox: a common gray squirrel that was not so common, given its speckled body and large, white tail. The Observer marveled as a kid over relatives’ stuffed and mounted albino and partially albino gray squirrels, rarities saved from stewpot oblivion as a curiosity, dang near as rare — even to old-timers — as coming upon Bigfoot. Though Yours Truly has been in the woods of Arkansas our whole life, until that moment in Eureka we’d never seen a partially white squirrel that hadn’t already shuffled off its mortal coil.

We jammed on the brakes hard enough to give Spouse a start, then hopped out, fumbled our camera phone to life and shot some snaps of the little critter there, digging through the leaves for his daily acorn. Only after he’d bounded off did we mount back up, marveling to Spouse at the rarity of the thing as we drove on.

We’d made it about a block when we saw the second squirrel, this one almost entirely white from the neck back, as if he’d been picked up by the head and dipped in bleach, save for the dark strip of fur up his back. This time, we piled out and shot video until he disappeared into the underbrush, knowing that the boys at the Game and Fish Commission would never believe such a tale without the tape.

All The Observer and our honey can figger is that the abundance of white limestone in the area has allowed these mutant tree rats’ spotty coats to serve as camo adequate enough to fool the area’s abundance of hawks and other predators.

That’s our theory, anyway. Could just be that they’re carnivorous, cross-dimensional escapees from a secret gubmint lab, as seen in “Stranger Things.” Whatever the case, it sure made for a bright Halloween memory in one of our favorite places in the world.

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Safety, schools Shared city board issues.

BY LESLIE NEWELL PEACOCK

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ontestants in this year’s City Board races include one incumbent, a restaurateur, a real estate consultant, a pastor and a teacher. It is nonpartisan, but in an unusual move, a Koch brothers-funded political action group has gotten involved. Public safety tops the lists of concerns, and most want to see the Little Rock School District returned to the city and a board elected, though they cannot directly bring that about.

There are two contested races: the Ward 4 seat, a West Little Rock ward, and the Position 9 at-large seat. The ballot for Ward 4 includes Roy Brooks as a candidate for Ward 4 director, but he has dropped out. The ballot also includes Molly Miller’s name as a candidate for the at-large Position 10 seat held by Joan Adcock, but Miller has dropped out. At-large Director Dean Kumpuris drew no opposition. Should either Brooks or Miller get a plurality of votes, the City Board would appoint a director to fill the position. City directors are paid $18,000 annually. Terms expire in 2020.

Elections for director in wards 1, 2, 3, 5, 6 and 7 and for mayor will be held in 2018.

Ward 4: The right is watching

give back to the city, a much bigger and lasting and impactful way to give back.”

Peck said public safety is “really huge” to Ward 4, which she said is seeing an “uptick” in burglaries and theft. Though she believes “citizens are the first line of defense” against bad actors, “you’ve still got to have patrol cars,” and she is pleased that the Little Rock Police Department is opening a police substation in the Pankey community in West Little Rock.

Peck says it’s a paramount concern to get the control of the Little Rock School District back in the hands of a locally elected school board. She believes Superintendent Michael Poore, who came in under difficult circumstances when the state Board of Education fired the popular Baker Kurrus, “wants to do a good job, I think, and we have to work with him if he is to be successful.” Peck is disturbed by the “explosion of charter schools” that is sucking away high-achieving students, and hence state dollars, out of the LRSD. “I believe in the right [of parents]

Koch group takes interest in Peck.

Capi Peck, a restaurateur for 30 years and daughter of the late prominent hotelier Sam Peck, and Jeff Yates, who works with developers and businesses to locate properties, are running for the Ward 4 seat on the Little Rock City Board. You might not think that Americans for Prosperity, the conservative political advocacy group funded by industrialist brothers David and Charles Koch, would be interested in Little Rock’s Ward 4 politics.

Yet, an Americans for Prosperity field representative, Kenneth Wallis, went to the Little Rock Convention and Visitors Bureau asking to see how much business Peck has done with the city in the past five years. The information has produced no campaign material so far.

Peck, who owns Trio’s Restaurant, has sat on the board of the Advertising and Promotion Commission for 10 years.

The interest in the race, Peck said, is a little bit weird and “a little bit scary.” But, she added, “I’ve got nothing to hide. I’ve seen the packet of information they got.”

The sum: $8,400. “I’ve been lining my pockets,” she said, laughing, but added on a serious note that she’s been transparent about all business her restaurant has done with the city. Over the same period, she’s remitted $1 million in hamburger taxes to the city.

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Yates told the Times he did not know Kenneth Wallis, though he was curious about what the documents revealed.

Ward 4 is bounded by Mississippi Street on the east, Cantrell Road, Interstate 430 and Pulaski County on the north, Pinnacle Valley, Hinson and Rainwood roads and Hinson Road on the west, and Markham Street on the south.

Peck, 64, started campaigning last April, even before the June 1 filing opening, going door to door in her ward. She is identified with progressive causes but has never run for office. She opted to run after the incumbent, Brad Cazort, announced he would not seek re-election.

She decided then “this is the best way to

to choose to send their kids to a charter school, but we’ve got to invest in Little Rock first,” she said. Peck, a graduate of Hall High, is active in The Tribe alumni group that has formed to support the students of that school.

What can the City Board do about education? “The City Board can be vocal and speak out,” Peck said. “Some directors are pro charter and speak out against the Little Rock School District. I think it’s the duty of Little Rock city directors to actively support the Little Rock schools.”

To not do so is bad for the city’s economy, she said. (Lance Hines, Ward 5 director, publicly supported charter school expansions in an appearance before the Board

of Education in March).

“I’m not a politician … but I am a successful business person in a really tough business. … I’m a good listener and the hardest worker of anybody I know. … I am concerned about all the voices of the neighborhoods,” and a fighter for the underdog, Peck said.

Peck has been endorsed by the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.

Yates, 50, was born in Fayetteville and moved to Little Rock in 1993. His business is ARK, which advises commercial and real estate investors on properties.

Ward 4 concerns are public safety, public schools and, “to a lesser degree,” public infrastructure, he said.

Yates said the City Board should support Police Chief Kenton Buckner’s efforts to recruit more police officers and institute community policing. He said he did not know what resources Buckner needs, but “I’ll buy a plane ticket and go where he tells me” to recruit for the department.

The city should also take the lead in neighborhood infrastructure decisions, rather than leave it up to developers. “It’s the tail wagging the dog,” he said.

Yates, who has a daughter at Don R. Roberts Elementary, said the City Board should find a way to “turn the tide” with the public schools to bring back the people who “gave up and left for Benton and Bryant and Conway” to the schools and their dollars to the city. Yates favored the state Department of Education takeover of the Little Rock School District.

“Someone needed to hit the reset button and give the kids and teachers some help,” he said.

Yates also said he hopes the Arkansas Highway and Transportation Department does “as little widening” as possible on Interstate 30. The highway department proposes to more than double a seven-mile stretch of I-30 as it passes through North Little Rock and Little Rock; the plan has been controversial with people who believe it will harm property values along its edges and set back the progress Little Rock has made in rejuvenating downtown. “There are 105,000 [people] driving in for jobs,” Yates said. He’d rather they lived here.

Among his civic contributions, Yates has been a member and head of the Planning Commission, a past president of the Woodland Hills/Aspen Highlands property owners association and served

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on the board of the Little Rock REALTORS Association, among others. He has been endorsed by the Fraternal Order of Police and the Homebuilders and Realtors Association.

GENE FORTSON

Incumbent draws 2 opponents

A businessman, a gadfly, an idealist.

The race for at-large Position 9 pits incumbent Gene Fortson against Dr. Clayton Johnson and Jason Ferguson, three decidedly unalike candidates.

Fortson, 79, a retired businessman and banker, is affable and well-connected.

Johnson, 65, is a “teacher scientist” who lives in midtown and is known for taking on City Hall. Ferguson, 49, pastor of First Christian Church in Sherwood and a chaplain at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, has as his campaign slogan, “Less Ego, More Civility.”

City Director Fortson, born in North Little Rock, worked for Worthen Bank for 20 years, serving as its CEO for five years, and later was CEO of Stebbins and Roberts paint manufacturing company. He has served on the City Board of Directors since 2006, when he was appointed to fill out the term of Director Barbara Graves, who was making a race for mayor. He was elected to the at-large seat in 2008.

Fortson said he is running on his record of promoting “quality of life” in Little Rock, especially as Little Rock Advertising and Promotion Commission finance committee chairman, where he advocated for tourism-tax funded bond issues to renovate the Robinson Center, which will open soon, and the Arkansas Arts Center. Fortson’s priorities include

jobs and economic development, and he points to the Main Street Creative Corridor, the FedEx distribution facility in Southwest Little Rock, the Outlets of Little Rock mall and American Airlines’ recent announcement that it will build a new aircraft maintenance facility that will create 60 jobs as things he’s proud of. His top prior-

in molecular and cellular biology and is head of the science department at Premier High School, a charter school on the campus of Arkansas Baptist College.

Johnson has been active in neighborhood issues, serving terms as president of the Coalition of Little Rock Neighborhoods and the Meriwether Neighborhood Association as well as other

for imposing unjust fines and penalties.

Ferguson, born in Benton and a midtown resident, is pastor at First Christian Church in Sherwood and a chaplain resident at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. His work keeps him so busy he had to get up at 4:30 a.m. the day of his interview with the Times to put out yard signs.

Ferguson, who is ordained but tells his congregation just to call him Jason, or “pastor” if they must, said he “grew up around politics,” accompanying his father, Bob Ferguson, a journalist, on assignment to various political events. He calls himself an “unapologetic progressive” JASON FERGUSON DR. CLAYTON JOHNSON and “practical,” though his ideas — including creating a citywide early education program modeled after the ity, however, is public safety and increascivic panels. He is what you might call Japanese educational system, which a gadfly, involving himself in a number ing the manpower on the police force. stresses civility and work ethic in young of city issues — opposing a county sales Fortson said he was “glad” to have children and lets the academics come worked with Director Kathy Webb to tax for jail construction, suing the city later — sounds like an excellent idea that openly support the city’s anti-discriminaover traffic through his neighborhood, would be difficult to bring off.

Ferguson said he has been surprised tion ordinance in advance of its passage pushing the city to declare the Valley to discover in his campaigning that traf7-2 (Directors B.J. Wyrick and Erma HenHeights Apartments at 6900 Cantrell drix voted no; Director Ken Richardson Road a nuisance in 2012 (later dropped fic and speeding are huge concerns with was absent.) However, he saw to it that because of a change of ownership), and people all over the city, “from Geyer Webb’s ordinance calling on Little Rock pushing for the city to improve safety at Springs to Wellington [a Chenal apartMeriwether Park. “I’ve started my local to create a master plan in response to the ment complex].” He would like to see politics at the local level,” Johnson said. highway department’s plan to widen I-30 the legislature overturn its ban on traffic was tabled several times, and supports Johnson said he’s running because cameras so cities could detect speeding. the latest plan to create a 10- to 15-lane of Little Rock’s crime rate, saying it is The fines could be used to help create or throughway. “two or three or four times higher than support the creation of the early education program, he said.

In 2014, Fortson and City Director the national average.” (Several crime Brad Cazort famously went on a lateindexes rank Little Rock among the least Ferguson thinks Little Rock could be night “fact-finding” tour of clubs with safe small cities in the United States.) a “city on a hill” if we had “an emphasis that lives should be driven by love and permits to stay open until 5 a.m. after City He claimed his opponent Fortson “isn’t not ego.”

Director Joan Adcock proposed closing attuned” to the problem. Johnson would all clubs at 2 a.m. for safety reasons and create a public safety commission and a What the “city on a hill” may not need because, she believed, nobody should be community policing division. He believes is an I-30 that is twice the size it is now, out later than that. (A compromise that a simple way the city could reduce crime he said. He thinks the highway departput more security at clubs was finally would be to reduce traffic flow through ment is “in too big a hurry. We don’t know agreed to.) neighborhoods. “You can do that all over what transportation will look like in two Fortson has the support of the Little the entire city and City Hall knows it,” decades.” He said it appears that the main Rock Firefighters union and the AmerJohnson said. He also said that empowbenefit “would be to people who build ering citizens, as he said he’s done in his highways.” ican Federation of State, County and Ferguson confessed that because he Municipal Employees. Of the latter, he neighborhood, to understand they can said, “I don’t always agree with them, insist on a response from City Hall, will holds two jobs, he hasn’t campaigned bring about change. but they know I’m fair and will be reamuch. “I may come in third place by 30 points,” he said, but he will still work to sonable and listen.”

Johnson would also like Little Rock to Fortson’s campaign website says, create a court to handle hot checks, given make Little Rock a better place to live. If “Gene doesn’t get bogged down in politics.” the situation in Sherwood’s court, which he loses, he has something to look forJohnson, born in Dallas, has lived in he likened to a debtor’s court and which ward to: He’s getting married Nov. 19 to Little Rock since 1995. He holds a Ph.D. Amy Farley of Little Rock. has been sued by the ACLU of Arkansas arktimes.com

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A WARM GREETING: Clinton returned to Arkansas in 1996 to celebrate the publication of her book, “It Takes a Village.”

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An ambivalent relationship Hillary Clinton has made her time in Arkansas a major campaign theme, but the state’s voters look to overwhelmingly reject her Nov. 8.

BY JAY BARTH

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rkansas’s most startling election outcome of the modern era occurred in 1980, when the state’s ambitious young governor, Bill Clinton, was defeated by Republican businessman Frank White.

“The Choice 2016,” the well-reviewed documentary on the two major party presidential candidates produced by PBS’s “Frontline,” opens its segment on Hillary Rodham Clinton with that 1980 election at its center. Employing vintage video, that vignette traces the period from her husband’s election as governor in 1978 when she was Hillary Rodham, through that shocking re-election loss in 1980, and through the comeback of Bill Clinton with a joyous Hillary Clinton at his side in 1982. During that four-year period, not only did her name change, but so did

her physical presentation (her hair became straighter and blonder) and her public style (her Midwest accent was softened by a slight drawl).

Gabrielle Schonder, reporter and producer of “The Choice 2016,” said the decision to focus on this time in Clinton’s lengthy public career was an easy one. “[E]arly in our reporting, it became clear that almost everything you need to know about Hillary you learn during the leadup to the 1982 race. Her tenacity in the face of defeat is a defining skill she first learned at this moment.

She does not hunker down after the 1980 loss. … She campaigns tirelessly through a state in which she is personally disliked to ensure Arkansans know Bill has learned his lesson. This is a battle for his future and hers, and

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A PERMANENT CAMPAIGN: That’s how a “Frontline” producer describes Hillary Clintons’ political life, stretching back to 1978 in Arkansas.

it’s a `high-stakes, do whatever it takes’ attitude that she will repeat for the next three decades — a permanent campaign stretching all the way to her own candidacy in 2016.”

While “The Choice 2016” emphasizes some of the most challenging moments of Hillary Clinton’s time in Arkansas, her campaign has hammered home a more positive version of her two decades in the state. From the deeply personal address delivered

by Bill Clinton at this summer’s Democratic National Convention to her campaign’s “closing statement” in its final advertising push, the “three decades of service” at the center of the Clinton campaign continually hearken to her time in Arkansas working on behalf of the state’s children. Yet, mirroring the ambivalence that’s always been present with her relationship with Arkansas and its people, recent polling shows that Clinton appears on her way to a double-digit loss in the state.

ONCE IT BECAME CLEAR that Donald Trump would be her general election opponent, Clinton’s lifetime of service became the key subtheme of her campaign. (Attacks on Trump’s character and behavior have, of course, been the more dominant theme.) Her life of public service provided a clear contrast to Trump’s more self-centered career.

Moreover, while a campaign against a younger opponent would have made it risky to emphasize her three decades in public life, a race against a man slightly older than her erased that concern.

Indeed, a special feature on the Clinton website for her late October birthday encouraged supporters to check out what Hillary was doing the year they were born. The 2016 Democratic National Convention was a celebration of that lifetime of service, and much of it focused on her time as Arkansas’s first lady. In recounting “the best darn change-maker I ever met in my entire 16 NOVEMBER 3, 2016

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life,” Bill Clinton told tales of Hillary’s work in the state. She founded a legal aid clinic at the University of Arkansas School of Law and, in 1977, Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families — a nonprofit group dedicated to improving the lot of the state’s most vulnerable citizens (in full disclosure, I serve as president of AACF’s board of directors). She provided creative responses to meet the distinctive health care needs of rural Arkansans by expanding access to nurse practitioners and led the implementation of HIPPY (Home Instruction for Parents of Preschool Youngsters), a still-active early childhood education program. She reformed Arkansas’s education system by leading the group that designed a package of legislation passed in 1983 (that did include a controversial teacher test).

To provide handy visuals to accompany these remembrances of the Arkansas years for the carefully orchestrated coronation, the Arkansas delegation was front and center at the DNC. (In contrast, four years earlier, at the convention that renominated Barack Obama, Arkansas’s delegation was in the rafters of the Time Warner Cable Arena in Charlotte, N.C.) Saline County teacher Dustin Parsons appeared as a speaker on the stage to highlight the impact of the educational reforms in Arkansas. As “running up the score” with female voters became crucial in an election cycle in which white men were skewing toward Trump, emphasizing Clinton’s success with family and education issues in Arkansas made particular sense for her campaign.

The campaign’s focus on her Arkansas years did not stop at the convention. Her fall advertising push used Arkansas examples to demonstrate her lifetime of dedication to children and family issues, and Clinton herself made overt references to her Arkansas experience in the final presidential debate

both in expressing her understanding of American gun culture and in contrasting herself with Trump.

“In the 1980s, I was working to reform the schools in Arkansas,” she said. “He was borrowing $14 million from his father to start his businesses.”

The Clinton campaign’s version of Clinton’s time in Arkansas emphasizes her work and accomplishments. Her opponents have focused on a different version of those years, of course.

During her Democratic primary battle with Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.), some from the left said that Clinton’s service on the Walmart Board of Directors showed her true colors on corporations and workers’ rights. In the lead-up to the second debate with Trump, the Republican nominee brought forward two women from the Clinton years in Arkansas who renewed their allegations of sexual abuse by Bill Clinton and another rape victim whose rapist was represented by Hillary Clinton as a court-appointed defense attorney.

The Trump campaign is consciously emphasizing these stories during the home stretch of the campaign with the goal of suppressing turnout among younger women, according to a Bloomberg Businessweek report ( a Harvard Institute of Politics survey of 18-29 year-olds released late in the campaign says Clinton leads young women by 37 points).

THE ARKANSAS TRAVELERS, the group of Arkansans who traveled to swing states at their own expense in the ’90s to spread the gospel of the Clintons’ work in Arkansas, rode again on Hillary Clinton’s behalf in 2016. Begun in 1992 during Bill Clinton’s first campaign, the Travelers’ mission was to connect with rank-and-file voters across the country, sharing personal stories about their relationships with Clinton and his impact on their home state. The Travelers wore buttons saying, “I’m

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BACK HOME: Clinton brought along Tipper Gore (left) to a visit to Arkansas Children’s Hospital in July 1992.

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Hillary in Arkansas from Arkansas, let me tell you about my governor.”

Starting in November 2015, dozens of Arkansans once again traveled under the leadership of master organizer and taskmaster Sheila Bronfman, a longtime Little Rock political consultant, and a group of lieutenants operating out of Bronfman’s Heights home office.

Working collaboratively with the Clinton campaign, the Travelers often go to smaller towns in parts of swing states similar to Arkansas in terms of their cultural conservatism. Their primary task is to engage in direct voter contact through door-to-door interactions and phone calls. With their own press specialist in tow, they also seek out interviews with small-town newspapers and television stations to talk about their personal relationships with Clinton and the impact of her work on Arkansas. Particularly because the Travelers are volunteers, they have shown themselves to be effective in voter outreach.

Bronfman said the way that the Travelers go about their work makes them effective ambassadors for a candidate who has often been perceived by voters as cold and inauthentic: “If you’ve taken time do this, it means she’s a good person.”

Bronfman notes that, because they generally campaign in areas where Clinton supporters are outnumbered, their task is often to empower local Clinton supporters to become more engaged in the campaign. Bronfman said one older Missouri woman told the Travelers that her interaction with them had convinced her “to put that sign up that I’ve been scared to put up.”

A teenage African-American woman who was one of only a handful of students of color in her western Pennsylvania high school was similarly empowered by the Travelers’ visit to her high school civics classroom and became engaged in the campaign afterward.

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‘I DON’T KNOW IF I COULD WIN DOWN THERE’: Bill Clinton has said of Arkansas today.

campaigners, and a number have been engaged since the snows of New Hampshire in the winter of 1992. Ann Henry, Hillary Clinton’s faculty colleague at the University of Arkansas who hosted the Clintons’ 1975 wedding reception at her home with her husband, Morriss, noted that technology has transformed their work over the last quarter-century. In 1992, the Travelers went doorto-door without targeted lists of voters and helped build the crowds at rallies; in this cycle, the call and door-to-door lists are honed to those voters most likely to be swayed by such personal

interactions.

The Traveler veterans are an aging crew. Indeed, a number of the original Travelers have died or are no longer able to travel. For those like Henry and her husband, the long days are challenging. “When you’re 76 and 84, we can do the early morning, but it’s harder to do the early morning when the ‘light’s out’ is almost midnight,” she said. As a result, the Travelers have reinforced their numbers with younger Arkansans, several of whom are the children or grandchildren of original Travelers. While these younger Trav-

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elers, some as young as 16, lack the depth of personal history with Hillary Clinton, they focus on the impact of Clinton’s work on their home state a generation later — the legacy of her educational reforms and work to expand Arkansas Children’s Hospital.

While the Travelers are volunteers with careers outside of politics, numerous other Arkansans have invested many more hours over the past years — and staked their future political careers — on the Clinton campaign.

Particularly prominent in this group are Adrienne Elrod, director of strategic communications for Clinton after beginning the campaign cycle at Correct the Record (a unique super PAC built to rapidly respond to attacks on Clinton); Craig Smith, who headed up the Ready for Hillary super PAC that preceded her candidacy and is now in a leadership role on the Clinton Florida campaign; and Greg Hale, the campaign’s director of production. Hale is a Little Rock-based campaign consultant who maintains a connection to his roots in South Arkansas while paying careful attention to every detail of major events for the campaign. Though stagecraft is his primary duty, those close to the campaign say that Hale plays a role in grounding Clinton by tying the candidate back to Arkansas.

“He’s a living embodiment of where they came from,” said former Clinton aide David Morehouse (now president of the National Hockey League’s Pittsburgh Penguins).

If Clinton wins, some of these Arkansans hope to gain (and, in some cases, return to) positions in a Clinton administration. Some Arkansans may obtain even higher profile positions than those, like Hale, who work behind the scenes. One might well be former Arkansas U.S. Sen. Blanche Lincoln, the chair of the Senate Agriculture Committee when she lost her re-election race in 2010 to Republican 20 NOVEMBER 3, 2016

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John Boozman. Lincoln is rumored to be at the top of the list of candidates to be Clinton’s Secretary of Agriculture.

She would not be alone as an Arkansan mover and shaker in a Clinton administration.

DESPITE THESE IMPORTANT Arkansas linkages to her personal and political life, recent polling shows Clinton is on her way to losing the state overwhelmingly. Early in the year, Arkansas Democrats were quite confident that Clinton could significantly outperform Barack Obama’s vote in 2008 and 2012. (Obama gained only 37 percent of the state’s vote in his race against Mitt Romney.) She may yet slightly improve on the Obama blowout in Arkansas, but it will be only a marginal improvement. There are twin dynamics driving Clinton’s poor performance in 2016 in Arkansas: She is now a candidate who is seen as a national Democrat by Arkansas voters, and Donald Trump is a candidate ready-made for the Arkansas electorate.

The most recent Talk Business & Politics/Hendrix College poll from mid-October shows a 56 percent to 32.5 percent lead in Arkansas for Trump over Clinton. Although Clinton is running relatively strong in the 2nd Congressional District, which includes Central Arkansas, Trump is dominating the former Arkansas first lady in all other parts of the state. Clinton, unsurprisingly, is winning voters of color and nonchurchgoers, but those groups make up relatively small portions of the Arkansas electorate. Most interestingly, there is no significant gender gap in Arkansas. This is very much unlike the national story, in which there is a large gap between the evaluations of the two candidates by male and female voters.

While Clinton maintains deep connections with Democratic Party elites in Arkansas, she is distanced by time and ideology from rank-and-file Arkan-

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REVIEWING PROGRESS: Then Sen. Clinton toured the construction site of the Clinton Presidential Library with Skip Rutherford (right), who supervised construction and served as founding president of the William J. Clinton Foundation.

ties in 2016. While Arkansas Democrats seem generally more comfortable in running with Clinton than they have been with Obama in recent cycles, it is only in those handful of areas where nonwhites and college graduates show themselves in the state that Trump will have a challenge.

sas voters. She’s been gone from the state for two decades, and after serving as a U.S. senator from New York and secretary of state in the Obama administration, Clinton is now clearly a “national Democrat.” As Bill Clinton said last year, “Based on recent events, I don’t know if I could win again down there.” Those “recent events,” of course, include an ongoing animosity to President Obama and the demolition of state Democrats, a shift that changed Arkansas from one of the most Democratic states at the state level to one of the most Republican. Even Hillary Clinton’s most loyal supporters would agree that she is not her husband when it comes to outreach to Arkansas voters.

Too, the electoral pattern across the country is defined by Trump’s connection with whites lacking a college education and Clinton’s historically strong support with voters of color and whites with a college degree.

Arkansas has a relatively small percentage of nonwhite voters (in 2014, the Arkansas electorate was 83 percent white, according to exit polls) and is second to last among the states in the percentage of its population with a 22

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college degree. In his Arkansas campaigns (aside from the shocking 1980 loss), Bill Clinton was a specialist in dominating the “rural swing” counties that run diagonally from southwest to northeast across Arkansas. He did so by combining economic populism

with respect for traditional rural values. However, these disproportionately white, emphatically rural and economically fragile counties have swung decidedly away from Democrats during the Obama era, and Trump promises to run up the score even more in these coun-

ONE OF THE COOLEST experiences I get to have in my professional life is to speak with groups from Road Scholar, the service catering to educational travel for older folks, when they arrive in Little Rock. I regularly present a lecture on Bill Clinton’s relationship with Arkansas’s politics — how he was shaped by the place and how he reshaped it — before the group heads to the Clinton Presidential Center. One point I emphasize is how Clinton transformed individuals who had been political “outsiders” into “insiders.” Included in this category were not just African-Americans, but also women, personified by his wife’s role in policy work in his administration (such as on education) and in his political campaigns (such as her 1990 annihilation of Tom McRae, then challenging her husband for re-nomination as governor, at a state Capitol press conference.

Hillary Clinton hijacked McRae’s event, pulling out reports by the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation, which McRae had headed, praising her husband’s record on education, environment and economic issues).

Inevitably, one of the astute visitors will ask some version of this question: “So, what do Arkansans think about her now?” The answer, as is often the case with Hillary Clinton and Arkansans, is “it’s complicated.” But, one thing is quite simple in 2016: No matter how much Hillary Clinton celebrates her Arkansas history, the bulk of Arkansans casting a vote this year are driven by the political dynamics of today rather than those of the past.

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Where you was Zydeco heiress Marcella Simien’s swamp-soul hybrid comes to White Water.

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ten, for show and tell, you had to bring in something, and I brought in a Joe Cocker CD and just sang along to it. I loved the growl and the grittiness of his voice.” Taj Mahal sang “Happy Birthday” to her when she turned 18, and her fam-

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hen Memphis rapper Gavin Mays (a.k.a. Cities Aviv) recruited Marcella Réne Simien to sing vocals on two songs for his gauzy, whip-smart first release, “Digital Lows,” it was after hearing her at a show in Memphis circa 2010 or so. In those days, she’d open for punk bands at house shows under the pseudonym Fille Catatonique, mashing up The Buzzcocks’ “Orgasm Addict” with Nina Simone’s “Be My Husband” on a Cajun squeezebox.

Her voice on those two Cities Aviv tracks — “Black Box” and “A Beautiful Hell” — is deep-seated and serpentine and listeners might not be surprised that Simien counts Destiny’s Child and Erykah Badu among her early musical influences. Had those same listeners been in the crowd with Mays, though, the singer’s zydeco pedigree might have been more telltale. Marcella’s father, Terrance, a descendant of one of the first Creole families to settle in Louisiana’s St. Landry Parish, was among the reasons for the creation of an entirely new Grammy Award category: “Best Zydeco or Cajun Music Album,” an accolade his group Terrance Simien and The Zydeco Experience scored for themselves in 2008.

Growing up with a bonafide zydeco pioneer, Simien says, was “just the most vibrantly colorful way to be exposed to music,” and though convivial brushes with greats like Fats Domino didn’t likely go unnoticed, Simien credits bits of her father’s personal collection — Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Bob Dylan — with having lent an eclecticism to her ear during those aesthetically formative years. “It was endless, all the CDs and tapes and records that were within my reach. It made me a more informed listener,” she told the Arkansas Times. She attested to some shyness as a child, but despite that, she did more than listen. “I really was a sponge. Anything I heard that I liked, I would wanna emulate it. I remember in preschool — no, it was in kindergar-

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She started out in the clothing industry and when she met my dad, she learned the ropes. So I got to see that aspect of it, just how to really take care of business.”

In performance, Simien — who will appear Tuesday, Nov. 15, at the White Water Tavern — is earthy, occasionally barefoot, using a bent knee to keep her stay grounded while she throws her head back for a big belty note, then just as easily switching into the sort of guttural tremolo that makes Simone’s imprint most apparent, as in the opening lines to “We Rewind.” Though her rendition of straightforwardly soul numbers like “I’d

FILLE CATATONIQUE: Marcella Simien’s work draws on influences from the frontwoman’s “two homes”: Lafayette, La. and Memphis, Tenn., and her zydeco-soul outfit Marcella & Her Lovers performs at the White Water Tavern Tuesday, Nov. 15, 9 p.m., $5.

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Rather Go Blind” would settle any bets about her gifts as a strictly-vocals frontwoman, Simien’s most in possession of an easy freedom of motion when she’s wearing her accordion, matching the ebb and flow of those endlessly stretching origami folds with her hips. The lyrics on her band’s 2014 EP, “The Bronze Age,” make that lusty euphemism a bit more explicit (though, to be fair, the words to “Orgasm Addict” do set a pretty high bar in that category), summoning symbols

for sex as ancient as Eden’s apple itself: “Red delicious for my baby/Bed delicious for my body/If you keep givin’ me that eye boy/It’s been a long, long time/Open mouth and climb inside.”

And, though the subject matter leans decidedly toward the adult, Simien wrote that opening tune, “Put That Bronze,” on “a small sort of toy Casio synth.” The full band’s sound “bends and stretches,” she said, “and we just kinda bring what we think feels right for that room. But yeah, we usually have a lot of sultry tunes in our set.” Given the eroticism of Simien’s self-described “swamp soul,” it makes a lot of sense that she’d inform her band’s forthcoming album with the production talents of someone who’s worked with Al Green and Cody Chesnutt: Royal Studios’ Lawrence “Boo” Mitchell, who took over the landmark business when his father, Willie Mitchell, died in 2010, having led the revered Hi Records label through its Memphis soul heyday in the 1970s.

Simien’s visual art is situated casually on her website next to her biography and a gallery of photos titled “Photos of Marcella Taken By Her Friends.” Her senior final exhibition piece as a student at Memphis College of Art was called “Where You Was.” It’s an assemblage of unframed papers in varying textures and weights — mixed-media collages intertwining patches of muted ivory, sky blue and rose with her drawings, a skill to which she turned her focus completely after an MCA drawing professor illuminated for her the idea of “drawing with paper, instead of drawing with a utensil.” The accompanying artist statement makes no mention of music, but nevertheless evokes the same twofold roots in Memphis and Lafayette, La., that allow for her seamless blending of zydeco with that Stax Records sound: “ ‘Where You Was,’ an 18-piece grid of abstract mixed media collages, explores the idea of having two homes. … I am interested in what it means to be indigenous to a certain place.”

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ROCK AR VOTE (pronounced “Rock Our Vote”) and the GDT PR Agency host an evening of networking at “Watch the Throne,” an election night watch party at Bar Louie in the Pleasant Ridge Town Center with happy hour specials all night, 6:30 p.m.

SHOULD YOU FIND comfort in quiet meditation during historic moments, the interfaith Arkansas House of Prayer is hosting an Election Day Prayer Vigil beginning at 7 a.m. on Election Day. THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY of Saline County watches the poll results roll in with food and drink at Benton’s Fairfield Inn & Suites, 6 p.m.

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FRIDAY 11/4

PROTOMARTYR

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I’ve never really known what the term “post-punk” means, but if there is a clear and recent example of it, it might be Protomartyr’s 2015 release, “The Agent Intellect.” Although the lyrics of songs like “Dope Cloud” are born and bred of the disenchantment with which the band’s native Detroit has come to be nearly synonymous, it’s easy to be reminded of our own recent hometown political divisions over matters of money and marijuana when reading lines like, “The dope cloud/that’s descending/on this town/is blowing gold dust/into the pockets/of the undeserving.” Conversely, cueing up “Ellen,” armed with the knowledge that it’s an imagined promise from frontman Joe Casey’s late father to his mother, who has Alzheimer’s, is a worthwhile exercise in perspective and a great way to use up that last trifold of Kleenex at the bottom of the box on your desk. Protomartyr shares a bill with Pittsburgh’s The Gotobeds — who we can only hope will bring half the goofball quotient to its set as the four members brought to the video for “Cold Gold (L.A.’s Alright)” from “Blood//Sugar// Secs//Traffic” — as well as Bombay Harambee, a local quartet whose academic rock and stream-ofconsciousness delivery should bookend Protomartyr perfectly.

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VARI-COLORED SONGS: Leyla McCalla (middle), Haitian-American songwriter, cellist and former member of Carolina Chocolate Drops, brings her trio to South on Main Thursday night as part of Oxford American’s “Archetypes & Troubadours” series, 8 p.m., $17-$27.

THURSDAY 11/3

LEYLA MCCALLA TRIO

8 p.m. South on Main. $17-$27.

Whether or not The Dude’s Zen utterance at the conclusion of the Coen Brothers’ “The Big Lebowski” — “Sometimes you eat the bar, and sometimes the bar eats you” — is more of a shrug than its Haitian proverb correlate, “a day for the hunter, a day for the prey,” is in the eye of the beholder. For cellist-songwriter Leyla McCalla, though, the Haitian phrase — the title of Gage Averill’s book — bore less of an air of resignation and she titled her second album after it. “I felt that this proverb really captures the essence of the Haitian spirit, which to me is very linked to the struggle for human rights and political sovereignty,” she told NPR earlier this year. McCalla departed Grammy-winning string band Carolina 26

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Chocolate Drops after releasing her acclaimed solo effort, “Vari-Colored Songs,” an arresting set of interpretations of the poems of Langston Hughes.

She sings youthfully and plainly in English and French Creole against her warm cello, which she plucks with a rhythmical precision that announces her classical training; when Chocolate Drops manager Tim Duffy ventured to New Orleans to track her down at her sister’s recommendation, he found her playing Bach’s cello suites from memory on the street. Her concert at South on Main, featuring Daniel Tremblay on banjo and guitar and Free Feral on viola, is part of Oxford American’s “Archetypes & Troubadours” series and is the last in the U.S. before a string of dates in Switzerland, France and Belgium; catch her here while you can.

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PINKISH BLACK

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Daron Beck and Jon Teague, the two remaining members of the band The Great Tyrant, live and perform with the dysphoria of a band member lost to suicide, bassist Tommy Atkins. They’ve paid a constant and harrowing tribute to that loss by naming the re-formed duo after the color of the walls next to the spot where Atkins died at his home in Fort Worth, Texas, though they downplay the name’s origin these days out of respect for Atkins’ memory, and in light of tragedies the two have endured since that time. Musically, Pinkish Black’s synth-drum dystopias are cut from the same spooky cloth that the soundtrack to “Stranger Things” is made of, except that, you know, they’ve been creating sounds of that ilk since the kids who play Eleven, Lucas, Mike, Will and Dustin were communicating primarily via baby monitor. The duo’s latest effort, “Bottom of the Morning,” is a tense, theatrical marathon, and anyone who bothered to put together a Halloween party playlist last week probably should have just put on this album instead. They’re joined by Conway’s thrashing punkand-pedalboard hybrid Headcold and Mainland Divide, a local quintet whose ultra-dense texture of layered guitars is framed with absolute muscle and fortitude by an intense drummer.

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THURSDAY 11/3

SATURDAY 11/5

‘BLACK HISTORY SINCE MLK: AND STILL I RISE’ 1 p.m. Mosaic Templars Cultural Center. Free.

In the middle of July in 2009, Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. came home from a trip to China, where he’d been researching Yo Yo Ma’s ancestry for a PBS special on genetic interconnectivity called “Faces of America,” and found his front door jammed shut. An arrest, a media frenzy and a White House “beer summit” later, Gates’ work continues to ask what it means to be black in America today.

Citing the progress of the civil rights movements and the influence of artis-

tic statements like James Brown’s “I’m Black and I’m Proud” and Beyonce’s “Formation,” Gates’ documentary series “Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise” begins with Malcolm X’s assassination, the Voting Rights Act and the following Watts riots, moving through the last 50 years with excerpted interviews from Shonda Rhimes, Democratic U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas, Jesse Jackson, Nas, Dr. Cornel West, Ava DuVernay, Donna Brazile, Charlayne Hunter-Gault and former Attorney General Eric Holder. In the series, Gates observes that “poverty remains a stubbornly persistent way of life for far too many African-Americans, incar-

ceration rates in our community are at an all-time high, and people are crying out to have their basic human dignity recognized, leading some to wonder if things really have changed.” A panel discussion follows the screening, with moderators Dr. Angela Webster, University of Central Arkansas associate vice president for institutional diversity; Dr. John Miller, University of Arkansas at Little Rock faculty mentoring program coordinator and associate professor; Dr. Joseph Jones, Arkansas Baptist College president; Ryan Davis, director of Children’s International; and Matthew Caston, founder of the Freedman Society.

The Arkansas Repertory Theatre continues its run of Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible,” 7 p.m. Thursday, 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Sunday, through Nov. 13, $20-$45. Comedian and country music parodist John Wesley Austin lands at the Loony Bin, 7:30 p.m.

Thursday, 7:30 p.m. and 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday, $8-$12. Members of the Arkansas Chamber Singers perform solo and ensemble pieces for the group’s T.G.I. Fall Fundraiser at The Lobby Bar, 6:30 p.m., $50. Chuck Mead, formerly of Bakersfield Sound revivalists BR549, performs at the White Water Tavern, 9 p.m., $7. Nashville surf pop trio *repeat repeat plays at Stickyz with Sattakota, 9 p.m., $8.

FRIDAY 11/4 Blues guru CeDell Davis celebrates his 90th birthday with a concert at the Ron Robinson Theater as part of the Arkansas Sounds music series, 7 p.m., $10.

Guest pianist Youmee Kim gives a recital of works by Henry Cowell, Benjamin Lees, Paul Ben-Haim and Robert Scarcella Perino at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock’s Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall, 7:30 p.m., free. Big Piph & Tomorrow Maybe celebrate the release of the interactive app to accompany “The Legacy Project” with Snipes and Virtghost at White Water, 9:30 p.m., $10. The Rodney Block Collective hosts “Fade 2 Black” with DJ HY-C, an upscale dance party at South on Main, 10 p.m., $15.

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SATURDAY 11/5

BEDROOM TAPES: Austin’s Julia Lucille brings her feathery introspections to Central Arkansas for several shows, including one at Maxine’s Saturday, Nov. 5, with Nite Pup and Notice to Quit, 9 p.m.

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9 p.m. Maxine’s, Hot Springs.

This bill is full of introspection and half-steps, a lovely trio of bands worth straining to hear. Julia Lucille, a selfdescribed “dark-folk” singer from Austin, wrote a song for each new moon of the year to create “Bedroom Tapes: Volume One,” a process she says reinforced for her “that life is not a straightforward progression, but an endless cycle of continual falling apart and rebirth. Sometimes things happen that you would

Asia Arkansas Magazine hosts the Central Arkansas Asian Festival at Mosaic Church, 6221 Colonel Glenn Road, 10 a.m., free. Mena hosts its annual Ouachita Arts Celebration with music from Logan Lind, 9 a.m., free. Faulkner County Library hosts Urban Farm Fest, a community potluck and festival, 2 p.m., free. New Orleans R&B outfit Tyler Kinchen & The Right Pieces plays at South on Main, 9 p.m., $10. Rev Room hosts “The Ultimate Michael Jackson Tribute,” 9 p.m., $10-$20.

MONDAY 11/7 never want to happen, and you can resist the change rather futilely, or you can embrace it.” She pairs her feathery lines with the kind of barely-there guitar picking that comes across as absentminded but is an intentional complement to her poetry: “I went to war for my dreams/and I fought for glory and other unreal things/I fought with all the panic of my feared inadequacies/ with pasted over reasoning/and other people’s mutterings/and it didn’t lead to anything.” After this stint in Central Arkansas, Fayetteville’s Nite Pup heads

to the Southwestern United States, a landscape that seems fitting for a band that pairs an earnest wolf howl falsetto with lonely, bending guitar arpeggios, as on “Sierra” and “Nature Fetish” from “The Idea is Like Grass,” released earlier this summer. Hot Springs trio Notice to Quit lists Joy Division among its influences on the band’s Facebook page, and after a listen to the lilt and cheer in the band’s summer’s tracks, “Lucid” and “Redwoods,” The Cure circa “Three Imaginary Boys” might be just as apt an inspiration.

Ron Robinson screens “Gimme Danger,” Jim Jarmusch’s new rock-doc on Iggy Pop and The Stooges, 6 p.m.

A little later, The Uh Huhs pair up with The Harlequins at White Water, 9 p.m.

WEDNESDAY 11/9 Author of Jewish gospel musical “The Colors of Water” and advocate for the Black Lives Matter movement Yavilah McCoy gives the Ben J. Altheimer Lecture on Judaism and Civil Rights at Hendrix College, 7 p.m., free. The Head, Dangerous Idiots and Couch Jackets share a bill at White Water, 9 p.m.

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KIDS

Garden Club. A project of the Faulkner County Urban Farm Project. Ages 7 and up or with supervision. Faulkner County Library, 3:30 p.m., free. 1900 Tyler St., Conway. 501-327-7482. www. fcl.org.

THURSDAY, NOV. 3

FRIDAY, NOV. 4

MUSIC

COMEDY

John Wesley Austin. The Loony Bin, through Nov. 5, 7:30 p.m. and 10 p.m. Nov. 4-5, $8-$12.

10301 N. Rodney Parham Road. 501-228-5555. loonybincomedy.com.

EVENTS

ArkiePub Trivia. Stone’s Throw Brewery, 6:30 p.m., free. 402 E. 9th St. 501-244-9154. stonesthrowbeer.com.

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Brian and Nick. Cajun’s Wharf, 5:30 p.m., free.

2400 Cantrell Road. 501-375-5351. cajunswharf. com.

Chuck Mead. White Water Tavern, 9 p.m., $7.

2500 W. 7th St. 501-375-8400. whitewatertavern.com.

Drageoke. Hosted by Queen Anthony James Gerard: a drag show followed by karaoke. Sway, 8 p.m. 412 Louisiana. clubsway.com.

Frank Iero and The Patience. With The So So Glos. Clear Channel Metroplex, 8 p.m., $15.

10800 Col. Glenn Road. 501-217-5113. metroplexlive.com.

Jim Dickerson. Sonny Williams’ Steak Room, 7 p.m. 500 President Clinton Ave. 501-324-2999. www.sonnywilliamssteakroom.com.

Karaoke. Zack’s Place, 8 p.m., free. 1400 S. University Ave. 501-664-6444.

Leyla McCalla. South on Main, 6 p.m., $17-$27.

1304 Main St. 501-244-9660. southonmain.com.

Live music. No cover charge Sun.-Tue. and Thu. Ernie Biggs. 307 President Clinton Ave. 501-3724782. littlerock.erniebiggs.com.

Mayday by Midnight. Cajun’s Wharf, 9 p.m., $5. 2400 Cantrell Road. 501-375-5351. cajunswharf.com.

Open Jam. Thirst n’ Howl, 8 p.m. 14710 Cantrell Road. 501-379-8189. www.thirst-n-howl.com.

Open jam with The Port Arthur Band. Parrot Beach Cafe, 9 p.m. 9611 MacArthur Drive, NLR. 771-2994.

Repeat Repeat. With Sattakota. Stickyz Rock ‘n’ Roll Chicken Shack, 9 p.m., $8. 107 River Market Ave. 501-372-7707. stickyz.com.

RockUsaurus. Casa Mexicana, 7 p.m. 7111 JFK Blvd., NLR. 501-835-7876.

Ted Ludwig Trio. Capital Bar and Grill, 8 p.m., free. 111 W. Markham St. 501-370-7013. www. capitalbarandgrill.com/.

T.G.I. Fall Fundraiser. With bites from Taziki’s Mediterranean Cafe. The Studio Theatre, 6:30 p.m., $50. 320 W. 7th St. ar-chambersingers.org.

Touche Amore. With Tiny Moving Parts and Culture Abuse. Revolution, 8:30 p.m. 300 President Clinton Ave. 501-823-0090. revroom. com.

A Very SoNA Christmas. A concert from Symphony of Northwest Arkansas, also featuring The SoNA Singers and Schola Cantorum.

Walton Arts Center, 7:30 p.m., $30-$52. 495 W. Dickson St., Fayetteville. 479-443-5600. sonamusic.org.

SYED AND ‘SERIAL’: Rabia Chaudry, attorney and co-host of the podcast “Undisclosed,” speaks about Islamophobia and her book “Adnan’s Story: The Search for Justice After ‘Serial’ ” Sunday, Nov. 6, at the Ron Robinson Theater, 2 p.m., free. To register, visit cals. org or call 918-3024.

Arkansas. Noah’s Event Venue, 6 p.m., $50. 21 Rahling Circle. centralarkansastickets.com.

Hillcrest Shop & Sip. Shops and restaurants offer discounts, later hours, and live music. Hillcrest,

first Thursday of every month, 5 p.m. 501-6663600. www.hillcrestmerchants.com.

Paws in the Vineyard: Wine and Whiskers. A benefit for CARE for Animals. Trapnall Hall, 6

All In Fridays. Envy. 7200 Colonel Glenn Road.

501-562-3317.

Almost Infamous. Markham Street Grill and Pub, 8:30 p.m., free. 11321 W. Markham St. 501-2242010. markhamstreetpub.com.

Big Piph & Tomorrow Maybe, Snipes, Virtghost.

White Water Tavern, 9:30 p.m., $10. 2500 W. 7th St. 501-375-8400. whitewatertavern.com.

Brian Austin Blues Band. Part of the “Live at 5” monthly series. Arts and Science Center for Southeast Arkansas, 5 p.m., $5-$10. 701 Main St., Pine Bluff. 870-536-3375. asc701.org.

CeDell Davis. With Zack and Big Papa Binns and Brethren, in celebration of Davis’ 90th birthday.

Ron Robinson Theater, 7 p.m., $10. 1 Pulaski Way. 501-320-5703. arkansassounds.org.

The Christine DeMeo Band. Silk’s Bar and Grill, Nov. 4-5, 10 p.m., free. 2705 Central Ave., Hot Springs. 5016234411. oaklawn.com.

Fade to Black: The Rodney Block Collective.

South on Main, 10 p.m., $15. 1304 Main St. 501244-9660. southonmain.com.

The Gunshy, Joe Myside and the Sorrow, Midwest Caravan. Maxine’s, 9 p.m., $5. 700 Central Ave., Hot Springs. maxineslive.com.

John Calvin Brewer Trio. Pop’s Lounge, 7 p.m., free. 2705 Central Ave., Hot Springs. 501-6234411. oaklawn.com.

Live music. No cover charge Sun.-Tue. and Thu. Ernie Biggs. 307 President Clinton Ave. 501-3724782. littlerock.erniebiggs.com.

Pamela K. Ward. Cajun’s Wharf, 9 p.m., $5. 2400 Cantrell Road. 501-375-5351. cajunswharf.com.

Pinkish Black, Headcold, Mainland Divide.

Vino’s, 9 p.m. 923 W. 7th St. 501-375-8466. vinosbrewpub.com.

Protomartyr. With The GoToBeds and Bombay Harambee. Stickyz Rock ‘n’ Roll Chicken Shack, 9 p.m., $10-$12. 107 River Market Ave. 501-3727707. stickyz.com.

Randy Rogers Band. George’s Majestic Lounge, 9:30 p.m., $20. 519 W. Dickson St., Fayetteville.

479-442-4226. georgesmajesticlounge.com.

Richie Johnson. Cajun’s Wharf, 5:30 p.m., free.

2400 Cantrell Road. 501-375-5351. cajunswharf. com.

Salsa Dancing. Clear Channel Metroplex, 9 p.m., $5-$10. 10800 Col. Glenn Road. 501-217-5113. www.littlerocksalsa.com.

Still on the Hill. The Fowler Center, 7:30 p.m., $18-$28. 201 Olympic Drive, Jonesboro. 870972-3471. astate.edu/tickets.

Ted Ludwig Trio. Capital Bar and Grill, 8 p.m., free. 111 W. Markham St. 501-370-7013. www. capitalbarandgrill.com/.

Upscale Friday. IV Corners, 7 p.m. 824 W. Capitol Ave. The Velcro Pygmies. Revolution, 9:30 p.m., $10.

300 President Clinton Ave. 501-823-0090. revroom.com.

Weston Jennings. A concert from the Arkansas chapter of the American Guild of Organists. St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, 8 p.m., free. 228 Spring

EVENTS

Fantastic Friday. Literary and music event, refreshments included. For reservations, call 479-968-2452 or email artscenter@centurytel. net. River Valley Arts Center, Every third Friday, 7 p.m., $10 suggested donation. 1001 E. B St., Russellville. 479-968-2452. www.arvartscenter. org.

Holiday Open House. Mosaic Templars Cultural Center, 2 p.m., free. 501 W. 9th St. 501-683-3593. mosaictemplarscenter.com.

LGBTQ/SGL weekly meeting. Diverse Youth for Social Change is a group for LGBTQ/SGL and straight ally youth and young adults age 14 to 23. For more information, call 501-244-9690 or search “DYSC” on Facebook. First Presbyterian Church, 6:30 p.m. 800 Scott St.

LECTURES

“The Entrepreneurship Edge: Creating a More Entrepreneurial Community.” A talk from Steve Radley, president of NetWork Kansas.

Winthrop Rockefeller Institute, 12 p.m., free.

1 Rockefeller Drive, Morrilton. 501-727-5435. rockefellerinstitute.org.

“What’s Ahead?” A talk from Little Rock Schools superintendent Michael Poore as part of the Political Animals Club. Pleasant Valley Country Club, 11:30 a.m., $20-$21. 1 Pleasant Valley Drive. 501-225-5622. www.pleasantvalleycountryclub.net.

SATURDAY, NOV. 5

MUSIC

805 Jive. Cajun’s Wharf, 9 p.m., $5. 2400 Cantrell Road. 501-375-5351. cajunswharf.com.

Ben Byers. Cajun’s Wharf, 5:30 p.m., free. 2400 Cantrell Road. 501-375-5351. cajunswharf.com.

Chapter: Soul. TC’s Midtown Grill, 10 p.m., $8.

1611 E. Oak St., Conway. 501-205-0576.

The Christine DeMeo Band. Silk’s Bar and Grill, 10 p.m., free. 2705 Central Ave., Hot Springs.

5016234411. oaklawn.com.

Disco Reunion. G-Force in the lobby, Big Brown and Bobby Kuta in the disco and “Disco Caliente” in the theater. Discovery Nightclub, 9 p.m. 1021 Jessie Road. 501-664-4784. latenightdisco.com.

Jacob Flores. Pop’s Lounge, 7 p.m., free. 2705 Central Ave., Hot Springs. 501-623-4411. oaklawn.com.

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Ballroom dancing. Free lessons begin at 7 p.m.

Bess Chisum Stephens Community Center, 8-11 p.m., $7-$13. 12th and Cleveland streets.

501-221-7568. www.blsdance.org.

Contra dance. Park Hill Presbyterian Church, 7:30 p.m., $5. 3520 JFK Blvd., NLR. arkansascountrydance.org.

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COMEDY

“Electile Dysfunction.” The Joint, through Nov. 19: 8 p.m., $22. 301 Main St. No. 102, NLR. 501372-0205. thejointargenta.com.

John Wesley Austin. The Loony Bin, through Nov. 5, 7:30 p.m.; through Nov. 5, 10 p.m.; Nov. 5, $8-$12. 10301 N. Rodney Parham Road. 501228-5555. loonybincomedy.com.

Karaoke at Khalil’s. Khalil’s Pub, 7 p.m. 110 S. Shackleford Road. 501-224-0224. www.khalilspub.com.

Karaoke. Zack’s Place, 8 p.m., free. 1400 S. University Ave. 501-664-6444. Casa Mexicana, 7 p.m. 7111 JFK Blvd., NLR. 501-835-7876.

Karaoke with DJ Greg. Revolution, 8:30 p.m., free. 300 President Clinton Ave. 501-823-0090. www.rumbarevolution.com/new.

Live music. No cover charge Sun.-Tue. and Thu. Ernie Biggs. 307 President Clinton Ave. 501-3724782. littlerock.erniebiggs.com.

Notice to Quit, Julia Lucille, Nite Pup. Maxine’s, 9 p.m. 700 Central Ave., Hot Springs. maxineslive.com.

Pickin’ Porch. Bring your instrument. All ages welcome. Faulkner County Library, 9:30 a.m. 1900 Tyler St., Conway. 501-327-7482. www.fcl.org.

Ted Ludwig Trio. Capital Bar and Grill, 8 p.m., free. 111 W. Markham St. 501-370-7013. www. capitalbarandgrill.com/.

Tyler Kinchen & The Right Pieces. South on Main, 9 p.m., $10. 1304 Main St. 501-244-9660. southonmain.com.

“The Ultimate Michael Jackson Tribute.”

Revolution, 9 p.m., $10-$20. 300 President Clinton Ave. 501-823-0090. revroom.com.

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Youmee Kim. UALR, Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall, 7:30 p.m., free. 2801 S. University Ave. 501569-8977. ualr.edu/music.

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COMEDY

“Electile Dysfunction.” The Joint, through Nov. 19: 8 p.m., $22. 301 Main St. No. 102, NLR. 501372-0205. thejointargenta.com.

John Wesley Austin. The Loony Bin, 7:30 p.m. and 10 p.m., $8-$12. 10301 N. Rodney Parham Road. 501-228-5555. loonybincomedy.com.

Urban Nerd: Shamus Ridgell. With performances from A.J. Marlin, Devincey Chopz Moore, Jared Lowry and Ronel Williams. The Public Theatre, 7 p.m., $15. 616 Center St. 501374-7529. www.thepublictheatre.com.

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EVENTS

Black America Since MLK: “And Still I Rise.”

Mosaic Templars Cultural Center, 1 p.m. 501 W. 9th St. 501-683-3593. mosaictemplarscenter.com.

Central Arkansas Asian Festival. A community festival celebrating Asian-Pacific Islander cultures. Mosaic Church, 10 a.m. 6221 Colonel Glenn Rd. Falun Gong meditation. Allsopp Park, 9 a.m., free. Cantrell and Cedar Hill Roads.

Hillcrest Farmers Market. Pulaski Heights Baptist Church, 8 a.m.-noon. 2200 Kavanaugh Blvd.

Historic Neighborhoods Tour. Bike tour of historic neighborhoods includes bike, guide, helmets and maps. Bobby’s Bike Hike, 9 a.m., $8-$28. 400 President Clinton Ave. 501-613-7001.

Little Rock Farmers’ Market. River Market pavilions, 7 a.m. 400 President Clinton Ave. 375-2552. www.rivermarket.info.

Ouachita Arts Celebration. Car show, children’s activities, a roving choir and music from Logan Lind. Downtown Mena, 9 a.m. Mena St., Mena. menaartgallery.org.

Pork & Bourbon Tour. Bike tour includes bicycle, guide, helmets and maps. Bobby’s Bike Hike, 11:30 a.m., $35-$45. 400 President Clinton Ave. 501-613-7001.

POETRY

Lattes & Lit. Kollective Coffee & Tea, first Saturday of every month, 6 p.m., free. 110 Central Ave., Hot Springs. 501-701-4000. arktimes.com

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Urban Farm Fest. Faulkner County Library, 2 p.m., free. 1900 Tyler St., Conway. 501-327-7482. fcl.org.

SUNDAY, NOV. 6

MUSIC

“Flashing Winds.” A performance from the North

Little Rock Community Concert Band, featuring works from John Williams, Gustav Holst and more. Patrick Henry Hays Center, 3 p.m., free.

401 W. Pershing, NLR. nlrcommunityband.com.

Irish Traditional Music Session. Hibernia Irish Tavern, 2:30 p.m. 9700 N. Rodney Parham Road.

501-246-4340. www.hiberniairishtavern.com.

The Lightfoot Family Band. Faulkner County Library, 2 p.m., free. 1900 Tyler St., Conway. 501327-7482. fcl.org.

Live music. No cover charge Sun.-Tue. and Thu. Ernie Biggs. 307 President Clinton Ave. 501-3724782. littlerock.erniebiggs.com.

EVENTS

Bernice Garden Farmer’s Market. Bernice Garden, 10 a.m. 1401 S. Main St. www.thebernicegarden.org.

Out of the Darkness: Suicide Prevention Walk. Clinton Presidential Center, 2 p.m. 1200 President Clinton Ave. 370-8000. www.clintonpresidentialcenter.org.

MONDAY, NOV. 7

MUSIC

Live music. No cover charge Sun.-Tue. and Thu. Ernie Biggs. 307 President Clinton Ave. 501-3724782. littlerock.erniebiggs.com.

Open Mic. The Lobby Bar. Studio Theatre, 8 p.m. 320 W. 7th St. The Uh Huhs, The Harlequins. White Water Tavern, 9 p.m. 2500 W. 7th St. 501-375-8400. whitewatertavern.com.

FILM

“Gimme Danger.” Ron Robinson Theater, 6 p.m., $5. 1 Pulaski Way. 501-320-5703. cals.org.

CLASSES

Scottish Country Dance Classes. Park Hill Presbyterian Church, through Dec. 5: 7 p.m., $60. 3520 JFK Blvd., NLR. arkansasscottishcountrydancing.com/.

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TUESDAY, NOV. 8

MUSIC

Jeff Ling. Khalil’s Pub, 6 p.m. 110 S. Shackleford Road. 501-224-0224. www.khalilspub.com.

Jim Dickerson. Sonny Williams’ Steak Room, 7 p.m. 500 President Clinton Ave. 501-324-2999. www.sonnywilliamssteakroom.com.

Karaoke Tuesday. Prost, 8 p.m., free. 322 President Clinton Blvd. 501-244-9550. willydspianobar.com/prost-2.

Karaoke Tuesdays. On the patio. Stickyz Rock ‘n’ Roll Chicken Shack, 7:30 p.m., free. 107 River Market Ave. 501-372-7707. www.stickyz.com.

Live music. No cover charge Sun.-Tue. and Thu. Ernie Biggs. 307 President Clinton Ave. 501-3724782. littlerock.erniebiggs.com.

COMEDY

“Punch Line” Stand-Up Comedy. Hosted by Brett Ihler. The Joint, 8 p.m., $5. 301 Main St. No. 102, NLR. 501-372-0205. thejointinlittlerock.com.

EVENTS

Election Night Watch Party. White Water Tavern, 6 p.m. 2500 W. 7th St. 501-375-8400. whitewatertavern.com.

Little Rock Farmers’ Market. River Market pavilions, 7 a.m. 400 President Clinton Ave. 375-2552. www.rivermarket.info.

Little Rock Green Drinks. Informal networking session for people who work in the environmental field. Ciao Baci, 5:30-7 p.m. 605 N. Beechwood St. 501-603-0238. www.greendrinks. org.

Trivia Bowl. Flying Saucer, 8:30 p.m. 323 President Clinton Ave. 501-372-8032. www.beerknurd. com/stores/littlerock.

FILM

“The Breakfast Club.” Riverdale 10 Cinema, 7 p.m., $8. 2600 Cantrell Road. 501-296-9955. riverdale10.com.

“Life, Animated.” Ron Robinson Theater, 6 p.m., $5. 1 Pulaski Way. 501-320-5703. cals.org.

SPORTS

UALR Trojans vs. UA Monticello. Men’s college basketball game. Jack Stephens Center, UALR, 6:30 p.m. 2801 S. University Ave. lrtrojans.com.

WEDNESDAY, NOV. 9

MUSIC

The Head, Dangerous Idiots, Couch Jackets.

White Water Tavern, 6 p.m. White Water Tavern, 6 p.m. 2500 W. 7th St. 501-375-8400. whitewatertavern.com.

Jim Dickerson. Sonny Williams’ Steak Room, 7 p.m. 500 President Clinton Ave. 501-324-2999. www.sonnywilliamssteakroom.com.

Karaoke at Khalil’s. Khalil’s Pub, 7 p.m. 110 S. Shackleford Road. 501-224-0224. www.khalilspub.com.

Karaoke. MUSE Ultra Lounge, 8:30 p.m., free.

2611 Kavanaugh Blvd. 501-663-6398.

Live music. No cover charge Sun.-Tue. and Thu. Ernie Biggs. 307 President Clinton Ave. 501-3724782. littlerock.erniebiggs.com.

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COMEDY

The Joint Venture. Improv comedy group. The Joint, 8 p.m., $8. 301 Main St. No. 102, NLR. 501372-0205. thejointinlittlerock.com.

DANCE

Little Rock Bop Club. Beginning dance lessons for ages 10 and older. Singles welcome. Bess Chisum Stephens Community Center, 7 p.m., $4 for members, $7 for guests. 12th and Cleveland streets. 501-350-4712. www.littlerockbopclub.

FILM

“Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict.” Ron Robinson Theater, 6 p.m., $5. 1 Pulaski Way. 501-320-5703. cals.org.

LECTURES

Yavilah McCoy. The 2016 Ben J. Altheimer Lecture on Judaism and Civil Rights Hendrix College, 7 p.m., free. 1600 Washington Ave., Conway. hendrix.edu/events.

POETRY

Wednesday Night Poetry. 21-and-older show.

Kollective Coffee & Tea, 7 p.m., free. 110 Central Ave., Hot Springs. 501-321-0909. maxineslive. com/shows.html.

ARTS

THEATER

“The Crucible.” Directed by Paul Barnes. Arkansas Repertory Theatre, through Nov. 13: Wed., Thu., Sun., 7 p.m.; Fri., Sat., 8 p.m.; Sun., 2 p.m., $20$45. 601 Main St. 501-378-0405. therep.org.

“I and You.” Walton Arts Center, through Nov. 6: Sat., Sun., 2 p.m., $10-$40. 495 W. Dickson St., Fayetteville. 479-443-5600. waltonartscenter.org.

“Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.” Directed by Ann Muse, music direction by Mark Binns. Hendrix College, through Nov. 4, 7:30 p.m.; Sat., Nov. 5, 2 p.m., free. 1600 Washington Ave., Conway. hendrix.edu/events.

“The Wiz.” Directed by Danette Scott Perry and

Leah Thomas. The Weekend Theater, through Nov. 13: Fri., Sat., 7:30 p.m.; Sun., 2:30 p.m., $16-$20. 1001 W. 7th St. 501-374-3761. weekendtheater.org.

NEW IN THE GALLERIES, ART EVENTS

FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, 800 Scott St.: “The Struggle of the South” by Joe Jones,” talk by Brad Cushman, 1 p.m. Nov. 5, luncheon noon-1 p.m., $20 luncheon and lecture, buy tickets at fpcbradcushman.eventbrite.com.

GALLERY 26, 2601 Kavanaugh Blvd.: 22nd annual “Holiday Show and Sale,” work by more than 50 artists in all media, opens with reception 7-10 p.m. Nov. 7, show through Jan. 9. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Tue.-Sat. 664-8996.

PLEASANT VALLEY COUNTRY CLUB, 1 Pleasant Valley Drive: “Keeper of the Lamp,” silent auction of art created by nurses and professional artists to benefit the Arkansas Center for Nursing, 6-9 p.m. Nov. 5, $40-$50. Tickets at eventbrite.

PULASKI TECHNICAL COLLEGE, 3000 W. Scenic Drive: “Shadows in the Water,” mixed media paintings by Brad Cushman, through Nov. 9, Windgate Gallery, Center for Humanities and Arts, reception 5:30-7:30 p.m. Nov. 3. 8 a.m.-9 p.m. Mon.-Thu., 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Fri. 812-2715.

THEA FOUNDATION, 401 Main St.: “Habitats: Bentonville,” photographs by Kat Wilson, part of The Art Department series, reception 6:30-9 p.m. Nov. 4, hors d’oeuvres and music

by The Funkanites, drawing for a photograph, $10. Show through November. 379-9512.

THE HOUSE OF ART, 108 W. 4th St.: “Art WithOut Limits: The Erotica Art Show,” with host Chris James, burlesque, body painting, lingerie models, spoken word, live music, 7 p.m. Nov. 5. $20 general admission, $30 seating. 366-3793.

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BENTONVILLE CRYSTAL BRIDGES MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART, One Museum Way: “The Art of American Dance,” 90 works spanning the years 1830 to now, through Jan. 16; “The Oklahoma Dance Film Festival,” dance films, body movement techniques from filmmakers and choreographers and performance by Jessica Vokoun and friends, 7-8 p.m. Nov. 3; The film screening includes a live dance performance by Vokoun and friend “Shaking Hands

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ONE-NOTE WONDER: Mountaineer guide-turned-avenger Shivaay (Ajay Devgn, who also directs) scales snowy peaks to rescue his kidnapped daughter Gaura (Abigail Eames) in a Bollywood vanity flick.

Cliffhanger nosedives ‘Shivaay’ trades scope and credibility for sheer muscle.

BY GUY LANCASTER

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y wife regularly accuses me of hypocrisy when it comes to Indian cinema: “You tolerate things in Bollywood films that you wouldn’t tolerate in a typical American blockbuster!” And I admit it. When the dour Jason Bourne survives a fall from several stories up and walks away with nary a limp, my internal B.S. meter hits critical levels, precisely because the movie wants me to take it seriously. In your typical Bollywood movie, though, those physics-defying feats occur amid a steady stream of dance numbers and comic relief gags, so one is never transported to that state of mind in which all must be taken as real. Consequently, you can just enjoy what is before you.

However, my hypocrisy struggled under the weight of “Shivaay,” one of the latest Bollywood releases to hit Central Arkansas. Our title character (Ajay Devgn, who also directs) acts as a guide in the Himalayas. During one climbing expedition, he falls in love with Bulgarian student Olga (Erika Kaar). This brief affair ends with her pregnant and wanting to have an abortion, already having family members to care for back in Bulgaria, but Shivaay bullies her into going full term and leaving the child with him.

(Patriarchy at its best.)

Fast-forward nine years, and Shivaay is climbing mountains with his mute daughter, Gaura (Abigail Eames).

After Gaura learns the true story of her mother, Shivaay takes her to Bulgaria in search of Olga, enlisting the help of local consulate worker Anushka (Sayesha Saigal). And here, in a satisfying reversal of every Fu Manchu-esque tale of white slavery set in the “insidious” Orient, Gaura is kidnapped by a ring of human traffickers. This turns Shivaay into India’s answer to Liam Neeson, tearing through the Bulgarian underworld in search of his daughter and leaving behind an ever-growing pile of dead bodies — mostly pimps and corrupt cops. Anushka eventually comes to his aid (outside her official capacity, of course), having enlisted Olga as well as a hacker friend (Vir Das) who does the requisite jabbering about firewalls and download speeds.

It’s a rather basic setup for an action film, and it could have been done quite well, but the movie undermines itself in several ways. To begin with, the editing is atrocious, especially during the action sequences — there are so many cuts it feels that the movie was not so much put through an editing suite but a Ginsu knife commercial, leaving the

viewer with no real sense of the physical space in which the action occurs.

Too, although the car chase scenes see many vehicles trashed (they must be cheap in Bulgaria), the film rather obviously replaces real stunt work with a green screen.

But the biggest knock against the movie is the utter cartoonishness of its villains. The henchmen would not even qualify as Imperial Stormtroopers they shoot so badly, while the heads of this flesh trade operation exhibit zero business acumen. Despite knowing that Shivaay wants only his daughter, they insist upon keeping this one girl captive even in the face of a rising body count and the risk of losing everything.

Yes, the power of cinema can make the viewer experience a range of strange and wonderful emotions, but no movie should ever leave you thinking, “Gosh, I could run a better child sex slavery operation than these bozos.”

Perhaps even that could have been forgiven had “Shivaay” been a more typical Bollywood movie, one which tries hard “to contain the whole of life,” as Salman Rushdie once described the genre. Granted, dance numbers and comic relief (of which there are none here) could very well have felt misplaced in such a story, but Indian cinema proves so enjoyable precisely when it reminds us that the whole range of human experience is still possible, even in our darkest hours. After all, our eponymous hero is named for the god of destruction and creation, and one wishes that actor and director Devgn had explored more of that duality.

Instead, he made a second-rate American popcorn flick — and a mockery of my carefully cultivated hypocrisy.

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CONWAY UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL ARKANSAS: “Senior BA/BFA Exhibition,” work by 11 seniors, Nov. 3-Dec. 1, Baum Gallery, receptions 4-6 p.m. Nov. 3 and 2-4 p.m. Nov. 20. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Wed. and Fri., 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Thu. 450-5793.

FAYETTEVILLE STUDIO 545, 545 Center St.: New watercolors

by William McNamara, reception 5-10 p.m.

Nov. 4, show through Nov. 27. 479-527-9842. davidmckeearchitect@gmail.com.

FORT SMITH REGIONAL ART MUSEUM, 1601 Rogers Ave.: “Jason Sacran,” 20-year overview of the artist’s paintings, Nov. 4-Feb. 8, reception 5-7 p.m.

Nov. 10, $5 nonmembers; “Pulled, Pressed and Screened: Important American Prints,” work by Milton Avery, Robert Motherwell, Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns and Richard Estes, reception 5-7 p.m. Nov. 10, $5 nonmembers, show through Jan. 5. 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Tue.Sat., 1-5 p.m. Sun. 479-784-2787.

HOT SPRINGS JUSTUS FINE ART, 827 A Central Ave.: “Cantos from the New Pantheon,” paintings by Randell Good, artist’s reception 5-9 p.m. Nov. 4, Hot Springs Gallery Walk, talk by Good 1 p.m. Nov. 5, exhibition through Nov. 30. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Wed.-Sat. 321-2335.

CALL FOR ENTRIES

The Arkansas Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts (ACNMWA) is taking applications for its biennial online registry of Arkansas women artists, which allows selected artists to showcase their work.

Deadline for application is Dec. 31. To apply, go to acnmwa.org/artist-registry. Juror is Rana Edgar, director of education and programs at the Arkansas Arts Center.

ACNMWA was founded in 1989 to support the efforts of the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) in Washington, D.C. The Arkansas Arts Council is accepting applications for Arts in Education Mini Grants and Arts for Lifelong Learning Mini Grants, residency programs, through August 2017. Artists must match the grant award of $1,000 with either cash or an in-kind contribution. For more information, go to the Available Grants section of arkansasarts.org.

Wildwood Park for the Arts invites printmakers to submit works with a theme of nature for the February 2017 “Nature in Print” exhibit.

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Dining WHAT’S COOKIN’

ALONG WITH BOOKS, you can now get food with a Brazilian flair at Bookends cafe in the Central Arkansas Library System’s Cox Creative Center. CALS has collaborated with Cafe Bossa Nova restaurant to add some of the Hillcrest eatery’s dishes, such as its breakfast and beef empanadas (found at Bossa Nova’s Rosalia’s Family Bakery), its chicken salpicao (served on pita bread), its trademark cheese bread (made with yucca flour), its Brazilian twist on a Japanese yakisoba (a noodle dish), muffins, energy bars, gluten-free brownies and soup. Bookends’ other sandwiches are still on the menu, along with other items in the cold case, like fresh fruit. New CALS Director Nate Coulter is said to have had the idea for the collaboration. CALS will change the name from Bookends to The Cafe at River Market Books and Gifts. Prose Garden, the cafe on the fifth floor of the Main Library, is now closed. Weekday hours have changed to 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. (opening an hour earlier than previously so you can take advantage of that breakfast empanada). The Cox Center and cafe are also open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday.

AN INGREDIENT THAT shaped Little Rock’s culture for years was Robert “Say” McIntosh’s famous sweet potato pie. The Mosaic Templars Cultural Center, 501 W. Ninth St., pays homage to Say and his pies with its annual “Say It Ain’t Say’s” sweet potato pie baking contest, now in its fifth year.

Professionals and amateurs will compete to see who makes the best sweet potato pie in Central Arkansas at the museum’s family-friendly Holiday Open House from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. Dec. 4; deadline to enter the competition is 4 p.m. Nov. 18.

First- and second-place prizes will be awarded by judges in both professional and amateur categories, and attendees will select a people’s choice winner.

Last year, Latrice Catering won first place in the professional category with “Blondies Marshmallow Meringue Sweet Potato Pie” and perennial winner Sondra A. Strong won first place in the amateur category with her “Sweet Potato Pie Cheesecake.” Second-place winners were Yvette’s Bakery Box (professional) and Sylvia M. Tyler (amateur). Strong’s winning entry in the amateur category was also named the people’s choice winner.

To register, go to mosaictemplars.com/ events/holiday-open-house. Participation is free, but competitors must bring a toy to donate to Say’s “Black Santa” toy drive.

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A WELCOME WATERING HOLE: The Heights needed somewhere to get a drink and watch the game, and Prospect nicely fills that void, but its food could use an upgrade.

The TV part is good But Prospect needs to tune its food.

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he Heights needed Prospect Sports Bar and Grill. There aren’t that many true sports bars in town, and the best ones are near the I-430/I-630 nexus, not so close to where lots of sports lovers live. And Prospect is a cool place to hang out and check out a game — or a few games simultaneously.

What it’s not is a great place to eat.

There are some decent choices, but there are some disappointments, too. Bar food can be done much better (Dugan’s Pub, for example), and you’d think a spot owned by the Chi family would have a better-than-average chance of churning out some top-notch grub.

Like a decent burger, which Prospect’s is not, even at $10.50 with house-

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made chips ($12.50 with fries). Our buddy called it bland, boring, and the deli ham (“shaved pit ham,” the menu calls it) was distracting and superfluous. The chips tasted of too-old, too-tired grease.

Two other losers: 1) The creamy crab artichoke dip ($11). Like most dishes that tout “lump crab meat” there were only scant shards, not hefty lumps, to be found. And there wasn’t a lot of discernible artichoke either. The prominent taste was cream cheese. The accompanying pita chips were tough. 2) The chili ($3.50 cup, $5.25 bowl). The beef was too finely ground, too chili-powdered; it reminded us of what tops dairy bar chilidogs; our friend called it “ground beef sludge.”

The smoked wings ($8 for eight pieces; $4 on Sundays) were our favorite. They were very meaty, and smoking them is a nice touch. We tried the honey mustard and the dry-rub; both were subtly applied and tasty. We also liked the queso, the very smooth, white variety ($6 for about two-thirds of a bowl).

Two other winners were the hot avocado melt ($8.50) and the bourbon bread pudding. Griddling the sandwich turned the avocado and slice of Swiss nice and gooey, and the sweet grilled onions worked well on it. The bread pudding was the only homemade dessert among the six offered. It was firm and cinnamony with a few dried cranberries adding to the taste profile. Ice cream wasn’t mentioned on the menu, but two scoops came atop it.

Prospect takes its sports bar theme seriously where the decor is concerned.

In the entrance are 10 boxes with Hogs cushions. (They’re potential seats with no view, we guess.) West of that is a small lounge with two overstuffed leather chairs, six other chairs and one TV. Still west of that is a separate space with two

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QUICK BITE Prospect has a number of attractive food specials: We’ve capitalized on half-price wings ($4 vs. $8) on more than one Sunday.

There are also $1 domestic beers with Prospect Classic Burger 11 p.m.-3 p.m. daily.

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pool tables, an interactive golf video game and two TVs. There are retractable doors that allow that space to open to the street and the bar that lines that northern wall

is glass with squishy oil in it. It’s pretty cool.

There’s a Razorback mural with drawings of Nolan Richardson, Darren McFadden and Bobby Portis, plus some stadium-and-arena ambiance shots.

There’s a full picture of War Memorial Stadium (remember when the Hogs used to play there?) above the secondary bar in the main room. There are 20 TVs overall, but not many of them are hooked up to the NFL Ticket, so there are only three pro games shown even when thrice that many are being played.

In short, Prospect is a pretty cool place to hang out. It’s got a decent vibe and we’ve had friendly waiters and bartenders. But the food’s just not that great.

WHAT’S COOKIN’, CONT. NEXT MONDAY, NOV. 7, see how suds pair with food at the Fall Beer Dinner, a collaborative effort of Raduno Brick Oven and Barroom, Flyway Brewing and Rebel Kettle. They’ll serve a five-course meal from 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. at Raduno, 1318 S. Main St. Flyway and Rebel Kettle have teamed up to brew up a special beer

for the event; brewmeisters Jess McMullen, Josh Davis and John Lee will join diners to talk about each beer being served and what new brews are upcoming; and Raduno head chef Liv Thompson will talk about the food. Food, beer, and talks from the pros: You can get them all for $45. Tickets are available through Eventbrite.

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ess Heisler Ginty thought she might want to work in international relations on the other side of the world, but it turned out she found her calling much closer to home.

Ginty is the president and chief executive officer of Kids for the Future, started by her family in the Arkansas Delta in 1997.

Kids for the Future provides early intervention and therapeutic services for about 1,300 children and adolescents with developmental delays and emotional or behavioral issues. It employees 450 people with a payroll of about $15.5 million and has facilities in Forrest City, Helena, Marianna, Marion, Parkin, West Helena and Wynne.

Ginty worked there when she was growing up.

“I would spend summers working in treatment rooms, the kitchen and I even cleaned my fair share of bathrooms,”she says.

She enjoyed it – “Anywhere there are children makes for a very sweet environment,” she says – but she had other plans for her life. She double-majored in international relations and European studies, intending to move to Europe and work for the European Union.

“Then I woke up,” she quips. “Not a very realistic endeavor considering the visa issues, even back then.”

She changed course and set out to pursue her master’s degree in international relations instead, applying to both Denver University and George Mason University.

“I’ve always been politically interested so I shifted in the last 2 weeks and moved to Washington, D.C.,” she says. “I chose public policy, mainly due to the fact that I knew very little about the US since I spent many years on international relations.”

She got a job as legislative correspondent and staff assistant to U.S. Sen. Mark Pryor, after she graduated. She later became senior legislative advisor for U.S. Rep. Bobby Bright of Alabama.

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and politics can be hard for the soul,” says Ginty.“I always knew I loved what my family did for east Arkansas, but it wasn’t until 2010 that I felt I wanted to come back.

So, beginning in January 2011, I began working at Kids for the Future full time.”

In addition to the work she’s done at Kids for the Future, Ginty has also dedicated personal time and energy to efforts improving the health of people in the Arkansas Delta, including addressing societal issues like toxic stress that contributes to illness.

Being a woman, she believes, has helped rather than hindered her in her career.

“I feel that it gave me more of an appreciation of being a woman, a woman leader,”she says.“We, as women, have such a cool ability to multitask, empathize, while being strong leaders. Kids for the Future has just given me this pride of being a woman, pride of being a leader, pride of the work we do.”

When she isn’t working, Ginty likes to travel, spend time with her husband, Steve, and read everything from political biographies to vampire novels. She always looks forward to getting back to Kids for the Future, though.

“There is something incredibly rewarding about helping children learn to walk, talk, swallow – to meet the families on their level by addressing the needs not only of the child but of the family,” she says. “It’s an indescribable feeling.”

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tep into Cantrell Gallery and you feel like you’ve entered a different world, a world of slightly “finer” things: the maze of varied artwork, softly tinkling classical music in the background and, of course, the elegant and friendly presences of Helen Scott and Cindy Scott-Huisman, the mother/daughter duo that has, over the years, made Cantrell Gallery a home for artists and art-lovers alike.

The art gallery, exhibit space and custom framing service got what Cindy terms its “tiny beginning” in 1970 under the name Art Fair. It was located on Seventh Street, known then as “Furniture Row,” and moved to its current location in midtown in 1976. Originally the brainchild of Helen’s husband, Norman, an artist himself, the gallery grew out of his and Helen’s personal collection.

As a longtime music teacher, Helen says, “I knew nothing about being in business, so it was just a whole new beginning.”

She kept teaching for about six years to “support the habit,” but eventually moved full time into the art world. Now she puts her impeccable taste to work as a framing designer, helping clients select and combine different components of the framing process according to their needs and price ranges.

“What else could I be doing that I would love as much as this?” Helen asks. “We have beautiful music, we have beautiful art, we have wonderful people, and they let me design framing they’re going to take home with them. It’s a win-win-win.”

Both women will tell you that framing is an art in itself, as is running the gallery, which requires them to be designers, mentors, curators, event coordinators and more. “It’s something different all the time,” says Helen, and Cindy adds, “You’re putting on a different hat, even throughout the day.” The gallery hosts six or seven exhibits during the year, coordinated by Cindy and involving numerous events as well as artist promotion.

They’ve become increasingly interested in representing local artists. An expan-

sion in the space allowed them to grow this aspect of their business, and they now represent about 30 artists. Helen emphasizes a difference between simply showing someone’s art and representing them: “It’s more than just hanging their art on the walls.”

This focus on personal relationships in business is nowhere more evident than in the bond between mother and daughter.

“Cindy has been one of those children that every mother wishes they had,”Helen says.

“She always was my good buddy.”

Cindy and her sister grew up in the store, working and playing in both locations. “I have fond memories of playing on this back parking lot,” she says. Helen worried about adjusting when her daughter went to college at Hendrix, but it wasn’t as much of a shock as expected. “I was 20 minutes up the road,” Cindy says dismissively.

After studying voice and theater, Cindy worked at the Arkansas Repertory Theatre.

Eventually she realized she wanted to move on from theater and, in need of something to fill the gap, she went back to work for her parents at Cantrell Gallery.

“It was completely different than working here when I was growing up because all of a sudden they were treating me like an adult,” she says with a laugh. “So then that feeling of ownership just kicked right in and there was no turning back.”

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athryn Tucker is the poster child for the sentiment that you“can take the girl out of Arkansas but not Arkansas out of the girl.”Her career has taken her from New York to New Orleans to North Carolina to Los Angeles before finally coming home; but, as she would be the first to tell you, it’s the home part that matters.

“My family is sixth- or seventhgeneration Arkansan on both sides,” she said. “My parents live nine blocks away, my brother lives across the street from my parents.

I’m nine blocks away and they think I’m too far.

“I was gone for 16 years and the last time I saw my grandmother, she asked me to move home. So, I moved home.”

Life is slower than it was in L.A. but maybe not by as much as one would think.

She’s produced or directed several film projects in Arkansas, and in getting ready for her latest, “Antiquities,” she’s attending to a platter full of details. Having done this for so many years, she takes it all in stride.

“I thrive in chaos,”she said.“Oftentimes, I can remain calmer in chaos than I do in kind of a boring atmosphere.”

The Little Rock Central High alum walked right off the graduation stage of the University of Pennsylvania in 2000 and beat a path to New York with an armload of resumes and a penchant for knocking on doors until people answered. Originally wanting to pursue celebrity photography, she was taken with filmmaking and soon found her way into set production, crisscrossing the nation to work on projects from indie films to mainstream hits like “Knocked Up” and television’s “Grey’s Anatomy.”

In 2006 she hit the entertainment industry’s version of the lottery by being accepted into the coveted two-year Director’s Guild Trainee Program.

“It’s a training program where they train you to be an assistant director, which is also kind of training to be a producer,” she said. “It’s all-encompassing and the only

functional training program in the industry.”

Exposed to every element of production via television, movies and commercials via such gigs as “Gilmore Girls,” “Bones” and the movie “She’s Out of My League,” among others, Tucker gained a milliondollar education, of which she earned every single penny.

“They haze you; it’s really tough,” she said. “For three months, I was wearing a walkie in both my ears. I had one unit in one ear and one unit in the other ear and I was managing both. I was working 20-hour days and I would have four to five hours off at night. I was lucky I lived through it.”

By the time she returned to Arkansas, she was pleasantly surprised to find the burgeoning film community that had sprung up since her time away, with which she and her cinematographer husband, Gabe Mayhan, have fallen right into step. And, 13 months ago, the couple also welcomed another member to the family production company, baby Gabriel Tucker Mayhan, who they call Tucker.

“I didn’t know after I had a baby if I would want to work, but I now know that I have to work. And I just don’t know what else to do except work on movies,”she said.

“I’m addicted to it.”

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CARTER CONNECTS UCA, COMMUNITY THROUGH ‘HEART WORK’

risty Carter’s job is to connect the University of Central Arkansas campus with the community through continuing education and lifelong learning programs.

She does that and more.

“Day in and day out, I create new ways to get the public to engage with the university,” says Carter, marketing director for UCA’s Division of Outreach and Community Engagement. “I am an education advocate – a true proponent of higher learning, which makes it easy to do what I do and I love it!”

Carter’s mother always said she should get her education, something no one could take away.

“So far, my mom has been right,” Carter says. “My desire for learning along with my work ethic has afforded me many opportunities that when growing up I never thought were possible.”

After high school, she began working toward an associate’s degree at National Park College in Hot Springs. She loved the higher education environment and knew she wanted a career in administration on a college campus.

She completed an undergraduate degree in business education at Henderson State University in Arkadelphia, then taught while she worked on her master’s degree in higher education and student affairs at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.

She began working at UCA about 10 years ago.

“I am very much a servant leader and the reason why I love working for UCA is because I have been able to do ‘heart work,’ which is the work that tugs at your heartstrings and feels good because you know at the end of the day you’ve done something to help somebody,”Carter says.

She wrote a grant that helped fund a domestic violence workshop and activities during UCA’s second annual Evening of Honor in partnership with the Unseen Homeless Campaign of Conway. She has toured the state, taking into consideration both the strides made and the improvements needed, like in small rural towns.

“During my visits to these towns, I saw

the dilapidated housing and poverty for myself, and I also saw the mayors of these small towns struggle to locate resources to address these issues,” she says.

Carter worked with state legislators and state agencies to raise $35,000 to help mayors in small, under-resourced towns find money to build homes, fix infrastructure and develop community programs through a program she dubbed Technical Assistance for Mayors or TAM. Carter recently graduated from the Edward G. Coleman Leadership Institute through the STAND Foundation and she is a current student in the UCA PhD in Leadership Studies program.

When she’s not trying to better the community and the state, Carter likes to spend time with friends and family and take Zumba classes with her daughter, Armani, a 19-year-old UCA sophomore majoring in nutrition and pre-med.

Carter has sage advice for women who, like her, want to lead in their fields.

“Roadblocks and barriers to success in higher education or any other field are inevitable for women; however, it really is about having a positive outlook on your future and just reimagining the roadblocks as building blocks to success,”says Carter.“I once heard Oprah Winfrey talk about never looking back at her competitors when she launched the Oprah Winfrey Show. And I truly believe that looking back and being overly concerned about your competitors can cause distractions along the road to success. So my advice to women is to run your own race and only look back when you cross the finish line.”

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“Full Swing Golf Academy is a placed based youth golf program serving under-served and under-represented youth,”it reads. “It is where we make the greens colorful.”

Winstead loves such sly humor even as she conducts the dead-serious business of opening up the game. Full Swing is her vehicle for that, the result of a stubborn insistence to “diversify golf, one swing at a time.”

“I started playing when I was really little; when I was 4, my father introduced me to the game of golf in our living room and then started teaching me on our front lawn,” she said.

Her early introduction to the game didn’t diminish her awareness that without resolute disruptors like her father, Dr. Arthur Winstead III — who began one of the country’s first minority golf organizations in 1968 in Palo Alto, Calif., which still exists today — the opportunity for a black female to set foot on many golf courses would have been severely limited.

“As I got older, I began to examine golf a little bit closer and see that golf is not so quick to move towards inclusion,” she said.

“I decided that had to change.”

When her father died, she shaped his vision of educating and nurturing the minds of marginalized youth through the game of golf for a population the game continues to overlook.

Driven by Dr. Winstead’s memory and a rather sizable chip on Nicole’s shoulder for the longstanding golf establishment, Full Swing started as an after-school program one day per week at Little Rock Preparatory Academy. She landed a grant to buy clubs for the 40 participants that showed up the first year, but as robust as 40

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the interest was, she soon realized it barely scratched the surface.

“My end goal for any of this is just to push golf in a direction so that the door is wide open vs. cracked for minorities, the disabled and women,”she said.“I don’t want us to be an afterthought anymore; I want us to be a core thought just like men are.

And my goal is to yell the loudest, scream the loudest, write the most controversial blog pieces I can, and let the kids have as much fun and expose them to as much as I possibly can.”

Full Swing provides free equipment and instruction to a maximum 21 participants per session, ages 5 to 17. Winstead pays for things with grants, the occasional sponsor and giving paid golf lessons and turning the fees over to the program.

Like the game itself, the going is often tough, sometimes frustrating, but ultimately rewarding, as she sees the passion for the game passed on.

“The golf course has taught me to forgive both myself and others for mistakes made and choices taken and to push forward,”she said. “In golf, the next swing and stroke is an opportunity to learn from the last one and adjust, forgive and play on, just as it should be in life.”

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hamim Okolloh isn’t the kind of person who is intimidated by new places. The native Kenyan left her homeland at age 19 to travel halfway around the world to attend Spelman College in Atlanta.

But in summer of 2010, on a full-ride scholarship to the Clinton School of Public Service in Little Rock where she would earn her master’s degree, the pastoral surroundings threw her an unexpected curve.

“It was very small. I came from Atlanta, which is obviously a bigger city that had more diversity,” she said. “In Nairobi, the city alone is 4 million people. I’m used to big, big cities.”

While she grew accustomed to Little Rock’s open spaces and slower pace – particularly after her two children were born – the lack of a pronounced African community in Little Rock meant she had difficulty finding authentic items from her homeland, especially native clothing.

When family members sent gifts for the family, or on visits home when she’d bring back some authentic dashiki and kitenge for herself or her children, people started to take notice.

“People would see it, but they couldn’t find it in Little Rock,”she said.“There was that demand there, but no one was supplying it. That’s how I started.”

Okolloh launched Mimi Mwafrika, a business that provides authentic clothing and accessories fashioned by African craftspeople. As demand increased, so has her network of Kenyan tailors supplying her online store on Etsy and the Little Rock retailer South Main Creative.

“They’re made in Kenya and they’re handmade. It’s not a factory,” she said. “It’s a very small operation.”

Okolloh donates a portion of sales to her alma mater high school, funding a scholarship to help make education possible for those who have difficulty meeting tuition and other costs.

“When I was in high school, and it was an all-girls school, it was in a rural area and mostly lower income families,” she said. “A lot of my peers and friends would

be sent home for school fees and they’d miss classes. Some would come back in three days, some would come back in a week, and some would just never come back because their parents couldn’t afford it. And at that age, the alternatives are becoming a maid or being married off.”

She’s furthered the effort to give back by forming Kaimosi Girls High School’s first alumni group to provide more assistance than she can do on her own. The group stages reunions every summer at the school and takes on various charitable works on behalf of current students there.

It’s Okolloh’s way of paying back what a similar group did for her.

“International students don’t qualify for federal aid or grants or student loans, and so when I was at Spelman, a private college, I had to get scholarships,” she said.

“The biggest chunk of my undergraduate scholarships came from the SpelmanWomen National Alumni Association.

“I remember thinking, I’m able to graduate because of women who went to Spelman who have never met me and probably will never meet me, who are giving money to the school just because they went here and had that loyalty. And I wanted to do that for the girls in my high school.”

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“I just knew I wanted to create a business that was good for the world and that was good for people, but I had no idea what that was going to be,”she said.

The concept incubated until four years ago, when she launched ZUNI Learning Tree, a content management platform benefiting teachers, parents and students. ZUNI allows educators and families to quickly and easily organize curriculum content, collaborate with peers and communicate with one another from any digital device. It also makes it easy to integrate emerging classroom technologies and stay abreast of near-continuous change in educational requirements at the federal, state and district level.

“I like that we’re an advocate for teachers, and also the students and families,” she said. “When you’re in that role, you’re for everyone. Everybody works together for the higher good of education and finding ways to bridge the gaps between federal requirements, state requirements and the initiatives that just overwhelm everybody.”

ZUNI was born through Tina’s years in the classroom and marketplace. Growing up in Vilonia with an entrepreneurial family, she dabbled in business ownership until her 30s, when she decided to go into teaching. Immediately smitten, she followed her passion for special education and administration to several ports of call.

Relishing the assignments that provided the most challenge — she moved to Alaska in teaching and administration roles five times — she found success with students the system largely gave up on.

“One of the things I liked most about being a special education coordinator was finding the tools and resources for the teachers in the trenches and how I could help them to be able to do the job they need to do with the students they care so much about,” she said.

Returning to Arkansas in 2006, McCord found a job working for an educational technology firm that trained teachers on using classroom technology tools, which further helped refine her vision for stepping out on her own. She found additional inspiration in an audio tape by Dr. Wayne Dyer entitled “The Power of Intention,” in which he urged, “Don’t ask how, say yes and the how will show up.”

ZUNI quickly struck a chord with area school districts and has grown steadily to become available for more than 100,000 schools nationwide. And, after a period of recent refinement, the product is also poised to make a splash in schools internationally.

“When a teacher walks up and tells me ZUNI gave her her life back or a parent tells me he received a raise at his new job because his son put him on ZUNI to learn Microsoft Office, this affirms what ZUNI is all about, improving life through education,” she said.

“I wanted ZUNI to be something that had heart and that really brings joy to the lives of the people that it touches. I believe that we are all born with a love for learning. I wanted to inspire a love for lifelong learning beginning with our K-12 years. And ZUNI is doing all of that.”

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FARRELL’S ADVENTURES ARE FULL OF LAUGHS

rkansas wasn’t even in the running when Vicki Farrell and her husband set out in search of a new adventure in 2011.

It’s now home for them and their company, The Joint Theatre and Coffeehouse in Argenta. The Joint opened in 2012, seats 100 people and offers a full-service bar, snacks and a variety of entertainment, including a stand-up comedy night, an improv act, Grammy Award-winning musicians and variety artists and more.

“Now in its fifth year,The Joint has become a clubhouse for a fan base numbering in the thousands, with a hardcore group called ‘Friends of Doc’who function as our fan club and our extended family,” she says.

Farrell, whose father was a well-known stage director and actor in the St. Louis area where she grew up, majored in theater at Fontbonne University in Clayton, Mo. She was working summer stock as an actor on a Mississippi River showboat when she met her husband, Steve, and together they became founders of and original actors with the Comedy Workshop in Houston.

In 1984, they started their own act, Radio Music Theatre, featuring their original material. They, along with a stage partner, Ken Polk, portrayed dozens of characters through lightning-fast costume changes.

After two successful years, and 10 original full-length comedies, the act attracted the attention of Lorne Michaels, and in the 1986 season of“Saturday Night Live,”their comedy film short“Pango, Giant Dog ofTokyo”debuted, Vicki Farrell said.“It was later selected as one of SNL’s all-time best film shorts, becoming part of a national tour of museums, where the top films were screened.”

The 200-seat Radio Music Theatre sold out four performances a week until the Farrells chose to close it in 2011 and strike out in search of a new family adventure.

“We considered Santa Fe, Austin, San Diego, Nashville, Athens, Ga., plus many more, and stumbled upon Little Rock on a trip to Memphis. We liked the look, feel and size of Little Rock and we loved the friendly people,”she says.“When we met the people behind the rebirth of Argenta, we decided to become a part of the movement to create

an arts district and entertainment center.

We knew it was a gamble, because the area was still just beginning to recover, but we believed in their vision so we decided to join them.”

When the Farrells moved from Houston to central Arkansas in 2011, they brought with them Steve’s parents; their son and daughter-in-law, Adam and Sarah Farrell, who manage The Joint; their daughter and son-in-law, Erika and Ross Peters, who handle The Joint’s promotions and marketing; and two friends to run the technology side of things.

Vicki Farrell is one of the three-member comedy company The Main Thing, which performs every Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m.

“Although I take pride in my accomplishments as a business woman, I’m happy to be training my very capable daughter-in-law, Sarah, to gradually take over those responsibilities. My greatest love is performing and preparing for our original productions.”

In addition to portraying multiple characters onstage each weekend, Vicki also is the drummer when the group performs their original music.

“Plus, I enjoy creating the artwork and images used in our screen projections which frame the different segments in our shows,” she adds.“I also have fun building props and designing the look of each character with costumes, wigs, hats and glasses. And I love the many laughs we have in rehearsals for our shows, joking around with Steve and Brett Ihler, our third cast member, and our tech man, Kenneth Hill. It’s a fun group to work with, and we laugh every bit as hard as our audiences as we prepare our original comedies.”

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2017 BEST LAWYERS “LAWYERS OF THE YEAR” ®

This designation reflects the high level of respect a lawyer has earned among other leading lawyers in the same communities and the same practice areas for their abilities, their professionalism and their integrity.

FREDERICK K. CAMPBELL Administrative / Regulatory Law Mitchell Williams 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1800 501-688-8800 Little Rock, AR 72201-3525

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

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

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

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

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

HARRY A. LIGHT Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law Friday, Eldredge & Clark 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 501-376-2011 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522

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

STEVEN T. SHULTS Bet-the-Company Litigation Shults & Brown 200 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1600 501-375-2301 Little Rock, AR 72201-3637 WARNER H. TAYLOR Bet-the-Company Litigation Taylor Law Partners 303 East Millsap Road P.O. Box 8310 479-443-5222 Fayetteville, AR 72703 JEFFREY H. MOORE Construction Law Jeffrey H. Moore One Carrolton 501-414-6894 Little Rock, AR 72211 PRICE C. GARDNER Corporate Law Friday, Eldredge & Clark 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 501-376-2011 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522 JEFF ROSENZWEIG Criminal Defense: General Practice Jeff Rosenzweig 300 Spring Building, Ste. 310 Third And Spring St. 501-372-5247 Little Rock, AR 72201 GARY D. CORUM Criminal Defense: White-Collar Corum-Law 200 River Market Ave., Ste. 600 501-375-6454 Little Rock, AR 72201 44

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SCOTT C. TROTTER Energy Law Trotter Law Firm 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 216 501-353-1069 Little Rock, AR 72201 SHERRY P. BARTLEY Environmental Law Mitchell Williams 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1800 501-688-8800 Little Rock, AR 72201-3525 GARY B. ROGERS Family Law Dover Dixon Horne 425 West Capitol Ave., 37th Floor 501-375-9151 Little Rock, AR 72201 JAMES M. SIMPSON First Amendment Law Friday, Eldredge & Clark 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 501-376-2011 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522 ELIZABETH ANDREOLI Health Care Law Andreoli Law 72 Pine Manor Drive 501-690-5069 Little Rock, AR 72207-5151 ALLAN W. HORNE Insurance Law Dover Dixon Horne 425 West Capitol Ave., 37th Floor 501-375-9151 Little Rock, AR 72201

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JANET L. PULLIAM Labor Law - Union Mitchell, Blackstock, Ivers, Sneddon & Marshall 1010 West Third St. P.O. Box 1510 501-378-7870 Little Rock, AR 72203 RANDAL B. FRAZIER Land Use and Zoning Law Kutak Rock 124 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 501-975-3000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3706 H. WILLIAM ALLEN Litigation - Banking and Finance Allen Law Firm 212 Center St. 501-374-7100 Little Rock, AR 72201-2416 CONSTANCE G. CLARK Litigation - Bankruptcy Davis, Clark, Butt, Carithers & Taylor 19 East Mountain St. P.O. Box 1688 479-521-7600 Fayetteville, AR 72702-1688 GEOFFREY B. TREECE Litigation - Bankruptcy Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 111 Center St., Ste. 1900 501-379-1700 Little Rock, AR 72201-4420 STEPHEN R. LANCASTER Litigation - Construction Wright, Lindsey & Jennings 200 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2300 501-371-0808 Little Rock, AR 72201-3699 G. ALAN PERKINS Litigation - Environmental PPGMR Law 101 Morgan Keegan Drive, Ste. A P.O. Box 251618 501-603-9000 Little Rock, AR 72225-1618 JOHN E. MOORE Litigation - Insurance Munson, Rowlett, Moore & Boone 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1900 501-374-6535 Little Rock, AR 72201 JOHN D. COULTER Litigation - Labor and Employment McMath Woods 711 West Third St. 501-396-5400 Little Rock, AR 72201 EVA C. MADISON Litigation - Labor and Employment Littler Mendelson The Fulbright Building, Ste. 204 217 East Dickson St. 479-582-6100 Fayetteville, AR 72701

M. SAMUEL JONES III Litigation - Real Estate Mitchell Williams 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1800 501-688-8800 Little Rock, AR 72201-3525 KEVIN A. CRASS Litigation - Securities Friday, Eldredge & Clark 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 501-376-2011 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522 ALLISON J. CORNWELL Litigation - Trusts and Estates Friday, Eldredge & Clark 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 501-376-2011 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522 JOHN E. MOORE Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Defendants Munson, Rowlett, Moore & Boone 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1900 501-374-6535 Little Rock, AR 72201 MICHELLE ATOR Medical Malpractice Law Defendants Friday, Eldredge & Clark 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 501-376-2011 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522 PAUL D. MCNEILL Medical Malpractice Law Defendants RMP 710 Windover Road, Ste. B 870-394-5200 Jonesboro, AR 72401 DAVID A. SMITH Mergers and Acquisitions Law Kutak Rock 124 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 501-975-3000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3706 J. SHEPHERD RUSSELL III Municipal Law Friday, Eldredge & Clark 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 501-376-2011 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522 SARAH COTTON PATTERSON Non-Profit / Charities Law Friday, Eldredge & Clark 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 501-376-2011 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522 DAVID M. DONOVAN Personal Injury Litigation Defendants Watts, Donovan & Tilley Arkansas Capital Commerce Center, Ste. 200 200 River Market Ave. 501-372-1406 Little Rock, AR 72201-1769

JAMES R. ESTES Personal Injury Litigation Defendants Cox, Cox & Estes 3900 North Front St., Ste. 203 P.O. Box 9630 479-251-7900 Fayetteville, AR 72703 JOHN V. PHELPS Personal Injury Litigation Defendants Womack Phelps Puryear Mayfield & McNeil Century Center 301 West Washington Ave. 870-932-0900 Jonesboro, AR 72403 DAVID H. WILLIAMS Personal Injury Litigation - Plaintiffs The Law Office of David H. Williams Center Place Building, Ste. 200 212 Center St. 501-372-0038 Little Rock, AR 72201 MICHAEL D. BARNES Product Liability Litigation Defendants Wright, Lindsey & Jennings 200 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2300 501-371-0808 Little Rock, AR 72201-3699 JOHN E. TULL III Product Liability Litigation Plaintiffs Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 111 Center St., Ste. 1900 501-379-1700 Little Rock, AR 72201-4420 DAVID A. LITTLETON Professional Malpractice Law Defendants Anderson, Murphy & Hopkins 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2400 501-372-1887 Little Rock, AR 72201-4851 W. JACKSON WILLIAMS Project Finance Law Williams & Anderson 111 Center St., Ste. 2200 501-859-0575 Little Rock, AR 72201 ROBERT B. BEACH, JR. Public Finance Law Friday, Eldredge & Clark 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 501-376-2011 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522 JAMES C. CLARK Real Estate Law Friday, Eldredge & Clark 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 501-376-2011 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522

D. NICOLE LOVELL Securities / Capital Markets Law Mitchell Williams 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1800 501-688-8800 Little Rock, AR 72201-3525 C. DOUGLAS BUFORD, JR. Securities Regulation Mitchell Williams 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1800 501-688-8800 Little Rock, AR 72201-3525 CRAIG S. LAIR Tax Law Rose Law Firm 120 East Fourth St. 501-375-9131 Little Rock, AR 72201-2893 HERMANN IVESTER Trademark Law Mitchell Williams 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1800 501-688-8800 Little Rock, AR 72201-3525 JAMES LEE MOORE III Trusts and Estates RMP 75 North East Ave., Ste. 500 P.O. Box 1788 479-443-2705 Fayetteville, AR 72702-1788 DAN C. YOUNG Trusts and Estates Rose Law Firm 120 East Fourth St. 501-375-9131 Little Rock, AR 72201-2893 BETTY J. HARDY Workers’ Compensation Law Employers Coplin & Hardy One Union Plaza 124 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1650 501-707-0300 Little Rock, AR 72201 R. SCOTT ZUERKER Workers’ Compensation Law Employers Ledbetter, Cogbill, Arnold & Harrison 622 Parker Ave. P.O. Box 185 479-782-7294 Fort Smith, AR 72902-0185

Gobbling Up Awards Again.

Leave some leftovers for the rest of us – we’re not half bad either.

Congrats to our four attorneys included in the 23rd Edition of The Best Lawyers in America.

John Coulter was named the Best Lawyers® 2017 Litigation Labor and Employment “Lawyer of the Year” in Arkansas.

Neil Chamberlin

John Coulter

Sam Ledbetter

James Bruce McMath

Will Bond

Lawyer of the Year — Litigation Labor and Employment, Employment Law — Litigation, Employment Law — Management Labor Law — Management

Environmental Law, Litigation — Environmental

Personal Injury — Plaintiffs

Personal Injury Litigation — Plaintiffs

Charles Harrison

Carter Stein

Phillip H McMath

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Congratulations!

Six lawyers from Munson, Rowlett, Moore & Boone were included in the 23rd Edition of The Best Lawyers in America.

John E. Moore was named the Best Lawyers® 2017 “Lawyer of the Year” in Little Rock for Litigation - Insurance and Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions - Defendants

BRUCE E. MUNSON

Commercial Litigation Transportation Law Medical Malpractice Law - Defendants Personal Injury Litigation - Defendants Product Liability Litigation - Defendants

BEVERLY A. ROWLETT

Commercial Litigation Bet-the-Company Litigation Personal Injury Litigation - Defendants Insurance Law

JOHN E. MOORE

Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants Litigation – Insurance Mass Tort Litigation/ Class Actions – Defendants Insurance Law

TIMOTHY L. BOONE

Medical Malpractice Law - Defendants Personal Injury Litigation - Defendants

MARK S. BREEDING

Litigation - Insurance Product Liability Litigation - Defendants

EMILY M. RUNYON Insurance Law

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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

FRANK B. NEWELL Barber, McCaskill, Jones & Hale 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 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1800 Little Rock, AR 72201-3525 DOAK FOSTER Mitchell Williams 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1800 Little Rock, AR 72201-3525 T. ARK MONROE III Mitchell Williams 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1800 Little Rock, AR 72201-3525 DERRICK W. SMITH Mitchell Williams 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1800 Little Rock, AR 72201-3525 JEFFREY THOMAS Mitchell Williams 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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ROBERT SHULTS Shults & Brown 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 46

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PETER G. KUMPE 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

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

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

JIM L. JULIAN Chisenhall, Nestrud & Julian 501-372-5800 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2840 Little Rock, AR 72201

APPELLATE PRACTICE

JOSEPH R. FALASCO 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

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

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

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

TIMOTHY W. GROOMS 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

PATRICK J. GOSS Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131 120 East Fourth St. Little Rock, AR 72201-2893

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

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

SIDNEY P. DAVIS, JR. Davis, Clark, Butt, Carithers & Taylor 479-521-7600 19 East Mountain St. P.O. Box 1688 Fayetteville, AR 72702-1688

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

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

STAN D. SMITH Mitchell Williams 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

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

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

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

OVERTON S. ANDERSON Anderson, Murphy & Hopkins 501-372-1887 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2400 Little Rock, AR 72201-4851 DAVID A. LITTLETON Anderson, Murphy & Hopkins 501-372-1887 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2400 Little Rock, AR 72201-4851 G. SPENCE FRICKE Barber, McCaskill, Jones & Hale 501-372-6175 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 3400 Little Rock, AR 72201 FRANK B. NEWELL Barber, McCaskill, Jones & Hale 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 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 R. CHRISTOPHER LAWSON Friday, Eldredge & Clark 479-695-2011 3425 North Futrall Drive, Ste. 103 Fayetteville, AR 72703-6252 ROBERT S. SHAFER 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 ROGER D. ROWE Lax, Vaughan, Fortson, Rowe & Threet 501-376-6565 Cantrell West Building, Ste. 201 11300 Cantrell Road Little Rock, AR 72212 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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ARBITRATION

SIDNEY H. MCCOLLUM ADR, Inc. 501-376-2121 1501 North University Ave., Ste. 630 Little Rock, AR 72207 JOHN DEWEY WATSON ADR, Inc. 501-376-2121 1501 North University Ave., Ste. 630 Little Rock, AR 72207 FRANK S. HAMLIN Hamlin Dispute Resolution 501-850-8888 823 West Markham St., Ste. 100 Little Rock, AR 72201 ROBERT E. HORNBERGER Robert E. Hornberger Attorney/ Mediator 479-459-7878 P.O. Box 8064 Fort Smith, AR 72902

BANKING AND FINANCE LAW

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

JOHN KOOISTRA III Williams & Anderson 501-859-0575 111 Center St., Ste. 2200 Little Rock, AR 72201

THOMAS S. ST.MAN Streetman, Meeks & Gibson 870-229-0604 302 Main St. P.O. Drawer A Crossett, AR 71635

DAVID F. MENZ 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

BANKRUPTCY AND CREDITOR DEBTOR RIGHTS / INSOLVENCY AND REORGANIZATION LAW

JUDY SIMMONS HENRY Wright, Lindsey & Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2300 Little Rock, AR 72201-3699

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 HARRY A. LIGHT Friday, Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522 DAVID A. GRACE Hardin & Grace 501-378-7900 500 Main St., Ste. A P.O. Box 5851 North Little Rock, AR 72119-5851

BET-THE-COMPANY LITIGATION

JOHN C. EVERETT 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 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 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

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

WILLIAM A. WADDELL, JR. 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

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

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

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

LANCE R. MILLER Mitchell Williams 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

BRETT D. WATSON Brett D. Watson, Attorney at Law 501-281-2468 P.O. Box 707 Searcy, AR 72145-0707

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

CHARLES T. COLEMAN 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

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

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

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

BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS (INCLUDING LLCS AND PARTNERSHIPS)

MICHAEL N. SHANNON 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 RICHARD T. DONOVAN Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131 120 East Fourth St. Little Rock, AR 72201-2893 STEVEN T. SHULTS Shults & Brown 501-375-2301 200 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1600 Little Rock, AR 72201-3637 WARNER H. TAYLOR Taylor Law Partners 479-443-5222 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 D. NATHAN COULTER University of Arkansas School of Law 479-575-5601 Waterman Hall, 1045 West Maple St. Fayetteville, AR 72701 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

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

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

COMMERCIAL LITIGATION

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

JASON J. CAMPBELL Anderson, Murphy & Hopkins 501-372-1887 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2400 Little Rock, AR 72201-4851 WOODSON BASSETT III Bassett Law Firm 479-521-9996 221 North College Ave. P.O. Box 3618 Fayetteville, AR 72702-3618 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

JIM L. JULIAN Chisenhall, Nestrud & Julian 501-372-5800 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2840 Little Rock, AR 72201 SUZANNE G. CLARK Clark Law Firm 476-856-6380 244 West Dickson St., Ste. 201 P.O. Box 4248 Fayetteville, AR 72702-4248

Suzanne G. Clark was included in the 2017 Edition of The Best Lawyers in America for Commercial Litigation, and Litigation – Mergers and Acquisitions.

479-856-6380 244 West Dickson St., Ste. 201 Fayetteville www.clark-firm.com

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

DILIGENT DRIVEN HARDWORKING

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 SIDNEY P. DAVIS, JR. Davis, Clark, Butt, Carithers & Taylor 479-521-7600 19 East Mountain St. P.O. Box 1688 Fayetteville, AR 72702-1688

Allan W. Horne Administrative / Regulatory Law, Insurance Law Named the Best Lawyers® 2017 Insurance Law “Lawyer of the Year” in Little Rock.

DOVER DIXON HORNE, PLLC CONGRATULATES OUR 14 ATTORNEYS INCLUDED IN THE 23RD EDITION OF THE BEST LAWYERS IN AMERICA.

James C. McCastlain Business Organizations (including LLCs and Partnerships), Corporate Law Cyril Hollingsworth Construction Law, Litigation Construction Garland W. Binns, Jr. Corporate Law

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

Steve L. Riggs Corporate Law Mark H. Allison Environmental Law

JOHN C. EVERETT Everett Wales & Comstock 479-443-0292 1944 East Joyce Boulevard P.O. Box 8370 Fayetteville, AR 72703-8370

Gary B. Rogers Family Law Named the Best Lawyers® 2017 Family Law “Lawyer of the Year” in Little Rock.

Michael O. Parker Litigation and Controversy - Tax, Tax Law, Trusts and Estates

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

Todd Wooten Personal Injury Litigation - Defendants

KEVIN A. CRASS Friday, Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522 EDIE ERVIN Friday, Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522

Garland W. Binns, Jr. Banking and Finance Law

James Paul Beachboard Real Estate Law Garland W. Binns, Jr. Securities / Capital Markets Law

425 W. Capitol, Ste. 3700 Little Rock, AR 72201 (501) 375-9151 DoverDixonHorne.com

John B. Peace Tax Law, Trusts and Estates Joseph H. Purvis Workers’ Compensation Law - Employers

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CGWG is proud to have seven attorneys included in the 2017 Edition of The Best Lawyers in America, including the

2017 EMPLOYMENT “LAWYER OF THE YEAR” IN ARKANSAS. CAROLYN B. WITHERSPOON 2017 Lawyer of the Year Employment Law-Management

WILLIAM MELL GRIFFIN III 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

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

CHRISTOPHER J. HELLER 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

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

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

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Eva Madison Eva Madison was named the %HVW /DZ\HUV 2017 Labor and Employment — “Lawyer of the Year” in )D\HWWHYLOOH.

JESS L. ASKEW III Kutak Rock 501-975-3000 124 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3706 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 ROGER D. ROWE Lax, Vaughan, Fortson, Rowe & Threet 501-376-6565 Cantrell West Building, Ste. 201 11300 Cantrell Road Little Rock, AR 72212 JAMES G. LINGLE Lingle Law Firm 479-636-7899 110 South Dixieland Road Rogers, AR 72758 JOHN KEELING BAKER Mitchell Williams 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1800 Little Rock, AR 72201-3525

Eva Madison

emadison@littler.com | 479.582.6102 The Fulbright Building 217 East Dickson Street | Suite 204 Fayetteville, AR 72701

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

D. NATHAN COULTER University of Arkansas School of Law 479-575-5601 Waterman Hall, 1045 West Maple St. Fayetteville, AR 72701 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

CONSTRUCTION LAW

CYRIL HOLLINGSWORTH 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 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

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

ROBERT SHULTS Shults & Brown 501-375-2301 200 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1600 Little Rock, AR 72201-3637

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

WALTER E. MAY Mitchell Williams 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

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

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

COPYRIGHT LAW

HERMANN IVESTER Mitchell Williams 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

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 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 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1800 Little Rock, AR 72201-3525

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

CRIMINAL DEFENSE: GENERAL PRACTICE

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

JOHN C. EVERETT 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 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

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.

The Plaintiff’s Attorney: Robert M. Cearley Jr. Robert M. Cearley Jr. was included in the 2017 Edition of The Best Lawyers in America for Personal Injury Litigation — Plaintiffs, and Product Liability Litigation — Plaintiffs.

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DOUG NORWOOD Norwood & Norwood 479-636-1262 2001 South Dixieland Road Rogers, AR 72758 WARNER H. TAYLOR Taylor Law Partners 479-443-5222 303 East Millsap Road P.O. Box 8310 Fayetteville, AR 72703 TIMOTHY O. DUDLEY Timothy O. Dudley 501-372-0080 114 South Pulaski St. Little Rock, AR 72201-1924

CRIMINAL DEFENSE: WHITECOLLAR

RALPH BLAGG The 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 Center Place Building, Ste. 200 212 Center St. 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

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

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

GARY D. CORUM Corum-Law 501-375-6454 200 River Market Ave., Ste. 600 Little Rock, AR 72201

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

JOHN C. EVERETT Everett Wales & Comstock 479-443-0292 1944 East Joyce Boulevard P.O. Box 8370 Fayetteville, AR 72703-8370

DAN F. BUFFORD Laser Law Firm 501-376-2981 101 South Spring St., Ste. 300 Little Rock, AR 72201

J. BLAKE HENDRIX Fuqua Campbell 501-374-0200 Riviera Tower, Ste. 205 3700 Cantrell Road Little Rock, AR 72202

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

JEFF ROSENZWEIG Jeff Rosenzweig 501-372-5247 300 Spring Building, Ste. 310 Third And Spring St. Little Rock, AR 72201

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

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

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

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

WARNER H. TAYLOR Taylor Law Partners 479-443-5222 303 East Millsap Road P.O. Box 8310 Fayetteville, AR 72703

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

DUI/DWI DEFENSE

CHRISTINA D. COMSTOCK Everett 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 NOVEMBER 3, 2016

ELECTRONIC DISCOVERY AND INFORMATION MANAGEMENT LAW

EMINENT DOMAIN AND CONDEMNATION LAW

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

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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

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A. WYCKLIFF NISBET, JR. Friday, Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522 THOMAS L. OVERBEY Overbey, Strigel, Boyd & Westbrook 479-442-3554 211 North Block Ave., Ste. 102 Fayetteville, AR 72701-5268 CRAIG H. WESTBROOK Overbey, Strigel, Boyd & Westbrook 501-664-8105 10809 Executive Center Drive, Ste. 310 Little Rock, AR 72211-6022 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

AMBER WILSON BAGLEY 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

SPENCER F. ROBINSON Ramsay, Bridgforth, Robinson and 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

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

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

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

CHRISTOPHER J. HELLER 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

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

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

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

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

MICHELLE M. KAEMMERLING 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

EMPLOYMENT LAW MANAGEMENT

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

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

BYRON L. FREELAND Mitchell Williams 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

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

MELISSA MCJUNKINS DUKE 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

JANET L. PULLIAM Mitchell, Blackstock, Ivers, Sneddon & Marshall 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

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

ENERGY LAW

LAWRENCE E. CHISENHALL, JR. Chisenhall, Nestrud & Julian 501-372-5800 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2840 Little Rock, AR 72201 STEPHEN K. CUFFMAN Gill Ragon Owen 501-376-3800 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 3800 Little Rock, AR 72201 DAVID R. MATTHEWS Matthews, Campbell, Rhoads, McClure, Thompson & Fryauf 479-282-2586 119 South Second St. Rogers, AR 72756 STEPHEN N. JOINER Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131 120 East Fourth St. Little Rock, AR 72201-2893 SCOTT C. TROTTER Trotter Law Firm 501-353-1069 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 216 Little Rock, AR 72201 N. M. NORTON Wright, Lindsey & Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2300 Little Rock, AR 72201-3699

ENVIRONMENTAL LAW

CHARLES R. NESTRUD Chisenhall, Nestrud & Julian 501-372-5800 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2840 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 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1800 Little Rock, AR 72201-3525 MARCELLA J. TAYLOR Mitchell Williams 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1800 Little Rock, AR 72201-3525 WALTER G. WRIGHT, JR. Mitchell Williams 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 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

FAMILY LAW

BARRY E. COPLIN Coplin & Hardy 501-707-0300 One Union Plaza 124 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1650 Little Rock, AR 72201 JUDSON C. KIDD Dodds, Kidd & Ryan 501-386-9508 313 West Second St. Little Rock, AR 72201 GARY B. ROGERS Dover Dixon Horne 501-375-9151 425 West Capitol Ave., 37th Floor Little Rock, AR 72201 HARRY TRUMAN MOORE Goodwin Moore 870-239-2225 200 South Pruett St. P.O. Box 726 Paragould, AR 72450 HENRY HODGES Henry Hodges 501-375-0400 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1520 Little Rock, AR 72201-3435 CARROL ANN HICKS Hicks & Associates 501-771-1817 5321 John F. Kennedy Boulevard, Ste. A North Little Rock, AR 72116

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

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

MARK H. ALLISON Dover Dixon Horne 501-375-9151 425 West Capitol Ave., 37th Floor 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 DAVID R. MATTHEWS Matthews, Campbell, Rhoads, McClure, Thompson & Fryauf 479-282-2586 119 South Second St. Rogers, AR 72756 STEPHEN C. ENGSTROM Stephen Engstrom Law Office 501-375-6453 200 River Market Ave., Ste. 600 P.O. Box 71 Little Rock, AR 72203 JACK WAGONER III Wagoner Law Firm 501-663-5225 1320 Brookwood, Ste.s D & E Little Rock, AR 72202

FINANCIAL SERVICES REGULATION LAW

H. WATT GREGORY III Kutak Rock 501-975-3000 124 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3706 DONALD H. HENRY Mitchell Williams 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1800 Little Rock, AR 72201-3525

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

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

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

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

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

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

GOVERNMENT RELATIONS PRACTICE

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

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

HEALTH CARE LAW

ELIZABETH ANDREOLI Andreoli Law 501-690-5069 72 Pine Manor Drive Little Rock, AR 72207-5151 BRUCE B. TIDWELL 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 BRYAN G. LOONEY Kutak Rock 479-973-4200 234 East Millsap Road, Ste. 200 Fayetteville, AR 72703

IMMIGRATION LAW

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

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

INSURANCE LAW

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

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

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

MARIAM T. HOPKINS 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

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

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

SCOTT E. STRAUSS Barber, McCaskill, Jones & Hale 501-372-6175 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 3400 Little Rock, AR 72201

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

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

ALLAN W. HORNE Dover Dixon Horne 501-375-9151 425 West Capitol Ave., 37th Floor Little Rock, AR 72201 JAMES C. BAKER, JR. Friday, Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522 FREDERICK K. CAMPBELL Mitchell Williams 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

DOAK FOSTER Mitchell Williams 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1800 Little Rock, AR 72201-3525

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

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

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

SCOTT D. PROVENCHER Mitchell Williams 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

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

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

KATHLYN GRAVES Mitchell Williams 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1800 Little Rock, AR 72201-3525 SPENCER F. ROBINSON Ramsay, Bridgforth, Robinson and 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 DAVID P. MARTIN Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131 120 East Fourth St. Little Rock, AR 72201-2893 JOHN D. DAVIS Wright, Lindsey & Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2300 Little Rock, AR 72201-3699

LABOR LAW - UNION

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

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JANET L. PULLIAM Mitchell, Blackstock, Ivers, Sneddon & Marshall 501-378-7870 1010 West Third St. P.O. Box 1510 Little Rock, AR 72203 MICHELLE M. KAEMMERLING Wright, Lindsey & Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2300 Little Rock, AR 72201-3699

LAND USE AND ZONING LAW

RANDAL B. FRAZIER Kutak Rock 501-975-3000 124 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3706 W. CHRISTOPHER BARRIER Mitchell Williams 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1800 Little Rock, AR 72201-3525 TIMOTHY W. GROOMS Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center St., Ste. 1900 Little Rock, AR 72201-4420 J. CLIFF MCKINNEY II Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center St., Ste. 1900 Little Rock, AR 72201-4420

LEGAL MALPRACTICE LAW DEFENDANTS

G. SPENCE FRICKE Barber, McCaskill, Jones & Hale 501-372-6175 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 3400 Little Rock, AR 72201 DONALD H. BACON Friday, Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522 EDWIN L. LOWTHER, JR. Wright, Lindsey & Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2300 Little Rock, AR 72201-3699

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

LITIGATION - BANKING AND FINANCE

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

MARSHALL S. NEY Friday, Eldredge & Clark 479-695-2011 3350 South Pinnacle Hills Parkway Suite 301 Rogers, AR 72758 WILLIAM A. WADDELL, JR. Friday, Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522

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

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

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

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

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

DONALD H. HENRY Mitchell Williams 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

LITIGATION ENVIRONMENTAL

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

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

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

CHARLES T. COLEMAN 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

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

LITIGATION - INSURANCE

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

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

LITIGATION - BANKRUPTCY

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 Suite 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 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1800 Little Rock, AR 72201-3525

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LITIGATION - CONSTRUCTION

JOHN DEWEY WATSON ADR, Inc. 501-376-2121 1501 North University Ave., Ste. 630 Little Rock, AR 72207

JOSEPH HENRY BATES III Carney Bates & Pulliam 501-312-8500 2800 Cantrell Road, Ste. 510 Little Rock, AR 72202 JOHN R. ELROD Conner & Winters 479-582-5711 4375 North Vantage Drive, Ste. 405 Fayetteville, AR 72703 JAMES G. LINGLE Lingle Law Firm 479-636-7899 110 South Dixieland Road Rogers, AR 72758

M. STEPHEN BINGHAM Cross, Gunter, Witherspoon & Galchus 501-371-9999 500 President Clinton Ave., Ste. 200 Little Rock, AR 72201

SAMUEL E. LEDBETTER McMath Woods 501-396-5400 711 West Third St. Little Rock, AR 72201

MARK W. DOSSETT Kutak Rock 479-973-4200 234 East Millsap Road, Ste. 200 Fayetteville, AR 72703

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

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

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

ALLAN GATES Mitchell Williams 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1800 Little Rock, AR 72201-3525

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

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

MARCELLA J. TAYLOR Mitchell Williams 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

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

LITIGATION - INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

JASON J. CAMPBELL 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

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 JUNIUS BRACY CROSS, JR. Junius Bracy Cross, Jr. 501-374-2512 308 East Eighth St. Little Rock, AR 72202 RUSSELL C. ATCHLEY Kutak Rock 479-973-4200 234 East Millsap Road, Ste. 200 Fayetteville, AR 72703 EDWARD T. OGLESBY Kutak Rock 501-975-3000 124 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3706 JAMES G. LINGLE Lingle Law Firm 479-636-7899 110 South Dixieland Road Rogers, AR 72758

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

LITIGATION - ERISA

BRANDON B. CATE Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 479-444-5200 4100 Corporate Center Drive, Ste. 310 Springdale, AR 72762

LITIGATION - ERISA

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

LITIGATION - FIRST AMENDMENT

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

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

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

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

MARSHALL S. NEY Friday, Eldredge & Clark 479-695-2011 3350 South Pinnacle Hills Parkway Suite 301 Rogers, AR 72758 HERMANN IVESTER Mitchell Williams 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1800 Little Rock, AR 72201-3525 N. M. NORTON Wright, Lindsey & Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2300 Little Rock, AR 72201-3699

LITIGATION - LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT

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

MARSHALL S. NEY Friday, Eldredge & Clark 479-695-2011 3350 South Pinnacle Hills Parkway Suite 301 Rogers, AR 72758 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 & Coulter 866-716-3242 500 Broadway Little Rock, AR 72203 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 L. BURNETT Lavey and Burnett 501-376-2269 904 West Second St. Little Rock, AR 72201 EVA C. MADISON Littler Mendelson 479-582-6100 The Fulbright Building, Ste. 204 217 East Dickson St. Fayetteville, AR 72701 JOHN D. COULTER McMath Woods 501-396-5400 711 West Third St. Little Rock, AR 72201 KATHLYN GRAVES Mitchell Williams 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1800 Little Rock, AR 72201-3525

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

JEFFREY L. SPILLYARDS Mitchell Williams 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1800 Little Rock, AR 72201-3525

SIDNEY P. DAVIS, JR. Davis, Clark, Butt, Carithers & Taylor 479-521-7600 19 East Mountain St. P.O. Box 1688 Fayetteville, AR 72702-1688

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

ALFRED F. ANGULO, JR. Robertson, Beasley, Shipley & Redd 479-782-8813 315 North Seventh St. P.O. Drawer 848 Fort Smith, AR 72902-0848 BENJAMIN H. SHIPLEY III Robertson, Beasley, Shipley & Redd 479-782-8813 315 North Seventh St. P.O. Drawer 848 Fort Smith, AR 72902-0848 DAVID P. MARTIN Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131 120 East Fourth St. Little Rock, AR 72201-2893 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

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

MANY CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR LAWYERS FROM THE TEAM AT JC&P! TWO LAWYERS FROM JAMES, CARTER & PRIEBE, LLP WERE INCLUDED IN THE 23RD EDITION OF THE BEST LAWYERS IN AMERICA. DANIEL R. CARTER Litigation - Labor and Employment PAUL J. JAMES Personal Injury Litigation - Plaintiffs

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CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR PARTNERS Overton S. Anderson · Randy P. Murphy · Mariam T. Hopkins · Michael P. Vanderford David A. Littleton · Julie M. Hancock · Jason J. Campbell

Seven lawyers from Anderson, Murphy & Hopkins were included in the 23rd Edition of The Best Lawyers in America.

Lawyers of the Year:

Overton S. Anderson was named the Best Lawyers® 2017 Appellate Practice “Lawyer of the Year” in Little Rock.

David A. Littleton was named the Best Lawyers® 2017 Professional Malpractice Law – Defendants “Lawyer of the Year” in Little Rock.

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

LITIGATION - MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS

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

LITIGATION - REAL ESTATE

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

CONSTANCE G. CLARK Davis, Clark, Butt, Carithers & Taylor 479-521-7600 19 East Mountain St. P.O. Box 1688 Fayetteville, AR 72702-1688 JOHN KEELING BAKER Mitchell Williams 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1800 Little Rock, AR 72201-3525

Standing Left to Right: Jason J. Campbell, Overton S. Anderson, Randy P. Murphy Seated Left to Right: Julie M. Hancock, David A. Littleton, Mariam T. Hopkins, Michael P. Vanderford

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

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

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

CRAIG S. LAIR Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131 120 East Fourth St. Little Rock, AR 72201-2893

LITIGATION - SECURITIES

MASS TORT LITIGATION / CLASS ACTIONS DEFENDANTS

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

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 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

LITIGATION - TRUSTS AND ESTATES

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

ALLISON J. CORNWELL 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 RICHARD F. HATFIELD Richard F. Hatfield 501-374-9010 401 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 502 Little Rock, AR 72201 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

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

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

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

MEDIATION

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

JOHN DEWEY WATSON ADR, Inc. 501-376-2121 1501 North University Ave., Ste. 630 Little Rock, AR 72207 FRANK S. HAMLIN Hamlin Dispute Resolution 501-850-8888 823 West Markham St., Ste. 100 Little Rock, AR 72201 ROBERT E. HORNBERGER Robert E. Hornberger Attorney/ Mediator 479-459-7878 P.O. Box 8064 Fort Smith, AR 72902

MEDICAL MALPRACTICE LAW - DEFENDANTS

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

WALKER DALE GARRETT Bassett Law Firm 479-521-9996 221 North College Ave. P.O. Box 3618 Fayetteville, AR 72702-3618

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

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

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WOODSON BASSETT III Bassett Law Firm 479-521-9996 221 North College Ave. P.O. Box 3618 Fayetteville, AR 72702-3618

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

ANTHONY C. JOHNSON Johnson & Vines 501-777-7777 2226 Cottondale Ln, 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

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J. ADAM WELLS 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 KEN COOK Mitchell Williams 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1800 Little Rock, AR 72201-3525 L. KYLE HEFFLEY Mitchell Williams 479-464-5650 5414 Pinnacle Point Drive, Ste. 500 Rogers, AR 72758-8131 M. SAMUEL JONES III Mitchell Williams 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1800 Little Rock, AR 72201-3525 SCOTT D. PROVENCHER Mitchell Williams 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

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

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

JAMES R. ESTES Cox, Cox & Estes 479-251-7900 3900 North Front St., Ste. 203 P.O. Box 9630 Fayetteville, AR 72703

PAUL D. MCNEILL Reece Moore Pendergraft 479-443-2705 75 North East Ave., Ste. 500 P.O. Box 1788 Fayetteville, AR 72702-1788

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

ROBERT J. LAMBERT, JR. Roy, Lambert, Lovelace, Bingaman & Wood 479-756-8510 2706 South Dividend Drive Springdale, AR 72766

SIDNEY P. DAVIS, JR. 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

PAUL D. WADDELL Waddell, Cole & Jones 870-931-1700 310 East St., Ste. A P.O. Box 1700 Jonesboro, AR 72403 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 BOBBY R. MCDANIEL McDaniel Law Firm 870-336-4747 400 South Main St. Jonesboro, AR 72401

MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS LAW

NON-PROFIT / CHARITIES LAW

PAUL B. BENHAM 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

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

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

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

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

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

OIL AND GAS LAW

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

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

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

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

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

CAROLYN J. CLEGG Keith & Clegg 870-234-3550 124 South Jackson, Ste. 205 Magnolia, AR 71753

MORTGAGE BANKING FORECLOSURE LAW

G. ALAN PERKINS PPGMR Law 501-603-9000 101 Morgan Keegan Drive, Ste. A P.O. Box 251618 Little Rock, AR 72225-1618

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 HAL JOSEPH KEMP Hal Joseph Kemp 501-372-7243 Suite 120 P.O. Box 7359 Little Rock, AR 72217 GORDON M. WILBOURN Kutak Rock 501-975-3000 124 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3706 W. CHRISTOPHER BARRIER Mitchell Williams 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1800 Little Rock, AR 72201-3525 M. JANE DICKEY Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131 120 East Fourth St. Little Rock, AR 72201-2893 DAVID F. MENZ Williams & Anderson 501-859-0575 111 Center St., Ste. 2200 Little Rock, AR 72201 JOHN WILLIAM SPIVEY III Wright, Lindsey & Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2300 Little Rock, AR 72201-3699

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 Carver Patent Law 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

PERSONAL INJURY LITIGATION - DEFENDANTS

MARIAM T. HOPKINS Anderson, Murphy & Hopkins 501-372-1887 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2400 Little Rock, AR 72201-4851 DAVID A. LITTLETON Anderson, Murphy & Hopkins 501-372-1887 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2400 Little Rock, AR 72201-4851 RANDY P. MURPHY 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 J. COTTEN CUNNINGHAM Barber, McCaskill, Jones & Hale 501-372-6175 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 3400 Little Rock, AR 72201 WILLIAM H. EDWARDS, JR. Barber, McCaskill, Jones & Hale 501-372-6175 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 3400 Little Rock, AR 72201 G. SPENCE FRICKE Barber, McCaskill, Jones & Hale 501-372-6175 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 3400 Little Rock, AR 72201 ROBERT L. HENRY III Barber, McCaskill, Jones & Hale 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 JIM L. JULIAN Chisenhall, Nestrud & Julian 501-372-5800 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2840 Little Rock, AR 72201 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 G. ALAN WOOTEN Conner & Winters 479-582-5711 4375 North Vantage Drive, Ste. 405 Fayetteville, AR 72703 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

SIDNEY P. DAVIS, JR. 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

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ONCE AGAIN WE CONGRATULATE DOUG NORWOOD ON BEING SELECTED TO THE BEST LAWYERS IN AMERICA 2017 LIST FOR HIS WORK IN CRIMINAL DEFENSE AND DWI DEFENSE.

JASON WALES Everett 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 JOSEPH P. MCKAY 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

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Richard N. Watts

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David M. Donovan Commercial Litigation Personal Injury Litigation - Defendants

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LAURA HENSLEY SMITH 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 GUY ALTON WADE 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 D. MICHAEL HUCKABAY, JR. Huckabay Law Firm 501-375-5600 Metropolitan Tower, Ste. 1575 425 West Capitol Ave. Little Rock, AR 72201 TERESA M. WINELAND Kutak Rock 501-975-3000 124 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3706

DAN F. BUFFORD Laser Law Firm 501-376-2981 101 South Spring St., Ste. 300 Little Rock, AR 72201 SHERRY P. BARTLEY Mitchell Williams 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1800 Little Rock, AR 72201-3525 R. T. BEARD III Mitchell Williams 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1800 Little Rock, AR 72201-3525 MICHELLE L. BROWNING Mitchell Williams 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1800 Little Rock, AR 72201-3525 STUART P. MILLER Mitchell Williams 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1800 Little Rock, AR 72201-3525 SCOTT D. PROVENCHER Mitchell Williams 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1800 Little Rock, AR 72201-3525 LYN P. PRUITT Mitchell Williams 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 JOHN E. MOORE Munson, Rowlett, Moore & Boone 501-374-6535 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1900 Little Rock, AR 72201

PAUL D. MCNEILL Reece Moore Pendergraft 479-443-2705 75 North East Ave., Ste. 500 P.O. Box 1788 Fayetteville, AR 72702-1788 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 RICHARD N. WATTS Watts, Donovan & Tilley 501-372-1406 Arkansas Capital Commerce Center, Ste. 200 200 River Market Ave. Little Rock, AR 72201-1769

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

JOHN V. PHELPS Womack Phelps Puryear Mayfield & McNeil 870-932-0900 Century Center 301 West Washington Ave. P.O. Box 3077 Jonesboro, AR 72403

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

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

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

ROGER A. GLASGOW 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 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

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

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

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

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

JEFFREY L. SINGLETON 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 479-202-5200 3606 West Southern Hills Boulevard 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 Centre Place, Second Floor 212 Center St. Little Rock, AR 72201 B. MICHAEL EASLEY Easley & Houseal 870-633-1447 510 East Cross St. Forrest City, AR 72335 JASON WALES Everett Wales & Comstock 479-443-0292 1944 East Joyce Boulevard P.O. Box 8370 Fayetteville, AR 72703-8370 FREDERICK S. URSERY Friday, Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3522 PAUL J. JAMES James, Carter & Coulter 866-716-3242 500 Broadway Little Rock, AR 72203 KEN KIEKLAK Kieklak Law Firm 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

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

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

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

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

TED BOSWELL The Boswell Law Firm 501-847-3031 P.O. Box 798 Bryant, AR 72089-0798 DAVID H. WILLIAMS The Law Office of David H. Williams 501-372-0038 Center Place Building, Ste. 200 212 Center St. Little Rock, AR 72201 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 CLYDE TALBOT TURNER Turner & Associates 501-791-2277 4705 Somers Ave., Ste. 100 North Little Rock, AR 72116 PHILLIP J. WELLS Wells & Wells 870-782-4084 225 South Church St. Jonesboro, AR 72401 BUD B. WHETSTONE Whetstone Law Firm 501-376-3564 Pavilion Centre, Ste. 230 8315 Cantrell Road Little Rock, AR 72227 RODNEY P. MOORE Wright, Lindsey & Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2300 Little Rock, AR 72201-3699

PRODUCT LIABILITY LITIGATION - DEFENDANTS

E. B. CHILES IV 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 JOHN E. TULL III Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center St., Ste. 1900 Little Rock, AR 72201-4420 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 RICHARD N. WATTS Watts, Donovan & Tilley 501-372-1406 Arkansas Capital Commerce Center, Ste. 200 200 River Market Ave. Little Rock, AR 72201-1769 MICHAEL D. BARNES 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

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

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

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

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

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

G. SPENCE FRICKE Barber, McCaskill, Jones & Hale 501-372-6175 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 3400 Little Rock, AR 72201

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

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

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

SCOTT D. PROVENCHER Mitchell Williams 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1800 Little Rock, AR 72201-3525 LYN P. PRUITT Mitchell Williams 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1800 Little Rock, AR 72201-3525

Raymon Harvey was included in the 2017 Edition of The Best Lawyers in America for Elder Law.

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

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

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

Recognized For Legal Excellence in Elder Law!

The Raymon B. Harvey Law Firm

Arkansas Elder Law and Special Needs Trusts 501-221-3416 650 S. Shackleford Rd., Suite 400 Little Rock, Arkansas 72211 www.ArkansasElderLaw.com

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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 Centre Place, Second Floor 212 Center St. 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

RYAN BOWMAN 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

THOMAS P. LEGGETT 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

J. SHEPHERD RUSSELL III 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

JAMES E. HATHAWAY III Kutak Rock 501-975-3000 124 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2000 Little Rock, AR 72201-3706

HAL JOSEPH KEMP Hal Joseph Kemp 501-372-7243 Suite 120 P.O. Box 7359 Little Rock, AR 72217

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

STUART W. HANKINS Hankins Law Firm 501-833-0168 1515 East Kiehl Ave. Sherwood, AR 72120

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

J. MARK SPRADLEY J. Mark Spradley 501-537-4290 1501 North University Ave., Ste. 155 Little Rock, AR 72207

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

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

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

MARIAN M. MCMULLAN McMullan Law Firm 501-376-9119 815 West Markham St. P.O. Box 2839 Little Rock, AR 72201

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

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 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

M. JANE DICKEY Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131 120 East Fourth St. Little Rock, AR 72201-2893

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

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 Center Place Building, Ste. 200 212 Center St. 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 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1800 Little Rock, AR 72201-3525 JOHN ALAN LEWIS Mitchell Williams 479-464-5650 5414 Pinnacle Point Drive, Ste. 500 Rogers, AR 72758-8131 NOVEMBER 3, 2016

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

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

RAILROAD LAW

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

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JAMES PAUL BEACHBOARD Dover Dixon Horne 501-375-9151 425 West Capitol Ave., 37th Floor Little Rock, AR 72201 DON EILBOTT Eilbott Law Firm 501-225-2885 1701 Centerview Drive, Ste. 112 Little Rock, AR 72221

W. CHRISTOPHER BARRIER Mitchell Williams 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1800 Little Rock, AR 72201-3525 HAROLD W. HAMLIN Mitchell Williams 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1800 Little Rock, AR 72201-3525 JOHN ALAN LEWIS Mitchell Williams 479-464-5650 5414 Pinnacle Point Drive, Ste. 500 Rogers, AR 72758-8131 TIMOTHY W. GROOMS Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center St., Ste. 1900 Little Rock, AR 72201-4420 JEB H. JOYCE Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center St., Ste. 1900 Little Rock, AR 72201-4420

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

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

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

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

JOHN S. SELIG Mitchell Williams 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1800 Little Rock, AR 72201-3525

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

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

SECURITIZATION AND STRUCTURED FINANCE LAW

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

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

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

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

W. JACKSON WILLIAMS Williams & Anderson 501-859-0575 111 Center St., Ste. 2200 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 WILLIAM SPIVEY III Wright, Lindsey & Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 2300 Little Rock, AR 72201-3699

SECURITIES / CAPITAL MARKETS LAW

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

JOHN S. SELIG Mitchell Williams 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1800 Little Rock, AR 72201-3525 ROBYN P. ALLMENDINGER 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

SECURITIES REGULATION

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SAMUEL R. BAXTER Baxter Jewell & Dobson 501-664-9555 One Information Way, Ste. 210 Little Rock, AR 72202-2290 TED N. DRAKE Bridges Law Firm 870-534-5532 315 East Eighth Ave. P.O. Box 7808 Pine Bluff, AR 71611 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 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

PAUL B. BENHAM III 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

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

JOHN C. LESSEL John C. Lessel 501-954-9000 Pleasant Ridge Town Center, Ste. 301 11601 Pleasant Ridge Road Little Rock, AR 72212

ANTHONY A. HILLIARD Ramsay, Bridgforth, Robinson and Raley 870-535-9000 Simmons First National Bank Building, 11th Floor P.O. Box 8509 Pine Bluff, AR 71611-8509 JAMES LEE MOORE III Reece Moore Pendergraft 479-443-2705 75 North East Ave., Ste. 500 P.O. Box 1788 Fayetteville, AR 72702-1788 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 JAMES W. SMITH Smith Hurst 479-301-2444 226 West Dickson St., Ste. 201 Fayetteville, AR 72701 ROBERT S. JONES Waddell, Cole & Jones 870-931-1700 310 East St., Ste. A P.O. Box 1700 Jonesboro, AR 72403 TOM D. WOMACK Womack Phelps Puryear Mayfield & McNeil 870-932-0900 Century Center 301 West Washington Ave. P.O. Box 3077 Jonesboro, AR 72403

Congratulations to our Partner

H. David Blair

On being included in the 2017 Edition of The Best Lawyers in America in eight categories: • • • • • • • •

Bet-the-Company Litigation Commercial Litigation Litigation - Construction Medical Malpractice Law - Plaintiffs Personal Injury Litigation - Plaintiffs Product Liability Litigation - Plaintiffs Professional Malpractice Law - Defendants Professional Malpractice Law - Plaintiffs

MEMBERS OF THE FIRM:

H. David Blair · Robert D. Stroud · Michelle C. Huff · Barrett S. Moore

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John Dewey Watson was included in the 2017 Edition of The Best Lawyers in America for Arbitration, Litigation – Construction, and Mediation.

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JUDSON KIDD

We congratulate Mr. Kidd on his dedicated service and being named one of the best.

Judson Kidd was included in the 2017 Edition of The Best Lawyers in America for Family Law.

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JEFFREY H. DIXON Eichenbaum Liles 501-376-4531 124 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1900 Little Rock, AR 72201-3717

TECHNOLOGY LAW

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

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

TRADE SECRETS LAW

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

TRADEMARK LAW

STEPHEN D. CARVER Carver Patent Law 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

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

KATHRYN BENNETT PERKINS Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131 120 East Fourth St. Little Rock, AR 72201-2893

WILLIAM DIXON HAUGHT Haught & Wade 501-375-5257 111 Center St., Ste. 1320 Little Rock, AR 72201

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

JOHN COGAN WADE Haught & Wade 501-375-5257 111 Center St., Ste. 1320 Little Rock, AR 72201

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

TRANSPORTATION LAW

JOHN C. LESSEL John C. Lessel 501-954-9000 Pleasant Ridge Town Center, Ste. 301 11601 Pleasant Ridge Road Little Rock, AR 72212

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

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

TRUSTS AND ESTATES

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

JENNIFER R. PIERCE Mitchell Williams 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 1800 Little Rock, AR 72201-3525 CHRISTOPHER T. ROGERS Mitchell Williams 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 and Raley 870-535-9000 Simmons First National Bank Building, 11th Floor P.O. Box 8509 Pine Bluff, AR 71611-8509

JAMES LEE MOORE III Reece Moore Pendergraft 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 JAMES W. SMITH Smith Hurst 479-301-2444 226 West Dickson St., Ste. 201 Fayetteville, AR 72701 ROBERT S. JONES Waddell, Cole & Jones 870-931-1700 310 East St., Ste. A P.O. Box 1700 Jonesboro, AR 72403 WILLIAM B. ROBERTS William B. Roberts 903-293-1211 3903 Water Oak Drive Texarkana, AR 71854-8247 TOM D. WOMACK Womack Phelps Puryear Mayfield & McNeil 870-932-0900 Century Center 301 West Washington Ave. P.O. Box 3077 Jonesboro, AR 72403

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SCOTT C. TROTTER Trotter Law Firm 501-353-1069 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 216 Little Rock, AR 72201

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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 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

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KEN KIEKLAK Kieklak Law Firm 479-251-7767 3900 North Front St., Ste. 103 Fayetteville, AR 72703

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

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GREGORY GILES Moore, Giles & Matteson 870-774-5191 1206 North State Line Ave. Texarkana, AR 71854

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

PHILIP M. WILSON Philip M. Wilson Law 501-374-4000 1501 North University Ave., Ste. 255 Little Rock, AR 72207

FRANK B. NEWELL Barber, McCaskill, Jones & Hale 501-372-6175 425 West Capitol Ave., Ste. 3400 Little Rock, AR 72201

EDDIE H. WALKER, JR. Walker, Shock & Harp 479-783-7600 400 North Sixth St. P.O. Box 998 Fort Smith, AR 72902-0998

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

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

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

MICHAEL E. RYBURN Ryburn Law Firm 501-228-8100 650 South Shackleford, Ste. 231 Little Rock, AR 72211

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

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

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TWO LAWYERS FROM COPLIN & HARDY, PLLC WERE INCLUDED IN THE 23RD EDITION OF THE BEST LAWYERS IN AMERICA. Barry E. Coplin was included in the 2017 Edition of The Best Lawyers in America for Family Law and Betty J. Hardy included for Workers’ Compensation Law - Employers.

Betty J. Hardy was named the Best Lawyers® 2017 Workers’ Compensation Law – Employers “Lawyer of the Year” in Little Rock.

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