Arkansas Times | September 2025

THE KING’S SPEECH

THE LONG LEGACY OF MLK’S 1958 VISIT TO UAPB

BY LEON JONES III

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Hugh E. Crisp exclusively handles personal injury litigation, with an emphasis on

malpractice and catastrophic injury cases in Arkansas and throughout the Mid-South.

Mr. Crisp is rated AV Preeminent by Martindale-Hubbell, the highest rating for an attorney practicing in the United States and selected by his peers for the highest level of professional excellence for his legal knowledge, communication skills and ethical standards. Mr. Crisp has been recognized on numerous occasions by the Arkansas Times as “One of the Best Lawyers in Arkansas” in the field of medical malpractice. He has been selected by his peers as a Mid-South Super Lawyers honoree for the past 13 years. Mr. Crisp has been selected to the Top 100 High Stakes Litigators in Arkansas by the peer-review process of America’s High Stakes Litigators and named by AY Magazine for many years as one of the top personal injury lawyers in Arkansas. Mr. Crisp has also been selected by Best Lawyers® peer review process recognizing the top lawyers in America in their respective fields of practice.

BALLET-OPERA MASHUP: Soprano Sage DeAgro-Ruopp will sing with the Koresh Dance Company on Sept. 7 at UAPulaski Technical College’s CHARTS Theater as part of the ACANSA Arts Festival of the South (Page 15).

FEATURES

31 ROYAL REPERCUSSIONS

Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s visit to Pine Bluff brought added political pressure to the state’s only public Black college.

By Leon Jones III

36 PLEASE STAY-DIUM

It’s kickoff time for what may be the Razorbacks’ final game at Little Rock’s War Memorial Stadium.

By Rhett Brinkley

42 VOUCHERS FOR ALL

Every Arkansas K-12 student can now apply to have taxpayers help cover private school tuition or homeschool expenses. More than 51,000 families want in. What, ultimately, will be the cost?

By Baker Kurrus

9 THE FRONT

Q&A: With Delphone Hubbard, Little Rock’s new city manager.

Aw, snap!: Lucero’s Ben Nichols on film. Big Pic: Sittin’ pretty in Little Rock’s most luxurious lavatories.

15 THE TO-DO LIST

ACANSA Arts Festival of the South, Nate Bargatze at Simmons Bank Arena, “The Glass Menagerie” at The Rep, Unknown Mortal Orchestra at The Hall and more.

23 NEWS & POLITICS

YOU EXPECT US TO EAT THIS CARP?

Arkansas’s new strategy to vanquish an invasive fish.

By

Phillip Powell and Lucas Dufalla

DEATH BY A THOUSAND CUTS

Gov. Sarah Sanders blames health insurance companies for rate hikes that she and fellow Republicans made all but inevitable.

By Benjamin Hardy

88 CULTURE

Ahead of CALS’ Six Bridges Book Festival, writers Jared Lemus, Susie Dumond and Eli Cranor gab about the Arkansas connections in their work. By Daniel Grear

92 FOOD & DRINK

Combining two powerhouse culinary genres is risky. Rookh Italian + Indian Restaurant in Bryant pulls it off.

By

Elizabeth L. Cline

103 CANNABIZ

Why can’t we grow our own?

By Jack A. Rowe

106 THE OBSERVER

Full hearts and (nearly) empty nests.

ON THE COVER: Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. visits UAPB in 1958. Photo courtesy of the University Museum and Cultural Center at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff.

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‘A BIGGER STAGE, A BIGGER PLATFORM’

A Q&A WITH THE NEW LITTLE ROCK CITY MANAGER, DELPHONE HUBBARD.

Delphone Hubbard has been a fireman for 30 years, and served as chief of the Little Rock Fire Department since 2018. In June, he broadened his purview even further, accepting a job as city manager. The position was empty for over a year following the death of longtime City Manager Bruce Moore in October 2023, and Mayor Frank Scott Jr.’s approach to filling it permanently — which required approval of a candidate from the Little Rock Board of Directors — ruffled some feathers. Privately, and sometimes publicly, tension over the hiring process between Scott, who has significantly reduced the city manager’s power and oversight of city operations under his administration, and the city board, the majority of whom have served on the board for a decade or more, was growing.

The hiring process reached an impasse this summer, and in June, Scott gave an exclusive interview with KATV, Channel 7, in which he said he didn’t think Little Rock needed a city manager. Hours later, he offered the role to Hubbard, who wasn’t part of the applicant pool, though Hubbard was serving as acting city manager at the time.

Hubbard spoke to the Arkansas Times last month about his vision for the city manager role, the unusual circumstances in which he was offered it, and why quality of life is always at top of mind.

WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO RIGHT NOW? Several genres of music; however, jazz and gospel is my norm. Helps me with my mental relaxation. I must be intentional with my health.

FAVORITE PLACE TO EAT IN TOWN?

I’d probably say The Oyster Bar. My wife makes me go there at least once a month.

What are your biggest priorities as city manager? My biggest priority is supporting the mayor’s vision for the city and supporting those four pillars that guide his vision. That’s public safety, economic development, affordable housing and quality of life. I’ll be more so leaning into quality of life. I think if we do that as a city government at a great level, it’ll aid all of the rest of those pillars. Quality of life, to me, would be a cleaner city. One that gives all of our residents an opportunity to visit our parks, feel safe within the community, and obtain jobs that give us affordable living wages.

WHAT PERSON FROM HISTORY WOULD YOU LIKE TO HAVE DINNER WITH? Nelson Mandela. I have so many questions about his experiences and his challenges of a culture.

Where do you see challenges facing Little Rock? Where do you see opportunities? Our greatest challenge is always budget. You only have a certain amount of money to achieve the necessary services to the community that they are entitled to. That would be the biggest challenge: how to identify those dollars and where they would go.

We have more opportunities than we do challenges. We have opportunities to continue to grow as a city, to be an inclusive city, to be an inviting city to our businesses. We have an opportunity to be a safer city for the tourists and residents of this community. Those opportunities are available. I really believe that.

How was the transition from fire chief to city manager? I took it as just stepping up on a bigger stage, a bigger platform. The principles I took to be similar. That is, centering on people, planning and execution. We did that in fire services. You center around the people who serve and the community in which you serve. Have a plan of action and then be able to have that follow-through execution.

How did you come to be considered for the role of city manager without applying? I’ve been in fire service for 30 years. In those 30 years, I’ve been to several conventions locally and nationally and encountered several individuals — a small percentage of fire chiefs — who have moved on to become city managers. It intrigued me a little bit. And, I had some discussions with those individuals — never for myself. I just thought it was kind of interesting.

Mayor Scott asked me if I’d consider serving on an acting basis while this search process took place. Anything to assist this city moving forward, I’m willing to do. In the midst of serving, I enjoyed the bigger platform, to be able to reach a little bit further than as fire chief. So, when the opportunity presented itself and he asked me if I’d consider the position permanently, I said “yes.”

There’s been some tension between Mayor Scott and the Little Rock Board of Directors over the scope and significance of the city manager position. How have you navigated those dynamics and how do you view your role in Little Rock’s unique government structure? I view my role as one that supports the mayor’s vision. I’m ultimately responsible for the operational efficiency of the city government and ensuring people are where they should be, performing in their assigned task. The relationship between the mayor and our board is one I welcome. I think it’s one where we get to see individuals who have passion for the progression of this city. Our city board represents the various wards and the people in them. We want a passionate person representing us versus a passive person. Those board members are speaking on behalf of those individuals they represent. And the mayor and I have a great, respectful working relationship. I support his vision for the city.

What are your biggest dreams and goals? If you could do anything as city manager, what would you hope to accomplish? I really want to see that quality of life get to where, no matter whether you are a resident here or a visitor to this city, this is an attractive location you want to get to. This is that attractive city you want to live in, take your kids to the park in, and feel safe in at all times.

—Milo Strain

BRIAN CHILSON

‘THE DARKNESS SINGS’

On July 24, the night before the release of Little Rock native Ben Nichols’ latest solo record, “In the Heart of the Mountain,” staff photographer Brian Chilson captured the Lucero frontman at the White Water Tavern. While Nichols sang of summer nights sticking to his skin “like river mud,” Chilson shot on a borrowed mid-century Nikon. “A fellow film camera freak and local pro photographer” offered to lend the prized camera, Chilson said, “to get my camera envy out of my system. I borrowed the camera, but he’s not fooling me. He’s been trying to sell it for months and he’s trying to hook me.” Here, Nichols’ likeness was processed on Ilford HP5 400 speed 35mm film, “pushed 2 stops using a Nikon S 35mm Rangefinder camera with a 50mm f/1.4 lens.”

DON’T MIND IF WE DOO

LITTLE ROCK (AND BEYOND) IS FLUSH WITH LOVELY LATRINES, POSH POWDER ROOMS AND TIME-HONORED TOILETS.

Well before Republican legislators began using them to drum up transphobic panic among conservative donors, public restrooms have been a political battleground that demanded our attention. A proxy for bodily privacy and autonomy upon which questions of equality and safety have been plumbed for eons — since toga-clad, working-class Romans were urinating communally in ancient stone-lined gutters — the local loo remains a realm of intimacy, social hierarchy and, occasionally, artistic expression. Here, in no particular order, we nod to a few charming and noteworthy favorites, from the rustic to the ritzy.

1. COLONIAL WINES & SPIRITS

11200 W. Markham St., Little Rock

There is a “Dear Customer” letter hanging on the wall in the loo at Colonial, which reads, in part: “Our aim is to offer you a restroom that is not just clean and sanitary, but also sets a new standard of comfort and quality in the city.” All that’s to say: Enjoy soft lighting, art-adorned walls and the wooden hospitality tray next to the sink, which offers guests a stack of tiny disposable rinse cups in which to take a swig from the adjacent bottle of Cool Mint Listerine, presumably as a post-winetasting refresher.

2.

BREAD CHEESE WINE

1424 Main St. #101, Little Rock

Go heavy on the wine so you can spend more time in the swank Art Deco bathroom. Imagine yourself a flapper as you smooth your bobbed hair, freshen your red lipstick and maybe even dance the Charleston on those cool marble tiles.

3. CAPITAL HOTEL

111 W. Markham St., Little Rock

Chalk it up to the stately antechamber, the sprawling vanity mirrors, the marble countertops or the refined lighting fixtures, but the lobby restrooms at the Capital Hotel are quite possibly the No. 1 most elegant place downtown to go No. 1. Plus, the paper towels — stacked neatly sinkside and monogrammed in crimson with the hotel’s namesake — are made of nicer material than most of the bath towels you owned in college.

4. PETTAWAY COFFEE

406 E. 21st St., Little Rock

A perfect spot to visit when nature calls. The surreal woodland wallpaper means a visit to this bathroom is basically like camping, but no trowel required.

5. ARKANSAS STATE CAPITOL

500 Woodlane St., Little Rock

We’re of two minds about disclosing the location of this secret oasis on the fourth floor of the state Capitol. While we’d like to keep the coordinates of this pristine oneseater hidden to avoid overexposure, we understand you might need a brief respite from political madness. This is the spot.

6. LEVERETT LOUNGE

737 N. Leverett Ave. #1, Fayetteville

Is it the moody lighting, refracted by the crystalline pendants on the chandelier hanging from the ceiling? Is it the wallmounted lizard and elephant figurines that dispense the toilet paper? Or is it the framed cross-stitch canvas on the toiletside table etched with five golden stars and the words “Would poop here again”? Whatever it is, Leverett Lounge’s charming all-gender restroom is worth a pilgrimage, whether or not nature has issued the call.

7. GEORGE’S

5510 Kavanaugh Blvd., Little Rock Expectations are high when you’re dining in the Heights and need to powder your nose. George’s delivers with this high-end, puttycolored porcelain palace.

Good lighting insures you’ll be able to spot any sauce stains on your blouse or spinach in your teeth. Go heavy on soap and lotion by Molton Brown, a British brand that was reportedly a favorite of Queen Elizabeth II. A glass and chrome bar cart stays stocked with mints, tampons and other emergency amenities to see you through your evening on the town.

THE SPIRIT AWARDS

THE OYSTER BAR’S POWDERED SOAP

We recommend a rigorous pre-meal handwashing, both for hygiene’s sake and because you want in on their old-fashioned powdered soap. Gritty, possibly exfoliating, definitely memorable.

PIZZA CAFE’S ALL-CAPS DOOR QUOTE

Before there was Pinterest or the throw pillow aisle at HomeGoods, Little Rockers had to get our motivational pep talks from the door at Pizza Cafe. Anyone sitting on the toilet at this Riverdale restaurant can pass the time by reading a lengthy quote by American philosopher and poet Christian D. Larson, scrawled in Sharpie. (Well, it’s spelled “Larsen” here — all part of its mystique.)

CAMP TACO’S LANDLINE PHONE

The best bathroom selfies come from Camp Taco, where a pink phone with an old-school curlicue cord hangs between the sink and the toilet, just begging for you to snap an ’80s-themed pic for the gram.

WHITE WATER TAVERN’S GRAFFITI ART

A melange of the wretched and the sublime, the doodles and missives covering the ladies’ room stalls at this beloved institution run the gamut: advice, affirmations, cautionary tales about the scenesters to steer clear of.

PANTRY CREST’S UNDERTHE-STAIRS NOOK

Harry Potter would feel right at home in this tucked-away loo.

MCCLARD’S BAR-B-Q RESTAURANT’S OUTDOOR STALLS

A stalwart in a stucco building on Hot Springs’ main drag, this barbecue institution serves up its beloved ribs and tamales inside and keeps the lavatory outdoors. Adverse weather notwithstanding, we’re fans of the modern-day outhouse tactic; it’s a solidly sanitary move and feels a little like you’re at a rural county fair.

RHETT

LET THE FEAST BEGIN!

BY DANIEL GREAR, STEPHANIE SMITTLE AND OMAYA JONES

ACANSA ARTS FESTIVAL OF THE SOUTH

THURSDAY 9/4-SATURDAY 9/20. VARIOUS VENUES. FREE-$250.

An Arkansas satellite initially inspired by a visit to the renowned annual Spoleto Festival in Charleston, South Carolina, ACANSA has established an identity of its own in Central Arkansas over the course of its first decade, not least because it’s been able to leverage the Argenta Arts District’s connections (not to mention its stellar gallery and stage spaces) to build a multivenue series of performances and events every fall. For its 10th anniversary, the fest’s scope is as ambitiously broad as ever, programming a gospel brunch alongside funk, ballet, bluegrass, jazz and Venezuelan joropo dance. Highlights of the lineup include, but are not limited to: a concert from chamber string-centric ensemble Frisson at Stella Boyle Smith Music Center at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 5, featuring works by Mozart, Fauré, Bernstein and Schumann; an opening show from beloved local outfit The Funkanites at The Hall at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 4; an evening of jazz from nimble guitarist Ted Ludwig and saxophonist Jerry Weldon at Birdie’s Cabaret Theater and Lounge at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 11; an exhibit opening from portrait artist Delita Martin at ACANSA Gallery at 5 p.m. Friday, Sept. 19, as part of Argenta’s Third Friday Art Walk; a ballet-opera mashup from the Koresh Dance Company at UA-Pulaski Technical College’s CHARTS Theater at 2 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 7; a Hispanic Heritage Festival (showcasing Larry & Joe, pictured above) at Argenta Plaza at 4 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 20; a gospel brunch featuring music from the renowned St. Mark Baptist Church Choir at The Venue at Westwind at 1:30 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 14; and a must-see performance from NYC-based “accidental brass quartet” The Westerlies at Stella Boyle Smith Music Center at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 18. Visit acansa.org/ticketing to see individual event pricing, or go for the $250 gold pass and treat yourself to a solid two-plus weeks of impeccable date nights, solo or otherwise. SS

NATE BARGATZE

SUNDAY 9/21. SIMMONS BANK ARENA. 7

P.M. $55-$100.

Around the half-minute mark of a 2023 “Saturday Night Live” sketch called “Washington’s Dream,” comedian Nate Bargatze — a white guy from Tennessee whose arrival on SNL’s episode roster elicited a resounding, “Who?” — began unveiling a now-legendary comedic slow burn. Donning a founding father’s powdered wig and colonial overcoat, Bargatze-as-Washington declared, “We are free men!” to cheers from his fellow founders. “Free to choose our own laws! Choose our own leaders. And to choose our own systems of weights and measures!” What followed was both side-splitting hilarity and a cunning sleight-of-hand, Bargatze and the boys methodically laying bare the absurd impracticalities of the imperial system — and thus, the folly behind our country’s stubborn fealty to it. The metaphor, in These Political Times, was palpable, yet remained somehow apolitical, as does Bargatze’s stand-up. Views of the sketch skyrocketed across platforms. Bargatze hosted SNL again before even a year had passed (Washington skit reboot and all) and had the highest-grossing tour of any comedian in the country last year. Don’t count on him being a stand-up lifer, though; these days, Bargatze’s got designs on building a media empire and theme park in Nashville inspired by none other than Walt Disney. He’ll call it — no foolin’ — Nateland. “Everybody has lives, everybody has kids, everybody has stuff to go do,” Bargatze told Esquire. “They don’t want to sit and worship your art. There’s got to be a balance of appreciating ‘Succession’ and appreciating ‘King of Queens.’ Those worlds have to exist together.” Get tickets to see Bargatze at simmonsbankarena.com. SS

BEN FOLDS

WEDNESDAY 9/17. THE HALL. 8 P.M. $50-$75.

Cheeky yet sentimental piano rocker Ben Folds isn’t cool anymore (maybe he never was), and frankly I haven’t actively listened to his music in more than a decade, but can I just say that seeing him perform in Fayetteville in 2009 continues to be one of my favorite concert experiences of all time? Countless divorces be damned, the guy was a frenetic charmer, turning the cramped real estate of 88 keys into an amusement park. A whiz at audience participation, he led the crowd in a multipart singing exercise so accessible and engaging that it could make your dog feel like a proper musician. A glance at some of Folds’ recent setlists suggests that he’s still playing mostly material from the aughts and earlier — including many a song from his days fronting Ben Folds Five — so don’t worry too much about getting up to speed on the new stuff. Get tickets at littlerockhall.com. DG

ALYSSE GAFKJEN

THE WINDOW ON SIXTH: GRAND OPENING

FRIDAY 9/5. 112 W. SIXTH ST. 6 P.M. FREE.

Call it a venue, call it a gallery or call it, as its founders do, a space “designed to feel like a modern speakeasy meets museum pop-up.” The space at 112 W. Sixth St., diagonal to the Arkansas Repertory Theatre and next to the Lafayette Building in downtown Little Rock, is home to a new venture called The Window on Sixth, which aims to offer a mixed-medium roster of art, music, photography and performance. Up first, for the grand opening: “Jump the Gun,” a photo exhibition and live performance by one of the organization’s founders, Thomas James Deeter, billed as “the art show that deletes itself … not simply an art show, but a disappearing act.” Stay tuned at thewindowonsixth.com for monthly installations and events to follow: hip-hop artist Arkansas Bo gives a live performance at 8 p.m. Friday, Sept. 19 ($20; BYOB), and Fayetteville-based “sociopop” painter Eddie Love shows work on Friday, Oct. 3. SS

ARKANSAS TIMES FILM SERIES:

‘SAFE’

TUESDAY 9/16. RIVERDALE 10 VIP CINEMA. 7 P.M. $12-$14.

Todd Haynes’ 1995 film “Safe” sees suburban housewife Carol White (Julianne Moore) begin to suffer the effect of a mysterious illness for which no doctor can find an explanation. Carol eventually decides that the cause of her malady is the very environment itself; only by escaping the trappings of her life can she restore her health and find some peace. She retreats to a wellness community in the New Mexico desert, but it’s not clear if she’s actually getting better. In an essay for the Criterion Collection, writer Dennis Lim described “Safe” as “an existential horror movie in which the monster is both all around us and nowhere to be seen.” Speaking at Cannes the year the movie premiered, Haynes said he was inspired by a TV program that described a “20th century disease”: “I was immediately taken by the name and this whole idea that we are all at some level allergic to the 20th century … Ironically, for someone like Carol White, the source of her illness comes from the very things that mark her privileged life.” OJ

SIX BRIDGES BOOK FESTIVAL

SUNDAY 9/28-SUNDAY 10/5. CALS MAIN LIBRARY. FREE.

Whether you’re eager to find a surprise bestseller with an underwater creature as its protagonist (“Remarkably Bright Creatures” by Shelby Van Pelt), cynical about the integrity of musicmaking in the era of mass streaming (“Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist” by Liz Pelly), curious about the history of racial inequality in American education (“The Battle for the Black Mind” by Karida Brown), or looking for a crime thriller that, according to The Washington Post, “blurs any imaginary line between genre and great literature” (“Saint of the Narrows Street” by William Boyle), the Central Arkansas Library System’s Six Bridges Book Festival has a book for you. With nearly 50 visiting writers in tow, it’s likely that any other stray fascination you can imagine will also be represented at the festival, which runs the gamut from fiction to nonfiction to poetry. Arkansas-connected authors (head to pages 88-91 for a few interviews!) appearing at Six Bridges include Regina Black, Kevin Brockmeier, Viktoria Capek, Eli Cranor, Susie Dumond, Buckley T. Foster, Carolyn Guinzio, Maria Hoskins, Jared Lemus, Linsey Miller, Adolph L. Reed Jr., Kat Robinson, Ginny Myers Sain, Vaughn Scribner, Alex Vernon, Neena Viel and Rhona Weaver. Find a full author lineup at cals.org/six-bridges-book-festival. DG

UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA

THURSDAY 9/25. THE HALL. 8 P.M. $27-$50.

For the uninitiated, Unknown Mortal Orchestra’s NPR Tiny Desk Concert is a perfect introduction to the New Zealand-born, Portland-based band, not least because it strips away the band’s proclivity for arthouse animated music videos in favor of letting the viewer actually watch them do the damn thing. That damn thing, as it turns out, is coaxing a mesmerizing and unexpected sound from the most expected of instruments — bass, guitar, keys, drums, vocals. Already a family affair (frontman Ruban Nielson is joined in the band by his brother, Kody Nielson, on drums); the boys’ father, Chris Nielson, an accomplished jazz saxophonist in his own right, sits in for the session, pulling the band’s Lennon-esque sound even further into jazzfunk territory, the keyboard often doubling the saxophone’s phrase with Vulfpeck-tier intentionality and synchronicity. Setlist-scouring diehards will likely know more than we do about whether the Unknown Mortal Orchestra’s set at The Hall, with Improvement Movement opening the show, will stick solidly with the band’s earlier oeuvre or make room for music from “Curse,” a darker and more introspective EP that Ruban Nielson put out this year following the cancer diagnosis and death in 2024 of his younger sister. Get tickets at littlerockhall.com. SS

‘THE GLASS MENAGERIE’

TUESDAY 9/2-SUNDAY 9/14. ARKANSAS REPERTORY THEATRE. $20-$65.

The last production of the Arkansas Repertory Theatre’s 2025 SummerStage season and the show that put playwright Tennessee Williams on the map, “The Glass Menagerie” is a bonafide American classic. Drawing from the challenges of Williams’ Depression-era childhood — particularly his schizophrenic sister — the play is a tense family portrait of a mother, Amanda Wingfield, and her two adult children, Tom and Laura, the three of whom live together in a cramped St. Louis apartment. Wistful for her days as a carefree debutante, Amanda spends her time fretting over the romantic eligibility of Laura, whose physical disability and emotional fragility have left her isolated from the wider world. Tom, an aspiring poet who works at a shoe warehouse as the household’s breadwinner, dreams of an escape from the tedium of his work and the obligations of family. When “The Glass Menagerie” premiered in Chicago in 1944, famed theater critic Ashton Stevens called it a “lovely thing and an original thing,” adding that “it has the courage of true poetry couched in colloquial prose. It is eerie and earthy in the same breath.” Get tickets at therep.org. DG

VINO’S 35TH ANNIVERSARY THROWDOWN

SATURDAY 9/13. VINO’S BREW PUB. 7 P.M. $5.

Founded in 1990, Vino’s Brew Pub is still, as writers Rhett Brinkley and Lindsey Millar chronicled in their oral history of the storied venue, “a Little Rock institution — one of the few true mixing places in town, where you’ll find people of all classes and backgrounds communing over a slice and a pint and live music.” To ring in 35 years in business, Vino’s is turning back the clock on its prices for one special night of punky decadence: Slices will be 95 cents, beer will be $1.75 and admission to the show will be $5. Featuring a reunion performances from Big Boss Line, the bill also includes Auroro, Maynium, Joe and The Feels, Body Drop, Threespeed, Death Metal Disco, Mammoth Caravan and more. DG

JUAN ORTIZ-ARENAS

BAL ANCED ROCK HOT SPRINGS NATIONAL PARK

GRAND REOPENING!

REMOVAL CREW: Ethan Chism (left) and Cody Jordan, two invasive carp specialists with the Arkansas Game & Fish Commission, catch a fish from their net. There are currently no commercial fish processing plants in the state.

HOLY CARP!

WHY ARKANSAS WANTS MORE AMERICANS TO EAT INVASIVE CARP.

BY PHILLIP POWELL AND LUCAS DUFALLA

Since their accidental introduction into the Mississippi River Basin in the 1970s, invasive Asian carp have grown to pose one of the greatest economic and ecological challenges facing the watershed. The fish have become a real headache for policymakers due to their rapid reproduction rate and voracious diet, which enable them to outcompete the river’s native aquatic species.

Over the years, goals for controlling the fish have shifted from a dream of full extermination to a more pragmatic approach that aims to keep the fish out of the Great Lakes at all costs. At the heart of that approach is a deceptively big challenge: creating a market for carp, which means convincing American consumers that carp are delicious.

According to experts, a long-term solution to protect Great Lakes ecosystems from the invaders will involve states up and down the Mississippi River Basin collaborating on making commercial fishing of the carp sustainable. But for now, individual states are paving the way.

In 2018, Illinois implemented a grant pro-

gram providing $8,000 to carp processors to expand their markets and sales. The state has also increased funding to pay commercial fishers to remove carp.

The results are impressive. In 2023, the Illinois Department of Natural Resources removed 750,000 pounds of invasive carp during a 10-day sweep through the Illinois River. The agency reports its efforts have reduced carp density in upriver areas by 95% over the last 13 years. But Illinois is the last line of defense keeping the carp out of the Great Lakes. Carp don’t care much about state borders, and if the uncontrollable spread continues lower in the river basin, the problem will only get worse for downstream ecosystems and continue to put pressure on the Great Lakes.

One state that’s faced serious issues with carp is Arkansas, which has been linked definitively to the first outbreak in the Mississippi River all the way back in the 1960s. Now, The Natural State is taking inspiration from other basin states, implementing a pilot program to create both demand for the carp and a place to process them — with the ultimate

goal of pulling 1.6 million pounds of fish from the river, more than five times the number the state has been able to harvest over the last four years.

GIGANTIC, GOOGLY-EYED FISH

The invasive carp in question are not one single species but rather a group of four species native to Asia that have all been introduced in the U.S.: the bighead carp, black carp, grass carp and silver carp (a fish now infamous to fishers and recreationists because of its affinity for leaping its 40-pound body out of the water when disturbed). In 2021, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service changed the designation from “Asian carp” to “invasive carp” in the wake of anti-Asian hate crimes. What makes these gigantic, googly-eyed fish such a problem? According to zoologist Jim Garvey at Southern Illinois State University, they have the potential to rapidly outcompete native species and destroy crucial, endangered biodiversity throughout the watershed.

“There is a real concern that this valuable biodiversity we have in North America is

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being challenged by these species,” Garvey said. “What we’ve found over the last 20 years or so since the invasion has really taken off is that there’s a lot of evidence to suggest these carp are having impacts on certain native fish, and probably impacts on native mussels as well. They’re certainly poised to get into the Great Lakes, which has a huge economic value from a recreational and commercial fishing standpoint.”

Garvey says the carp are outcompeting beloved natives like bass and catfish because the carp can reproduce far faster and are intent on eating up the plankton that young bass and catfish need to survive.

Congress has taken notice and since 2014 pushed money into the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to control the species’ expansion, with $31 million appropriated to address the problem in fiscal year 2024. With the federal support, Illinois has launched a serious backstopping effort to keep the fish from entering Lake Michigan through the Des Plaines River and Chicago waterways. Congress also backstopped the invasive carp problem with an investment of nearly $226 million into the electric lock system on the Brandon Road dam 27 miles southwest of Chicago, intended to keep the fish out of the Great Lakes. The lock system includes layered technologies, such as an electric barrier that shocks approaching fish and a flushing lock that pushes fish downstream with powerful currents. All the technologies work together to prevent carp from getting in while allowing shipping commerce to continue between the river and the Great Lakes.

Two groups aim to coordinate the solution to the carp problem: The decades-old Missis-

sippi Interstate Cooperative Resource Association (MICRA) is handling the invasive carp removal projects funded by Congress, while the Invasive Carp Regional Coordinating Committee (ICRCC) is laser-focused on keeping the carp out of the Great Lakes.

A MARKETING PROBLEM?

Here in the U.S., the invasive carp are a big environmental problem, and even a problem for recreation in some circumstances. Easily disturbed, silver carp can jump up to 10 feet out of the water, posing a physical hazard for anglers and their boats. Moreover, the outdoor recreation industry is up in arms over the carp because they threaten native species that people like to fish for.

But across the world in China, people eat carp daily. So the easy solution, according to environmental economist Ben Meadows at the University of Alabama-Birmingham, would be to encourage Americans to eat the fish. But it’s not as easy as it sounds.

“The issue with carp is they create damage but they are not yet a commercial species,” Meadows said. “So, if you think about it, they are net-negative and we just don’t have an economic model to deal with a net-negative. When we talk about pests, we can talk about minimizing their costs, and if we are talking about an economically valuable species, we have a road map to do that. But a species oscillating between the two? That’s unique.”

And American consumers don’t care much for the carp, Meadows said. But ironically, Americans might have to start eating carp in order to keep them from outcompeting wild fish they do want to eat, like largemouth bass. There is a stigma attached to invasive carp

CARPE CARP: Ethan Chism holds up two species of invasive carp. The carp, of which there are four species, were introduced by accident into U.S. waterways during the 1970s.

— that they are dirty, bottom-feeding fish — which make them unpalatable to many consumers, even if their rich, white meat makes them delicious.

States have been encouraging commercial fishing operations to catch the carp for years, with very mixed results. In Arkansas, for example, the Game and Fish Commission only offers anglers $0.18 per pound of carp through their Invasive Carp Harvest Incentive Program.

That’s not enough, according to some fishers. “The price is low. They’re expecting us to get the same price our grandpas got back in the ’60s,” said Dee Wisecarver, a commercial fisherman from Hamburg. He considers the carp a nuisance, often getting in the way of catching the fish he can sell profitably.

From the beginning, some speculated that the invasive carp outbreak originated in Arkansas, after the fish escaped from research centers and private farms in the Arkansas Delta into the White River in the 1960s. Garvey disputes that Arkansas is the source of the entire outbreak, but Arkansas had the first documented carp escapees.

Regardless of where the problem began, solving the problem will require a multistate approach. Just as carp may have spread from the lower Mississippi Basin decades ago, the root of their population needs to be tackled lower in the river today.

Much will depend on whether policymakers can galvanize demand for carp and build the infrastructure needed to support the market.

In 2024, a report showed Arkansas had removed 310,000 pounds of carp since the harvest program began in 2021. The state achieved that by paying in-house fishers to

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periodically sweep tributaries of the Mississippi River in Arkansas, which is not a sustainable long-term solution.

“While not lacking utility, current agency control efforts are limited in scope to achieve meaningful biomass removal from all major infested waters within Arkansas,” the report said.

According to Matt Horton, the AGFC’S aquatic nuisance species program coordinator, the fish are caught, euthanized and then thrown back in. With no local demand for the fish and no market infrastructure in place, the fish go to waste. A crew of Game and Fish employees make it their job to purge as many as they can from Arkansas waterways all year round.

Now, Arkansas is adopting an approach pioneered by Illinois to move from wasteful mass removal of the carp, to getting at the root cause of their out-of-control population growth. Jimmy Barnett, the invasive carp biologist for the AGFC, said on the Cache River that the program is in transition, with future funding from the federal government to be used for research, monitoring and building up commercial fishing, which he hopes will contribute more to keeping the carp out of the Great Lakes.

NEW OPPORTUNITY FOR ARKANSAS

According to Horton, Arkansas will soon be announcing its new pilot grant program — what Horton called an “opportunity” — to bring processing plants to the state. Or, at least, make accessing out-of-state processing plants easier for Arkansas fishers.

“In addition to the low market value of these fish, the problem with Arkansas is we’ve got a bunch of commercial fishermen, and we’ve got interest from a large number of them to catch and remove these fish, they just don’t have markets to sell to,” Horton said.

There are gaps in the supply chain, too. There are currently no commercial fish processing plants in Arkansas. The closest plant, Moon River Foods, is in Indianola, Mississippi, about an hour’s drive from the Arkansas border. According to fisherman Dee Wisecarver, that plant hasn’t been processing carp for several years. A spokesperson for Moon River could not be reached for comment.

“The problem is, there’s nobody buying them,” Wisecarver said. “You’ve got people that want you to ice them down, drive them for three, four hours. Nobody’s going to do that. Not for pennies.”

Here’s how the program will work: Grantees, which could be processors, will get a per-

pound subsidy to purchase fish from riverside pickup centers. This money is meant to offset the cost of transporting the fish to processing locations, which could help to create a market and alleviate the demand issue.

“We’re just getting started. There’s a lot of learning on our part, trying to build relationships, trust with our commercial fishers and with the industry,” Horton said. “One of the main questions [processors] have: Is there a large enough harvester base in the state to meet their market demand?”

As Horton explained, carp processors aren’t interested in sending trucks to pick up a carp harvest unless they are sure there’s a decent harvest waiting for them. The pilot program will be aimed at guaranteeing the processors a certain volume of carp to get them interested in building an Arkansas market.

According to Horton, around $240,000 has been approved and is set to go to two vendors (Horton wouldn’t disclose which companies were chosen). That money will help support the removal of 1.6 million pounds of carp, about five times the amount harvested from the river since 2021.

“It can make a difference,” he said. “If we can illustrate proof-of-concept with this, then it justifies us getting more funding to implement more of this in the future.”

Expanded contracts with commercial fishers and grants for market infrastructure are all that’s needed to make carp removal sustainable. Alabama-Birmingham’s Meadows said marketing will be the key.

In 2022, Illinois launched a marketing campaign called “Choose Copi” in an attempt to rebrand carp as “copi,” a healthy, delicious, locally caught fish. But Illinois also has dozens of markets, processors and distributors already getting copi to the masses. Arkansas is starting nearly from scratch.

With marketing, infrastructure and commercial fishing support, Meadows said he thinks carp fishing can become an economic win over time. But it’s going to require a sustained, coordinated effort.

“They’re here to stay. You’re never going to get rid of them. Twenty years from now, people are going to be eating them all the time, because that’s just going to be the fish we got,” Wisecarver said.

This story is a product of Reasons to be Cheerful and the Mississippi River Basin Ag & Water Desk, an independent reporting network based at the University of Missouri in partnership with Report for America. Both projects receive funding from the Walton Family Foundation.

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WHO, ME?: Gov. Sarah Sanders casts blame for insurance rate hikes that she and her fellow Republicans put into motion.

SICKENING

ARKANSAS GOV. SARAH SANDERS LASHES OUT OVER HEALTH INSURANCE RATE HIKES FUELED BY REPUBLICAN POLICIES SHE SUPPORTS.

BY BENJAMIN HARDY

If you buy your own health insurance in Arkansas, expect to start paying more in a few months — a lot more — thanks to Republicans in Congress and President Donald Trump.

Rates for individual plans are set to rise by an average of 36% next year, according to proposed 2026 rate filings by BlueCross and Centene, the two companies that sell policies on the Arkansas Health Insurance Marketplace.

Most Americans who buy a marketplace plan get financial help from the federal government through tax subsidies created by the Affordable Care Act, or ACA, the 2010 health reform legislation often called “Obamacare.” But those ACA subsidies are set to shrink next year, and congressional Republicans refuse to extend them.

Some 166,000 Arkansans get their insurance on the marketplace as of now. Most of them will face a major rate hike — or simply be priced out of coverage — if the changes take effect.

On Aug. 8, Gov. Sarah Sanders said the companies’ proposed rate hikes are “unacceptable” and called on the commissioner of the Arkansas Insurance Department to reject them. “Arkansans are tired of getting outrageous bills from multi-billion-dollar insurance companies, and my administration will not allow them to take advantage of our people,” she said in a statement posted to social media. “Nothing justifies year-over-year premium increases of this scale — it’s wrong and prohibited under Arkansas law. Arkansas’ Insurance Commissioner is required to disapprove of proposed rate increases if they are excessive or discriminatory, and these are both. I’m calling on my Commissioner to follow the law, reject these insane rate increas-

es, and protect Arkansans.”

It’s tough talk, but talk is cheap. Health care is not. As governor, Sanders aims to cut health spending at the state level and supports Republican cuts at the federal level. If she truly cared about preventing rate increases for Arkansans, she’d call on Congress to keep the current ACA subsidies in place, or she’d find money elsewhere. Instead, she’s trying to distract us with fake populism by attacking a corporate villain everyone loves to hate — insurance companies.

The state Insurance Department will likely make a decision on final rates for 2026 by sometime in September. Given the political sensitivity, the department isn’t answering questions about any of it, nor are they sharing a timeline for determining whether the proposals are “excessive” under the law. But here’s what we know:

RATES IN REAL LIFE

Rate increases are a fact of life in the broken American health system. As the cost of doctors and hospitals and prescription drugs rises, so does the cost of insurance. Insurers file their rate adjustments for the upcoming year with the Insurance Department annually, which hires independent actuaries to determine whether the proposed changes are reasonable.

The rate hikes for individual plans in the past five years have been between 2% and 6%, as outlined here by the Arkansas Center for Health Improvement. That adds up, but it’s in the same ballpark as recent annual hikes for employer-sponsored insurance. A single-year increase of 36% is a different story.

And that’s an average increase. Costs vary from carrier to carrier, and the premiums on some Centene plans are projected to increase

by more than 50%. Remember also that costs vary from person to person, depending on factors like age and family size.

So what’s happening here? It’s helpful to first back up for a quick refresher on how the Affordable Care Act works.

The ACA made insurance available to more Americans in two main ways. First, it expanded Medicaid, the country’s patchy safety net insurance program, to cover low-income households. “Medicaid expansion” is available to those making under 138% of the federal poverty line, a measure of income that depends on family size. In 2025, 138% of the poverty line was about $21,600 annually for a single person; for a three-person household it was about $36,800. In Arkansas, the Medicaid expansion program is called ARHOME, and it gives essentially free coverage to some 230,000 people who are below the 138% threshold. The federal government pays for most of the cost of that coverage (90%) and the state pays the rest. (Medicaid expansion still hasn’t happened in some red states, like Texas.)

ARHOME could be affected by the proposed insurance rate increases too, thanks to some complicated quirks of how the Medicaid expansion program is set up in Arkansas. But for now, the focus is on the second piece of the ACA — federal subsidies for individual plans sold by private companies on the health insurance marketplace.

For most people with incomes above 138% of the poverty line who can’t get insurance through a job or a spouse, buying an individual plan is the only option. To make the premiums on those plans more affordable, the ACA created a sliding scale of “premium tax credits” that depend on income. If you’re a single person in Arkansas making $25,000

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annually, you make slightly too much to qualify for Medicaid expansion, but you can get a tax credit — a subsidy — that covers most of the cost of buying a private plan on the marketplace.

From the beginning, though, there was a problem with the ACA marketplace: The subsidies were too stingy. Some people signed up, but many others still found individual plans to be prohibitively expensive even with the subsidy. So while Medicaid expansion was very successful in getting many of the poorest Americans covered, the marketplace was less effective in providing coverage for low-to-middle-income people — until the COVID pandemic created an opportunity.

President Joe Biden’s American Rescue Plan made the ACA subsidies substantially larger for everyone who qualified for them. It also removed a cap on the upper end of the income sliding scale. Under the original ACA, people making four times the federal poverty level (400%) simply didn’t get any help at all and had to pay the full cost of insurance out of pocket. The Biden-era legislation — which was later extended under Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act — gave modest subsidies to those above 400% as well.

The result was dramatic. In 2020, there were just 64,000 Arkansans insured through an individual marketplace plan. This year, with “enhanced” ACA subsidies now making insurance affordable, there are 166,000, according to the health policy nonprofit KFF.

The enhanced ACA subsidies are set to expire at the end of 2025, though, and Republicans have shown no interest in extending them. Insurance companies expect tons of people — especially those young and healthy enough to feel like they can risk it — to drop their coverage in 2026 as a result. And crucially, the people left behind in the risk pool will be sicker and more expensive to insure on the whole, thus driving up per-person costs.

To see this dynamic at play, it’s helpful to look at a specific example. The DIY health policy analyst Charles Gaba ran the numbers on Arkansas’s proposed rate hikes, with and without the enhanced ACA subsidies. Right now, according to Gaba, a 30-year-old single mom in Arkansas who makes a $40,000 salary can buy a solid, mid-tier insurance plan for herself for about $61 a month — a pretty good deal. (Her child will almost certainly be covered by ARKids, the Medicaid-funded program for children.) Without the enhanced subsidy, though, she will pay a $214 monthly premium.

That’s an increase of $153, or 250%. Will the average 30-year-old single mom with a $40K income pay $1,832 more annually to keep her health insurance? Or will she opt to pay for groceries, bills, child care, a vehicle and a roof over her family’s heads? There’s no question — unless she’s already sick. The

only scenario where she’d prioritize buying health coverage is if she absolutely has to have it, due to a chronic illness, high-cost prescriptions or other health needs. And if she uses her insurance frequently, that will cost the insurance company more money — even as it has less money coming in the door due to other people dropping coverage. Multiply this dynamic by tens of thousands of individuals, and the proposed Arkansas rate hikes make more sense.

Gaba runs through various other examples in his charts — available online for those who want a deeper look — including a four-person family with mom and dad both age 40. If they make $70,000 annually, they now pay about $138 monthly in premiums. When the enhanced ACA subsidies go away, that will more than triple, to $436 monthly.

Or imagine an older couple who are both 64 (just one year shy of Medicare eligibility) and make $90,000, placing them above that 400% poverty line mark. Right now, with the enhanced ACA subsidies in place, they already pay a hefty $638 monthly in premium. That will become a back-breaking $2,915 monthly payment in 2026.

The enhanced ACA subsidies aren’t the only thing behind the rate hikes. General inflation plays a role, as do various other policy changes at the state level. But the insurers themselves say the main driver is that the subsidies are shrinking.

A filing from Centene with the Arkansas Insurance Department puts it this way: “Most notably, as [enhanced ACA subsidies] expire and enrollees face increased out-of-pocket premiums, we assume healthier individuals who tend to be more price sensitive will exit the market, worsening the average morbidity of the individual risk pool.”

A CYNICAL PLOY

The end of the enhanced ACA subsidies isn’t a direct result of Trump’s One Big, Beautiful Bill, though it’s fair to conflate the two. The point of the bill was to prevent Trump’s first-term tax cuts from expiring. Republicans could have stopped the enhanced subsidies from expiring as well. But that would have meant less money for tax cuts.

Instead of preserving the subsidies, the Trump bill reduced federal health care spending by hundreds of billions of dollars in the years to come, mostly via Medicaid cuts that won’t kick in until after the midterm elections. Republicans hope voters have short memories and aren’t planning ahead. But the surge in health insurance premiums is coming now, and not just in Arkansas. A recent KFF analysis found a median proposed premium increase of 18% nationwide.

Maybe that’s why Sanders is trying to get out ahead of this issue. Shouting and pointing fingers at the insurance companies might

distract from the truth that her party set these price increases in motion by chopping health spending to pay for tax cuts.

Sanders wholeheartedly supported the Big, Beautiful Bill as written and cheered when it passed. She was even engaged in the legislative process, penning a Washington Post op-ed on June 26 that urged Congress to strip out a policy on state-level AI regulation that she and other red-state governors objected to. She didn’t utter a word about the need to extend the enhanced ACA subsidies and still hasn’t, as far as we know.

But now she’s roleplaying as an economic populist about a rate hike created by her own party’s regressive policies. There was no trace of a solution in Sanders’ statement on the issue, and no mention of what might be causing it, other than BlueCross and Centene putting “corporate profits over Arkansas’s people.”

Strange words to hear from a governor who signed three rounds of corporate income tax cuts during her first 18 months in office, reducing state revenue collection from businesses by 28% last year, or $212 million. That’s money that could have been used to help people afford health care. Instead, Sanders is looking for ways to cut the state’s health spending to make budgetary room for more tax cuts and school vouchers.

She’s looking to implement a Medicaid work requirement expected to kick thousands of poor and working Arkansans off their insurance in advance of the nationwide changes in the federal Trump bill. She’s made Arkansas one of two states in the country that yank Medicaid coverage away from new mothers just two months after birth (the 48 other states extend coverage to 12 months postpartum). And the bill that just passed Congress is going to cut Medicaid further over the next few years.

Americans are understandably furious at the insurance industry. Polls have shown a substantial minority of people are sympathetic to Luigi Mangione, the man who allegedly killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on the street in Manhattan in December. But the rot of the health care system goes far beyond greedy insurance companies. It’s just as much about doctors incentivized to perform unnecessary tests, hospitals that bill at wildly inflated rates for routine procedures, nursing homes seeking new ways to squeeze profit from residents and overworked CNAs, drugmakers and medical supply companies that game the system, and on and on.

Now, Republican policies are driving health insurance prices upward even further. With her acutely tuned PR antennae, Sanders knows the public anger is there. With her bluster and misdirection, she’s working hard to make sure none of that anger is pointed her way.

The King’s Speech

THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT PINE BLUFF PAID A POLITICAL PRICE FOR A 1958 VISIT FROM REV. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.

BY LEON JONES III

ROYAL ADDRESS: Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. gives the 1958 commencement speech at AM&N, now known as UAPB.

My story with the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff begins in 1966, when my grandparents started classes on the campus of what was then known as Arkansas Agricultural, Mechanical and Normal College. AM&N then, and UAPB now, is the only public historically Black university in Arkansas.

During Jim Crow, Black students had only one option for public higher education in Arkansas. Now, of course, Black students may choose to attend any college. But if a Black student is looking for a public HBCU education in Arkansas, one option exists and that is UAPB.

Attending an HBCU was always the goal for me. My parents planted seeds from the moment I could understand words that even if I did not go to UAPB, I would attend an HBCU.

Growing up in a predominantly white city, my desire to attend an HBCU grew. One of the things that pushed me toward attending a Black college was a feeling of inferiority in high school. While I loved my high school and made lifelong friends, I needed a place I felt celebrated, not tolerated. I wanted to be somewhere that had been created specifically for me to belong. At a Black college, I saw myself reflected in leadership and the broader campus in ways I had not before.

After three generations, I can proudly say UAPB is my family’s school. Though I initially wanted to attend Howard University in Washington, D.C., I was destined to go to UAPB: I am a legacy student at that university. I joined the freshman class in 2018 and graduated in 2022.

My family was proud that I represented an-

other generation to attend the school. They have a deep appreciation for the school’s history and traditions.

Part of that history is well known to anyone who attended UAPB, but less remembered by the general public today. It was a significant event that had reverberations for the school for what some believe was years, if not decades: The 1958 commencement speech by Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

King’s 1958 commencement speech is a proud moment for the university, but a costly one. The politics of King’s visit to a Black college in a Southern state in the dying days of Jim Crow fueled a funding battle that some believe set the campus back.

As a student, I heard the campus lore surrounding King’s visit. The stories, already 60 years old by then, were light on details. But the idea that an HBCU might be punished for inviting a firebrand civil rights leader to town certainly seemed plausible.

A deep dive into the archives and interviews with people familiar with King’s UAPB visit revealed that a $50,000 appropriations cut AM&N suffered in 1959 was indeed prompted by animus on the part of some white lawmakers. That cut offers a snapshot in time of unfair funding decisions the college has had to bear.

KING COMES TO ARKANSAS

King’s leadership in the civil rights movement was fairly fresh at the time of his visit to Pine Bluff. It was only three years before, in 1955, that he became known for his leadership during the Montgomery bus boycott, a yearlong protest that launched the civil rights

movement.

King’s address to the 1958 graduating class of AM&N, which drew 1,000 people, was the first and only time the young civil rights leader would speak at a college in Arkansas. In the speech, King denounced segregation and sent the graduates off with a mission: “Through the use of nonviolence, understanding and goodwill we will achieve desegregation and integration. After we are brought together physically, we will come together spiritually because men will see that it is right and natural. We believe that we are on God’s side and that God is with us. Go home determined to revolt against segregation and discrimination everywhere.”

King’s visit came at a time of political unrest. The country and state were experiencing a political shock unfelt since the end of the Civil War. As the end of Jim Crow was nearing, political panic set in among Southern segregationists trying to hold onto the vestiges of power they’d retained through segregation.

In 1957, the eyes of the nation were on the desegregation of Central High School, when the National Guard was called out to allow nine Black students to bypass sometimes violent hecklers to attend classes. Starting in the fall of 1958, Gov. Orval Faubus shut down Little Rock’s public schools rather than allow desegregation; teachers whose philosophies were out of step with segregationists on the school board were fired.

AM&N President Lawrence A. Davis Sr., believing students had a right to hear King, was determined he would speak to the students. He introduced King to the graduates as “a new type of mass leader.”

King was effective in his approach to civil rights. He had an ability to organize people and inspire them to disrupt the status quo. That was precisely what lawmakers feared: that King would “disturb the good relationship between the races,” Davis’s son and future president of the college, Lawrence Davis Jr., recalled in an article in The Arkansas Historical Quarterly.

Davis Jr. described inviting King on campus as “tantamount to inviting Louis Farrakhan,” the leader of the Nation of Islam.

King’s address was widely reported across the state. One legislator from Faulkner County said Davis “double-crossed” the Legislature by letting King speak on campus. Davis Jr. said that his father replied to the legislator, “Well, sir, he made an excellent speech, I wish you could have heard it.”

King faced a chilly reception in Arkansas. In an interview with the Arkansas Gazette in 1985, Daisy Bates, publisher of the Arkansas State Press, recalled that King told her the FBI had asked him to not attend the graduation ceremony of Ernest Green at Central

‘RESILIENT’: The UAPB campus continues to serve thousands of students each year.

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High School, which took place after AM&N’s commencement. King attended the ceremony anyway.

Some Pine Bluff residents took to the Gazette’s editorial page to criticize King’s visit. “As a well-wisher of the Negro race, it is sickening to read about Martin Luther King’s address to the graduating class of AM&N College,” an anonymous Pine Bluff citizen wrote. While not happy with King’s speech, the writer did express admiration for the college’s president. “I met Dr. Lawrence Davis many years ago. In my estimation he is doing a wonderful job as head of AM&N. He probably has the respect of most citizens in Southeast Arkansas and possibly the state.”

THE FIGHT FOR FUNDING

The December after King’s visit, the state Legislative Council recommended that AM&N’s funding be slashed from the previous biennium. The Arkansas Gazette reported that not only did the Legislative Council want to sharply reduce funding, but that AM&N would be the only college in the state recommended for a cut.

AM&N’s 1957-59 budget was $1.8 million, up from the 1955-57 appropriation of $1.2 million. For 1959-61, the school initially sought an appropriation of $1,140,835 for each year, for a total of $2.28 million. The council recommended the school receive $1.4 million total.

At first, no reason was given by the council for the significant cut. Later, the Arkansas Gazette reported that the council’s reason was that “the legislature for several years had given favored treatment to AM and N as part of the effort to stave off school integration,” and that some legislators believed the school wouldn’t need as much money going forward because integration would open the door for Black students to attend other schools.

According to the Gazette article, President Davis was seeking the $1.14 million for “specialized and expensive programs” to give AM&N students the best education.

Following the trend of other state college requests that year, AM&N reduced its 1959 ask to $928,000. All but AM&N were recommended for increased funding.

AM&N had some legislative support. Sens. Morrell Gathright and Sam Levine and Reps. Knox Nelson and Carl Purnell, all of Pine Bluff, asked for the college to be funded at $850,000 a year.

Under the headline “Plea Made for AM&N Fund Hike,” the Arkansas Democrat reported Feb. 3 that Gathright told the Legislative Joint Budget Committee that “unless Arkansas AM&N College for Negroes at Pine Bluff can maintain its accreditation there will be many Negro applications for entry into the white colleges.” On that day, the Democrat also reported that Davis was in the Capitol but not in

the committee meeting. On Feb. 4, the Legislature again denied a hike in appropriations for the college.

On Feb. 11, Rep. Marion H. Crank of Foreman (Little River County) denied in a Joint Budget Committee meeting that the reason for the requested higher sum was to keep Black students from flooding white colleges, and said that legislators should avoid discrimination. He also warned that “there was a danger the college would have to cut the salaries of its teachers if it didn’t get at least $800,000,” according to a Democrat report.

Crank, who was chair of the budget committee, prevailed. The Democrat reported that the committee “in an about-face, has voted to recommend that Arkansas AM&N college at Pine Bluff be appropriated $800,000 for each year of the 1959-91 biennium.”

That was still not enough for the senators. In a last attempt to raise the appropriation to $850,000, the Pine Bluff Commercial reported that Gathright stood before the Senate on Feb. 17 and scolded his colleagues for the sharp decrease in funding to AM&N.

Until now, legislators had given a slate of reasons why they were lowering the appropriation for AM&N. All of the reasons stopped short of the actual reason the college would lose money, which had everything to do with King speaking on campus, Gathright said. He told the Senate the cut was prompted by “a speech by the Rev. Martin Luther King of Birmingham at AM&N last year” and a “spite measure” against the college. As more evidence of spite, he noted that all other colleges

in the state were granted funding increases.

The Pine Bluff Commercial backed up Gathright’s claim, reporting that “some legislators claim that King’s speech, which was highly publicized, was inflammatory.”

Gathright echoed Davis’ warning that if the college did not receive adequate funding, it would lose its accreditation. He argued more money was warranted because AM&N enrollment had increased by 30% over the previous two years.

The Legislature stuck with the $800,000 figure, but the Senate passed an amendment to add $50,000. The final amount for the 1959-61 biennium for AM&N would be a total of $1.7 million, or $850,000 per year.

It wasn’t enough. The State Press reported in 1959 that AM&N counted a record-high enrollment of 1,424 students at the fall convocation yet the faculty was short-staffed. Shortly before the school year began, in a letter from the office of the acting president about faculty resignations, the Arkansas State Press reported, “The big problem with which AM&N College and its board of trustees are faced is … the problem of maintaining a good college on limited funds; of increasing teachers’ salaries and of serving more students with the same appropriation that the college had last year.”

Despite the punitive cuts, AM&N continued to fulfill its mission to educate Black students from across the state. The State Press reported on some of the students’ accomplishments: In the 1958-59 school year, 14 students were initiated into Alpha Kappa Mu, a national honor society; three faculty members in the mathematics department were awarded scholarships from the National Science Foundation; and the school’s debate team debated Harvard.

THE THREATS CONTINUE

In April 1958, before King’s visit, a reporter for the Democrat observed Davis in the waiting room of Gov. Faubus’ office, where he’d gone to talk about AM&N’s funding challenges. The school was already in financial straits.

Davis acknowledged to the reporter that he had overspent the school’s budget. “To keep up the morale of our people, we must do these things,” he said, “but I have had to push the budget to do it. But how long can you get by on stretching the budget? It hasn’t been easy, either.”

“Students should be able to do all the things that those in white colleges do,” Davis said.

King’s visit and its aftermath is core to the identity of the university, and it did have an impact on Davis’ leadership over the college.

In the years after King’s speech, when Davis realized the school could be punished for speech that advanced civil rights — and

STATE VISIT: Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. poses with AM&N President Lawrence A. Davis Sr.

knowing he needed to protect its funding — he curtailed such speech. In 1963, students at the school began a sit-in at the Woolworth’s counter in Pine Bluff to protest segregation. With the funding biennial approaching, Davis — who supported the students’ cause — nevertheless felt pressure from civic leaders and the General Assembly. Davis followed through on a threat to expel the students who persisted with the sit-in.

SEPARATE AND UNEQUAL FUNDING

Arkansas has two universities created by the federal government through land grants: The University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, founded in 1871, and UAPB, founded in 1873. Both were created with the same mission: to focus “on the agricultural and mechanical arts, without excluding other scientific and classical studies.”

The schools were created under two laws: The UA was established under the Morrill Act of 1862, and opened as the Arkansas Industrial University. The act took land from Native American tribes and gave it to the states to establish colleges or to be sold to endow existing colleges.

UAPB was established as a land-grant college under the second Morrill Act of 1890, a reconstruction era move to help fund schools to educate Black students if they were not admitted to existing land-grant institutions

based on race.

Both acts required that states provide matching funds to receive federal dollars for the colleges. But while the 1862 act that the UA was established under requires a 100% match, the 1890 act — which UAPB was created under — allows states to seek a waiver from the U.S. Department of Agriculture of up to 50% of federal dollars “if the state is unlikely to provide sufficient funds,” according to the Congressional Research Service. “The law does not permit waivers for most 1862 Institutions.”

Like some other states with public HBCUs, Arkansas has frequently used the waiver to reduce its allocation to UAPB. (Race has almost certainly played a role in the indifference to the schools.) Federally available data from 2011-2023 shows that while the state fully matched funds for UA each of those years, it only matched funds for UAPB six out of the 13 years.

In 2023 the state provided a full match. More recent data is not available.

Because both land-grant colleges receive numerous — and different — federal grants under the establishing acts, it is difficult to determine the full scope of the loss to UAPB since the grants became available in 1890. However, in 2023, the Biden administration wrote Arkansas Gov. Sarah Sanders that the state’s failure to match the second Morrill Act

funds over a 30-year period had cost UAPB $330,935,712. (Sanders was one of 16 governors to receive such letters totaling the funds, adjusted for inflation, their states’ land-grant HBCUs had been shorted).

Nate Hinkel, a spokesman for the University of Arkansas System, said the system was unsure of the accuracy of the claim, because it “found it difficult to determine the methodology behind the calculation.”

“Comparing historic funding per-student can be misleading as institutions have different missions and program offerings,” Hinkel said. However, he said, “It remains true that every institution has funding needs, UAPB included, and the system will continue to advocate for those needs at both the state and federal levels and remain grateful for the funding it does secure to continue moving forward in meeting our overall mission to serve the state’s educational needs.”

Hinkel maintained that the UA System “has long been an advocate for additional funding for UAPB.” He said that in recent years “the state increased its support toward the match, and in 2023, Sanders and the Legislature authorized a $2 million ongoing increase to the UAPB Land Grant Set Aside Fund. These base funds have provided significant help to the campus in achieving a full match of the federal funding provided to 1890 institutions.”

Rep. Glenn Barnes, D-Pine Bluff, a 1999

THEN AND NOW: At left, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. tours the Pine Bluff campus in 1958. The W.E. O’Bryant Bell Tower, built in 1943, remains a university landmark.

BRIAN CHILSON

THE UNIVERSITY MUSEUM AND CULTURAL CENTER

UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT PINE BLUFF

GETTING UAPB CAUGHT UP TO ITS RIGHTFUL FUNDING LEVEL IS DIFFICULT BECAUSE WE DON’T FULLY KNOW THE EXTENT TO WHICH THE UNIVERSITY HAS BEEN SLIGHTED.

graduate of UAPB, said current hostility toward diversity, equity and inclusion efforts makes securing funding for UAPB more difficult. “The argument with Republicans is that it is counter racism when you say Black college and then give extra money and scholarships to people because of their race.” Furthermore, he said, “Now there seems to be a defund mentality. … The noose has been tightened.”

Barnes also referenced the 2023 letter Biden Administration officials sent to states about shortfalls in matching federal funds. With the state House being supermajority Republican, Barnes said he didn’t think recouping lost funds for UAPB would be a priority.

“UAPB needs a bigger piece of the pie,” the first-term representative believes. UA gets millions of dollars from private donors; UAPB does not. “We’re spreading thin with what we’re getting.” For example, the campus police are operating not from a station, but from a dormitory. Sen. Stephanie Flowers, D-Pine Bluff, passed legislation last session to fund a new police station.

“UAPB is one of those traditional schools that will take kids in with a low ACT and then bring them up,” Barnes said. The school is serving kids that other institutions of higher education have written off, but that help is in danger, he said, “because of a lack of funding.”

A CONSEQUENTIAL VISIT

BY LEON JONES III

In March of this year, I pitched this piece to the editor at the Arkansas Times because I wanted to learn the full story.

I first heard about Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s visit to Arkansas when I was a student at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff. Since then, I’ve always been curious about the rumored connection between King’s visit and a $50,000 appropriation cut to the school then known as AM&N.

The details of how and why funding for the state’s only public HBCU was cut in 1959 are important because that chapter is a pivotal part of the school’s history and identity. Now I know the full story, and I’m proud to share it with folks outside the UAPB community. Learning about this episode also gave me insight into why one of the adjectives you’ll hear most often next to UAPB is “resilient.”

I learned lessons in leadership from then-president Lawrence Davis Sr., who made equally tough decisions in inviting King to the Arkansas Agricultural, Mechanical & Normal College campus and later suspending students for their civil rights demonstrations. After months of interviews and research, my main epiphany is that there’s more to learn and uncover.

UAPB has faced significant funding challenges as a public Black college in Arkansas. One frustration of mine is that comprehensive reports don’t exist for how UAPB has been harmed over the decades by funding decisions made at the state level. Getting UAPB caught up to its rightful funding level is difficult because we don’t fully know the extent to which the university has been slighted. We know about the appropriation cut in 1959, but what other cuts may have taken place that we don’t know about? The state needs to take time to find those answers and then craft remedies.

I can’t help but wonder, what would the campus and Pine Bluff community be like if AM&N got a budget increase in 1959, like every other public college and uni-

versity in Arkansas did? What if AM&N had received its full match in funds every year, as required by federal law, from the 1970s to 2023? What if UAPB was treated in an equitable and just way, on par with the state’s only other land-grant school, the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville? Where would UAPB be now?

I have these questions because I know students attend UAPB and graduate and go on to do great things. Just speaking for myself, I’m participating in one of the most prestigious fellowship programs in the world. Without UAPB, I’m not sure I would be saying that I’m going to be a Schwarzman Scholar.

Learning more about this piece of history gives me a deeper appreciation for UAPB. Without dismissing the critical investments by some state officials along the way and others who took genuine interest in the longevity of UAPB, administrators and students found a way to press forward despite inadequate support.

Disparities between Arkansas’s two land-grant universities can be seen and felt with a visit to each campus. I grew up in Fayetteville and often visited home while attending UAPB. The visual difference between the campuses was a repeating reminder of the stark disparities between our schools. One school, literally on a hill, pristine and well-kept for all to see. Another school hunkered in the Delta, making do with what it has.

How we fund our schools matters not just for the educational and career outcomes students achieve, but also for the message it sends. Watch how someone spends their money, and you’ll see what matters to them.

For future generations to enjoy UAPB, we must take a collective interest in providing for its current and future needs. That work takes time. But in the same way those retaliatory cuts of 1959 changed the trajectory of AM&N, taking a true interest in proper funding for UAPB now could bring about the course correction that’s long overdue.

COULD THE RAZORBACKS’ LONG-AWAITED MATCHUP VERSUS ARKANSAS STATE BE THE TEAM’S LAST GAME IN LITTLE ROCK?

BY RHETT BRINKLEY

When the Arkansas Razorbacks take the field at War Memorial Stadium on Sept. 6 for what could be the university’s final football game in Little Rock, history will be made on account of who lurks on the visiting side. Their opponent, Arkansas State, will have traveled fewer than 200 miles, from Jonesboro to Little Rock, for the first-ever matchup between the two schools. This long-awaited game follows decades of resistance from the University of Arkansas, despite legislative pressure and feisty invitations from the Red Wolves.

Dating back to the late 1940s, UA athletic directors have adhered to the policy that the Razorbacks do not play other in-state schools. And to some of the Fayetteville-based team’s coaches in recent years, “home games” at War Memorial can feel an awful lot like away games.

Maybe more importantly, time is up on the Razorbacks’ contract to play games at the Little Rock stadium, and the in-state matchup in September might be the end of the tradition of Razorback football in Little Rock since 1906, with the last 77 years at War Memorial Stadium.

In a state where fans are hog wild about football, the Razorbacks’ bailing on War Memorial could deal a serious blow to the stadium’s dwindling pocketbook and fuel the growing concern from some critics that the state is pulling its energy out of Little Rock to further invest in Northwest Arkansas.

To put it another way: It would be crazy to miss this game.

HOME AWAY FROM HOME

When John Barnhill became the head football coach and athletic director of the University of Arkansas in 1946, the Razorbacks played one game a year in Little Rock. Those games took place at Central High School’s Quigley Stadium (Tiger Stadium at the time). In Barnhill’s first season, a crowd that reportedly exceeded the stadium’s 15,000-seat capacity crammed into the stands on Nov. 9 to witness the Razorbacks defeat No. 5 Rice 7-0, earning a spot in the Cotton Bowl as the Southwest Conference co-champion.

In an effort to boost statewide fan support, Barnhill and Secretary of State C.G. “Crip” Hall advocated for a college stadium to be built in Little Rock. The idea was initially rebuffed by the state Legislature, and Barnhill’s decision the following year to move the Razorbacks’ home game against Texas to the 25,000-seater Crump Stadium in Memphis sparked enough outrage to persuade lawmakers. In 1947, state legislators passed a bill that paved the way for the construction of a new stadium.

The art deco-style stadium, christened War Memorial, was designed by architect Bruce R. Anderson. Its initial capacity was 31,075. The stadium’s first game

in September 1948 resulted in a 40-6 victory for the Razorbacks over Abilene Christian. Before kickoff, former Razorback and World War II Medal of Honor recipient Maurice Lee “Footsie” Britt dedicated the stadium to the memory of Arkansas veterans who died in World War I and World War II.

For many years, War Memorial hosted three Razorback games a year and drew more fans than Fayetteville. Little Rock’s population at the time during the 1950s and 1960s was more than two times the size of Benton and Washington counties combined. All of Arkansas orbited around Little Rock in this era. Fayetteville was a sleepy college town, Walmart and Tyson were little hometown companies, and Bentonville barely existed. Northwest Arkansas also had less amenities, and traveling to home games from Central Arkansas meant traversing beautiful but windy and steep scenic byways through the Boston Mountains. War Memorial also had higher capacity and was equipped with stadium lights, which Fayetteville didn’t have at the time. War Memorial’s capacity was upgraded to 40,000 in 1960 and an additional 13,000 seats were added in 1967. The stadium’s current capacity is 54,150.

THE GREAT STADIUM DEBATE

Things began to change around the turn of the century with the completion of the section of Interstate 540 (now I-49) between Alma and Fayetteville, though. No longer would fans (or teams, for that matter) need to traverse the harrowing hairpin curves of the Pig Trail to get to games. More importantly, renovations completed in 2001 to Razorback Stadium in Fayetteville raised its capacity from 51,000 to 72,000. A $20 million donation from the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation for stadium upgrades signified a northwesterly shift in philanthropists’ attention — and inspired the name change to Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium in 2001.

To help increase revenue and pay off bonds for the Razorback Stadium renovations, legendary Arkansas athletic director Frank Broyles announced plans in 1999 to move at least one additional home game a year from Little Rock to Fayetteville. Sentimental fans of Little Rock games and War Memorial golf course tailgating viewed it as a break from tradition that could erode fan engagement across the state.

The move was met with opposition from politicians and prominent donors, too. Little Rock financier Warren Stephens reportedly wrote a letter to Broyles that said moving even one game out of Little Rock “will cause a serious division in our state.” According to a story from Arkansas Democrat-Gazette senior editor Rex Nelson, then-Gov. Mike Huckabee sided with the Stephens family, while the UA Board of Trustees sided with Broyles.

BREAKING GROUND: From left: Former Secretary of State C.G. “Crip” Hall holds a rendering of the Razorbacks’ future home field in Little Rock; War Memorial Stadium under construction; Ed Keith and Maurice Britt at the stadium’s dedication on Sept. 18, 1948.

Still, the Razorbacks continued to play two games a year at War Memorial through 2013, which included the two memorable “Miracle on Markham” wins versus LSU in 2002 and 2008. Enthusiasm was high, and countless beers were consumed on the War Memorial golf course. But in the fall of 2013, the UA announced it would reduce its games in Little Rock from two games a year to one through 2018. In 2018, the UA signed a contract with the state Department of Parks, Heritage and Tourism to continue to play games at War Memorial through 2024.

NONCONFERENCE DISASTERS AND AN ATTITUDE SHIFT

The Razorbacks played well in the capital city throughout the late 1990s and early 2000s. Little Rock native Houston Nutt went 22-2 at War Memorial in his 10 seasons as head coach. Nutt’s successor, Bobby Petrino, never lost in Little Rock. But the program suffered a major blow following the scandal around Petrino’s firing; the coach’s infamous 2012 motorcycle crash revealed that he’d hired his mistress and covered up the affair.

The following year, the UA paid the University of Louisiana-Monroe, a Sun Belt Conference team, $950,000 to come to Little Rock in a “paycheck game” — a common practice where prominent Power 5 conference teams like Arkansas schedule games with smaller division schools and pay them a guaranteed sum that can be used for various athletic department needs. These games are also sometimes referred to as “cupcake games” because the more prominent schools are heavily favored and scores are often lopsided. That’s

the kind of victory most people expected from the Hogs, ranked No. 8 at the time, so the ensuing 34-31 overtime loss to the Warhawks in front of a crowd of 55,000 was one of the most memorable Little Rock losses in program history. The Hogs’ fall out of the Associated Press poll, which represents the top 25 teams, was the second-largest ever at the time.

Not long after Bret Bielema was hired as head coach in late 2012, he sparked controversy by being the first coach to openly criticize the Little Rock gameday tradition. “I know it’s a home game on our schedule, but we as coaches and players have to treat it as a road game,” he said. In his third season as head coach, the No. 18 Razorbacks’ trip to Little Rock was sullied by Toledo, a 21-point underdog that handed the Razorbacks their fourth nonconference loss in just three years and its second in Little Rock during that period. Worse, the UA had paid them a million dollars to do it.

Bielema also made mention during his time in Arkansas that the school was not allowed to officially host recruits at War Memorial because of its classification as a neutral site. Prospective players can only make official school visits in Fayetteville, so games at War Memorial gave Hogs’ coaches one less opportunity to woo rising stars with VIP treatment. This sentiment has been echoed by current Arkansas head coach Sam Pittman, but Little Rock die-hards are quick to point out that when Arkansas played neutral-site games versus Texas A&M at Jerry Jones’ ritzier AT&T Stadium near Dallas, coaches weren’t complaining.

Pittman has been the most vocal about

his aversion to playing in Little Rock. At this summer’s SEC Media Days, he was asked by a reporter if he would like to see Arkansas State on the schedule annually at War Memorial.

“No,” Pittman said, smiling.

“If we’re gonna play Arkansas State, I want to play ’em at home. Right now under contract, we’re in our last year at Little Rock. Now whatever the governor decides, that’s what she decides. It would have to be either [at War Memorial] or [Fayetteville], and I’m not real interested in going over there and playing.”

Finding a window on the calendar for Little Rock games could also be a problem. The SEC has long considered adding an extra conference game to the schedule, which would likely reduce the number of nonconference games. And since nonconference games are typically booked years in advance, a new schedule agreement between the UA and the SEC would almost certainly mean fewer games in Little Rock.

Schools like Arkansas are also trying to budget for the new revenue sharing era in college sports following the landmark House v. NCAA antitrust settlement, which allows universities for the first time to share proceeds from television, sponsorships and ticket sales with student athletes. Those new rules take effect this season.

In 2021, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that students can earn money from their name, image and likeness, or NIL. In the past few years, the money used to pay players has come from “NIL collectives,” which are structurally separate from the universities and funded by fans, donors, boosters and busi-

nesses. Without that sequestered funding to subsidize player salaries, Arkansas and other schools participating in the new revenue sharing plan will shell out $20.5 million to student athletes in the 2025-26 school year. As a result of the settlement, UA athletic director Hunter Yurachek announced in late July that he was reducing the athletic department staff by about 10%.

Little Rock attorney Kevin Crass, who serves as chairman of the War Memorial Stadium Commission and is on the UA System Board of Trustees, said in an interview with the Arkansas Times that the financial pressure resulting from the settlement is forcing the university to think harder about “maximizing revenue opportunities” at every turn.

“It is true the university suffers financially because there clearly aren’t as many seats” at War Memorial Stadium, Crass said, but it’s more than a simple math question. “It’s about the outreach, the appeal of the athletic program to the state as a whole.”

DELAY OF GAME

When Broyles took over as athletic director in 1974, he adopted Barnhill’s position that the Razorbacks would not play other in-state schools, no matter the sport. The philosophy, in part, was to ensure the Razorbacks were the primary draw for fans and recruits all over the state. Broyles told sports reporter Mike Irwin in 2007 that “when the Razorbacks played, everybody stopped and listened.”

And perhaps more importantly: The Hogs couldn’t lose to another in-state program if they didn’t play them.

Pressure for a game against Arkansas State

began to increase, though, when ASU’s football team achieved success in Division I-AA in the 1970s and 1980s. (ASU joined the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision, FBS, in 1992). Jason Kersey wrote for The Athletic in 2021 that Larry Lacewell, the winningest coach in Arkansas State’s football history, “constantly nagged the Hogs in the press.”

“They won’t play us in anything — not even in tiddlywinks,” Lacewell told The Daily Oklahoman in 1981. A bumper sticker adorned cars in Northeast Arkansas with a similar taunt: “How long will the Razorbacks run?”

David Bazzel, former Razorback linebacker and current co-host of “Morning Mayhem” on KABZ-FM 103.7, The Buzz, told The Athletic the matter was not to be discussed. “Coach Broyles felt that Arkansas had so few assets as a state,” Bazzel said. “He saw no upside,” only potential for the loss of a game, a recruit or precious sponsorship dollars.

Some Arkansas lawmakers tried to introduce legislation that would put a game between the two schools on the schedule, but Broyles’ influence stalled efforts in the 1970s and 1980s.

Jeff Long, Broyles’ successor as athletic director, adopted the same stance, reportedly telling state Rep. Andy Mayberry in 2013 that his intended bill to mandate a one-time game at War Memorial Stadium between the two schools would fail. A matchup versus Arkansas State would never happen as long as he was athletic director, Long said in Kersey’s story in The Athletic.

Crass, of the War Memorial Stadium Commission, told the Arkansas Times that the longstanding policy really came into ques-

“I’M NOT READY TO REACH THE CONCLUSION THAT THIS IS THE LAST GAME.”

—WAR MEMORIAL STADIUM COMMISSION CHAIRMAN KEVIN CRASS

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ON ONE HAND, THE UA IS TAKING A PAY CUT TO PLAY IN LITTLE ROCK. ON THE OTHER, A MATCHUP WITH THE ONLY OTHER IN-STATE FBS SCHOOL COULD CREATE A NEW RIVALRY — AND POTENTIALLY BREATHE LIFE BACK INTO THE PROGRAM AFTER YEARS OF MEDIOCRITY.

tion when it occurred to politicians and members of the UA Board of Trustees that the UA was paying a premium to programs like ULM who could then use that money to compete against other Arkansas schools. (ULM and ASU are in the same conference.)

“I specifically remember that when that dawned on people, folks started kind of changing their view about these in-state games,” Crass said.

Current Arkansas athletic director Hunter Yurachek decided to break the longstanding policy, freeing up room on the Razorbacks’ schedule for nonconference matchups with UA Little Rock in baseball. In 2019, the UA agreed to play two games in Fayetteville against the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, the Razorbacks’ first in-state football opponent in more than 75 years.

“As the flagship institution within our state, scheduling games with our sister institutions is an opportunity for us to enhance interest in college football throughout our state while supporting other schools within the University of Arkansas system,” Yurachek said in a press release.

In 2021, the UA agreed to move the UAPB games to War Memorial and extended the previous agreement with Parks, Heritage and Tour-

ism through the 2025 season with the team’s first-ever matchup with Arkansas State.

“The Razorback program belongs to our entire state, and as we have shown in many of our sports, it is important that we continue to maintain a presence in Central Arkansas,” Yurachek said in a release issued at the time.

The UA is paying Arkansas State $900,000 to come to Little Rock, and the contract includes 10,000 tickets for the visiting side, an unusually high number for War Memorial. “Most of the time a visiting school might not get 1,000 tickets,” Crass said.

On one hand, the UA is taking a pay cut to play in Little Rock. On the other, a matchup with the only other in-state FBS school could create a new rivalry — and potentially breathe life back into the program after years of mediocrity. Wally Hall and Rex Nelson of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette have argued for the game to be held in Little Rock annually. Nelson wrote that it would be in the state’s interest to make the game a “part of a larger festival designed to bring Arkansans together” and “unite us in an era when so much divides us as a state.” He recommended the matchup be held on Labor Day weekend to start the season, or just after Thanksgiving, to cap it.

The Hogs haven’t exactly been breaking attendance records in Little Rock the last few years. Then again, fans have had to endure blazing heat, early kickoffs and a weeknight game versus UAPB, which still saw 40,127 fans file into War Memorial on a Thursday to watch the Hogs win 70-0 over the Golden Lions last season. The kickoff times have also not been conducive to tailgating, and Crass said he urged the university to try and push the Arkansas State game until late in the day, though he acknowledged that kickoff time is typically driven by TV networks or the SEC.

On Saturday, Sept. 6, the Hogs will play Arkansas State at 4 p.m.

“I prefer 6 [p.m.] but 4 is better than 11 [a.m.],” Crass said.

At the time of this writing, the game is still weeks away and has yet to sell out. Still, Crass said ticket sales were well ahead of schedule. Corporate tailgating spots had already sold out when we spoke on Aug. 5, and Crass said the stadium has maxed out the number of reserved tailgate spaces, even after adding an additional 150.

“I think that’s a good indication,” he said. There are also several activities going on in Little Rock that Friday night, including a Travelers game at Dickey-Stephens Park, a

ARKANSAS STATE ARCHIVES

CLASSIC ROCK: From left: An aerial shot of War Memorial Stadium in 1971; the UA marching band performs at halftime during the Razorbacks’ 2013 win over Samford; Razorback teammates celebrate a touchdown in their 70-0 win against UAPB last season.

Leanne Morgan stand-up performance at Simmons Bank Arena and a pregame reggae show at the River Market.

A MURKY FUTURE

The stadium has been in financial straits for years. In 2017, Gov. Asa Hutchinson signed a bill that handed control of the state-owned stadium from the War Memorial Commission, a freestanding state agency at the time, to the Arkansas Department of Parks and Tourism (now Parks, Heritage and Tourism). He also recommended a viability study and proposed cutting the state’s contribution to the stadium roughly in half. The War Memorial Commission now serves in an advisory role, Crass said, but it still has a lot of contact with the university.

Fans who would like to see the Hogs move out of Little Rock often criticise War Memorial as dilapidated and antiquated, and it has had its share of issues in recent years. In 2023, organizers ran out of water on a day that was so hot the kickoff was moved to an earlier time of day. There also weren’t enough ticket scanners at the gate, resulting in long lines to enter the stadium. During last year’s game against UAPB, the press box didn’t have running water in the bathrooms.

But the state has continued to invest in the stadium. Since Parks, Heritage and Tourism began governing War Memorial in 2017, the state has spent more than $6 million on capital improvements, including locker room upgrades, turf replacement, network broadcast and connectivity infrastructure, new goal posts and “major maintenance and cap-

ital equipment.”

The stadium was built for the Hogs, but it has been used for a variety of events over the years. Three NFL games were played in the stadium in 1949, 1951 and 1952. In 1991, Bob Hope’s “Hope Across America” tour drew 49,000. The Rolling Stones brought their Voodoo Lounge tour to War Memorial in 1994. But the last big concert at the venue was Guns N’ Roses in 2017.

War Memorial has also been the site of state high school championships in football and soccer, band competitions and craft fairs. It is the current home of the semi-pro Little Rock Rangers soccer club. For 20 years, the stadium was home to the Salt Bowl, one of the state’s biggest high school football rivalries between Saline County’s Bryant Hornets and Benton Panthers, often drawing crowds north of 30,000 to War Memorial Stadium. But future Salt Bowl matches beginning this year will be held back in Saline County. An announcement from Bryant Public Schools in March said the decision was made “after listening to families and considering the future of this event,” and the move “allows the communities to celebrate right where it all began.”

Without the Razorbacks and the Salt Bowl, the stadium’s annual revenue will drop significantly, but Crass remains hopeful that the Razorbacks will return.

“I’m not ready to reach the conclusion that this is the last game,” he said.

On paper, though, the prospect of future Razorbacks games at War Memorial is murky. “We have no football games sched-

uled at War Memorial Stadium past the 2025 season,” Yurachek told the Arkansas Times. “The support we receive from Central Arkansas and all parts of Arkansas are vital to our programs, which is why many of our sports play games across our state. With the uncertainty of the SEC scheduling model moving forward, we need to remain as flexible as possible with our football schedule.”

Crass said that the future decision will likely be a group discussion with the governor and other public officials, the Board of Trustees and UA administrators.

The governor’s office did not respond to a request for comment on the future of Razorback football in Little Rock.

If Razorback football ends in Little Rock, Crass said, it opens up avenues for discussions about different uses for War Memorial Stadium. For one, it would likely require a partnership between the state, which owns the stadium, and the city, which owns the surrounding park. Changes could involve reducing capacity and making the field more conducive to soccer. It would also certainly revitalize the idea of turning War Memorial Park’s 90-acre golf course, which closed in 2019, into a multiuse Central Park for Little Rock.

“I hope this isn’t the case, but if we all agree there’s not going to be any more Razorback games, then I think there are discussions about what to do with the stadium and the park — and that the imagination can be the limit as to what the possibilities are,” Crass said.

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Vouchers for all

NOW IN ITS THIRD YEAR, ARKANSAS LEARNS IS EXPANDING TO COVER ALL STUDENTS IN THE STATE. WHAT’S THE WORST THAT COULD HAPPEN?

BY BAKER KURRUS ILLUSTRATIONS BY KASTEN SEARLES

Education in Arkansas is in turmoil.

Friday, Aug. 15, was the deadline for families to apply for a school voucher under Arkansas’s newly universal “Educational Freedom Account” scheme. The voucher program was created by Arkansas LEARNS, Gov. Sarah Sanders’ 2023 education law, but participation was limited in the first two years. The 2025-26 school year is the first time vouchers are open to every K-12 student in the state.

The final tally at the August deadline was over 51,000 applications for the new school year.

Voucher advocates will say that number shows there’s huge demand for alternatives to public schools. This is wrong. More than 80% of the voucher students in the first two years of the program didn’t come from traditional public schools. They were already in private school or homeschooled, or were new kindergartners who were probably headed that route anyway. We don’t yet know how many of the latest voucher applicants went to public school last year, but most probably did not.

Each voucher is worth about $7,000, which is 90% of the per-student “foundation funding” the state sent to traditional school districts in the previous school year. The true cost to the state will depend on how many voucher recipients have recently left a public school, because if a current public school student leaves a district, the foundation funding in that student’s home district goes down. That savings could offset some of the total outlay for vouchers. My estimate, if the state approves and funds all applications this year, is that the program will cost Arkansas around $335 million.

This huge new expense to the state budget will not have a measurable positive impact on student learning. So far, there’s no indication vouchers are boosting academic performance

for disadvantaged kids. Instead, they’re giving private school and homeschool families a tuition subsidy paid by Arkansas taxpayers.

A student who never intended to enroll in a traditional public school won’t get any smarter just because the state is paying some of his or her private school tuition. And most Arkansas students who are now failing won’t end up in private schools.

LEARNS is just the latest and most dramatic example of a series of school “reform” policies that have caused all sorts of waste and failure. Over the last 25 years, Arkansas’s experiments with charter schools, vouchers and school choice laws have morphed into political tools, rather than educational innovations. We’re now spending more money on education than ever while being more segregated by race and income — and still not seeing substantial improvement on nationwide tests.

How did we get here? The history is worth exploring.

CHARTERS

Charter schools are publicly funded but operate independently of traditional school districts. Though they’re run by private nonprofits or businesses, they differ from private schools in that they can’t charge tuition and are open to all students, at least in theory.

The first charter school in the U.S. opened in Minnesota in 1992. It was a Montessori school organized and run by a group of frustrated, progressive former public school educators who believed traditional educational methods were not reaching high-needs students. A number of the first charter laws around the country were supported by Democrats in urban areas who wanted to achieve better outcomes for failing students.

This was the case in Arkansas, where progressive leaders and legislators like Jim Argue and John Walker were in favor of char-

ter schools built along the model of KIPP, a national charter network serving disadvantaged communities. The first Arkansas charter school law was limited, and gave preference to charter schools designed to help students who were not succeeding in traditional public schools.

The idea was that charters could unleash innovation in education by waiving typical state requirements and constraints. These schools would employ site-based management and would operate under contracts — “charters” — which would describe the schools’ innovative programs. Successful innovations would then be transfused into traditional public schools, thereby preserving a unitary school system. The initial idea was never to have the large charter school districts that now exist.

I testified at the state Capitol when a charter expansion bill was introduced in 1998. I told the Legislature that this whole movement would be a disaster for our state.

Somewhere along the line, the mission shifted. As far as I know, no charter innovation has ever made its way into the Arkansas Department of Education’s requirements for traditional public schools. Instead, we’ve ended up with large charter school systems that are effectively parallel school districts, like eStem Public Charter Schools and LISA Academy in Little Rock.

A decade ago, systems like eStem were looking to rapidly expand and promising fantastic results. Now, with the LEARNS voucher program in full swing, charters have lost their luster. In May, we learned that the much-ballyhooed eStem high school on the UA Little Rock campus is shutting its doors, thereby stranding about $11 million in capital that was invested to get the school up and running less than 10 years ago.

The plan was that there would be 1,125 students in the eStem high school by 2026. Instead, in the 2024-25 school year, 676 students enrolled there, according to an annual report from the state education department. Unsurprisingly, the academic results for eStem schools have slipped downward as the percentage of high-poverty students in the system increased, as is true with public schools.

The sad truth is that charter schools do not improve student performance when you compare students with similar demographic profiles. The educational outcomes and test scores of Arkansas charter schools, regardless of who runs them, correlate almost exactly with the so-called poverty index for each school. Simple as that. The most concrete outcome of the proliferation of charters has been the elevation of a lot of entre-

preneurial educators into lucrative administrative positions.

VOUCHERS

The debate over school vouchers goes all the way back to the founding of the United States, but the modern era really began in 1955 when free market economist Milton Friedman wrote an influential article called “The Role of Government in Education.” Friedman thought competition and free market capitalism would solve almost any problem, including problems related to education.

The voucher movement was slow to gain traction, and faced a number of legal hurdles in its early years. Most attempts to set up voucher programs in the ’50s were really just segregationist ploys to avoid the directives of Brown v. Board of Education. Gov. Orville Faubus tried a version of this in Arkansas in the Lost Year of 1958-59, when all Little Rock high schools were closed. Faubus called a special legislative session in 1958 and passed Act 5, which allowed state money to go to a public or private school that enrolled a student who otherwise would have attended a Little Rock public high school. But the federal courts eventually intervened.

Vouchers began to gain momentum in 2002 when the U.S. Supreme Court found that a small voucher program in Cleveland was constitutional. In the years that followed, a number of states began “voucher lite” programs that allowed certain groups of students to receive public funding for private school tuition.

In 2016, Arkansas launched its Succeed Scholarship Program, framed as a small, limited pilot initiative. These vouchers were “opportunity scholarships” for students in foster care, students with disabilities and children of active-duty military families. It was easy to support such a limited initiative, and many legislators did.

Some Succeed Scholarship vouchers have been very helpful to families with students who have special needs. There are some great schools that have done wonders for children in need of help.

On the other hand, a number of students who were already in ordinary private schools obtained vouchers based on identifiable but minor disabilities, such as minor speech problems. And most kids with severe physical and emotional disabilities have generally remained in either specialized schools or in the traditional public system. Unlike public schools (and as a practical matter, charters), private schools can choose not to accept certain students. There are many creative ways to divert public money to private schools.

Those who follow the Arkansas Legislature may recall the ridiculous “scholarship” program proposed in 2017 in which large taxpayers, including corporations, could have “donated” to a private school scholarship foundation and received a 100% tax credit against state taxes owed. It was nothing but a convoluted way to use state tax money to fund private school vouchers. Republicans were split at the time, and the ruse failed to pass.

President Trump is now pushing something similar. In the One Big, Beautiful Bill just passed by Congress, there is a version of this tax credit scholarship program. It will be interesting to see how this program expands in the future.

‘CHOICE’

As charter schools and voucher programs made inroads around the country, some conservatives saw that these tools could be used to achieve their political objectives. And as many state legislatures went from blue to red, charters, vouchers and other school choice initiatives expanded.

In Arkansas, wealthy privatizers hired lobbyists and public relations people to push their agendas. The initial talking points focused on school competition as the way to improve outcomes. When test scores failed to improve, and as the economic segregation caused by many charter schools became apparent, charter proponents switched to saying parental “choice” was the justification for such a radical overhaul of the school system.

Some of the most ardent supporters of charters and vouchers are prominent and successful businesspeople. Maybe they want to get rid of any possible influence from teachers’ unions, or maybe they genuinely think they can fix the system. Perhaps some are well-intentioned rich people who want to get through the eye of that Biblical needle by transforming lives using their chosen methods and strategies, and public money. The fact is that being good at one thing — like running a large retailer — does not necessarily make you good at brain surgery, rocket science or education.

Turning K-12 education into a moneymaking enterprise has all sorts of harmful effects. Some entrepreneurs have made a healthy profit in this environment, and they’ve used their money to support politicians who promote the privatization of education. In Arkansas, the Indiana-based education company Solution Tree has received $140 million from the state, school districts and educational cooperatives for a professional development program that has

had no measurable positive impact on student achievement, according to a University of Arkansas study. Its founder made a large contribution to Gov. Sanders’ inauguration party.

For years, many conservative Republicans opposed school vouchers because they supported their local public school districts and knew that pulling money and other resources from those districts would harm them. All that went out the window in 2023 with Sanders and Arkansas LEARNS. The bill was pushed through the Legislature in record time and guaranteed vouchers for every K-12 student in the state, though it delayed universal implementation for two years. We are about to see what happens next.

In Arkansas, we now have essentially unlimited charter schools, unlimited vouchers and almost unlimited school choice. This would have been unimaginable a few decades ago, but a political revolution has swept our state.

The sad and now obvious truth is that all of these schemes have not improved overall student achievement in Arkansas. We have a number of high-scoring private and charter schools, but the kids in those schools are usually capable of high achievement already.

What we have created is a disorganized but lethal mishmash of policies that are pushing us inexorably back toward segregation by race and economics, and we are using public money to do it. We have created an educational Frankenstein, and he has turned against our most vulnerable students.

IT’S NOT WORKING

LEARNS is the culmination of at least 30 years of misguided state and federal policies that fail to address the root causes of educational failure.

If you think that the current voucher movement is actually about education, go to the Arkansas Department of Education website. You will see lots of glitzy, vague descriptions of the wonderful benefits that we will get from LEARNS. But there are no timetables, no budgets, no measurable goals, no educational improvement data and very little concrete information. Just a bunch of slick marketing pitches and slogans.

There is some bragging around the state’s ATLAS test scores, but the test is new, which means there is no baseline data from which to measure growth.

And the test will almost surely be skewed to reflect improvement. Otherwise, like so many other standardized tests that have shown negative re-

sults, a new test will be deployed.

It’s politics, and it is working for the folks who are promoting it — not for our schools. Don’t expect this to change until the politics change.

Here’s the fateful bottom line. LEARNS is part of a political agenda that started many years ago. The goals never changed:

1. Destroy teachers’ unions nationally, and reshape the urban school environment.

2. Transfer the cost of private school and homeschool from parents to the state in order to garner votes from those constituencies.

3. Generate political support and contributions for rural conservative legislators who could declare with utmost sanctimoniousness, “Educational opportunity should not depend on a child’s ZIP code,” even though most of their constituents don’t have private school options. Those legislators seldom support early childhood educational initiatives, which are research-based and have demonstrated positive results.

4. Continue to provide entrepreneurs and consultants with business opportunities to run publicly funded enterprises and sell worthless programs to schools. These folks are major donors to politicians who support vouchers and charters.

So what’s next for our poor, misguided state as LEARNS goes fully into effect?

I think some new, small, private elementary schools will pop up in smaller communities. These schools will siphon money from public school districts unless local superintendents become much more vocal.

Homeschooling will grow as some parents realize they can get a voucher to keep their kids at home, feed them worksheets and turn on the television.

“Micro-schools,” which are basically small, informal private schools with 15 to 25 students, will proliferate as parents pool their vouchers and hire a teacher or two. Some of these may work, especially with students who were succeeding as homeschoolers, but many will be substandard one-room schoolhouses that use workbooks and distance learning. Many of the students will do poorly on national tests, if any of them actually take them.

Private schools will cannibalize some charter schools. In urban areas, charter schools — the former champions of school com

petition — will not like the competition they get from private schools that are now publicly funded through vouchers. It will be interesting to see whether some charter schools go private, thereby letting them manage their enrollments openly, rather than through the roundabout tactics many of them currently employ.

No matter what the ATLAS scores show, most national norm-referenced tests will show Arkansas student averages slipping as the traditional public system ends up with higher and higher percentages of low-income students. Private schools will take all sorts of tests, but because LEARNS doesn’t require them to take the same tests as public schools, or to publish their results, the scores won’t matter.

Yes, some students will benefit from vouchers, especially students with needs that can best be met in a specialized school that has real focus and expertise. There will be some students who leave public schools with low average test scores, and they will go to a private school with better average test scores. But there are also many subpar private schools. In states where vouchers have been carefully studied, benefits have been hard to find.

Nevertheless, we need to know whether students who transfer from public to private schools were doing well beforehand, and whether the main difference in the private environment is a different peer group. I want to know. We all deserve to know.

Regardless of the benefits to some students, Arkansas schools will face greater challenges as a whole as economic segregation worsens. The Little Rock School District will face the greatest challenges due to the concentration of private and charter schools in our city, as well as the demographic shifts and growth patterns in Central Arkansas.

The ambitious proponents of our expensive and cumbersome mashup of vouchers, charters and choice will continue to shout hosannas from the Capitol. The lobbyists will press on, the entrepreneurs will buy new cars, and the parents of homeschool and private school students will be happy to have state-funded vouchers to cover their bills.

And a lot of poor kids will quietly sink deeper into miserable, desperate poverty.

Welcome to America.

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From interior designers to plumbers and piercing artists to small business owners, these selected individuals embody remarkable dedication, meaningful contributions and a collaborative spirit within The Natural State. They are your neighbors, friends and family, collectively ensuring Central Arkansas remains a premier destination among surrounding states.

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To locals, Seventh Street Tattoos and Piercing is an institution. A family business established in 1998, it is one of the longest running shops in the city and Angela Berry, Lead Body Piercer, has been piercing since the beginning. The shop has grown throughout the years, now staffing two more full-time body piercers, Jess and Maddie. Together they have curated a collection of body jewelry that is exclusive to Seventh Street, and piercers provide consultations to assist with everything from children’s lobe piercings from five and up, to aesthetic placement for the more experienced. Professional from start to finish, consider Seventh Street for your first or your next piercing.

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The Faces of Plumbing.

AMG Plumbing, founded by Seth Grandbois, has quickly become a trusted name in plumbing, known for its high-quality service and family values. Named after Seth’s children, Avery Mitchell and Addison Mae, the company was built with a vision to create a lasting legacy, providing not just plumbing services, but also making a positive impact on the community. At the core of AMG Plumbing is a commitment to family, honesty, integrity, and top-notch workmanship. Seth’s dedication to excellence led him to bring on trusted friend Jonathan Dickey as co-owner in September 2024. Together, they share a vision of growth, quality, and customer trust. The company’s community involvement is just as important as its service. From local sponsorships to Don R. Roberts Elementary, Pinnacle View Middle School to The Ronald McDonald House of Charities, AMG Plumbing actively supports its neighbors. The company also values continuous employee education, ensuring every technician is skilled and up-to-date with industry standards. As the company grows, Seth and Jonathan remain focused on the values that made AMG Plumbing successful: family, trust, and excellence. Whether its a simple fix or a major remodel, AMG Plumbing is committed to providing reliable, high-quality plumbing services with a personal touch.

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Brandon T. Cole

Anderson Murphy Hopkins 501-372-1887

101 River Bluff Drive, Suite A Little Rock

Andrew S. Dixon

Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull

479-444-5200

4100 Corporate Center Drive, Suite 310 Springdale

Philip A. Elmore

Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull

479-444-5200

4100 Corporate Center Drive, Suite 310 Springdale

Lizzi Esparza

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard

479-464-5650

4206 South J.B. Hunt Drive, Suite 200 Rogers

Alec Gaines

Steel Wright Gray 501-379-9425

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2910 Little Rock

Colt D. Galloway

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard

479-464-5650

4206 South J.B. Hunt Drive, Suite 200 Rogers

Sarah Gold Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock

Jackie Hancock Law Office of Jackie D. Hancock

479-439-5481

112 North 34th Street Rogers

Zachary R. Hill RMP

501-954-9000

11601 Pleasant Ridge Road, Suite 301 Little Rock

Ben Honaker Honaker Law Firm

5013764531

900 W 4th Street Little Rock

Nicholas D. Hornung

Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock

Hannah Howard Gill Ragon Owen

501-376-3800

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 3800 Little Rock

Jessica Pruitt Koehler

Wright Lindsey Jennings

501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock

Glenn Larkin Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull

501-379-1700

111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock

Jacob McElroy Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 479-464-5650

4206 South J.B. Hunt Drive, Suite 200 Rogers

Laura L. O’Hara Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700

111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock

Brooklyn Parker

Jason Owens Law Firm

501-764-4334

1312 W Oak St. Conway

J. Dalton Person Jones, Jackson & Moll 479-782-7203

401 North Seventh Street Fort Smith

Bo Renner RMP

479-443-2705

5519 Hackett Road, Suite 300 Springdale

Nancy Smith Rose Law Firm

501-375-9131

120 East Fourth Street Little Rock

Ryan J. Smith Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131

120 East Fourth Street Little Rock

Samuel T. Waddell Waddell, Cole & Jones 870-931-1700

310 East Street, Suite A Jonesboro

Brittany Webb McDaniel Wolff 1-501-954-8000

1307 W. 4th Street Little Rock

Quinten J. Whiteside

Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock

Construction Law Alec Gaines Steel Wright Gray 501-379-9425

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2910 Little Rock

James A. Marshall The Marshall Firm 501-733-4360

915 West Oak Street, Suite 102 Conway

Corporate Governance and Compliance Law

Nathan D. Coulter Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard

501-688-8800

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock

Pierce G. Hunter Kutak Rock

501-975-3000

124 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Corporate Law

John Paul Boyter

Venture Law Partners

479-458-0918 Greater Rogers Area Rogers

Reese Dollins Venture Law Partners

479-458-0918 Greater Rogers Area Rogers

Ann Carol Farmer

Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull

479-444-5200

4100 Corporate Center Drive, Suite 310 Springdale

Pierce G. Hunter Kutak Rock

501-975-3000

124 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Justin Lee

Venture Law Partners

479-458-0918

Greater Rogers Area Rogers

James A. Marshall

The Marshall Firm

501-733-4360

915 West Oak Street, Suite 102

Conway

John Ogle Venture Law Partners

479-458-0918

Greater Rogers Area Rogers

Brooklyn Parker

Jason Owens Law Firm

501-764-4334

1312 W Oak St. Conway

William Swartzwelder Kutak Rock

479-250-9700

5111 West JB Hunt Drive, Suite 300 Rogers

Criminal Defense: General Practice

Christopher Birch Birch Law Firm

479-480-7656

2879 W Walnut Street, Suite 101

Rogers

Degen D. Clow Clow Law

501-999-2569

301 Roya Lane, Suite One Bryant

Jacob Holmes Thompson & Holmes

870-762-6900

319 North 2nd Street

Conway

Andrew Norwood Denton, Zachary & Norwood

501-273-3976

700 South German Lane, Suite 101 Conway

Education Law

Matthew F. Benson Taylor Law Partners

479-316-6300

211 E. Dickson Street Suite 1 Fayetteville

Katherine C. Campbell

Friday Eldredge & Clark

479-695-2011

3350 South Pinnacle Hills Parkway, Suite 301 Rogers

Elder Law

Trae A. Norton RMP

479-443-2705

5519 Hackett Road, Suite 300 Springdale

Energy Law

Samuel Piazza Gill Ragon Owen 501-376-3800

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 3800

Little Rock

Family Law

Christopher Birch Birch Law Firm

479-480-7656

2879 W Walnut Street, Suite 101 Rogers

Kaitlin G. Blakely Blair & Stroud

870-793-8350

500 East Main Street, Suite 201 Batesville

Charles C. Cunningham ARlaw Partners 501-710-6500

415 North McKinley Street, Suite 830 Little Rock

Brent A. Johnson

Matthews, Campbell, Rhoads, McClure & Thompson

479-636-0875

119 South Second Street

Rogers

Andrew Norwood

Denton, Zachary & Norwood

501-273-3976

700 South German Lane, Suite 101

Conway

Haley Smith

Owens Mixon Heller and Smith

870-330-7324

100 East Matthews Avenue Jonesboro

Jalen Toms

ARlaw Partners

501-710-6500

415 North McKinley Street, Suite 830 Little Rock

Family Law: Arbitration and Mediation

Jalen Toms

ARlaw Partners 501-710-6500

415 North McKinley Street, Suite 830 Little Rock

Government Relations Practice

Austin Grinder

Mullenix & Associates

501-725-5190

501 Woodlane Street, Suite 105 Little Rock

Health Care Law

Amie Schoeppel Wilcox Friday Eldredge & Clark

501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Insurance Law

Zachary R. Hill RMP

501-954-9000

11601 Pleasant Ridge Road, Suite 301 Little Rock

Allison T. Scott

Hall Booth Smith 501-214-3499

200 River Market Avenue, Suite 500 Little Rock

Joseph C. Stepina

Hall Booth Smith

501-214-3499

200 River Market Avenue, Suite 500 Little Rock

Brett W. Taylor

Rose Law Firm

501-375-9131

120 East Fourth Street Little Rock

Samuel T. Waddell Waddell, Cole & Jones

870-931-1700

310 East Street, Suite A Jonesboro

Quinten J. Whiteside

Wright Lindsey Jennings

501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock

Intellectual Property Law

Lindsey Emerson Raines

Friday Eldredge & Clark

479-695-2011

3350 South Pinnacle Hills Parkway, Suite 301 Rogers

Labor and Employment Law - Employee

Alexander D. Clark

Rose Law Firm

501-375-9131

120 East Fourth Street Little Rock

Labor and Employment Law - Management

Mary Buckley

Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131

120 East Fourth Street Little Rock

Cara Butler

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock

Mark Cameron

Friday Eldredge & Clark

501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000

Little Rock

Katherine C. Campbell

Friday Eldredge & Clark

479-695-2011

3350 South Pinnacle Hills Parkway, Suite 301 Rogers

Alexander D. Clark

Rose Law Firm

501-375-9131

120 East Fourth Street

Little Rock

Kyle D. Kennedy Littler 479-582-6100

The Fulbright Building Fayetteville

Joseph M. Kraska

Hall Booth Smith 501-214-3499

200 River Market Avenue, Suite 500 Little Rock

Brooklyn Parker

Jason Owens Law Firm

501-764-4334

1312 W Oak St.

Conway

Ross E. Simpson

Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131

120 East Fourth Street

Little Rock

Brett W. Taylor

Rose Law Firm

501-375-9131

120 East Fourth Street Little Rock

Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity Law

Reese Dollins Venture Law Partners 479-458-0918 Greater Rogers Area Rogers

William Swartzwelder Kutak Rock 479-250-9700

5111 West JB Hunt Drive, Suite 300 Rogers

Litigation - Banking and Finance

James A. Marshall The Marshall Firm 501-733-4360 915 West Oak Street, Suite 102 Conway

Litigation - Bankruptcy Royce LoBianco Watton Law Group

501-365-8099

425 West Capitol Avenue Suite 3010 Little Rock

Bennett Stuckey Watton Law Group

501-365-8099

425 West Capitol Avenue Suite 3010 Little Rock

Litigation - Construction Payton C. Bentley

Clark Law Firm

479-802-4834

121 West South Street Fayetteville

Ty Bordenkircher Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131

120 East Fourth Street Little Rock

Kael K. Bowling Friday Eldredge & Clark 479-695-2011

3350 South Pinnacle Hills Parkway, Suite 301 Rogers

Alec Gaines Steel Wright Gray 501-379-9425

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2910 Little Rock

Hannah Howard Gill Ragon Owen 501-376-3800

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 3800 Little Rock

Bo Renner RMP

479-443-2705

5519 Hackett Road, Suite 300 Springdale

Taylor N. Williams WDTC Law 501-372-1406

2120 Riverfront Drive, Suite 275 Little Rock

Litigation - Labor and Employment

Payton C. Bentley

Clark Law Firm

479-802-4834

121 West South Street Fayetteville

Mary Buckley

Rose Law Firm

501-375-9131

120 East Fourth Street Little Rock

Gates & Woodyard

501-688-8800

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock

Katherine C. Campbell

Friday Eldredge & Clark

479-695-2011

3350 South Pinnacle Hills Parkway, Suite 301 Rogers

Alexander D. Clark

Rose Law Firm

501-375-9131

120 East Fourth Street Little Rock

Hannah Howard Gill Ragon Owen

501-376-3800

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 3800 Little Rock

Kyle D. Kennedy Littler

479-582-6100

The Fulbright Building Fayetteville

Joseph M. Kraska

Hall Booth Smith

501-214-3499

200 River Market Avenue, Suite 500 Little Rock

Brooklyn Parker

Jason Owens Law Firm

501-764-4334

1312 W Oak St. Conway

Ross E. Simpson

Rose Law Firm

501-375-9131

120 East Fourth Street Little Rock

Nancy Smith

Rose Law Firm

501-375-9131

120 East Fourth Street Little Rock

Brett W. Taylor

Rose Law Firm

501-375-9131

120 East Fourth Street Little Rock

Litigation - Real Estate

Payton C. Bentley

Clark Law Firm

479-802-4834

121 West South Street Fayetteville

Friday Eldredge & Clark

479-695-2011

3350 South Pinnacle Hills Parkway, Suite 301 Rogers

Brent A. Johnson Matthews, Campbell, Rhoads, McClure & Thompson

479-636-0875

119 South Second Street Rogers

Litigation - Trusts and Estates

Jon T. Shirron

Jon T. Shirron

501-712-9971

56 White Oak Lane Little Rock

Litigation and Controversy - Tax

Nicole Gore Rose Law Firm

501-375-9131

120 East Fourth Street Little Rock

Mass Tort Litigation / Class ActionsDefendants

Brandon T. Cole

Anderson Murphy Hopkins 501-372-1887

101 River Bluff Drive, Suite A Little Rock

Medical Malpractice Law - Defendants

Tyler D. Bone

Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Clinton Dewitt DeWitt Law 501-404-2055

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1700 Little Rock

Sarah Gold

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard

501-688-8800

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock

Zachary R. Hill RMP

501-954-9000

11601 Pleasant Ridge Road, Suite 301 Little Rock

Jessica Pruitt Koehler

Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock

Blake Rowley

Carithers Johnson Devenport

479-332-4905

3900 Front Street, Suite 103 Fayetteville

Samuel T. Waddell

Waddell, Cole & Jones

870-931-1700

310 East Street, Suite A Jonesboro

Mergers and Acquisitions Law

John Paul Boyter

Venture Law Partners

479-458-0918

Greater Rogers Area Rogers

Nathan D. Coulter

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard

501-688-8800

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800

Little Rock

Reese Dollins

Venture Law Partners

479-458-0918

Greater Rogers Area Rogers

Pierce G. Hunter

Kutak Rock

501-975-3000

124 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Justin Lee

Venture Law Partners 479-458-0918

Greater Rogers Area Rogers

John Ogle

Venture Law Partners 479-458-0918

Greater Rogers Area Rogers

Samuel Piazza

Gill Ragon Owen

501-376-3800

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 3800 Little Rock

Taylor A Stockemer

Friday Eldredge & Clark

501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Municipal Law

Mary Buckley Rose Law Firm

501-375-9131

120 East Fourth Street Little Rock

Personal Injury Litigation - Defendants Zachary R. Hill RMP

501-954-9000

11601 Pleasant Ridge Road, Suite 301 Little Rock

Kyle D. Kennedy Littler

479-582-6100

The Fulbright Building Fayetteville

Allison T. Scott

Hall Booth Smith

501-214-3499

200 River Market Avenue, Suite 500 Little Rock

Taylor N. Williams WDTC Law

501-372-1406

2120 Riverfront Drive, Suite 275 Little Rock

Personal Injury Litigation - Plaintiffs Christopher Birch Birch Law Firm

479-480-7656

2879 W Walnut Street, Suite 101 Rogers

Jacob Holmes

Thompson & Holmes

870-762-6900

319 North 2nd Street Conway

Ben Honaker

Honaker Law Firm

5013764531

900 W 4th Street Little Rock

James Lloyd Denton, Zachary & Norwood

501-273-3976

700 South German Lane, Suite 101 Conway

Jake Logan Rainwater, Holt & Sexton

501-868-2500

801 Technology Drive Little Rock

Privacy and Data

Security Law

Lizzi Esparza

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard

479-464-5650

4206 South J.B. Hunt Drive, Suite 200 Rogers

Joseph C. Stepina

Hall Booth Smith

501-214-3499

200 River Market Avenue, Suite 500 Little Rock

Product Liability Litigation - Defendants

Nicholas D. Hornung

Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock

Jessica Pruitt Koehler

Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock

Allison T. Scott

Hall Booth Smith

501-214-3499

200 River Market Avenue, Suite 500 Little Rock

Taylor N. Williams WDTC Law 501-372-1406

2120 Riverfront Drive, Suite 275 Little Rock

Public Finance Law

Sarah Giammo Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Jacob Hill Kutak Rock 501-975-3000

124 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Real Estate Law

Nathan D. Coulter

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock

Reese Dollins

Venture Law Partners

479-458-0918

Greater Rogers Area Rogers

Ann Carol Farmer Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull

479-444-5200

4100 Corporate Center Drive, Suite 310 Springdale

Kasper Huber RMP

479-443-2705

5519 Hackett Road, Suite 300 Springdale

Brent A. Johnson

Matthews, Campbell, Rhoads, McClure & Thompson 479-636-0875

119 South Second Street Rogers

Frank LaPorte-Jenner LaPorte-Jenner Law

501-515-1692

1220 West Sixth Street Little Rock

Justin Lee Venture Law Partners

479-458-0918

Greater Rogers Area Rogers

John Ogle Venture Law Partners

479-458-0918

Greater Rogers Area Rogers

J. Dalton Person Jones, Jackson & Moll 479-782-7203

401 North Seventh Street Fort Smith

Bo Renner RMP

479-443-2705

5519 Hackett Road, Suite 300 Springdale

Securities / Capital Markets Law

Reese Dollins Venture Law Partners

479-458-0918

Greater Rogers Area

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501-975-3000

124 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Justin Lee

Venture Law Partners

479-458-0918

Greater Rogers Area Rogers

John Ogle Venture Law Partners

479-458-0918

Greater Rogers Area Rogers

Tax Law

Caroline Kelley

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard

479-464-5650

4206 South J.B. Hunt Drive, Suite 200 Rogers

Michael McGill Rose Law Firm

479-301-2444

809 S 52nd St, Ste A Rogers

John Ogle

Venture Law Partners

479-458-0918

Greater Rogers Area Rogers

Jon T. Shirron

Jon T. Shirron

501-712-9971

56 White Oak Lane Little Rock

Taylor A Stockemer

Friday Eldredge & Clark

501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Transportation Law

Zachary R. Hill RMP

501-954-9000

11601 Pleasant Ridge Road, Suite 301 Little Rock

Quinten J. Whiteside

Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock

Trusts and Estates

Gary DeWitt

DeWitt Law Firm

4797176300

986 Elmwood Street, Suite D Springdale

Nicole Gore

Rose Law Firm

501-375-9131

120 East Fourth Street Little Rock

Ben Honaker

Honaker Law Firm

5013764531

900 W 4th Street Little Rock

Kasper Huber RMP

479-443-2705

5519 Hackett Road, Suite 300 Springdale

Caroline Kelley

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard

479-464-5650

4206 South J.B. Hunt Drive, Suite 200 Rogers

Joseph M. Kraska

Hall Booth Smith 501-214-3499

200 River Market Avenue, Suite 500 Little Rock

Frank LaPorte-Jenner

LaPorte-Jenner Law 501-515-1692 1220 West Sixth Street Little Rock

Michael McGill Rose Law Firm 479-301-2444 809 S 52nd St, Ste A Rogers

Trae A. Norton RMP 479-443-2705 5519 Hackett Road, Suite 300 Springdale

Jon T. Shirron

Jon T. Shirron 501-712-9971 56 White Oak Lane Little Rock

Venture Capital Law

John Ogle

Venture Law Partners 479-458-0918 Greater Rogers Area Rogers

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200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock

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Wright Lindsey Jennings

501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock

Charles B. Cliett, Jr.

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard

501-688-8800

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock

John D. Davis

Wright Lindsey Jennings

501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300

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Erika Ross Gee

Wright Lindsey Jennings

501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock

Christopher J. Heller

Friday Eldredge & Clark

501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Margaret A. Johnston

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard

501-688-8800

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock

Alexander Justiss Kutak Rock

501-975-3000

124 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Drake Mann

Gill Ragon Owen

501-376-3800

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 3800 Little Rock

Lee J. Muldrow

Wright Lindsey Jennings

501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock

N. M. Norton

Wright Lindsey Jennings

501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock

Derrick W. Smith

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard

501-688-8800

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock

Zachary T. Steadman

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard

501-688-8800

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock

Jeffrey H. Thomas Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard

501-688-8800

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock

Agriculture Law Trav Baxter Trav Baxter

425 W. Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock

Vincent O. Chadick

Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull

479-444-5200

4100 Corporate Center Drive, Suite 310 Springdale

Roger McNeil Puryear Mayfield & McNeil

870-932-0900

3000 Browns Lane Jonesboro

Appellate Practice

John T. Adams Fuqua Campbell 501-374-0200 Riviera Tower, Suite 205 Little Rock

Jess L. Askew III Kutak Rock 501-975-3000 124 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

M. Stephen Bingham Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131 120 East Fourth Street Little Rock

Misty Wilson Borkowski Hall Booth Smith 501-214-3499

200 River Market Avenue, Suite 500 Little Rock

Brian G. Brooks Brooks Law Firm

501-733-3457

P.O. Box 605 Greenbrier

Staci Dumas Carson WDTC Law

501-372-1406

2120 Riverfront Drive, Suite 275

Little Rock

E.B. Chiles IV

Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700

111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock

Constance G. Clark Davis, Butt, Taylor & Clark

479-521-7600

75 North East Avenue, Suite 402 Fayetteville

Suzanne G. Clark

Clark Law Firm

479-802-4834

121 West South Street Fayetteville

Timothy Cullen Cullen & Company

501-370-4800 P.O. Box 3255 Little Rock

Joseph R. Falasco Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700

111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock

G. Spence Fricke

Barber Law Firm

501-372-6175

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 3400

Little Rock

Julie DeWoody Greathouse PPGMR Law

501-603-9000

201 East Markham Street, Suite 200

Little Rock

Michael B. Heister

Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull

501-379-1700

111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock

Christopher J. Heller

Friday Eldredge & Clark

501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Martin A. Kasten

Friday Eldredge & Clark

501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Sarah Keith-Bolden

Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull

501-379-1700

111 Center Street, Suite 1900

Little Rock

Andrew King Kutak Rock

501-975-3000

124 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Drake Mann

Gill Ragon Owen

501-376-3800

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 3800 Little Rock

Gary D. Marts, Jr.

Wright Lindsey Jennings

501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock

Mark Mayfield

Puryear Mayfield & McNeil

870-932-0900

3000 Browns Lane Jonesboro

John J. Mikesch

Wales & Mikesch

479-439-8088

2909 E. Glory Drive, Suite 113 Fayetteville

Brian A. Pipkin

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock

Troy A. Price

Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock

Roger D. Rowe

Lax, Vaughan, Fortson, Rowe & Threet 501-376-6565

Cantrell West Building, Suite 201 Little Rock

George Rozzell

Miller, Butler, Schneider, Pawlik & Rozzell

479-621-0006

224 South Second Street Rogers

Robert S. Shafer

Friday Eldredge & Clark

501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Peter R. Shults

Shults Law Firm

501-375-2301

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1600 Little Rock

Andrew M. Taylor

Taylor & Taylor Law Firm 501-246-8004

12921 Cantrell Road, Suite 205 Little Rock

Tasha C. Taylor

Taylor & Taylor Law Firm 501-246-8004

12921 Cantrell Road, Suite 205 Little Rock

Michael A. Thompson

Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock

William A. Waddell, Jr.

Friday Eldredge & Clark

501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Sarah L. Waddoups

Matthews, Campbell, Rhoads, McClure & Thompson 479-636-0875

119 South Second Street Rogers

Brett D. Watson

Brett D. Watson, Attorney at Law

501-281-2468

P.O. Box 707 Searcy

Kimberly D. Young

Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

R. Ryan Younger Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700

111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock

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Frank S. Hamlin

Hamlin Dispute Resolution 501-850-8888

2513 McCain Blvd, Suite 2 PMB#109 Little Rock

Robert E. Hornberger

Robert E. Hornberger Attorney/Mediator 479-459-7878

404 North Seventh Street Fort Smith

David M. Powell Rose Law Firm

501-375-9131

120 East Fourth Street Little Rock

John Dewey Watson ADR

501-804-4131

23 Iviers Drive Little Rock

Carolyn B. Witherspoon Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131

120 East Fourth Street Little Rock

Banking and Finance Law

John T. Adams Fuqua Campbell 501-374-0200 Riviera Tower, Suite 205 Little Rock

Robyn P. Allmendinger Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131

120 East Fourth Street Little Rock

Nick Arnold Kutak Rock 479-250-9700

5111 West JB Hunt Drive, Suite 300 Rogers

Melissa Bandy Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock

James P. Beachboard Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock

Tameron C. Bishop Kutak Rock 479-973-4200 1277 East Joyce Boulevard, Suite 300 Fayetteville

Shelley Fleisch-Djurica Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700

111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock

Daniel Goodwin

Gill Ragon Owen 501-376-3800

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 3800 Little Rock

Rayburn W. Green

Rayburn W. Green Attorney at Law

P.O. Box 11054

Fayetteville

Jill Grimsley

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard

479-464-5650

4206 South J.B. Hunt Drive, Suite 200 Rogers

Timothy W. Grooms

Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull

501-379-1700

111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock

Harold W. Hamlin

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard

501-688-8800

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock

Stuart C. Hindmarsh Kutak Rock

479-250-9700

5111 West JB Hunt Drive, Suite 300 Rogers

Johnathan D. Horton

Wright Lindsey Jennings

501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock

Margaret A. Johnston

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard

501-688-8800

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock

Jeb H. Joyce

Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull

479-444-5200

4100 Corporate Center Drive, Suite 310 Springdale

John Kooistra III

Steel Wright Gray

501-379-9425

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2910 Little Rock

Todd P. Lewis

Conner & Winters

479-582-5711

4375 North Vantage Drive, Suite 405 Fayetteville

Richard L. Ramsay

Ramsay Mediation & Arbitration

501-978-4490

124 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1950 Little Rock

Brian Rosenthal

Rose Law Firm

501-375-9131

120 East Fourth Street Little Rock

James W. Smith

Smith Hurst 479-405-5355

5100 West JB Hunt Drive, Suite 1030 Rogers

Robert T. Smith

Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Patrick Spivey Fuqua Campbell 501-374-0200 Riviera Tower, Suite 205 Little Rock

Robert D. Stroud

Blair & Stroud 870-793-8350

500 East Main Street, Suite 201 Batesville

David B. Vandergriff

Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull

501-379-1700

111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock

Ralph W. Waddell Waddell, Cole & Jones

870-931-1700

310 East Street, Suite A Jonesboro

Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law

Betsy Baker Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131

120 East Fourth Street Little Rock

Jason N. Bramlett

Friday Eldredge & Clark 479-695-2011 3350 South Pinnacle Hills Parkway, Suite 301 Rogers

Charles T. Coleman

Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock

Lindsey H. Emerson Raines

Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Robert J. Gibson

The Gibson Firm 870-520-6461 593 Madison Street Jonesboro

David A. Grace

Hardin & Grace

501-378-7900

500 Main Street, Suite A

North Little Rock

Judy Simmons Henry

Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300

Little Rock

Johnathan D. Horton

Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock

Kevin P. Keech

Keech Law Firm 501-221-3200

2011 South Broadway Street Little Rock

Andrew King Kutak Rock 501-975-3000

124 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Harry A. Light

Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Christopher A. McNulty Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131

120 East Fourth Street Little Rock

Kelly W. McNulty

Gill Ragon Owen 501-376-3800

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 3800 Little Rock

Lance R. Miller

Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock

David S. Mitchell, Jr. Rose Law Firm

501-375-9131

120 East Fourth Street Little Rock

Jaimie G. Moss

Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock

John Rainwater Rainwater, Holt & Sexton

501-868-2500

801 Technology Drive Little Rock

Richard L. Ramsay

Ramsay Mediation & Arbitration

501-978-4490

124 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1950

Little Rock

Stan D. Smith

Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300

Little Rock

Mary-Tipton Thalheimer Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131

120 East Fourth Street

Little Rock

Geoffrey B. Treece Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700

111 Center Street, Suite 1900

Little Rock

Kyle T. Unser Kutak Rock 479-250-9700

5111 West JB Hunt Drive, Suite 300 Rogers

Bet-the-Company Litigation

Jess L. Askew III Kutak Rock 501-975-3000

124 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000

Little Rock

H. David Blair Blair & Stroud 870-793-8350

500 East Main Street, Suite 201 Batesville

E.B. Chiles IV Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center Street, Suite 1900

Little Rock

Constance G. Clark Davis, Butt, Taylor & Clark 479-521-7600

75 North East Avenue, Suite 402 Fayetteville

Charles T. Coleman

Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300

Little Rock

Kevin A. Crass

Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000

Little Rock

David M. Donovan WDTC Law 501-372-1406

2120 Riverfront Drive, Suite 275

Little Rock

Richard T. Donovan Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131

120 East Fourth Street

Little Rock

Timothy O. Dudley

Timothy O. Dudley 501-372-0080

114 South Pulaski Street Little Rock

John R. Elrod Conner & Winters 479-582-5711

4375 North Vantage Drive, Suite 405 Fayetteville

William Mell Griffin III Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Christopher J. Heller

Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000

Little Rock

Jamie H. Jones

Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000

Little Rock

Robert L. Jones III Hamlin Dispute Resolution 501-850-8888

2513 McCain Blvd, Suite 2 PMB#109

Little Rock

Jim L. Julian Barber Law Firm 501-372-6175

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 3400

Little Rock

Stephen R. Lancaster

Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300

Little Rock

Harry A. Light

Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000

Little Rock

Lance R. Miller Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300

Little Rock

Elizabeth Robben Murray Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Clifford W. Plunkett Friday Eldredge & Clark 479-695-2011

3350 South Pinnacle Hills Parkway, Suite 301 Rogers

David M. Powell Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131

120 East Fourth Street Little Rock

Troy A. Price

Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock

Steven W. Quattlebaum Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700

111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock

Gordon S. Rather, Jr. Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock

Roger D. Rowe Lax, Vaughan, Fortson, Rowe & Threet 501-376-6565 Cantrell West Building, Suite 201 Little Rock

Michael N. Shannon Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700

111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock

Steven Taylor Shults Shults Law Firm 501-375-2301

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1600 Little Rock

Warner H. Taylor Taylor Law Partners 479-316-6300

211 E. Dickson Street Suite 1 Fayetteville

John E. Tull III

Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull

501-379-1700

111 Center Street, Suite 1900

Little Rock

William A. Waddell, Jr.

Friday Eldredge & Clark

501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

David D. Wilson

Friday Eldredge & Clark

501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000

Little Rock

Business Organizations (including LLCs and Partnerships)

Robyn P. Allmendinger

Rose Law Firm

501-375-9131

120 East Fourth Street Little Rock

David Biscoe Bingham

Rose Law Firm

501-375-9131

120 East Fourth Street Little Rock

Tameron C. Bishop

Kutak Rock

479-973-4200

1277 East Joyce Boulevard, Suite 300 Fayetteville

Ashley L. Gill

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard

501-688-8800

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock

Rebecca B. Hurst

Smith Hurst

479-405-5355

5100 West JB Hunt Drive, Suite 1030

Rogers

Laura Dyer Johnson

Rose Law Firm

501-375-9131

120 East Fourth Street Little Rock

Cal McCastlain

Wright Lindsey Jennings

501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock

Alex Miller RMP

479-443-2705

5519 Hackett Road, Suite 300 Springdale

John Neihouse RMP

479-443-2705

5519 Hackett Road, Suite 300 Springdale

Paul Parnell Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131

120 East Fourth Street Little Rock

B.R. Price RMP

479-553-9800 809 SW A Street, Suite 105 Bentonville

Brian Rosenthal Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131

120 East Fourth Street Little Rock

David A. Smith Kutak Rock 501-975-3000 124 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

James W. Smith Smith Hurst

479-405-5355

5100 West JB Hunt Drive, Suite 1030 Rogers

Denton Woods RMP

479-443-2705

5519 Hackett Road, Suite 300 Springdale

Cannabis Law

Michael Goswami Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131 120 East Fourth Street Little Rock

Civil Rights Law

Bettina Brownstein

Bettina E. Brownstein 501-920-1764 904 West Second Street, Second Floor Little Rock

Annie Depper Fuqua Campbell 501-374-0200 Riviera Tower, Suite 205 Little Rock

David M. Fuqua Fuqua Campbell 501-374-0200 Riviera Tower, Suite 205 Little Rock

Denise Reid Hoggard Rainwater, Holt & Sexton

501-868-2500 801 Technology Drive

Little Rock

William Stuart Jackson

Wright Lindsey Jennings

501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300

Little Rock

Austin Porter, Jr.

Porter Law Firm

501-244-8200

Tower Building, Suite 1035 Little Rock

Closely Held Companies and Family Businesses

Law

Bryant Cranford

Rose Law Firm

501-375-9131

120 East Fourth Street Little Rock

Rebecca B. Hurst

Smith Hurst

479-405-5355

5100 West JB Hunt Drive, Suite 1030

Rogers

John B. Peace

Wright Lindsey Jennings

501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300

Little Rock

Adam D. Reid

Gill Ragon Owen

501-376-3800

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 3800

Little Rock

David A. Smith

Kutak Rock

501-975-3000

124 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Collaborative Law:

Family Law

Gary B. Rogers Hilburn & Harper

501-372-0110

US Bank Building, Eighth Floor North Little Rock

Commercial Finance Law

John T. Adams Fuqua Campbell 501-374-0200

Riviera Tower, Suite 205 Little Rock

James P. Beachboard

Wright Lindsey Jennings

501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300

Little Rock

Daniel Goodwin

Gill Ragon Owen

501-376-3800

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 3800

Little Rock

Jill Grimsley

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard

479-464-5650

4206 South J.B. Hunt Drive, Suite 200 Rogers

John Kooistra III

Steel Wright Gray

501-379-9425

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2910

Little Rock

J. Scott Schallhorn

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard

501-688-8800

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock

Robert T. Smith

Friday Eldredge & Clark

501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000

Little Rock

Jay T. Taylor

Friday Eldredge & Clark

501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000

Little Rock

Commercial Litigation

John E. Alexander

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard

479-464-5650

4206 South J.B. Hunt Drive, Suite 200

Rogers

Jess L. Askew III Kutak Rock 501-975-3000

124 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000

Little Rock

Russell C. Atchley Kutak Rock 479-250-9700 5111 West JB Hunt Drive, Suite 300

Rogers

Russell Bailey Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131

120 East Fourth Street Little Rock

Betsy Baker Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131

120 East Fourth Street Little Rock

John Keeling Baker

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock

S. Shane Baker Waddell, Cole & Jones 870-931-1700

310 East Street, Suite A Jonesboro

Eric Berger

Wright Lindsey Jennings 479-986-0888

3333 Pinnacle Hills Parkway, Suite 510 Rogers

H. David Blair Blair & Stroud 870-793-8350

500 East Main Street, Suite 201 Batesville

Vicki Bronson Conner & Winters 479-582-5711

4375 North Vantage Drive, Suite 405 Fayetteville

Jason J. Campbell Gill Ragon Owen 501-376-3800

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 3800 Little Rock

Kelly Carithers Carithers Johnson Devenport 479-332-4905

3900 Front Street, Suite 103 Fayetteville

J. R. Carroll Kutak Rock 479-973-4200

1277 East Joyce Boulevard, Suite 300 Fayetteville

Casey Castleberry Castleberry Law Firm 501-804-8111

8 Parkstone Circle, Suite A Little Rock

Brandon B. Cate

Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 479-444-5200 4100 Corporate Center Drive, Suite 310 Springdale

Meredith M. Causey Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock

Vincent O. Chadick Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 479-444-5200

4100 Corporate Center Drive, Suite 310 Springdale

E.B. Chiles IV Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700

111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock

Constance G. Clark Davis, Butt, Taylor & Clark 479-521-7600

75 North East Avenue, Suite 402 Fayetteville

Suzanne G. Clark Clark Law Firm 479-802-4834

121 West South Street Fayetteville

William F. Clark Davis, Butt, Taylor & Clark 479-521-7600

75 North East Avenue, Suite 402 Fayetteville

Gary D. Corum Corum-Law 501-375-6454

Eight Plantation Acres Drive Little Rock

Kevin A. Crass Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Niki Cung Kutak Rock 479-973-4200

1277 East Joyce Boulevard, Suite 300 Fayetteville

Stephen M. Dacus Kutak Rock 479-973-4200 1277 East Joyce Boulevard, Suite 300 Fayetteville

Tony A. DiCarlo III Hall Booth Smith 501-214-3499

200 River Market Avenue, Suite 500 Little Rock

David M. Donovan WDTC Law 501-372-1406

2120 Riverfront Drive, Suite 275 Little Rock

Richard T. Donovan Rose Law Firm

501-375-9131

120 East Fourth Street Little Rock

Mark W. Dossett

Kutak Rock

479-250-9700

5111 West JB Hunt Drive, Suite 300 Rogers

Timothy O. Dudley

Timothy O. Dudley

501-372-0080 114 South Pulaski Street Little Rock

John R. Elrod

Conner & Winters

479-582-5711

4375 North Vantage Drive, Suite 405 Fayetteville

Joseph R. Falasco

Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull

501-379-1700

111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock

Matthew B. Finch

Gill Ragon Owen

501-376-3800

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 3800 Little Rock

Roger H. Fitzgibbon

Gill Ragon Owen

501-376-3800

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 3800 Little Rock

Jeffrey M. Fletcher Kutak Rock

479-973-4200

1277 East Joyce Boulevard, Suite 300 Fayetteville

Karen P. Freeman

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard

479-464-5650

4206 South J.B. Hunt Drive, Suite 200 Rogers

Erika Ross Gee

Wright Lindsey Jennings

501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock

Allison R. Gladden

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard

501-688-8800

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock

Julie DeWoody

Greathouse PPGMR Law

501-603-9000

201 East Markham Street, Suite 200

Little Rock

Eric Gribble Fuqua Campbell

501-374-0200

Riviera Tower, Suite 205 Little Rock

William Mell Griffin III

Friday Eldredge & Clark

501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Audra K. Hamilton

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard

501-688-8800

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock

John T. Hardin

Rose Law Firm

501-375-9131

120 East Fourth Street Little Rock

Michael B. Heister

Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700

111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock

Christopher J. Heller Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Judy Simmons Henry Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock

Mark Murphey Henry Henry Law Firm 479-368-0555

P.O. Box 4800 Fayetteville

Stephen A. Hester Spicer Rudstrom 501-904-7004

425 West Capital Avenue, Suite 3175 Little Rock

Joel Hoover Newland & Associates 501-221-9393 2228 Cottondale Lane, Suite 200 Little Rock

Adam Hopkins Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131 120 East Fourth Street Little Rock

Ashley Welch Hudson Kutak Rock 501-975-3000 124 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Harry S. Hurst, Jr. Parker Hurst & Burnett 870-268-7600 3000 Browns Lane Jonesboro

Asa Hutchinson III Asa Hutchinson Law Group 479-878-1600 1710 SW Commerce Drive, Suite 23 Bentonville

Tim Hutchinson RMP 479-443-2705

5519 Hackett Road, Suite 300 Springdale

Benjamin D. Jackson Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock

Colin M. Johnson Carithers Johnson Devenport 479-332-4905

3900 Front Street, Suite 103 Fayetteville

John Johnson Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock

Stephen N. Joiner Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131 120 East Fourth Street Little Rock

Jamie H. Jones

Friday Eldredge & Clark

501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Robert L. Jones III

Hamlin Dispute Resolution

501-850-8888

2513 McCain Blvd, Suite 2

PMB#109 Little Rock

Jim L. Julian

Barber Law Firm

501-372-6175

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 3400 Little Rock

Sarah Keith-Bolden Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull

501-379-1700

111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock

Andrew King Kutak Rock

501-975-3000

124 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Kerri E. Kobbeman Conner & Winters

479-582-5711

4375 North Vantage Drive, Suite 405 Fayetteville

Stephen R. Lancaster

Wright Lindsey Jennings

501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock

Todd P. Lewis

Conner & Winters

479-582-5711

4375 North Vantage Drive, Suite 405 Fayetteville

James G. Lingle

Lingle Law Firm

479-636-7899

110 South Dixieland Road Rogers

Glenn Lovett, Jr.

Law Offices of Glenn Lovett

870-336-1900

P.O. Box 1575

Jonesboro

Jim Lyons

Lyons & Cone

870-972-5440

407 South Main Jonesboro

Kathy McCarroll

Friday Eldredge & Clark

501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Larry McCredy RMP

479-443-2705

5519 Hackett Road, Suite 300 Springdale

E. Joseph McGehee Rose Law Firm

479-301-2444

809 S 52nd St, Ste A Rogers

Christopher A. McNulty Rose Law Firm

501-375-9131

120 East Fourth Street Little Rock

Kelly W. McNulty

Gill Ragon Owen 501-376-3800

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 3800 Little Rock

Stuart P. Miller

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard

479-464-5650

4206 South J.B. Hunt Drive, Suite 200 Rogers

David S. Mitchell, Jr. Rose Law Firm

501-375-9131

120 East Fourth Street Little Rock

Jaimie G. Moss

Wright Lindsey Jennings

501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock

Bruce E. Munson Munson, Rowlett, Moore & Boone

501-374-6535

One Allied Drive, Suite 1600 Little Rock

Elizabeth Robben Murray

Friday Eldredge & Clark

501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Marshall S. Ney

Friday Eldredge & Clark

479-695-2011

3350 South Pinnacle Hills Parkway, Suite 301 Rogers

Edward T. Oglesby

The Brad Hendricks Law Firm

501-550-4090

500 Pleasant Valley Drive, Building C Little Rock

Amanda G. Orcutt

Shults Law Firm

501-375-2301

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1600 Little Rock

Danielle Whitehouse

Owens

Gill Ragon Owen 501-376-3800

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 3800 Little Rock

Clifford W. Plunkett

Friday Eldredge & Clark

479-695-2011

3350 South Pinnacle Hills Parkway, Suite 301 Rogers

Dylan Potts

Gill Ragon Owen

501-376-3800

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 3800 Little Rock

David M. Powell

Rose Law Firm

501-375-9131

120 East Fourth Street Little Rock

Joseph W. Price II

Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull

501-379-1700

111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock

Steven W. Quattlebaum Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700

111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock

Richard L. Ramsay

Ramsay Mediation & Arbitration

501-978-4490

124 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1950 Little Rock

Brian H. Ratcliff PPGMR Law 870-862-5523

200 N. Jefferson Ave., Suite 500 El Dorado

Gordon S. Rather, Jr.

Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock

Bourgon Reynolds

Rose Law Firm

501-375-9131

120 East Fourth Street Little Rock

Gary B. Rogers Hilburn & Harper

501-372-0110

US Bank Building, Eighth Floor North Little Rock

Roger D. Rowe Lax, Vaughan, Fortson, Rowe & Threet

501-376-6565

Cantrell West Building, Suite 201 Little Rock

George Rozzell

Miller, Butler, Schneider, Pawlik & Rozzell

479-621-0006

224 South Second Street Rogers

John M. Scott Conner & Winters

479-582-5711

4375 North Vantage Drive, Suite 405 Fayetteville

Michael N. Shannon Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700

111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock

Peter R. Shults

Shults Law Firm 501-375-2301

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1600 Little Rock

Steven Taylor Shults Shults Law Firm 501-375-2301

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1600 Little Rock

Don A. Smith

Smith Cohen & Horan 479-782-1001

1206 Garrison Avenue, Suite 200 Fort Smith

Michael G. Smith

Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock

Shane Strabala Munson, Rowlett, Moore & Boone

501-374-6535 One Allied Drive, Suite 1600 Little Rock

John P. Talbot Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock

Rex M. Terry Hardin, Jesson & Terry 479-452-2200

5000 Rogers Avenue, Suite 500 Fort Smith

Michael A. Thompson

Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300

Little Rock

Robert F. Thompson III Branch, Thompson, Warmath, & Dale 870-239-9581

414 West Court Street Paragould

Scott Tidwell RMP 479-443-2705

5519 Hackett Road, Suite 300 Springdale

John E. Tull III Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700

111 Center Street, Suite 1900

Little Rock

Michael P. Vanderford

Anderson Murphy Hopkins 501-372-1887

101 River Bluff Drive, Suite A

Little Rock

David B. Vandergriff Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700

111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock

J. Andrew Vines Dobson & Vines 501-490-9906 P.O. Box 251763 Little Rock

Caley B. Vo

Wright Lindsey Jennings 479-986-0888

3333 Pinnacle Hills Parkway, Suite 510 Rogers

William A. Waddell, Jr. Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000

Little Rock

Jason H. Wales Wales & Mikesch 479-439-8088

2909 E. Glory Dr STE 113 Fayetteville

B.J. Walker Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131

120 East Fourth Street Little Rock

Brett D. Watson

Brett D. Watson, Attorney at Law 501-281-2468 P.O. Box 707 Searcy

David D. Wilson Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Amber Wilson Bagley Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131

120 East Fourth Street Little Rock

R. Ryan Younger Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700

111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock

Commercial Transactions / UCC Law

Nick Arnold Kutak Rock 479-250-9700

5111 West JB Hunt Drive, Suite 300 Rogers

Robert J. Gibson The Gibson Firm 870-520-6461

593 Madison Street Jonesboro

Stuart C. Hindmarsh Kutak Rock 479-250-9700

5111 West JB Hunt Drive, Suite 300 Rogers

John Kooistra III

Steel Wright Gray 501-379-9425

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2910 Little Rock

Walter McSpadden

Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock

Communications Law

Jess L. Askew III Kutak Rock 501-975-3000

124 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Construction Law

M. Stephen Bingham

Rose Law Firm

501-375-9131

120 East Fourth Street Little Rock

William Jackson Butt II

Davis, Butt, Taylor & Clark

479-521-7600

75 North East Avenue, Suite 402 Fayetteville

Max R. Deitchler

Kutak Rock

479-973-4200

1277 East Joyce Boulevard, Suite 300 Fayetteville

Matthew B. Finch

Gill Ragon Owen

501-376-3800

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 3800 Little Rock

Roger H. Fitzgibbon

Gill Ragon Owen

501-376-3800

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 3800 Little Rock

Stephen R. Giles

Wright Lindsey Jennings

501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock

David A. Grace

Hardin & Grace

501-378-7900

500 Main Street, Suite A North Little Rock

Cyril Hollingsworth

Wright Lindsey Jennings

501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock

Joel Hoover

Newland & Associates

501-221-9393

2228 Cottondale Lane, Suite 200 Little Rock

David L. Jones

Wright Lindsey Jennings

501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock

Susan K. Kendall

Harrington, Miller, Kieklak, Eichmann & Brown

479-751-6464

4710 S. Thompson, Suite 102 Springdale

Amy C. Markham

Friday Eldredge & Clark

501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Larry McCredy RMP

479-443-2705

5519 Hackett Road, Suite 300 Springdale

Edward T. Oglesby The Brad Hendricks Law Firm

501-550-4090

500 Pleasant Valley Drive, Building C Little Rock

David M. Powell Rose Law Firm

501-375-9131

120 East Fourth Street Little Rock

Joseph W. Price II Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull

501-379-1700

111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock

Jeffrey W. Puryear

Puryear Mayfield & McNeil

870-932-0900

3000 Browns Lane

Jonesboro

John M. Scott

Conner & Winters

479-582-5711

4375 North Vantage Drive, Suite 405

Fayetteville

J. Andrew Vines

Dobson & Vines

501-490-9906

P.O. Box 251763

Little Rock

Patrick D. Wilson

Wright Lindsey Jennings

501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300

Little Rock

Rick Woods Myers & Woods Law Firm

479-480-3867

4375 North Vantage Drive, Suite 202

Fayetteville

Copyright Law

J. Charles Dougherty

Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300

Little Rock

Adam Hopkins Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131

120 East Fourth Street Little Rock

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Corporate Compliance Law

Wendy Johnson RMP

479-443-2705

5519 Hackett Road, Suite 300 Springdale

Corporate Governance Law

Courtney C. Crouch III

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard

501-688-8800

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock

James W. Smith

Smith Hurst

479-405-5355

5100 West JB Hunt Drive, Suite 1030 Rogers

Corporate Law

Robyn P. Allmendinger

Rose Law Firm

501-375-9131

120 East Fourth Street Little Rock

Robert B. Beach

Lax, Vaughan, Fortson, Rowe & Threet

501-376-6565

Cantrell West Building, Suite 201 Little Rock

James P. Beachboard

Wright Lindsey Jennings

501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock

Paul B. Benham III

Friday Eldredge & Clark

501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

M. Stephen Bingham

Rose Law Firm

501-375-9131

120 East Fourth Street Little Rock

Wade Bowen

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard

870-938-6262

100 East Huntington Avenue, Suite C Jonesboro

John Bryant

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard

501-688-8800

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock

C. Douglas Buford, Jr.

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard

501-688-8800

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock

Courtney C. Crouch III

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard

501-688-8800

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock

Bryan W. Duke

Friday Eldredge & Clark

501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Walter M. Ebel III

Friday Eldredge & Clark

501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Joseph R. Falasco

Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull

501-379-1700

111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock

Price C. Gardner

Friday Eldredge & Clark

501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Allison R. Gladden

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard

501-688-8800

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock

Daniel Goodwin Gill Ragon Owen 501-376-3800

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 3800 Little Rock

Timothy W. Grooms

Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull

501-379-1700

111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock

Aaron Heffington

Gill Ragon Owen

501-376-3800

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 3800 Little Rock

Rebecca B. Hurst

Smith Hurst

479-405-5355

5100 West JB Hunt Drive, Suite 1030

Rogers

Wendy Johnson RMP

479-443-2705

5519 Hackett Road, Suite 300 Springdale

Jeb H. Joyce

Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull

479-444-5200

4100 Corporate Center Drive, Suite 310 Springdale

Kerri E. Kobbeman

Conner & Winters

479-582-5711

4375 North Vantage Drive, Suite 405 Fayetteville

Casey Dorman Lawson

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard

479-464-5650

4206 South J.B. Hunt Drive, Suite 200 Rogers

D. Nicole Lovell

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard

501-688-8800

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock

William T. Marshall

William T. Marshall

501-420-1766

P.O. Box 7419 Little Rock

Cal McCastlain

Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock

C. David McDaniel Kutak Rock 501-975-3000

124 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

E. Conner McNair

Friday Eldredge & Clark

479-695-2011

3350 South Pinnacle Hills Parkway, Suite 301 Rogers

Matthew D. Mitchell

Friday Eldredge & Clark

479-695-2011

3350 South Pinnacle Hills Parkway, Suite 301 Rogers

Joseph G. Nichols

Friday Eldredge & Clark

501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Paul Parnell

Rose Law Firm

501-375-9131

120 East Fourth Street Little Rock

Greg S. Scharlau

Conner & Winters 479-582-5711

4375 North Vantage Drive, Suite 405 Fayetteville

James W. Smith

Smith Hurst 479-405-5355

5100 West JB Hunt Drive, Suite 1030 Rogers

Robert T. Smith

Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Patrick Spivey Fuqua Campbell 501-374-0200

Riviera Tower, Suite 205 Little Rock

Ralph W. Waddell Waddell, Cole & Jones 870-931-1700

310 East Street, Suite A Jonesboro

Criminal Defense: General Practice

Bill W. Bristow Bristow & Richardson 870-935-9000

216 East Washington Avenue Jonesboro

Lisa Dennis Gunn Kieklak & Dennis 479-439-9840 3608 North Steel Boulevard, #101 Fayetteville

Annie Depper Fuqua Campbell 501-374-0200 Riviera Tower, Suite 205 Little Rock

Timothy O. Dudley Timothy O. Dudley 501-372-0080 114 South Pulaski Street Little Rock

John Wesley Hall, Jr. John Wesley Hall 501-371-9131

1202 Main Street, Suite 210 Little Rock

J. Blake Hendrix Fuqua Campbell 501-374-0200

Riviera Tower, Suite 205 Little Rock

Geoffrey D. Kearney

Law Office of Geoffrey D. Kearney 870-617-0522

100 South Pine Pine Bluff

Bobby R. McDaniel McDaniel Law Firm 870-565-4215

400 South Main Street Jonesboro

Doug Norwood Norwood & Norwood 479-235-4600

2001 South Dixieland Road

Rogers

Jeffrey M. Rosenzweig Jeff Rosenzweig 501-372-5247 Spring Building, Suite 310 Little Rock

Warner H. Taylor Taylor Law Partners 479-316-6300

211 E. Dickson Street Suite 1 Fayetteville

Kimberly R. Weber Matthews, Campbell, Rhoads, McClure & Thompson 479-636-0875

119 South Second Street Rogers

Shane Wilkinson Wilkinson Law Firm 479-273-2212

700 South Walton Boulevard, Suite 200 Bentonville

Criminal Defense: White-Collar

Bill W. Bristow Bristow & Richardson 870-935-9000

216 East Washington Avenue Jonesboro

Gary D. Corum Corum-Law 501-375-6454

Eight Plantation Acres Drive Little Rock

Annie Depper Fuqua Campbell 501-374-0200

Riviera Tower, Suite 205 Little Rock

Timothy O. Dudley

Timothy O. Dudley 501-372-0080

114 South Pulaski Street Little Rock

John Wesley Hall, Jr.

John Wesley Hall 501-371-9131

1202 Main Street, Suite 210 Little Rock

J. Blake Hendrix Fuqua Campbell 501-374-0200

Riviera Tower, Suite 205 Little Rock

Wendy Johnson RMP 479-443-2705

5519 Hackett Road, Suite 300 Springdale

Bobby R. McDaniel McDaniel Law Firm 870-565-4215

400 South Main Street Jonesboro

Christopher D. Plumlee RMP 479-443-2705

5519 Hackett Road, Suite 300 Springdale

Jeffrey M. Rosenzweig Jeff Rosenzweig 501-372-5247

Spring Building, Suite 310 Little Rock

Warner H. Taylor

Taylor Law Partners 479-316-6300

211 E. Dickson Street Suite 1

Fayetteville

Kimberly R. Weber Matthews, Campbell, Rhoads, McClure & Thompson 479-636-0875

119 South Second Street

Rogers

Shane Wilkinson Wilkinson Law Firm 479-273-2212

700 South Walton Boulevard, Suite 200 Bentonville

DUI / DWI Defense

Ralph J. Blagg Blagg Law Firm 501-745-4302

244 Hwy 65 N Clinton

John C. Collins Collins, Collins & Ray 501-603-9911

912 West Fourth Street Suite A Little Rock

Alison Lee Norwood & Norwood

479-235-4600

2001 South Dixieland Road Rogers

Doug Norwood Norwood & Norwood

479-235-4600

2001 South Dixieland Road

Rogers

Kimberly R. Weber

Matthews, Campbell, Rhoads, McClure & Thompson

479-636-0875

119 South Second Street

Rogers

Economic Development Law

Michele Simmons Allgood

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard

501-688-8800

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800

Little Rock

Thomas P. Leggett

Friday Eldredge & Clark

501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000

Little Rock

Michael O. Parker

Wright Lindsey Jennings

501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300

Little Rock

James M. Saxton

Friday Eldredge & Clark

501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Education Law

Clayton R. Blackstock

Mitchell, Blackstock, Wright & Alagood

501-378-7870

1010 West Third Street Little Rock

Missy McJunkins Duke

Rose Law Firm

501-375-9131

120 East Fourth Street Little Rock

Khayyam M. Eddings

Friday Eldredge & Clark

501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Christopher J. Heller

Friday Eldredge & Clark

501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

David L. Jones

Wright Lindsey Jennings

501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock

Amanda G. Orcutt

Shults Law Firm

501-375-2301

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1600 Little Rock

Scott Richardson McDaniel Wolff

1-501-954-8000

1307 W. 4th Street Little Rock

Emily M. Runyon

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard

479-464-5650

4206 South J.B. Hunt Drive, Suite 200 Rogers

Elder Law M. Gayle Corley Corley Law Firm

501-801-0035

Plaza West Building, Suite 445 Little Rock

Laura Dyer Johnson Rose Law Firm

501-375-9131

120 East Fourth Street Little Rock

Collier Moore RMP

479-443-2705

5519 Hackett Road, Suite 300 Springdale

Bethany Pike The Elrod Firm

501-847-1311

400 North Reynolds Rd Bryant

Dennis K. Wilson

Winburn, Case, Schrader & Shram

501-224-0628

12921 Cantrell Road, Suite 309 North Little Rock

Electronic Discovery and Information Management Law

Karen Sharp Halbert Roberts Law Firm

501-821-5575

6834 Cantrell Road, Suite 1131 Little Rock

Eminent Domain and Condemnation Law

Brandon B. Cate

Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull

479-444-5200

4100 Corporate Center Drive, Suite 310 Springdale

Timothy W. Grooms

Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull

501-379-1700

111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock

Michael B. Phillips

Moffitt & Phillips

501-255-7406

1501 North University, Suite 465 Little Rock

Joseph W. Price II Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull

501-379-1700

111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock

Michael N. Shannon

Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull

501-379-1700

111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock

Bruce B. Tidwell

Friday Eldredge & Clark

501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law

Brandon B. Cate Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull

479-444-5200

4100 Corporate Center Drive, Suite 310 Springdale

E.B. Chiles IV Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700

111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock

Bryant Cranford

Rose Law Firm

501-375-9131

120 East Fourth Street Little Rock

Denise Reid Hoggard Rainwater, Holt & Sexton 501-868-2500

801 Technology Drive Little Rock

Joseph B. Hurst, Jr.

Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Alexandra A. Ifrah

Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000

Little Rock

A. Wyckliff Nisbet, Jr.

Friday Eldredge & Clark

501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Joshua M. Osborne

Friday Eldredge & Clark

501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000

Little Rock

Brian C. Smith

Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Craig H. Westbrook Overbey, Strigel, Boyd & Westbrook 501-664-8105

10809 Executive Center Drive, Suite 310 Little Rock

K. Coleman Westbrook, Jr. Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000

Little Rock

Jeremiah D. Wood

Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000

Little Rock

Employment LawIndividuals

John L. Burnett Lavey and Burnett 501-376-2269

904 West Second Street

Little Rock

Khayyam M. Eddings Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Denise Reid Hoggard Rainwater, Holt & Sexton 501-868-2500

801 Technology Drive Little Rock

Geoffrey D. Kearney Law Office of Geoffrey D. Kearney 870-617-0522

100 South Pine Pine Bluff

Susan K. Kendall Harrington, Miller, Kieklak, Eichmann & Brown 479-751-6464

4710 S. Thompson, Suite 102 Springdale

Elizabeth Robben Murray Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Janet L. Pulliam Pulliam Law Offices 501-664-7405

15 Pinnacle Point North Little Rock

Paul D. Waddell Waddell, Cole & Jones 870-931-1700

310 East Street, Suite A Jonesboro

H. Wayne Young Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000

Little Rock

Employment LawManagement

Misty Wilson Borkowski

Hall Booth Smith 501-214-3499

200 River Market Avenue, Suite 500 Little Rock

J. Bruce Cross Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131

120 East Fourth Street Little Rock

John D. Davis

Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300

Little Rock

Abbie Decker Rucker Fuqua Campbell 501-374-0200 Riviera Tower, Suite 205 Little Rock

Missy McJunkins Duke Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131

120 East Fourth Street Little Rock

Khayyam M. Eddings Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

James M. Gary Kutak Rock 501-975-3000

124 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Audra K. Hamilton Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock

Christopher J. Heller Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Denise Reid Hoggard Rainwater, Holt & Sexton 501-868-2500 801 Technology Drive Little Rock

William Stuart Jackson Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock

Michael R. Jones Gilker & Jones 479-369-4294 9222 North Highway 71 Mountainburg

Jane A. Kim Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock

Kerri E. Kobbeman Conner & Winters 479-582-5711

4375 North Vantage Drive, Suite 405 Fayetteville

Cynthia W. Kolb Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131

120 East Fourth Street Little Rock

David P. Martin Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131

120 East Fourth Street Little Rock

Mark Mayfield Puryear Mayfield & McNeil 870-932-0900

3000 Browns Lane Jonesboro

Abtin Mehdizadegan Hall Booth Smith 501-214-3499

200 River Market Avenue, Suite 500 Little Rock

Michael S. Moore Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Elizabeth Robben Murray Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Jason Owens

Jason Owens Law Firm

501-764-4334 1312 W Oak St. Conway

Dylan Potts

Gill Ragon Owen

501-376-3800

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 3800 Little Rock

Janet L. Pulliam Pulliam Law Offices

501-664-7405 15 Pinnacle Point North Little Rock

Nathan A. Read

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard

479-464-5650

4206 South J.B. Hunt Drive, Suite 200 Rogers

Spencer F. Robinson Ramsay, Bridgforth, Robinson & Raley

870-535-9000

Simmons First National Bank Building, 501 Main Street 11th Floor Pine Bluff

Jenny Teeter

Gill Ragon Owen

501-376-3800

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 3800 Little Rock

Brian A. Vandiver

Cox, Sterling, Vandiver, & Botteicher

501-954-8073

8201 Cantrell Road, Suite 330 Little Rock

Paul D. Waddell

Waddell, Cole & Jones

870-931-1700

310 East Street, Suite A Jonesboro

Amber Wilson Bagley Rose Law Firm

501-375-9131

120 East Fourth Street Little Rock

Carolyn B. Witherspoon Rose Law Firm

501-375-9131

120 East Fourth Street Little Rock

H. Wayne Young Friday Eldredge & Clark

501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Energy Law

Mark H. Allison

Wright Lindsey Jennings

501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock

Lawrence E. Chisenhall, Jr. Gill Ragon Owen

501-376-3800

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 3800 Little Rock

Thomas A. Daily Daily & Woods

479-782-0361

58 South Sixth Street Fort Smith

Stephen N. Joiner Rose Law Firm

501-375-9131

120 East Fourth Street Little Rock

N. M. Norton

Wright Lindsey Jennings

501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300

Little Rock

G. Alan Perkins

PPGMR Law

501-603-9000

201 East Markham Street, Suite 200

Little Rock

Scott C. Trotter Trotter Law Firm

501-353-1069

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 216

Little Rock

Walter G. Wright, Jr. Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard

501-688-8800

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock

Energy Regulatory Law

Thomas A. Daily Daily & Woods

479-782-0361

58 South Sixth Street Fort Smith

Michael B. Heister

Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull

501-379-1700

111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock

G. Alan Perkins

PPGMR Law

501-603-9000

201 East Markham Street, Suite 200 Little Rock

Sarah Tacker

PPGMR Law

501-603-9000

201 East Markham Street, Suite 200 Little Rock

Environmental Law

Mark H. Allison

Wright Lindsey Jennings

501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock

John R. Elrod

Conner & Winters

479-582-5711

4375 North Vantage Drive, Suite 405 Fayetteville

Julie DeWoody

Greathouse

PPGMR Law

501-603-9000

201 East Markham Street, Suite 200 Little Rock

Michael B. Heister

Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull

501-379-1700

111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock

Samuel E. Ledbetter

McMath Woods

501-530-4320

711 West Third Street Little Rock

Charles R. Nestrud

Barber Law Firm

501-372-6175

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 3400 Little Rock

G. Alan Perkins

PPGMR Law

501-603-9000

201 East Markham Street, Suite 200 Little Rock

Brian Rosenthal

Rose Law Firm

501-375-9131

120 East Fourth Street Little Rock

Jordan P. Wimpy

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard

501-688-8800

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock

Walter G. Wright, Jr.

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard

501-688-8800

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock

Family Law

Betsy Baker

Rose Law Firm

501-375-9131

120 East Fourth Street Little Rock

Beth Echols

Gill Ragon Owen

501-376-3800

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 3800 Little Rock

Adrienne Griffis

Kamps & Griffis

501-708-2911

The Centre Place Building, Sixth Floor Little Rock

Pamela A. Haun

Pamela A. Haun

870-336-3823

P.O. Box 1700 Jonesboro

Sam Hilburn

Hilburn & Harper

501-372-0110

US Bank Building, Eighth Floor

North Little Rock

Scott Hilburn

Hilburn & Harper

501-372-0110

US Bank Building, Eighth Floor

North Little Rock

Henry Hodges

Henry Hodges

501-375-0400

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1520 Little Rock

David W. Kamps

Kamps & Griffis

501-708-2911

The Centre Place Building, Sixth Floor Little Rock

Judson C. Kidd

Dodds, Kidd, Ryan & Rowan

833-357-3476

313 West Second Street Little Rock

Angela Mann Mann & Kemp

501-299-9328

221 West Second Street, Suite 408 Little Rock

Barrett S. Moore

Blair & Stroud

870-793-8350

500 East Main Street, Suite 201 Batesville

Harry Truman Moore

Goodwin Moore

870-239-2225

200 South Pruett Street Paragould

Bryan J. Reis

Legacy Law Group

501-525-3130

333 Ouachita Avenue, Suite 200

Hot Springs

Gary B. Rogers

Hilburn & Harper

501-372-0110

US Bank Building, Eighth Floor

North Little Rock

Larry J. Thompson

Matthews, Campbell, Rhoads, McClure & Thompson

479-636-0875

119 South Second Street Rogers

Financial Services

Regulation Law

David S. Mitchell, Jr. Rose Law Firm

501-375-9131

120 East Fourth Street Little Rock

Mary-Tipton Thalheimer

Rose Law Firm

501-375-9131

120 East Fourth Street Little Rock

First Amendment Law

Jess L. Askew III Kutak Rock

501-975-3000

124 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

John E. Tull III

Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700

111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock

Franchise Law

David M. Powell Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131

120 East Fourth Street Little Rock

Roger D. Rowe

Lax, Vaughan, Fortson, Rowe & Threet 501-376-6565 Cantrell West Building, Suite 201 Little Rock

William A. Waddell, Jr. Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000

Little Rock

Government Relations Practice

Justin T. Allen

Wright Lindsey Jennings

501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock

Erika Ross Gee

Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock

Jason B. Hendren Hall Booth Smith 479-391-6200

5001 W Founders Way, Suite 330 Rogers

Martha McKenzie Hill Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock

Stephen N. Joiner Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131

120 East Fourth Street Little Rock

Dustin McDaniel Cozen O’Connor 501-404-4000

1307 W. 4th Street Little Rock

Christopher D. Plumlee RMP

479-443-2705

5519 Hackett Road, Suite 300 Springdale

Derrick W. Smith

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock

Health Care Law

Elizabeth Andreoli Andreoli Law 501-690-5069

72 Pine Manor Drive, Suite 190 Little Rock

Donald H. Bacon Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Charles B. Cliett, Jr. Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock

Timothy Ezell Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Erika Ross Gee

Wright Lindsey Jennings

501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300

Little Rock

Megan D. Hargraves

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard

501-688-8800

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock

Ashley Welch Hudson Kutak Rock

501-975-3000

124 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Lynda M. Johnson

Friday Eldredge & Clark

501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

William T. Marshall

William T. Marshall

501-420-1766

P.O. Box 7419 Little Rock

Michael W. Mitchell

Mitchell, Blackstock, Wright & Alagood

501-378-7870

1010 West Third Street Little Rock

Lee J. Muldrow

Wright Lindsey Jennings

501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock

Jenny Teeter

Gill Ragon Owen

501-376-3800

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 3800 Little Rock

Bruce B. Tidwell

Friday Eldredge & Clark

501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Amber Wilson Bagley

Rose Law Firm

501-375-9131

120 East Fourth Street Little Rock

Robert Wright

Mitchell, Blackstock, Wright & Alagood

501-378-7870

1010 West Third Street Little Rock

Immigration Law

Misty Wilson Borkowski

Hall Booth Smith

501-214-3499

200 River Market Avenue, Suite 500 Little Rock

Missy McJunkins Duke Rose Law Firm

501-375-9131

120 East Fourth Street Little Rock

George R. Ernst Hall Booth Smith

501-214-3499

200 River Market Avenue, Suite 500 Little Rock

Asa Hutchinson III

Asa Hutchinson Law Group

479-878-1600 1710 SW Commerce Drive, Suite 23 Bentonville

Information Technology Law

John M. Jewell

Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull

501-379-1700

111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock

N. M. Norton

Wright Lindsey Jennings

501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock

Insurance Law

James C. Baker, Jr. Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Timothy L. Boone RMP

501-954-9000 11601 Pleasant Ridge Road, Suite 301 Little Rock

Mark Breeding Munson, Rowlett, Moore & Boone

501-374-6535

One Allied Drive, Suite 1600 Little Rock

William F. Clark Davis, Butt, Taylor & Clark

479-521-7600

75 North East Avenue, Suite 402 Fayetteville

Elizabeth Fletcher Munson, Rowlett, Moore & Boone

501-374-6535

One Allied Drive, Suite 1600

Little Rock

Sarah Greenwood RMP

501-954-9000

11601 Pleasant Ridge Road, Suite 301

Little Rock

Mariam T. Hopkins

Anderson Murphy Hopkins

501-372-1887

101 River Bluff Drive, Suite A

Little Rock

Margaret A. Johnston

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard

501-688-8800

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock

Jason Lee Gill Ragon Owen

501-376-3800

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 3800 Little Rock

Jerry L. Lovelace

Roy, Lambert, Lovelace, Bingaman & Wood

479-320-2300

2706 South Dividend Drive Springdale

Kathy McCarroll

Friday Eldredge & Clark

501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Kara Mikles

Munson, Rowlett, Moore & Boone

501-374-6535

One Allied Drive, Suite 1600 Little Rock

Bruce E. Munson Munson, Rowlett, Moore & Boone 501-374-6535

One Allied Drive, Suite 1600 Little Rock

Brian A. Pipkin

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard

501-688-8800

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock

Rob Pointer

Duncan Firm

501-228-7600

809 West Third Street

Little Rock

Scott D. Provencher

Wright Lindsey Jennings

501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300

Little Rock

Steven W. Quattlebaum

Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull

501-379-1700

111 Center Street, Suite 1900

Little Rock

Emily M. Runyon

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard

479-464-5650

4206 South J.B. Hunt Drive, Suite 200 Rogers

Derrick W. Smith

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard

501-688-8800

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800

Little Rock

M. Evan Stallings

Barber Law Firm

501-372-6175

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 3400

Little Rock

Zachary T. Steadman

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard

501-688-8800

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800

Little Rock

Shane Strabala Munson, Rowlett, Moore & Boone 501-374-6535 One Allied Drive, Suite 1600 Little Rock

Scott M. Strauss

Barber Law Firm 501-372-6175

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 3400

Little Rock

Jeffrey H. Thomas Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800

Little Rock

Amy L. Tracy Tracy Law 501-712-5899

918 West Sixth Street

Little Rock

Michael P. Vanderford

Anderson Murphy Hopkins 501-372-1887

101 River Bluff Drive, Suite A

Little Rock

J. Andrew Vines

Dobson & Vines 501-490-9906

P.O. Box 251763

Little Rock

Mark D. Wankum

Anderson Murphy Hopkins 501-372-1887

101 River Bluff Drive, Suite A

Little Rock

Mary Carole Young RMP 501-954-9000

11601 Pleasant Ridge Road, Suite 301

Little Rock

Labor Law - Management

J. Bruce Cross Rose Law Firm

501-375-9131

120 East Fourth Street

Little Rock

John D. Davis

Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300

Little Rock

Missy McJunkins Duke Rose Law Firm

501-375-9131

120 East Fourth Street

Little Rock

Khayyam M. Eddings

Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000

Little Rock

James M. Gary Kutak Rock 501-975-3000

124 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000

Little Rock

Michael R. Jones Gilker & Jones 479-369-4294 9222 North Highway 71 Mountainburg

Susan K. Kendall Harrington, Miller, Kieklak, Eichmann & Brown 479-751-6464

4710 S. Thompson, Suite 102 Springdale

David P. Martin Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131

120 East Fourth Street

Little Rock

Abtin Mehdizadegan Hall Booth Smith 501-214-3499

200 River Market Avenue, Suite 500

Little Rock

Michael S. Moore

Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000

Little Rock

Spencer F. Robinson Ramsay, Bridgforth, Robinson & Raley

870-535-9000

Simmons First National Bank Building, 501 Main Street 11th Floor Pine Bluff

Carolyn B. Witherspoon Rose Law Firm

501-375-9131

120 East Fourth Street Little Rock

H. Wayne Young Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Labor Law - Union

John L. Burnett

Lavey and Burnett

501-376-2269 904 West Second Street Little Rock

Susan K. Kendall

Harrington, Miller, Kieklak, Eichmann & Brown 479-751-6464

4710 S. Thompson, Suite 102 Springdale

Janet L. Pulliam Pulliam Law Offices

501-664-7405 15 Pinnacle Point North Little Rock

Land Use and Zoning Law

Stephen R. Giles Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock

Timothy W. Grooms

Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700

111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock

J. Cliff McKinney II Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700

111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock

J. Scott Schallhorn

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800

Little Rock

Legal Malpractice LawDefendants

Donald H. Bacon

Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000

Little Rock

G. Spence Fricke

Barber Law Firm

501-372-6175

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 3400

Little Rock

Edwin L. Lowther, Jr.

Wright Lindsey Jennings

501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300

Little Rock

David M. Powell

Rose Law Firm

501-375-9131

120 East Fourth Street

Little Rock

Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity Law

Price C. Gardner

Friday Eldredge & Clark

501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000

Little Rock

Litigation - Antitrust

Vicki Bronson

Conner & Winters

479-582-5711

4375 North Vantage Drive, Suite 405 Fayetteville

Litigation - Banking and Finance

Suzanne G. Clark

Clark Law Firm

479-802-4834

121 West South Street Fayetteville

Richard T. Donovan

Rose Law Firm

501-375-9131

120 East Fourth Street Little Rock

David S. Mitchell, Jr.

Rose Law Firm

501-375-9131

120 East Fourth Street Little Rock

Marshall S. Ney

Friday Eldredge & Clark

479-695-2011

3350 South Pinnacle Hills Parkway, Suite 301 Rogers

John E. Tull III

Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull

501-379-1700

111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock

Kyle T. Unser

Kutak Rock

479-250-9700

5111 West JB Hunt Drive, Suite 300 Rogers

David B. Vandergriff

Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull

501-379-1700

111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock

William A. Waddell, Jr.

Friday Eldredge & Clark

501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Litigation - Bankruptcy

Betsy Baker

Rose Law Firm

501-375-9131

120 East Fourth Street Little Rock

Constance G. Clark

Davis, Butt, Taylor & Clark

479-521-7600

75 North East Avenue, Suite 402 Fayetteville

Charles T. Coleman

Wright Lindsey Jennings

501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock

Allison R. Gladden

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard

501-688-8800

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock

David A. Grace

Hardin & Grace

501-378-7900

500 Main Street, Suite A North Little Rock

Judy Simmons Henry

Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock

Johnathan D. Horton

Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock

Kevin P. Keech

Keech Law Firm 501-221-3200

2011 South Broadway Street Little Rock

Harry A. Light

Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011

West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Gary D. Marts, Jr.

Wright Lindsey Jennings

501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock

Lance R. Miller

Wright Lindsey Jennings

501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock

Jaimie G. Moss

Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock

Marshall S. Ney

Friday Eldredge & Clark

479-695-2011

3350 South Pinnacle Hills Parkway, Suite 301 Rogers

Stan D. Smith

Wright Lindsey Jennings

501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock

Geoffrey B. Treece Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull

501-379-1700

111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock

Litigation - Construction

Russell C. Atchley

Kutak Rock

479-250-9700

5111 West JB Hunt Drive, Suite 300 Rogers

M. Stephen Bingham

Rose Law Firm

501-375-9131

120 East Fourth Street Little Rock

H. David Blair

Blair & Stroud

870-793-8350

500 East Main Street, Suite 201 Batesville

Jason J. Campbell

Gill Ragon Owen

501-376-3800

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 3800 Little Rock

Suzanne G. Clark

Clark Law Firm

479-802-4834

121 West South Street Fayetteville

Junius Bracy Cross, Jr.

JB Cross Construction Law

501-221-9393

2228 Cottondale Lane, Suite 220 Little Rock

Max R. Deitchler Kutak Rock 479-973-4200

1277 East Joyce Boulevard, Suite 300 Fayetteville

Richard T. Donovan Rose Law Firm

501-375-9131

120 East Fourth Street Little Rock

Matthew B. Finch Gill Ragon Owen 501-376-3800

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 3800 Little Rock

Roger H. Fitzgibbon Gill Ragon Owen 501-376-3800

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 3800 Little Rock

David A. Grace Hardin & Grace

501-378-7900

500 Main Street, Suite A North Little Rock

Cyril Hollingsworth

Wright Lindsey Jennings

501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock

David L. Jones

Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock

Stephen R. Lancaster

Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock

James G. Lingle Lingle Law Firm

479-636-7899

110 South Dixieland Road

Rogers

David S. Mitchell, Jr. Rose Law Firm

501-375-9131

120 East Fourth Street

Little Rock

Edward T. Oglesby

The Brad Hendricks Law Firm

501-550-4090

500 Pleasant Valley Drive, Building C Little Rock

David M. Powell

Rose Law Firm

501-375-9131

120 East Fourth Street Little Rock

John M. Scott

Conner & Winters

479-582-5711

4375 North Vantage Drive, Suite 405 Fayetteville

Michael P. Vanderford

Anderson Murphy Hopkins 501-372-1887

101 River Bluff Drive, Suite A Little Rock

Jason H. Wales

Wales & Mikesch

479-439-8088

2909 E. Glory Dr STE 113 Fayetteville

John Dewey Watson

ADR

501-804-4131

23 Iviers Drive Little Rock

LitigationEnvironmental

Mark H. Allison

Wright Lindsey Jennings

501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock

Joseph Henry Bates III

Carney Bates & Pulliam

888-551-9944

One Allied Drive, Suite 1400 Little Rock

Vicki Bronson

Conner & Winters

479-582-5711

4375 North Vantage Drive, Suite 405 Fayetteville

John R. Elrod

Conner & Winters

479-582-5711

4375 North Vantage Drive, Suite 405 Fayetteville

Allan Gates

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard

501-688-8800

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock

Julie DeWoody

Greathouse

PPGMR Law

501-603-9000

201 East Markham Street, Suite 200 Little Rock

Samuel E. Ledbetter

McMath Woods

501-530-4320

711 West Third Street Little Rock

James G. Lingle

Lingle Law Firm

479-636-7899

110 South Dixieland Road Rogers

G. Alan Perkins

PPGMR Law

501-603-9000

201 East Markham Street, Suite 200 Little Rock

Brian Rosenthal Rose Law Firm

501-375-9131

120 East Fourth Street Little Rock

Litigation - ERISA

Brandon B. Cate Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull

479-444-5200

4100 Corporate Center Drive, Suite 310 Springdale

E.B. Chiles IV Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull

501-379-1700

111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock

Susan K. Kendall Harrington, Miller, Kieklak, Eichmann & Brown

479-751-6464

4710 S. Thompson, Suite 102 Springdale

Litigation - First Amendment

James G. Lingle

Lingle Law Firm 479-636-7899

110 South Dixieland Road Rogers

Troy A. Price

Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock

John E. Tull III Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700

111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock

Litigation - Health Care

Jason B. Hendren Hall Booth Smith 479-391-6200

5001 W Founders Way, Suite 330 Rogers

Ashley Welch Hudson Kutak Rock 501-975-3000

124 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Benjamin D. Jackson Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock

Colin M. Johnson Carithers Johnson Devenport 479-332-4905

3900 Front Street, Suite 103 Fayetteville

Steven W. Quattlebaum Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700

111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock

Amber Wilson Bagley Rose Law Firm

501-375-9131

120 East Fourth Street Little Rock

Litigation - Insurance

S. Shane Baker Waddell, Cole & Jones 870-931-1700

310 East Street, Suite A Jonesboro

M. Stephen Bingham Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131

120 East Fourth Street Little Rock

Timothy L. Boone RMP 501-954-9000 11601 Pleasant Ridge Road, Suite 301 Little Rock

Mark Breeding Munson, Rowlett, Moore & Boone 501-374-6535 One Allied Drive, Suite 1600 Little Rock

Kevin W. Cole Waddell, Cole & Jones 870-931-1700

310 East Street, Suite A Jonesboro

Niki Cung Kutak Rock 479-973-4200

1277 East Joyce Boulevard, Suite 300 Fayetteville

J. Cotten Cunningham Barber Law Firm

501-372-6175

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 3400 Little Rock

Barrett Deacon Mayer 479-396-2060

2434 East Joyce Boulevard, Suite Six Fayetteville

Mark W. Dossett Kutak Rock 479-250-9700 5111 West JB Hunt Drive, Suite 300 Rogers

Elizabeth Fletcher Munson, Rowlett, Moore & Boone 501-374-6535 One Allied Drive, Suite 1600 Little Rock

Sarah Greenwood RMP 501-954-9000 11601 Pleasant Ridge Road, Suite 301 Little Rock

William Mell Griffin III Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Michael McCarty Harrison Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Stephen A. Hester Spicer Rudstrom 501-904-7004

425 West Capital Avenue, Suite 3175 Little Rock

Jamie H. Jones Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Cynthia W. Kolb Rose Law Firm

501-375-9131

120 East Fourth Street Little Rock

Jason Lee Gill Ragon Owen 501-376-3800

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 3800 Little Rock

Amy C. Markham

Friday Eldredge & Clark

501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Gary D. Marts, Jr.

Wright Lindsey Jennings

501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock

Kara Mikles Munson, Rowlett, Moore & Boone

501-374-6535

One Allied Drive, Suite 1600 Little Rock

Bruce E. Munson Munson, Rowlett, Moore & Boone

501-374-6535

One Allied Drive, Suite 1600 Little Rock

Edward T. Oglesby

The Brad Hendricks Law Firm

501-550-4090

500 Pleasant Valley Drive, Building C Little Rock

David M. Powell

Rose Law Firm

501-375-9131

120 East Fourth Street Little Rock

Jeffrey W. Puryear

Puryear Mayfield & McNeil

870-932-0900

3000 Browns Lane Jonesboro

Emily M. Runyon

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard

479-464-5650

4206 South J.B. Hunt Drive, Suite 200 Rogers

Michael G. Smith

Wright Lindsey Jennings

501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock

M. Evan Stallings Barber Law Firm

501-372-6175

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 3400 Little Rock

Shane Strabala Munson, Rowlett, Moore & Boone

501-374-6535

One Allied Drive, Suite 1600 Little Rock

Scott Tidwell RMP

479-443-2705

5519 Hackett Road, Suite 300 Springdale

Amy L. Tracy Tracy Law

501-712-5899 918 West Sixth Street Little Rock

Kyle R. Wilson

Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300

Little Rock

Kimberly D. Young

Friday Eldredge & Clark

501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Mary Carole Young RMP 501-954-9000 11601 Pleasant Ridge Road, Suite 301 Little Rock

Litigation - Intellectual Property

Kevin A. Crass

Friday Eldredge & Clark

501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Frederick H. Davis Kutak Rock 501-975-3000

124 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Josh Hallenbeck Rose Law Firm

501-375-9131

120 East Fourth Street Little Rock

Mark Murphey Henry Henry Law Firm 479-368-0555

P.O. Box 4800 Fayetteville

Adam Hopkins Rose Law Firm

501-375-9131

120 East Fourth Street Little Rock

Harry A. Light

Friday Eldredge & Clark

501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000

Little Rock

N. M. Norton

Wright Lindsey Jennings

501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300

Little Rock

Litigation - Labor and Employment

Alfred F. Angulo, Jr.

Robertson, Beasley, Shipley & Robinson

479-782-8813

315 North Seventh Street Fort Smith

John L. Burnett

Lavey and Burnett 501-376-2269

904 West Second Street Little Rock

Daniel R. Carter

James & Carter

501-263-9450

500 Broadway, Suite 400 Little Rock

Brandon B. Cate

Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull

479-444-5200

4100 Corporate Center Drive, Suite 310 Springdale

E.B. Chiles IV Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull

501-379-1700

111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock

Suzanne G. Clark

Clark Law Firm

479-802-4834

121 West South Street Fayetteville

J. Bruce Cross Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131

120 East Fourth Street Little Rock

John D. Davis

Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock

Abbie Decker Rucker Fuqua Campbell 501-374-0200

Riviera Tower, Suite 205 Little Rock

Missy McJunkins Duke Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131

120 East Fourth Street Little Rock

Joseph R. Falasco Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700

111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock

James M. Gary Kutak Rock 501-975-3000

124 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Audra K. Hamilton Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard

501-688-8800

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock

Christopher J. Heller

Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Denise Reid Hoggard Rainwater, Holt & Sexton 501-868-2500

801 Technology Drive Little Rock

Asa Hutchinson III Asa Hutchinson Law Group

479-878-1600 1710 SW Commerce Drive, Suite 23 Bentonville

William Stuart Jackson Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300

Little Rock

Sarah Keith-Bolden Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock

Susan K. Kendall Harrington, Miller, Kieklak, Eichmann & Brown 479-751-6464 4710 S. Thompson, Suite 102 Springdale

Kerri E. Kobbeman Conner & Winters 479-582-5711 4375 North Vantage Drive, Suite 405 Fayetteville

Cynthia W. Kolb Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131 120 East Fourth Street Little Rock

Eva C. Madison Littler 479-582-6100 The Fulbright Building Fayetteville

David P. Martin Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131

120 East Fourth Street Little Rock

Abtin Mehdizadegan

Hall Booth Smith 501-214-3499

200 River Market Avenue, Suite 500 Little Rock

Barrett S. Moore Blair & Stroud 870-793-8350

500 East Main Street, Suite 201 Batesville

Michael S. Moore Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Elizabeth Robben Murray Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Marshall S. Ney

Friday Eldredge & Clark 479-695-2011

3350 South Pinnacle Hills Parkway, Suite 301 Rogers

Amanda G. Orcutt Shults Law Firm 501-375-2301

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1600 Little Rock

Danielle Whitehouse

Owens

Gill Ragon Owen 501-376-3800

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 3800 Little Rock

Dylan Potts

Gill Ragon Owen 501-376-3800

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 3800 Little Rock

Janet L. Pulliam

Pulliam Law Offices 501-664-7405

15 Pinnacle Point North Little Rock

Spencer F. Robinson

Ramsay, Bridgforth, Robinson & Raley 870-535-9000

Simmons First National Bank Building, 501 Main Street 11th Floor Pine Bluff

Benjamin H. Shipley III

Robertson, Beasley, Shipley & Robinson 479-782-8813

315 North Seventh Street Fort Smith

Paul D. Waddell Waddell, Cole & Jones 870-931-1700

310 East Street, Suite A Jonesboro

Carolyn B. Witherspoon Rose Law Firm

501-375-9131

120 East Fourth Street Little Rock

H. Wayne Young Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Litigation - Mergers and Acquisitions

Suzanne G. Clark Clark Law Firm

479-802-4834

121 West South Street Fayetteville

Kerri E. Kobbeman Conner & Winters 479-582-5711

4375 North Vantage Drive, Suite 405 Fayetteville

Litigation - Municipal Missy McJunkins Duke Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131

120 East Fourth Street Little Rock

Robert K. Rhoads Hall Estill 479-973-5200

75 North East Avenue, Suite 500 Fayetteville

Colby T. Roe Daily & Woods

479-782-0361

58 South Sixth Street Fort Smith

Litigation - Patent Frederick H. Davis Kutak Rock 501-975-3000

124 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Mark Murphey Henry Henry Law Firm 479-368-0555

P.O. Box 4800 Fayetteville

Litigation - Real Estate

Adrienne L. Baker Wright Lindsey Jennings 479-986-0888

3333 Pinnacle Hills Parkway, Suite 510 Rogers

John Keeling Baker

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard

501-688-8800

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800

Little Rock

Constance G. Clark

Davis, Butt, Taylor & Clark

479-521-7600

75 North East Avenue, Suite 402

Fayetteville

Suzanne G. Clark

Clark Law Firm

479-802-4834

121 West South Street

Fayetteville

William F. Clark

Davis, Butt, Taylor & Clark

479-521-7600

75 North East Avenue, Suite 402

Fayetteville

Cade L. Cox

Cox, Sterling, Vandiver, & Botteicher

501-954-8073

8201 Cantrell Road, Suite 330 Little Rock

Thomas A. Daily Daily & Woods

479-782-0361

58 South Sixth Street Fort Smith

Don A. Eilbott

Don A. Eilbott

501-225-2885

P.O. Box 23870 Little Rock

Joseph R. Falasco

Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull

501-379-1700

111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock

Timothy W. Grooms

Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull

501-379-1700

111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock

L. Kyle Heffley Kutak Rock

479-250-9700

5111 West JB Hunt Drive, Suite 300 Rogers

Johnathan D. Horton

Wright Lindsey Jennings

501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock

Stephen R. Lancaster

Wright Lindsey Jennings

501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock

Edwin N. McClure

Matthews, Campbell, Rhoads, McClure & Thompson

479-636-0875 119 South Second Street Rogers

Brandon Moffitt Moffitt & Phillips 501-255-7406 1501 North University, Suite 465 Little Rock

Joseph W. Price II Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock

Patrick Spivey Fuqua Campbell

501-374-0200 Riviera Tower, Suite 205 Little Rock

John P. Talbot

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard

501-688-8800

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock

Mary-Tipton Thalheimer

Rose Law Firm

501-375-9131

120 East Fourth Street Little Rock

Kyle T. Unser Kutak Rock 479-250-9700 5111 West JB Hunt Drive, Suite 300 Rogers

David B. Vandergriff

Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock

Robert Wilson III

The Wilson Law Group 501-216-9388

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1400 Little Rock

Litigation - Regulatory Enforcement (SEC, Telecom, Energy)

Richard T. Donovan

Rose Law Firm

501-375-9131

120 East Fourth Street Little Rock

Litigation - Securities

Kevin A. Crass

Friday Eldredge & Clark

501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Richard T. Donovan

Rose Law Firm

501-375-9131

120 East Fourth Street Little Rock

Kerri E. Kobbeman

Conner & Winters

479-582-5711

4375 North Vantage Drive, Suite 405 Fayetteville

Litigation - Trusts and Estates

William Jackson Butt II

Davis, Butt, Taylor & Clark

479-521-7600

75 North East Avenue, Suite 402 Fayetteville

Suzanne G. Clark

Clark Law Firm

479-802-4834

121 West South Street Fayetteville

Allison J. Cornwell

Friday Eldredge & Clark

501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Cade L. Cox

Cox, Sterling, Vandiver, & Botteicher

501-954-8073

8201 Cantrell Road, Suite 330 Little Rock

Rita Reed Harris

Rita Reed Harris

870-633-9900

208 North Izard Street Forrest City

Robert S. Jones

Waddell, Cole & Jones

870-931-1700

310 East Street, Suite A Jonesboro

Stephen R. Lancaster

Wright Lindsey Jennings

501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock

Sarah Cotton Patterson

Friday Eldredge & Clark

501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Katie Watson Bingham

Friday Eldredge & Clark

501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Litigation and Controversy - Tax

John Keeling Baker

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard

501-688-8800

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock

Price C. Gardner

Friday Eldredge & Clark

501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Michael Goswami

Rose Law Firm

501-375-9131

120 East Fourth Street Little Rock

Anton L. Janik Jr.

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard

501-688-8800

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock

Wendy Johnson RMP

479-443-2705

5519 Hackett Road, Suite 300 Springdale

David S. Mitchell, Jr. Rose Law Firm

501-375-9131

120 East Fourth Street Little Rock

Michael O. Parker

Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock

Paul Parnell

Rose Law Firm

501-375-9131

120 East Fourth Street Little Rock

Christopher D. Plumlee RMP

479-443-2705

5519 Hackett Road, Suite 300 Springdale

Mass Tort Litigation / Class ActionsDefendants

Mark Breeding Munson, Rowlett, Moore & Boone

501-374-6535

One Allied Drive, Suite 1600 Little Rock

E.B. Chiles IV Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull

501-379-1700

111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock

Baxter D. Drennon

Hall Booth Smith 501-214-3499

200 River Market Avenue, Suite 500 Little Rock

John R. Elrod Conner & Winters

479-582-5711

4375 North Vantage Drive, Suite 405 Fayetteville

Elizabeth Fletcher Munson, Rowlett, Moore & Boone

501-374-6535

One Allied Drive, Suite 1600 Little Rock

Jeffrey M. Fletcher Kutak Rock 479-973-4200

1277 East Joyce Boulevard, Suite 300 Fayetteville

Sarah Greenwood RMP

501-954-9000

11601 Pleasant Ridge Road, Suite 301 Little Rock

Megan D. Hargraves

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock

Scott A. Irby Wright Lindsey Jennings 479-986-0888 3333 Pinnacle Hills Parkway, Suite 510 Rogers

Benjamin D. Jackson Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock

Jamie H. Jones

Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Martin A. Kasten

Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Andrew King Kutak Rock 501-975-3000

124 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Edwin L. Lowther, Jr. Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock

Gary D. Marts, Jr. Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock

Scott D. Provencher

Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock

Steven W. Quattlebaum Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700

111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock

Gordon S. Rather, Jr. Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock

Graham C. Talley

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock

Michael A. Thompson

Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300

Little Rock

John E. Tull III

Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700

111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock

Kimberly D. Young Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

R. Ryan Younger Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700

111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock

Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Plaintiffs

J. R. Carroll

Kutak Rock

479-973-4200

1277 East Joyce Boulevard, Suite 300 Fayetteville

Anthony C. Johnson

Johnson Firm (501) 372-1300

610 President Clinton Avenue, Suite 200 Little Rock

Thomas Mars

Mars Law Firm

479-381-5535

5500 Pinnacle Point Drive, Suite 202 Rogers

Brian D. Reddick

Reddick Law

501-943-1456

One Information Way, Suite 105 Little Rock

Clyde Talbot Turner Turner & Associates

501-791-2277

4705 Somers Avenue, Suite 100 North Little Rock

Media Law

Jess L. Askew III Kutak Rock

501-975-3000

124 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Brandon B. Cate Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull

479-444-5200

4100 Corporate Center Drive, Suite 310 Springdale

Vincent O. Chadick

Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull

479-444-5200

4100 Corporate Center Drive, Suite 310 Springdale

John E. Tull III Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull

501-379-1700

111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock

Mediation

Jon B. Comstock

Comstock Conflict Resolution Services

479-659-1767

206 South Second Street, Suite C Rogers

David M. Fuqua Fuqua Campbell 501-374-0200 Riviera Tower, Suite 205 Little Rock

Frank S. Hamlin

Hamlin Dispute Resolution 501-850-8888 2513 McCain Blvd, Suite 2 PMB#109 Little Rock

Robert E. Hornberger

Robert E. Hornberger Attorney/Mediator 479-459-7878

404 North Seventh Street Fort Smith

Bruce E. Munson Munson, Rowlett, Moore & Boone 501-374-6535 One Allied Drive, Suite 1600 Little Rock

James W. Tilley WDTC Law 501-372-1406 2120 Riverfront Drive, Suite 275 Little Rock

John Dewey Watson ADR

501-804-4131

23 Iviers Drive Little Rock

Medical Malpractice Law - Defendants

Michelle Ator

Friday Eldredge & Clark

501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Donald H. Bacon

Friday Eldredge & Clark

501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Timothy L. Boone RMP 501-954-9000 11601 Pleasant Ridge Road, Suite 301 Little Rock

Mark Breeding Munson, Rowlett, Moore & Boone 501-374-6535 One Allied Drive, Suite 1600 Little Rock

Jason J. Campbell Gill Ragon Owen 501-376-3800

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 3800 Little Rock

Kelly Carithers Carithers Johnson

Devenport

479-332-4905

3900 Front Street, Suite 103 Fayetteville

Mark W. Dossett Kutak Rock

479-250-9700

5111 West JB Hunt Drive, Suite 300 Rogers

James R. Estes, Jr. Cox & Estes

479-251-7900

3900 North Front Street, Suite 103 Fayetteville

Jeffrey M. Fletcher Kutak Rock

479-973-4200

1277 East Joyce Boulevard, Suite 300 Fayetteville

Sarah Greenwood RMP

501-954-9000

11601 Pleasant Ridge Road, Suite 301 Little Rock

William Mell Griffin III

Friday Eldredge & Clark

501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Jeffrey W. Hatfield

Hardin, Jesson & Terry

501-850-0015

1401 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 190 Little Rock

Rebecca D. Hattabaugh

Ledbetter Cogbill Arnold & Harrison

479-782-7294

622 Parker Avenue Fort Smith

L. Kyle Heffley Kutak Rock

479-250-9700

5111 West JB Hunt Drive, Suite 300 Rogers

Jason B. Hendren Hall Booth Smith

479-391-6200

5001 W Founders Way, Suite 330 Rogers

Stephen A. Hester Spicer Rudstrom

501-904-7004

425 West Capital Avenue, Suite 3175 Little Rock

Mariam T. Hopkins

Anderson Murphy Hopkins

501-372-1887

101 River Bluff Drive, Suite A Little Rock

Benjamin D. Jackson Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard

501-688-8800

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock

Colin M. Johnson

Carithers Johnson Devenport 479-332-4905

3900 Front Street, Suite 103 Fayetteville

David C. Jung

Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock

Robert J. Lambert, Jr.

Roy, Lambert, Lovelace, Bingaman & Wood

479-320-2300

2706 South Dividend Drive Springdale

Edwin L. Lowther, Jr.

Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock

Paul D. McNeill

RMP

870-394-5200 710 Windover Road, Suite B Jonesboro

Bruce E. Munson Munson, Rowlett, Moore & Boone 501-374-6535

One Allied Drive, Suite 1600 Little Rock

Scott D. Provencher

Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock

Jeffrey W. Puryear Puryear Mayfield & McNeil

870-932-0900

3000 Browns Lane Jonesboro

Bradley S. Runyon

Friday Eldredge & Clark

501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Emily M. Runyon

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard

479-464-5650

4206 South J.B. Hunt Drive, Suite 200 Rogers

Laura H. Smith

Friday Eldredge & Clark

501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Graham C. Talley

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock

Carson Tucker

Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock

Paul D. Waddell

Waddell, Cole & Jones

870-931-1700

310 East Street, Suite A Jonesboro

Mark D. Wankum

Anderson Murphy Hopkins 501-372-1887

101 River Bluff Drive, Suite A Little Rock

Mary Carole Young RMP

501-954-9000 11601 Pleasant Ridge Road, Suite 301 Little Rock

Medical Malpractice Law - Plaintiffs

Frank H. Bailey

Horton Law Firm

888-822-6011

1000 McClain Road Suite 612 Bentonville

H. David Blair

Blair & Stroud

870-793-8350

500 East Main Street, Suite 201 Batesville

Keith Blythe Blythe Law Firm

479-783-8044

3921 Rogers Avenue Fort Smith

Will Bond

McMath Woods

501-530-4320

711 West Third Street Little Rock

Hugh E. Crisp

The Crisp Law Firm

501-376-6264

221 West Second Street, Suite 8G Little Rock

Shawn B. Daniels

Daniels Law Firm 479-521-7000

129 West Sunbridge Drive Fayetteville

Randy Hall Little Rock Trial Attorneys 501-404-2333

415 North McKinley, Suite 1000 Little Rock

Joey McCutchen McCutchen Napurano 479-783-0036 1622 N B Street Fort Smith

Bobby R. McDaniel McDaniel Law Firm 870-565-4215

400 South Main Street

Jonesboro

Mattie Taylor Little Rock Trial Attorneys 501-404-2333

415 North McKinley, Suite 1000

Little Rock

George R. Wise, Jr. The Brad Hendricks Law Firm 501-550-4090

500 Pleasant Valley Drive, Building C Little Rock

Mergers and Acquisitions Law

Robyn P. Allmendinger Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131

120 East Fourth Street Little Rock

Paul B. Benham III

Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Tameron C. Bishop Kutak Rock 479-973-4200

1277 East Joyce Boulevard, Suite 300 Fayetteville

C. Douglas Buford, Jr. Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock

Courtney C. Crouch III

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard

501-688-8800

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock

Bryan W. Duke

Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Walter M. Ebel III

Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Price C. Gardner

Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Rayburn W. Green

Rayburn W. Green Attorney at Law P.O. Box 11054 Fayetteville

Timothy W. Grooms Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700

111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock

Rebecca B. Hurst

Smith Hurst 479-405-5355

5100 West JB Hunt Drive, Suite 1030 Rogers

Scott M. Lar Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 479-444-5200 4100 Corporate Center Drive, Suite 310 Springdale

D. Nicole Lovell Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock

C. David McDaniel Kutak Rock 501-975-3000

124 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

E. Conner McNair

Friday Eldredge & Clark 479-695-2011

3350 South Pinnacle Hills Parkway, Suite 301 Rogers

Geoffrey D. Neal Kutak Rock

501-975-3000

124 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Joseph G. Nichols Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Cal Rose

Wright Lindsey Jennings 479-986-0888

3333 Pinnacle Hills Parkway, Suite 510 Rogers

Greg S. Scharlau Conner & Winters 479-582-5711

4375 North Vantage Drive, Suite 405 Fayetteville

David A. Smith Kutak Rock 501-975-3000

124 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

James W. Smith Smith Hurst 479-405-5355

5100 West JB Hunt Drive, Suite 1030 Rogers

Robert T. Smith Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Thomas C. Vaughan, Jr. Lax, Vaughan, Fortson, Rowe & Threet

501-376-6565

Cantrell West Building, Suite 201 Little Rock

Jenny Wilkes RMP

501-954-9000 11601 Pleasant Ridge Road, Suite 301 Little Rock

Mortgage Banking Foreclosure Law

Christopher A. McNulty Rose Law Firm

501-375-9131

120 East Fourth Street Little Rock

Robert Wilson III

The Wilson Law Group

501-216-9388

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1400 Little Rock

Jennifer Wilson-Harvey

The Wilson Law Group

501-216-9388

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1400

Little Rock

Municipal Law

Ryan A. Bowman

Friday Eldredge & Clark

501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000

Little Rock

W. Taylor Marshall

Friday Eldredge & Clark

501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000

Little Rock

D. Michael Moyers

Friday Eldredge & Clark

501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000

Little Rock

J. Shepherd Russell III

Friday Eldredge & Clark

501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000

Little Rock

John William Spivey III

Wright Lindsey Jennings

501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300

Little Rock

Gordon M. Wilbourn Kutak Rock

501-975-3000

124 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Amber Wilson Bagley

Rose Law Firm

501-375-9131

120 East Fourth Street Little Rock

Carolyn B. Witherspoon

Rose Law Firm

501-375-9131

120 East Fourth Street Little Rock

Natural Resources Law

James M. Saxton

Friday Eldredge & Clark

501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000

Little Rock

Nonprofit / Charities Law

Rebecca B. Hurst

Smith Hurst

479-405-5355

5100 West JB Hunt Drive, Suite 1030 Rogers

Wilson Jones

Rose Law Firm

501-375-9131

120 East Fourth Street Little Rock

Sarah Cotton Patterson

Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Katie Watson Bingham

Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

K. Coleman Westbrook, Jr.

Friday Eldredge & Clark

501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Oil and Gas Law

Carolyn J. Clegg

Keith & Clegg

870-234-3550 McAlester Building, Suite 205 Magnolia

Michael Daily Daily & Woods

479-782-0361

58 South Sixth Street Fort Smith

Thomas A. Daily Daily & Woods

479-782-0361

58 South Sixth Street Fort Smith

Michael B. Heister

Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull

501-379-1700 111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock

Robert M. Honea

Hardin, Jesson & Terry 479-452-2200

5000 Rogers Avenue, Suite 500 Fort Smith

G. Alan Perkins

PPGMR Law

501-603-9000

201 East Markham Street, Suite 200 Little Rock

James M. Saxton

Friday Eldredge & Clark

501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Patent Law

J. Charles Dougherty

Wright Lindsey Jennings

501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock

Josh Hallenbeck

Rose Law Firm

501-375-9131

120 East Fourth Street Little Rock

Mark Murphey Henry

Henry Law Firm

479-368-0555

P.O. Box 4800 Fayetteville

Meredith K. Lowry

Wright Lindsey Jennings

479-986-0888

3333 Pinnacle Hills Parkway, Suite 510 Rogers

Personal Injury

Litigation - Defendants

Alfred F. Angulo, Jr

Robertson, Beasley, Shipley & Robinson

479-782-8813

315 North Seventh Street Fort Smith

Michelle Ator

Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Donald H. Bacon

Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

James C. Baker, Jr.

Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Michael D. Barnes

Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock

Timothy L. Boone

RMP

501-954-9000

11601 Pleasant Ridge Road, Suite 301 Little Rock

Mark Breeding Munson, Rowlett, Moore & Boone

501-374-6535

One Allied Drive, Suite

1600 Little Rock

Bill W. Bristow

Bristow & Richardson

870-935-9000

216 East Washington Avenue Jonesboro

Kelly Carithers Carithers Johnson Devenport

479-332-4905

3900 Front Street, Suite 103 Fayetteville

E.B. Chiles IV Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700

111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock

Kevin W. Cole Waddell, Cole & Jones

870-931-1700

310 East Street, Suite A Jonesboro

Kevin A. Crass

Friday Eldredge & Clark

501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

J. Cotten Cunningham Barber Law Firm 501-372-6175

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 3400 Little Rock

Barrett Deacon Mayer 479-396-2060

2434 East Joyce Boulevard, Suite Six Fayetteville

Deborah S. Denton Anderson Murphy Hopkins 501-372-1887 101 River Bluff Drive, Suite A Little Rock

Tony A. DiCarlo III Hall Booth Smith 501-214-3499

200 River Market Avenue, Suite 500 Little Rock

David M. Donovan WDTC Law 501-372-1406 2120 Riverfront Drive, Suite 275 Little Rock

Baxter D. Drennon Hall Booth Smith 501-214-3499

200 River Market Avenue, Suite 500 Little Rock

Michael J. Emerson Barber Law Firm

501-372-6175

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 3400 Little Rock

James R. Estes, Jr. Cox & Estes 479-251-7900

3900 North Front Street, Suite 103 Fayetteville

G. Spence Fricke Barber Law Firm 501-372-6175

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 3400 Little Rock

Sarah Greenwood RMP 501-954-9000

11601 Pleasant Ridge Road, Suite 301 Little Rock

William Mell Griffin III

Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000

Little Rock

Michael McCarty

Harrison Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000

Little Rock

Jeffrey W. Hatfield Hardin, Jesson & Terry 501-850-0015 1401 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 190

Little Rock

Mariam T. Hopkins Anderson Murphy Hopkins 501-372-1887

101 River Bluff Drive, Suite A Little Rock

D. Michael Huckabay, Jr. Huckabay Law Firm 501-375-5600 Metropolitan Tower, Suite 1575 Little Rock

Scott A. Irby Wright Lindsey Jennings 479-986-0888

3333 Pinnacle Hills Parkway, Suite 510 Rogers

Colin M. Johnson Carithers Johnson Devenport 479-332-4905

3900 Front Street, Suite 103

Fayetteville

Jamie H. Jones Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Robert L. Jones III Hamlin Dispute Resolution 501-850-8888

2513 McCain Blvd, Suite 2 PMB#109 Little Rock

Jim L. Julian Barber Law Firm 501-372-6175

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 3400 Little Rock

David C. Jung Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock

Martin A. Kasten Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Jason Lee Gill Ragon Owen 501-376-3800

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 3800 Little Rock

Jerry L. Lovelace Roy, Lambert, Lovelace, Bingaman & Wood 479-320-2300

2706 South Dividend Drive Springdale

Edwin L. Lowther, Jr. Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock

Paul D. McNeill RMP 870-394-5200

710 Windover Road, Suite B Jonesboro

Kara Mikles Munson, Rowlett, Moore & Boone 501-374-6535

One Allied Drive, Suite 1600 Little Rock

Stuart P. Miller Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 479-464-5650

4206 South J.B. Hunt Drive, Suite 200 Rogers

Rodney P. Moore

Wright Lindsey Jennings

501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300

Little Rock

Bruce E. Munson

Munson, Rowlett, Moore & Boone

501-374-6535

One Allied Drive, Suite 1600 Little Rock

Randy P. Murphy

Anderson Murphy Hopkins 501-372-1887

101 River Bluff Drive, Suite A Little Rock

Clifford W. Plunkett

Friday Eldredge & Clark

479-695-2011

3350 South Pinnacle Hills Parkway, Suite 301 Rogers

Scott D. Provencher

Wright Lindsey Jennings

501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock

Steven W. Quattlebaum

Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull

501-379-1700

111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock

Brian H. Ratcliff

PPGMR Law

870-862-5523

200 N. Jefferson Ave., Suite 500 El Dorado

Gordon S. Rather, Jr.

Wright Lindsey Jennings

501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock

Emily M. Runyon

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard

479-464-5650

4206 South J.B. Hunt Drive, Suite 200 Rogers

Jerry J. Sallings

Wright Lindsey Jennings

501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock

Michael N. Shannon

Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull

501-379-1700

111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock

Jeffrey L. Singleton

Wright Lindsey Jennings

501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock

Laura H. Smith

Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

M. Evan Stallings Barber Law Firm 501-372-6175

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 3400 Little Rock

Shane Strabala Munson, Rowlett, Moore & Boone 501-374-6535

One Allied Drive, Suite 1600 Little Rock

Scott Tidwell RMP

479-443-2705

5519 Hackett Road, Suite 300 Springdale

James W. Tilley WDTC Law

501-372-1406 2120 Riverfront Drive, Suite 275 Little Rock

Carson Tucker

Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock

John E. Tull III

Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700

111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock

Michael P. Vanderford

Anderson Murphy Hopkins 501-372-1887

101 River Bluff Drive, Suite A Little Rock

Caley B. Vo

Wright Lindsey Jennings

479-986-0888

3333 Pinnacle Hills Parkway, Suite 510 Rogers

Guy Alton Wade

Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Jason H. Wales

Wales & Mikesch

479-439-8088

2909 E. Glory Dr STE 113 Fayetteville

Mark D. Wankum

Anderson Murphy Hopkins

501-372-1887

101 River Bluff Drive, Suite A Little Rock

Thomas G. Williams

Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull

501-379-1700

111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock

David D. Wilson

Friday Eldredge & Clark

501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Kyle R. Wilson

Wright Lindsey Jennings

501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock

G. Alan Wooten

Conner & Winters

479-582-5711

4375 North Vantage Drive, Suite 405 Fayetteville

Todd Wooten

Hall Booth Smith

501-214-3499

200 River Market Avenue, Suite 500 Little Rock

Mary Carole Young RMP

501-954-9000

11601 Pleasant Ridge Road, Suite 301 Little Rock

R. Ryan Younger Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700

111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock

Personal Injury Litigation - Plaintiffs

Frank H. Bailey

Horton Law Firm 888-822-6011

1000 McClain Road Suite 612 Bentonville

Robert L. Beard

Rainwater, Holt & Sexton

501-868-2500

801 Technology Drive Little Rock

H. David Blair

Blair & Stroud

870-793-8350

500 East Main Street, Suite 201 Batesville

Keith Blythe Blythe Law Firm 479-783-8044 3921 Rogers Avenue Fort Smith

Will Bond McMath Woods 501-530-4320 711 West Third Street Little Rock

Bryce Brewer Rainwater, Holt & Sexton 501-868-2500 801 Technology Drive Little Rock

Bill W. Bristow Bristow & Richardson 870-935-9000 216 East Washington Avenue Jonesboro

Neil Chamberlin McMath Woods 501-530-4320 711 West Third Street Little Rock

Hugh E. Crisp The Crisp Law Firm 501-376-6264 221 West Second Street, Suite 8G Little Rock

Shawn B. Daniels Daniels Law Firm 479-521-7000 129 West Sunbridge Drive Fayetteville

Joe Denton Denton, Zachary & Norwood 501-273-3976 700 South German Lane, Suite 101 Conway

Timothy O. Dudley Timothy O. Dudley 501-372-0080 114 South Pulaski Street Little Rock

B. Michael Easley Easley & Houseal 870-633-1447 510 East Cross Street Forrest City

Jason M. Hatfield

Law Office of Jason M. Hatfield 479-888-4952

1025 E. Don Tyson Parkway Springdale

Denise Reid Hoggard Rainwater, Holt & Sexton 501-868-2500

801 Technology Drive Little Rock

Karen Hughes Rainwater, Holt & Sexton 501-868-2500

801 Technology Drive Little Rock

Paul J. James James & Carter 501-263-9450

500 Broadway, Suite 400 Little Rock

Sarah C. Jewell McMath Woods 479-323-1417

525 South School Avenue, Suite 310 Fayetteville

Kenneth J. Kieklak

Ken Kieklak, Attorney at Law 479-316-0438

3608 North Steel Boulevard, Suite 101 Fayetteville

Jerry L. Lovelace Roy, Lambert, Lovelace, Bingaman & Wood 479-320-2300

2706 South Dividend Drive Springdale

Lauren Manatt Manatt Law 870-641-2520 P.O. Box 17250 Little Rock

Joey McCutchen McCutchen Napurano 479-783-0036 1622 N B Street Fort Smith

Bobby R. McDaniel McDaniel Law Firm 870-565-4215

400 South Main Street Jonesboro

Brett A. McDaniel McDaniel Law Firm 870-565-4215

400 South Main Street Jonesboro

James Bruce McMath McMath Woods 501-530-4320 711 West Third Street Little Rock

Jeremy McNabb

Rainwater, Holt & Sexton

501-868-2500

801 Technology Drive Little Rock

Meredith Moore Rainwater, Holt & Sexton

501-868-2500

801 Technology Drive Little Rock

Rodney P. Moore

Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock

Rob Pointer Duncan Firm 501-228-7600 809 West Third Street Little Rock

Dylan Potts Gill Ragon Owen 501-376-3800

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 3800 Little Rock

Jeff R. Priebe Rainwater, Holt & Sexton 501-868-2500 801 Technology Drive Little Rock

John Rainwater Rainwater, Holt & Sexton 501-868-2500 801 Technology Drive Little Rock

Michael R. Rainwater Rainwater, Holt & Sexton 501-868-2500 801 Technology Drive Little Rock

Brian D. Reddick Reddick Law 501-943-1456 One Information Way, Suite 105 Little Rock

T. Ryan Scott Oliver Law Firm 479-202-5200

3606 West Southern Hills Boulevard, Suite 200 Rogers

Robert Sexton Rainwater, Holt & Sexton 501-868-2500 801 Technology Drive Little Rock

Michael N. Shannon Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock

Carter C. Stein McMath Woods

501-530-4320

711 West Third Street Little Rock

James F. Swindoll Law Offices of James F. Swindoll 501-374-1290

212 Center Street, Suite 300 Little Rock

Lee Moore Tax Law, Trusts and Estates

Joseph D. Reece Tax Law, Trusts and Estates

Personal Injury LitigationDefendants

Business Organizations (including LLC’s and Partnerships), Tax Law

Denton

John Neihouse Business Organizations (including LLCs and Partnerships), Tax Law, Trusts and Estates

John C. Lessel Tax Law, Trusts and Estates Alex

Wendy Johnson Corporate Compliance Law, Corporate Law, Criminal Defense: WhiteCollar, Litigation and Controversy - Tax

Scott Tidewell Litigation –Insurance, Personal Injury Litigation –Defendants, Personal Injury Litigation –Plaintiffs

Larry McCredy Commercial Litigation, Construction Law

B.R. Price Business Organizations (including LLCs and Partnerships)

Jenny Wilkes Mergers and Acquisitions Law

and Estates

Timothy L. Boone Insurance Law, Litigation – Insurance, Medical Malpractice Law –Defendants, Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants, Product Liability Litigation – Defendants, Professional, Malpractice Law –Defendants

Sarah Greenwood Insurance Law, Litigation – Insurance, Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Defendants, Medical Malpractice Law –Defendants, Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants, Product Liability LitigationDefendants

Mary Carole Young Insurance Law Litigation – Insurance, Medical Malpractice Law –Defendants, Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants, Product Liability Litigation –Defendants

Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® in America

Zachary R. Hill Appellate Practice, Commercial Litigation, Insurance Law, Medical Malpractice Law –Defendants, Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants, Transportation Law

Andrew M. Taylor

Taylor & Taylor Law Firm

501-246-8004

12921 Cantrell Road, Suite 205 Little Rock

Tasha C. Taylor

Taylor & Taylor Law Firm

501-246-8004

12921 Cantrell Road, Suite 205 Little Rock

Scott Tidwell RMP

479-443-2705

5519 Hackett Road, Suite 300 Springdale

Clyde Talbot Turner

Turner & Associates

501-791-2277

4705 Somers Avenue, Suite 100 North Little Rock

Jason H. Wales

Wales & Mikesch

479-439-8088

2909 E. Glory Dr STE 113 Fayetteville

Phillip J. Wells

Wells & Wells

870-782-4084

225 South Church Street Jonesboro

Eric Wewers

Rainwater, Holt & Sexton

501-868-2500

801 Technology Drive Little Rock

Bud B. Whetstone

Whetstone Law Firm

501-376-3564

Plaza West Building Little Rock

Kyle R. Wilson

Wright Lindsey Jennings

501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock

George R. Wise, Jr.

The Brad Hendricks Law Firm

501-550-4090

500 Pleasant Valley Drive, Building C Little Rock

Laura Beth York

Rainwater, Holt & Sexton

501-868-2500

801 Technology Drive Little Rock

Justin Zachary

Denton, Zachary & Norwood

501-273-3976

700 South German Lane, Suite 101

Conway

Product Liability Litigation - Defendants

Michael D. Barnes

Wright Lindsey Jennings

501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300

Little Rock

M. Stephen Bingham Rose Law Firm

501-375-9131

120 East Fourth Street Little Rock

Timothy L. Boone RMP

501-954-9000

11601 Pleasant Ridge Road, Suite 301 Little Rock

Mark Breeding Munson, Rowlett, Moore & Boone

501-374-6535

One Allied Drive, Suite 1600 Little Rock

J. R. Carroll Kutak Rock

479-973-4200

1277 East Joyce Boulevard, Suite 300

Fayetteville

E.B. Chiles IV Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull

501-379-1700

111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock

Baxter D. Drennon Hall Booth Smith 501-214-3499

200 River Market Avenue, Suite 500 Little Rock

Elizabeth Fletcher Munson, Rowlett, Moore & Boone 501-374-6535 One Allied Drive, Suite 1600 Little Rock

G. Spence Fricke Barber Law Firm

501-372-6175

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 3400

Little Rock

Sarah Greenwood RMP

501-954-9000

11601 Pleasant Ridge Road, Suite 301 Little Rock

Julie M. Hancock

Anderson Murphy Hopkins

501-372-1887

101 River Bluff Drive, Suite A Little Rock

Michael McCarty

Harrison

Friday Eldredge & Clark

501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000

Little Rock

Scott A. Irby

Wright Lindsey Jennings

479-986-0888

3333 Pinnacle Hills Parkway, Suite 510 Rogers

Benjamin D. Jackson

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard

501-688-8800

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock

Jerry L. Lovelace

Roy, Lambert, Lovelace, Bingaman & Wood

479-320-2300

2706 South Dividend Drive

Springdale

Edwin L. Lowther, Jr.

Wright Lindsey Jennings

501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300

Little Rock

Emily McCord

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard

479-464-5650

4206 South J.B. Hunt Drive, Suite 200 Rogers

Kara Mikles

Munson, Rowlett, Moore & Boone

501-374-6535

One Allied Drive, Suite 1600 Little Rock

Stuart P. Miller

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard

479-464-5650

4206 South J.B. Hunt Drive, Suite 200 Rogers

Bruce E. Munson

Munson, Rowlett, Moore & Boone

501-374-6535

One Allied Drive, Suite 1600

Little Rock

Scott D. Provencher

Wright Lindsey Jennings

501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300

Little Rock

Kathryn A. Pryor

Wright Lindsey Jennings

501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300

Little Rock

Steven W. Quattlebaum

Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull

501-379-1700

111 Center Street, Suite 1900

Little Rock

Gordon S. Rather, Jr.

Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300

Little Rock

Emily M. Runyon

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard

479-464-5650

4206 South J.B. Hunt Drive, Suite 200 Rogers

Michael N. Shannon

Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull

501-379-1700

111 Center Street, Suite 1900

Little Rock

Shane Strabala Munson, Rowlett, Moore & Boone 501-374-6535

One Allied Drive, Suite 1600

Little Rock

John E. Tull III Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700

111 Center Street, Suite 1900

Little Rock

Michael P. Vanderford Anderson Murphy Hopkins 501-372-1887

101 River Bluff Drive, Suite A

Little Rock

Thomas G. Williams Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700

111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock

Kyle R. Wilson

Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300

Little Rock

Thomas H. Wyatt Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700

111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock

Kimberly D. Young Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000

Little Rock

Mary Carole Young RMP 501-954-9000

11601 Pleasant Ridge Road, Suite 301

Little Rock

R. Ryan Younger Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700

111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock

Product Liability Litigation - Plaintiffs

Frank H. Bailey Horton Law Firm 888-822-6011

1000 McClain Road Suite 612

Bentonville

H. David Blair Blair & Stroud 870-793-8350

500 East Main Street, Suite 201 Batesville

Keith Blythe Blythe Law Firm 479-783-8044

3921 Rogers Avenue Fort Smith

Sarah C. Jewell McMath Woods 479-323-1417

525 South School Avenue, Suite 310 Fayetteville

Jerry L. Lovelace Roy, Lambert, Lovelace, Bingaman & Wood 479-320-2300 2706 South Dividend Drive

Springdale

Brett A. McDaniel McDaniel Law Firm 870-565-4215

400 South Main Street

Jonesboro

Michael N. Shannon Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700

111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock

Robert D. Stroud Blair & Stroud 870-793-8350

500 East Main Street, Suite

201 Batesville

John E. Tull III

Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull

501-379-1700

111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock

Clyde Talbot Turner Turner & Associates

501-791-2277

4705 Somers Avenue, Suite 100 North Little Rock

Bud B. Whetstone Whetstone Law Firm

501-376-3564 Plaza West Building Little Rock

George R. Wise, Jr. The Brad Hendricks Law Firm

501-550-4090

500 Pleasant Valley Drive, Building C Little Rock

Justin Zachary Denton, Zachary & Norwood

501-273-3976

700 South German Lane, Suite 101 Conway

Professional Malpractice Law - Defendants

H. David Blair

Blair & Stroud 870-793-8350

500 East Main Street, Suite 201 Batesville

Timothy L. Boone RMP

501-954-9000 11601 Pleasant Ridge Road, Suite 301 Little Rock

Elizabeth Fletcher Munson, Rowlett, Moore & Boone

501-374-6535 One Allied Drive, Suite 1600 Little Rock

Adam D. Franks Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard

501-688-8800

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock

Scott A. Irby

Wright Lindsey Jennings 479-986-0888

3333 Pinnacle Hills Parkway, Suite 510 Rogers

David M. Powell Rose Law Firm

501-375-9131

120 East Fourth Street Little Rock

Scott D. Provencher

Wright Lindsey Jennings

501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock

Michael P. Vanderford

Anderson Murphy Hopkins

501-372-1887

101 River Bluff Drive, Suite A Little Rock

Professional Malpractice Law - Plaintiffs

H. David Blair

Blair & Stroud

870-793-8350

500 East Main Street, Suite 201 Batesville

Timothy O. Dudley

Timothy O. Dudley

501-372-0080

114 South Pulaski Street Little Rock

Project Finance Law

Michele Simmons

Allgood

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard

501-688-8800

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock

Harold W. Hamlin

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard

501-688-8800

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock

John Alan Lewis

John Alan Lewis Law

479-268-5888

207 Southeast A Street

Bentonville

J. Shepherd Russell III

Friday Eldredge & Clark

501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Public Finance Law

Michele Simmons

Allgood

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard

501-688-8800

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock

Robert B. Beach, Jr.

Friday Eldredge & Clark

501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000

Little Rock

Ryan A. Bowman

Friday Eldredge & Clark

501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000

Little Rock

Thomas P. Leggett

Friday Eldredge & Clark

501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000

Little Rock

W. Taylor Marshall

Friday Eldredge & Clark

501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000

Little Rock

Walter McSpadden

Wright Lindsey Jennings

501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300

Little Rock

D. Michael Moyers

Friday Eldredge & Clark

501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000

Little Rock

J. Shepherd Russell III

Friday Eldredge & Clark

501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000

Little Rock

John William Spivey III

Wright Lindsey Jennings

501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300

Little Rock

Gordon M. Wilbourn

Kutak Rock

501-975-3000

124 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000

Little Rock

Qui Tam Law

David S. Mitchell, Jr.

Rose Law Firm

501-375-9131

120 East Fourth Street

Little Rock

Kimberly D. Young

Friday Eldredge & Clark

501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000

Little Rock

Railroad Law

Barrett Deacon

Mayer

479-396-2060

2434 East Joyce Boulevard, Suite Six

Fayetteville

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Kristopher B. Knox

Friday Eldredge & Clark

501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Scott H. Tucker

Friday Eldredge & Clark

501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Real Estate Law

Nick Arnold Kutak Rock

479-250-9700

5111 West JB Hunt Drive, Suite 300 Rogers

Melissa Bandy

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard

501-688-8800

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800

Little Rock

James P. Beachboard

Wright Lindsey Jennings

501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300

Little Rock

Tameron C. Bishop

Kutak Rock

479-973-4200

1277 East Joyce Boulevard, Suite 300 Fayetteville

Michael Childers

Friday Eldredge & Clark

501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Carl J. Circo

University of Arkansas School of Law

479-575-5601

1 University of Arkansas Fayetteville

James C. Clark

Friday Eldredge & Clark

501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Chad L. Cumming, Jr.

Gill Ragon Owen

501-376-3800

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 3800 Little Rock

Michael Daily

Daily & Woods

479-782-0361

58 South Sixth Street Fort Smith

Bryan W. Duke

Friday Eldredge & Clark

501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Don A. Eilbott

Don A. Eilbott

501-225-2885 P.O. Box 23870 Little Rock

Price C. Gardner

Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Stephen R. Giles

Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock

Daniel Goodwin Gill Ragon Owen 501-376-3800

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 3800 Little Rock

Jill Grimsley

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard

479-464-5650

4206 South J.B. Hunt Drive, Suite 200 Rogers

Timothy W. Grooms

Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull

501-379-1700 111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock

Harold W. Hamlin

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock

Stuart W. Hankins Hankins Law Firm 501-833-0168 1515 East Kiehl Avenue Sherwood

Rebecca B. Hurst

Smith Hurst 479-405-5355

5100 West JB Hunt Drive, Suite 1030 Rogers

Laura Dyer Johnson

Rose Law Firm

501-375-9131

120 East Fourth Street Little Rock

Jeb H. Joyce

Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull

479-444-5200

4100 Corporate Center Drive, Suite 310 Springdale

John Kooistra III

Steel Wright Gray

501-379-9425

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2910 Little Rock

T.J. Lawhon

Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock

John Alan Lewis

John Alan Lewis Law

479-268-5888

207 Southeast A Street Bentonville

William T. Marshall

William T. Marshall

501-420-1766

P.O. Box 7419 Little Rock

Terry L. Mathews

Hope, Trice, O’Dwyer & Wilson

501-372-4144

211 South Spring Street Little Rock

Edwin N. McClure

Matthews, Campbell, Rhoads, McClure & Thompson

479-636-0875

119 South Second Street Rogers

J. Cliff McKinney II

Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull

501-379-1700

111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock

E. Conner McNair

Friday Eldredge & Clark

479-695-2011

3350 South Pinnacle Hills Parkway, Suite 301 Rogers

Joseph G. Nichols

Friday Eldredge & Clark

501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Paul Parnell

Rose Law Firm

501-375-9131

120 East Fourth Street Little Rock

Dana D. Paul

Paul Law Firm

479-675-6400

609 Southwest 8th Street, Suite 600 Bentonville

Terry W. Pool Kutak Rock

479-250-9700

5111 West JB Hunt Drive, Suite 300

Rogers

Heartsill Ragon III

Gill Ragon Owen

501-376-3800

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 3800 Little Rock

Brian Rosenthal Rose Law Firm

501-375-9131

120 East Fourth Street Little Rock

James M. Saxton

Friday Eldredge & Clark

501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

J. Scott Schallhorn

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard

501-688-8800

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock

James W. Smith

Smith Hurst

479-405-5355

5100 West JB Hunt Drive, Suite 1030

Rogers

John William Spivey III

Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300

Little Rock

J. Mark Spradley

J. Mark Spradley

501-537-4290

136 El Dorado Drive Little Rock

Jay T. Taylor

Friday Eldredge & Clark

501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000

Little Rock

Bruce B. Tidwell

Friday Eldredge & Clark

501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Christopher L. Travis

Gill Ragon Owen 501-376-3800

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 3800

Little Rock

Jillian Wilson

The Wilson Law Group 501-216-9388

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1400

Little Rock

Robert Wilson III

The Wilson Law Group 501-216-9388

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1400 Little Rock

Securities / Capital Markets Law

Robyn P. Allmendinger Rose Law Firm

501-375-9131

120 East Fourth Street

Little Rock

Paul B. Benham III

Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000

Little Rock

C. Douglas Buford, Jr. Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800

Little Rock

Courtney C. Crouch III

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800

Little Rock

Bryan W. Duke

Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000

Little Rock

Walter M. Ebel III

Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000

Little Rock

Price C. Gardner

Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000

Little Rock

D. Nicole Lovell Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock

Geoffrey D. Neal Kutak Rock

501-975-3000

124 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000

Little Rock

Joseph G. Nichols Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Paul Parnell Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131

120 East Fourth Street Little Rock

James W. Smith Smith Hurst 479-405-5355

5100 West JB Hunt Drive, Suite 1030 Rogers

Robert T. Smith

Friday Eldredge & Clark

501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Jay T. Taylor Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000

Little Rock

Securities Regulation

Paul B. Benham III Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

C. Douglas Buford, Jr. Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock

C. David McDaniel Kutak Rock 501-975-3000

124 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000

Little Rock

Securitization and Structured Finance Law

J. Shepherd Russell III Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

James W. Smith

Smith Hurst 479-405-5355

5100 West JB Hunt Drive, Suite 1030

Rogers

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10 recently named “Lawyer of the Year” in Little Rock.

Tax Law

Trav Baxter

Trav Baxter

425 W. Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800

Little Rock

W. Thomas Baxter

Friday Eldredge & Clark

501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000

Little Rock

Robert B. Beach, Jr.

Friday Eldredge & Clark

501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000

Little Rock

Robert B. Beach

Lax, Vaughan, Fortson, Rowe & Threet

501-376-6565

Cantrell West Building, Suite 201 Little Rock

David Biscoe Bingham

Rose Law Firm

501-375-9131

120 East Fourth Street

Little Rock

J. Lee Brown

Friday Eldredge & Clark

501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

C. Brantly Buck

Rose Law Firm

501-375-9131

120 East Fourth Street Little Rock

Craig R. Cockrell

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard

479-464-5650

4206 South J.B. Hunt Drive, Suite 200 Rogers

Bryant Cranford

Rose Law Firm

501-375-9131

120 East Fourth Street Little Rock

Ted N. Drake

Bridges Law Firm

870-534-5532

521 South Walnut Street Pine Bluff

Bryan W. Duke

Friday Eldredge & Clark

501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Walter M. Ebel III

Friday Eldredge & Clark

501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Price C. Gardner

Friday Eldredge & Clark

501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Ashley L. Gill

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard

501-688-8800

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock

Joseph Hickey

Joseph Hickey

870-862-3478

100 West Cedar, Suite B El Dorado

Anthony A. Hilliard

Ramsay, Bridgforth, Robinson & Raley

870-535-9000

Simmons First National Bank Building, 501 Main Street 11th Floor Pine Bluff

Rebecca B. Hurst

Smith Hurst 479-405-5355

5100 West JB Hunt Drive, Suite 1030 Rogers

Anton L. Janik Jr. Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock

Robert S. Jones

Waddell, Cole & Jones 870-931-1700

310 East Street, Suite A Jonesboro

Wilson Jones Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131 120 East Fourth Street Little Rock

Scott M. Lar Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 479-444-5200

4100 Corporate Center Drive, Suite 310 Springdale

T.J. Lawhon

Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock

John C. Lessel

RMP

501-954-9000

11601 Pleasant Ridge Road, Suite 301 Little Rock

William T. Marshall

William T. Marshall

501-420-1766 P.O. Box 7419 Little Rock

Cal McCastlain

Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock

E. Conner McNair

Friday Eldredge & Clark

479-695-2011

3350 South Pinnacle Hills Parkway, Suite 301 Rogers

Alex Miller RMP

479-443-2705

5519 Hackett Road, Suite

300 Springdale

Lee Moore RMP

479-443-2705

5519 Hackett Road, Suite

300 Springdale

John Neihouse RMP

479-443-2705

5519 Hackett Road, Suite 300 Springdale

Joseph G. Nichols

Friday Eldredge & Clark

501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Michael O. Parker

Wright Lindsey Jennings

501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock

Paul Parnell

Rose Law Firm

501-375-9131

120 East Fourth Street Little Rock

John B. Peace

Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock

Joseph D. Reece RMP

479-443-2705

5519 Hackett Road, Suite

300 Springdale

Adam D. Reid

Gill Ragon Owen 501-376-3800

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 3800 Little Rock

Christopher T. Rogers

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard

479-464-5650

4206 South J.B. Hunt Drive, Suite 200 Rogers

Cal Rose

Wright Lindsey Jennings

479-986-0888

3333 Pinnacle Hills Parkway, Suite 510 Rogers

David A. Smith Kutak Rock

501-975-3000

124 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

James W. Smith

Smith Hurst

479-405-5355

5100 West JB Hunt Drive, Suite 1030 Rogers

Robert T. Smith

Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Jennie Stewart Kutak Rock 501-975-3000

124 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Thomas C. Vaughan, Jr. Lax, Vaughan, Fortson, Rowe & Threet 501-376-6565

Cantrell West Building, Suite 201 Little Rock

Katie Watson Bingham

Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000

Little Rock

Craig H. Westbrook Overbey, Strigel, Boyd & Westbrook 501-664-8105

10809 Executive Center Drive, Suite 310 Little Rock

Rufus Wolff McDaniel Wolff 1-501-954-8000

1307 W. 4th Street Little Rock

Denton Woods RMP 479-443-2705

5519 Hackett Road, Suite

300 Springdale

Dan C. Young

Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131

120 East Fourth Street Little Rock

Technology Law

J. Charles Dougherty

Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock

Trade Secrets Law

Mark Murphey Henry Henry Law Firm

479-368-0555

P.O. Box 4800 Fayetteville

Elizabeth Robben Murray Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Trademark Law

J. Charles Dougherty

Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300

Little Rock

Richard Blakely Glasgow Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock

Josh Hallenbeck Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131

120 East Fourth Street Little Rock

Mark Murphey Henry Henry Law Firm

479-368-0555 P.O. Box 4800 Fayetteville

Margaret A. Johnston Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard

501-688-8800

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock

Transportation Law J. Cotten Cunningham Barber Law Firm

501-372-6175

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 3400 Little Rock

Barrett Deacon Mayer

479-396-2060

2434 East Joyce Boulevard, Suite Six Fayetteville

Susan K. Kendall Harrington, Miller, Kieklak, Eichmann & Brown

479-751-6464

4710 S. Thompson, Suite 102 Springdale

Kerri E. Kobbeman Conner & Winters

479-582-5711

4375 North Vantage Drive, Suite 405 Fayetteville

Kara Mikles Munson, Rowlett, Moore & Boone

501-374-6535

One Allied Drive, Suite 1600 Little Rock

Bruce E. Munson Munson, Rowlett, Moore & Boone

501-374-6535

One Allied Drive, Suite 1600 Little Rock

Trusts and Estates Trav Baxter Trav Baxter

425 W. Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock

W. Thomas Baxter Friday Eldredge & Clark

501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Robert B. Beach

Lax, Vaughan, Fortson, Rowe & Threet

501-376-6565

Cantrell West Building, Suite 201 Little Rock

David Biscoe Bingham

Rose Law Firm

501-375-9131

120 East Fourth Street Little Rock

J. Lee Brown

Friday Eldredge & Clark

501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

C. Brantly Buck

Rose Law Firm

501-375-9131

120 East Fourth Street Little Rock

William Jackson Butt II Davis, Butt, Taylor & Clark

479-521-7600

75 North East Avenue, Suite 402 Fayetteville

Craig R. Cockrell

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard

479-464-5650

4206 South J.B. Hunt Drive, Suite 200 Rogers

M. Gayle Corley

Corley Law Firm

501-801-0035

Plaza West Building, Suite 445 Little Rock

Allison J. Cornwell

Friday Eldredge & Clark

501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Ted N. Drake

Bridges Law Firm

870-534-5532

521 South Walnut Street Pine Bluff

Ashley L. Gill

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard

501-688-8800

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock

Rayburn W. Green

Rayburn W. Green

Attorney at Law

P.O. Box 11054 Fayetteville

William Dixon Haught

Haught & Wade

501-375-5257

111 Center Street, Suite 1320 Little Rock

Joseph Hickey

Joseph Hickey

870-862-3478

100 West Cedar, Suite B El Dorado

Anthony A. Hilliard

Ramsay, Bridgforth, Robinson & Raley

870-535-9000

Simmons First National Bank Building, 501 Main Street 11th Floor Pine Bluff

Rebecca B. Hurst

Smith Hurst

479-405-5355

5100 West JB Hunt Drive, Suite 1030 Rogers

Laura Dyer Johnson Rose Law Firm

501-375-9131

120 East Fourth Street Little Rock

Robert S. Jones Waddell, Cole & Jones

870-931-1700

310 East Street, Suite A Jonesboro

Wilson Jones Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131

120 East Fourth Street Little Rock

Scott M. Lar Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 479-444-5200

4100 Corporate Center Drive, Suite 310 Springdale

Casey Dorman Lawson Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard

479-464-5650

4206 South J.B. Hunt Drive, Suite 200 Rogers

John C. Lessel RMP 501-954-9000 11601 Pleasant Ridge Road, Suite 301 Little Rock

Collier Moore RMP

479-443-2705

5519 Hackett Road, Suite 300 Springdale

Lee Moore RMP

479-443-2705

5519 Hackett Road, Suite 300 Springdale

James C. Moser, Jr.

Bridges Law Firm

870-534-5532

521 South Walnut Street Pine Bluff

John Neihouse RMP

479-443-2705

5519 Hackett Road, Suite

300 Springdale

Michael O. Parker

Wright Lindsey Jennings

501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock

Sarah Cotton Patterson Friday Eldredge & Clark

501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

John B. Peace

Wright Lindsey Jennings

501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock

Joseph D. Reece RMP

479-443-2705

5519 Hackett Road, Suite 300 Springdale

Christopher T. Rogers

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard

479-464-5650

4206 South J.B. Hunt Drive, Suite 200 Rogers

David A. Smith Kutak Rock

501-975-3000

124 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

James W. Smith

Smith Hurst 479-405-5355

5100 West JB Hunt Drive, Suite 1030 Rogers

John Cogan Wade

Haught & Wade

501-375-5257

111 Center Street, Suite 1320 Little Rock

Katie Watson Bingham

Friday Eldredge & Clark

501-376 -011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

K. Coleman Westbrook, Jr.

Friday Eldredge & Clark

501-376 -2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Denton Woods RMP

479-443-2705

5519 Hackett Road, Suite

300 Springdale

Dan C. Young Rose Law Firm

501-375-9131

120 East Fourth Street Little Rock

Utilities Law

Scott C. Trotter Trotter Law Firm

501-353-1069

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 216 Little Rock

Venture Capital Law

Joseph G. Nichols

Friday Eldredge & Clark

501-376-2011

400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

Water Law

Brian Rosenthal Rose Law Firm

501-375-9131

120 East Fourth Street Little Rock

Jordan P. Wimpy

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock

Walter G. Wright, Jr. Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800

425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock

Workers’ Compensation Law - Claimants

Gregory Giles Moore, Giles & Matteson 870-774-5191 1206 North State Line Avenue Texarkana

Jason M. Hatfield Law Office of Jason M. Hatfield

479-888-4952

1025 E. Don Tyson Parkway Springdale

Kenneth J. Kieklak

Ken Kieklak, Attorney at Law

479-316-0438

3608 North Steel Boulevard, Suite 101 Fayetteville

Eddie H. Walker, Jr.

Walker Law Group 479-783-5000

400 North Sixth Street Fort Smith

Phillip J. Wells

Wells & Wells

870-782-4084

225 South Church Street Jonesboro

Philip M. Wilson

Philip Wilson 501-374-4000 1501 North University Avenue, Suite 218 Little Rock

Laura Beth York Rainwater, Holt & Sexton 501-868-2500 801 Technology Drive Little Rock

Workers’ Compensation Law - Employers

James A. Arnold II Ledbetter Cogbill Arnold & Harrison 479-782-7294

622 Parker Avenue Fort Smith

Constance G. Clark Davis, Butt, Taylor & Clark 479-521-7600

75 North East Avenue, Suite 402 Fayetteville

John D. Davis

Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808

200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock

Betty J. Hardy Montgomery Wyatt Hardy 501-377-9568

308 East Eighth Street Little Rock

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400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

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SIX BRIDGES BOOK FESTIVAL RETURNS TO CALS’ MAIN LIBRARY.

BY DANIEL GREAR

It’s always a big year at the Central Arkansas Library System’s Six Bridges Book Festival, but 2025 feels extra special. And not just because the list of nearly 50 visiting writers includes National Book Awardand Newbery Medal-winning children’s author Louis Sachar, whose “Wayside School” series and novel “Holes” played a critical role in turning countless school-skeptical kids into avid readers. No, the main reason this year carries significance is because Main Library — CALS’ flagship downtown branch, the one that’s been undergoing renovations for two full years — is reopening Sept. 20, just in time to show off as the venue for Six Bridges.

Want a reliable sandwich, pastry or coffee during the festival? Main Library’s new Boulevard Bread Company location has you covered. Need a breath of fresh air between author panels? Cuddle up with a book on the building’s freshly minted rooftop terrace. It’s gonna be a damn good time.

Getting fully prepared for Six Bridges might be the world’s longest homework assignment, so we’ve collected a few email and phone interviews with Arkansas-connected authors to whet your palate. For a full schedule, head to cals.org/six-bridges-book-festival.

JARED LEMUS

A Kenan Visiting Writer at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Jared Lemus is a Guatemalan-American fiction writer who grew up in Little Rock, where he attended Parkview High School and the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. His debut book, “Guatemalan Rhapsody,” came out in March. Author Jess Walter referred to it as a “dazzling collection of stories about dreamers, outlaws, holy men, and at least one waterfall tender.”

And, under the current presidency, there is suddenly even more added pressure. Just because of skin tone, people have to weigh whether or not they should go to work that day, to risk being picked up by ICE agents or ICE impersonators, to risk being shackled and thrown out of a plane into the ocean, to risk going to a concentration camp because they need to make money to feed their family. Being here isn’t the success story people want you to think it is.

Immigrant narratives are always vital, but there’s an unfortunate urgency to the current moment. How do the stories in “Guatemalan Rhapsody” speak to the political reality for immigrants under the Trump Administration?

Most of my stories don’t deal with immigration or immigrants directly. The reason I did this is because there seems to be an expectation of the immigrant narrative, where the “successful” or “victorious” migrant finally makes it to U.S. soil and they live happily ever after. This, however, is not the reality for most immigrants, and I wanted my stories to reflect that. The ones that take place in Guatemala are slice-of-life stories; these characters are living their lives and dealing with their day-to-day issues; none of them are imagining a “better” life in the U.S. Why? Because most people wouldn’t leave their homeland unless they had to. The stories set in the U.S. deal with characters who are trying to better their circumstances and lives now that they’re here, born to parents who emigrated. They’re not suddenly welloff because their parents moved to the U.S. They still have to deal with poverty, homelessness, substance abuse, racism, xenophobia, language barriers, etc. I wanted to show that immigrating isn’t in itself a success, but rather something that is forced upon people who have no other option in their home country.

I read that your family moved to Little Rock when you were about 5 years old and that most of your childhood was spent here. What kind of impact did living in Arkansas have on your writing? And does The Natural State show up — either explicitly or otherwise — in “Guatemalan Rhapsody”?

I always say that I could have grown up in Japan, India or Australia, but at home, it would have always been Guatemala — the customs, the food, the dialect, the upbringing, that would have been the same regardless of where we lived. With that being said, as I got older, I spent many of my teen years and early 20s in the underbelly/drug scene of the capital. I think those experiences are definitely in the collection. Out of the 12 stories, four are set in the U.S., and three of those resemble Little Rock, though it’s never directly stated. “Whistle While You Work” takes place in a fictional version of the UA Little Rock campus, “Bus Stop Baby” takes place, partly, in a dilapidated house off Cantrell Road, and “Heart Sleeves” includes my first apartment off Markham and shouts out a few of the places (though not specifically) where I got tattooed in my youth. So, yes, Little Rock is there if you look for it, but it can also be any other city in the U.S.

In reading reviews of “Guatemalan Rhapsody,” I came across words like “melancholy,” “bleak” and “unvarnished.” What was it like to take on such weighty subject material?

Ha! Yeah, I always wonder about those descriptions. To me, this is the reality of my characters. They aren’t thinking of their lives in these terms. I’ve been through some hard times in my life, but while unhoused, I never thought, “What a bleak story.” I thought, “Damn, this sucks.” My characters are more concerned with looking out and pushing forward. It’s only in retrospect that we’re able to say, “That was a dark time,” because, in the present, it’s the only thing that exists. With that being said, I think that many of my stories have a hopeful ending. And I think that’s because I’m always wishing the best for these characters, for these past versions of myself, for these versions of people I’ve met or know. “Bus Stop Baby” even gives readers a chance to choose their own adventure with the ending: one way more hopeful than the other. But, even when I don’t take that story into account, most of these stories end with a glimmer of hope, a chance for a better future. Along with this, I’ve been told that I am a fairly funny individual. I think this stems from past traumas, heartbreaks and other painful experiences. Because of this, I think every one of my stories, regardless of how “bleak” or “dark” or “depressing,” has moments of humor and levity. These characters are in some dark places and sometimes the only light is a moment of joy or ironic humor or simply a joke. That comedic relief — even if it stems from a place of sadness — that’s how you know their spirit isn’t broken.

Who’s the writer you’re most excited to encounter at Six Bridges and why?

I’m very excited to meet and commune with everyone, but I have a special interest in encountering Shelby Van Pelt, author of “Remarkably Bright Creatures,” because she is a fellow Ecco-HarperCollins author. Seeing her novel skyrocket the way it has, let’s just say that I am hoping for the best when my novel is released. I would love to pick her brain.

SUSIE DUMOND

A queer writer and Lamda Literary Award finalist with a penchant for romance novels, Little Rock native (and Parkview High School graduate) Susie Dumond is the author of “Queerly Beloved,” “Looking for a Sign” and “Bed and Breakup,” which came out via Penguin Random House’s Dial Press imprint in June. Set in Eureka Springs, “Bed and Breakup” is “as fun and astronomically influenced as fans will expect” (Publishers Weekly), exploring the lovers-to-enemies-to-lovers arc of two lesbian exes pulled back together by the bed and breakfast they co-own.

What’s it like to be a queer writer from Arkansas who unabashedly writes about queer characters? Has it been difficult to find a sturdy audience in your home state, or have readers here been surprisingly receptive?

Truthfully, I delayed writing a queer romance set in Arkansas for a few years because of my complicated feelings about growing up queer in Little Rock. But after too many acquaintances from outside of the South made judgmental comments about where I grew up, I knew I had to represent the magic of Arkansas’s queer community in my writing. If anything, I’ve had a harder time getting readers from other parts of the country to buy into a happy, feel-good story about queer love set in Arkansas. Without having been here, they assume a story about two lesbians with a happy ending set in Arkansas is unrealistic. Despite my ini-

tial nerves about how the story would be received in my home state, I’ve had overwhelmingly positive responses from readers in Arkansas. I had the pleasure of visiting WordsWorth Books in Little Rock and Underbrush Books in Rogers earlier this year, and I’ll never forget some of the readers who told me how much it meant to them to read a queer love story set so close to home. If touching the lives of those Arkansas readers is the most success I ever achieve with my writing, it’s more than enough.

How did you decide to set “Bed and Breakup” in Eureka Springs?

I’ve literally been visiting Eureka Springs since before I can remember; my parents first took me there when I was only a few months old. It’s one of the first places where I witnessed a queer community thriving, where I figured out a lot about myself and what and who I love. When I sat down to write a queer romance set in Arkansas, it simply had to be Eureka Springs. The town feels built for a romantic comedy, doesn’t it? The charming Victorian architecture, the quirky mountain town feel, the unique history and folklore, all the artists and creatives — not to mention the ghosts! When I promote the book outside of Arkansas, I spend at least 15 minutes at each event trying to describe all of the wonderful weirdness of Eureka Springs. Luckily, in Arkansas, everyone gets why it makes such a compelling setting right away.

All three of your books have been marketed as romance novels. What drew you to writing in that genre and how do you choose what conventions and tropes to indulge in versus push back against?

There’s something really comforting about reading a book with a guaranteed happy ending. At a time when so much of the world feels unpredictable and scary, it’s a relief to know that no matter what struggles the protagonists go through in the story you’re picking up, they’ll make it through to a happily ever after. That happy ending is especially powerful for queer characters, and even more so when they live in parts of the country where the LGBTQ+ stories we see usually end in tragedy. Tropes are a really fun element to play with in romance because it allows you to blend familiarity with surprises and twists. “Bed and Breakup” is a second-chance romance (meaning the couple had fallen in love and broken up prior to the start of the book), which is really tricky to pull off because readers have to buy into why the couple fell in love in the first place, why it didn’t work out then, and why it will work out this time. Writing “Bed and Breakup” kind of became my own second-chance romance with my home state. It pushed me to think about what I love most about Ar-

kansas and how it made me the person I am today.

Who’s the writer you’re most excited to encounter at Six Bridges and why?

Oh, I could go on all day about the incredible slate of authors at Six Bridges this year! It’s such a treat to be paired with Sonora Reyes for my panel, since I’ve been shouting about how much I love “The Lesbiana’s Guide to Catholic School” for years. I’ve been a fan of Ginny Myers Sain’s paranormal YA mysteries since her debut, and I can’t wait to moderate her panel with the brilliant fantasy author Linsey Miller. Regina Black’s Arkansas-set novel “August Lane” is one of my favorite romances of the year, and I’m dying to hear her talk about it. I actually went to Parkview High School with Jared Lemus, and his phenomenal debut “Guatemalan Rhapsody” is one of the sharpest, most intense short story collections I’ve ever read. And I was thrilled to see Dolen Perkins-Valdez’s name on the schedule because she’s one of my all-time favorite historical fiction authors. I’ll definitely be running back and forth all weekend to catch as many sessions as I can.

ELI CRANOR

Born in Forrest City and raised in Pope County, where he lives and teaches at Arkansas Tech University, Eli Cranor is a former professional football player and the Edgar Award-winning author of four literary crime novels, including “Don’t Know Tough,” “Ozark Dogs,” and “Broiler,” which was longlisted for the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature

Award. His most recent novel, 2025’s “Mississippi Blue 42,” focuses on a “rookie FBI agent who finds herself caught in the tangled web of a college football empire — and the bloody greed that fuels it,” according to publisher Soho Crime.

After three books rooted in Arkansas, “Mississippi Blue 42” is your first novel to be set elsewhere. Why’d you change things up?

I took on chicken processing in “Broiler,” and I felt like I was maybe brave enough to do that in Arkansas. But I definitely wasn’t dumb enough to try to take on — or even fictionalize — the one university here with big-money football. The other part is, I was born in Forrest City and lived there until I was, like, 5. All my family’s from there. Geographically and culturally, I feel like that area of Eastern Arkansas has more in common with the Mississippi Delta. The blues, the different types of farming and fields, all that world — that different culture felt really fun. And it’s also known for college football.

Imagine a potential reader with zero interest in sports. Would you discourage them from reading “Mississippi Blue 42” or is there still something for them in this book?

I would hope anybody could enjoy this. And I definitely have already met people on the road here the last few weeks that have. One of my favorite authors right now is Megan Abbott. She wrote a great book called “The Turnout,” which is about two sisters who run a ballet school. I don’t know anything about ballet, but I loved the way she went into that world and painted it in very specific strokes.

Football is a funny thing, though. People have such strong opinions about football, especially in the literary world. They hate football — and just football. There are great American novels about baseball. There are great American novels about boxing, so I don’t think it’s just a violence thing. I don’t know what it is. I don’t know if it’s just the culture of football and how it’s so fanatical. But for me, football so perfectly mirrors our culture and is so uniquely American. I deal in crime fiction, and the reason I

really like crime fiction is I think laws and crime tell you a lot about your culture and what you’re willing to let people get away with. With “Mississippi Blue 42” specifically, it deals with the new laws that allow players to be paid and how we got there. Prior to 2021, they couldn’t. And you had a multibillion-dollar industry that was college football. Coaches were getting paid multimillion-dollar buyouts just to get fired while these players — who you came to see — couldn’t make a dime. It felt so American. It felt like a part of our history that we’ve seen played out, be it in the chicken process industry, mega corporations or football.

“Mississippi Blue 42” is the first title in a series. How many books are you planning to write and what about this premise made you decide it was worthy of multiple volumes?

It was always a two-book idea — one before the players could get paid and one in a world where the players can. But I really have fallen in love with the federal agent character, Rae Johnson, and I think that’s what you have to have to make a series go. Rae is a former college pole vaulter and my wife is a former college pole vaulter, so I think what I’ve done is taken my wife and made her the heroine of this series. I like hanging out with her, so I don’t know how many books it’ll be [laughs].

Who’s the writer you’re most excited to encounter at Six Bridges and why?

I’m really excited to talk with Seth Wickersham about his book “American Kings: A Biography of the Quarterback,” having played the position. He’s going to be my conversation partner. I have not read that book yet, but it looks amazing for all the same reasons we’ve talked about. I also have two dear friends whose books rank among the best things I’ve read in the last five, maybe 10 years. And that’s William Boyle with “Saint of the Narrows Street” and Lucas Schaefer with his amazing debut, “The Slip.” I get to moderate their conversation and I cannot wait. Maybe the one I’m absolutely the most excited about, though, is Louis Sachar because my favorite thing as a kid — and now as a dad to read to my kids — is “Sideways Stories from Wayside School.”

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PIZZA, PASTA AND PANEER

ROOKH BRINGS BOLD INDIAN-ITALIAN FUSION TO BRYANT.

BY ELIZABETH L. CLINE

When I first heard about Rookh — a restaurant merging Italian and Indian cuisine in Bryant — I was a tad skeptical. Indian pizza, and Indian cooking that draws on global influences, is having a moment nationally, but combining two culinary powerhouses is risky. I’m a convert after eating at Rookh on a recent Friday night. The restaurant offers Central Arkansas something creative, boldly flavorful and carefully executed.

Rookh took over the old Luigi’s spot, a long-running Italian joint in Bryant, at the end of 2023. Pulling into the beige, nondescript strip mall off Interstate 30, I would not have guessed the caliber of cooking inside. The interior could use a refresh; it’s mostly untouched from its prior owner. The early 2000s decor — dark brown faux marbled tabletops and stone floor — probably worked for a strip mall Italian place, but it does a disservice to this kind of innovative modern dining. Still, these details faded a bit once the food arrived, served with a high level of culinary skill, plating and composition.

Rookh’s menu offers familiar dishes like pastas, pizza and burgers infused with Indian spices and sauces. It’s also expanding into fine-dining staples like lamb shanks, steaks and stuffed pastas. There are classic Italian dishes like Margherita pizza and spaghetti in red sauce for diners wary of fusion, plus a full bar with cocktails, mocktails and local brews from Ozark Beer Company and Flyway Brewing. I dined with my partner, Joe, and our friends Brett and Bailey, and we munched on a complimentary basket of masala-spiced popcorn while perusing the options.

After getting some personal recommen-

dations from Jagruti Shah, wife of Rookh’s owner Abhay Shah (who also owns Taj Mahal in Little Rock and Conway), we started with the Avocado Tart Chaat, a delicious spin on a classic street food dish that blends chickpeas, potatoes and tomatoes with guacamole and a hint of sweetness from yogurt and pomegranate seeds served in two columns atop a crunchy wafer. It was one of my favorite bites of the night.

The entrees shortly followed. The Beef Seekh Lasagna Rolls — a showstopper — is served as two thick cylinders of noodle set in a moat of vibrant beetroot-infused tomato sauce. The meat, marinated for 24 hours with garlic, ginger, onions and a blend of Indian spices, was, in Brett’s words, “crazy delicious.” It also tinted his lips a ruby red color.

Joe and I opted for all meatless dishes (Rookh’s owners are vegetarian and serve a plethora of thoughtful veggie options), starting with the paneer burger. Paneer cheese is a popular sandwich filling in Indian cooking (and a staple at McDonald’s India, believe it or not). Rookh marinates and grills its paneer in thick slabs, serving it with lettuce, tomato, melted Amul processed cheese and a sweet tamarind aioli on a brioche bun. It had a nice chew and subtle spiced flavor.

We also split the mirchi pasta (Hindi for “chili” or “hot”), penne in a tomato-based cream sauce with quite a kick (which Jagruti Shah warned us about). The dish was rich, addictive and generously portioned, but arguably needed another component (maybe a vegetable side or topping) to lighten it up and to stand on its own as an entree.

Next, we tucked into two 14-inch tikka masala pizzas — one with chicken, the other with paneer. The base is a house-made

FANCY FUSION: From left to right: Chicken Tikka Masala Pizza, Beef Seekh Lasagna Rolls, and Mouuse-E-Ras Malai, all available at Rookh Italian + Indian Restaurant in Bryant.

makhani sauce — the creamy tomato and onion blend common in butter chicken — and finished with mozzarella, veggies and a drizzle of more makhani sauce on top. The crust blew me away: hand-tossed and perfectly charred. The pizzas were delicious but so flavor-forward that I couldn’t imagine downing more than a slice or two (or perhaps the five-course meal was wearing on me).

Rookh also serves remarkable desserts, so leave room. I sampled a ras malai mousse, a lightly sweet, creamy mousse served in a gorgeous purple and white chocolate cup, garnished with crushed pistachios. It was almost too beautiful to eat.

I had a chance to speak with owner Abhay Shah, who explained that the original plan was to open a “pure” Italian restaurant, and the fusion concept was actually his son’s last-minute idea. Shah (who has owned an Italian chain restaurant in the past) stayed up all night two days before opening to test new dishes, which were such a hit with the staff and his family, he delayed the opening to pivot to the new menu. “I dreamed it, and the next morning, I came in, and everyone loved it, so we put it on the menu,” he explained.

The Indian-Italian combination sounds novel but in fact dates to as far back as the 1980s, with San Francisco’s Zante being the first U.S. restaurant to serve Indian pizza. However, L.A.’s Pijja Palace has gotten more credit for it recently (and serves wings and Indian pasta as well). Rookh also seems to draw inspiration from progressive fine dining spots like San Francisco’s ROOH, which blends Indian cuisine with other traditions, from French to Mexican.

Since eating at Rookh, I’ve puzzled over how to describe the place. The food is at its best when it draws in more high-end and progressive influences, but Shah seems to be straddling the line into casual dining by offering comfort food, like the meat lover’s pizza and spaghetti in marinara sauce, for example. Shah says he doesn’t want to overwhelm people with new flavors, but I think his commitment to accessibility risks diluting the concept.

Rookh launched a menu refresh early this month with more fine-dining staples, offering oven-baked salmon and strip steak as well as a vegetable lasagna. I think this is a wise move. Rookh should go all-in on its strengths and ditch basic food Arkansans can eat elsewhere. At the risk of belaboring the point, I also hope they elevate the decor (dimmer lighting, tablecloths and some wall decor would pull the eye away from the dated furnishings) to match the artistry of the food. With a more luxurious space, Rookh could become an elite dining destination — not just for Bryant, but for Central Arkansas as a whole.

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The Neighborhood Dining Guide

Sometimes we choose where to eat based on location. Just mention any part of town and tons of restaurants come to mind. Here’s a tidy list of standouts in Central Arkansas and beyond, including favorites in Heights/Hillcrest/Riverdale, Downtown/ SoMa, Argenta, Hot Springs and Pine Bluff.

HEIGHTS/HILLCREST/RIVERDALE BRAVE NEW RESTAURANT

After 35 years in the business, Brave New Restaurant has continued to be an institution in Little Rock, offering beautiful river views, remarkable service and fantastic cuisine while providing customers with an upscale yet familial dining experience. As one of the original farm-to-table restaurants in the city, Brave New uses the freshest and highest-quality ingredients, including a constant rotation of adventurous and flavorful specials while continuing to feature longtime favorites. Without question, Brave New will keep you coming back for more! Brave New is now doing brunch every third Saturday! 2300 Cottondale Lane, 501-663-2677

THE FADED ROSE

Ed David, a New Orleans native, his wife, Laurie, and their son, Zac, have been serving great New Orleans cuisine since 1982 in a casual and friendly atmosphere. They are widely known for their steaks and Creole and Cajun dishes. They blend their own spices, cut their own steaks and make their own sauces, right down to the house-made mayo. They have gladly served Arkansans and guests from around the world for over 40 years and invite you to come try The Rose tonight. 1619 Rebsamen Park Road, 501663-9734

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MUCHO LOCO MEXICAN RESTAURANT

Mucho Loco, where the flavor is real! Located in the heart of Little Rock, Mucho Loco isn’t just another Mexican restaurant, it’s an experience. Here, the flavors are bold, the vibes are lively, and every dish is made with authentic Mexican patience. Open Sunday-Thursday from 11 a.m.-9 p.m. and Friday-Saturday from 11 a.m.-10 p.m. 5705 Kavanaugh Blvd., 501-246-3872

DOWNTOWN/SOMA

CACHE

This one-of-a-kind fine-dining venue is set in the heart of the River Market district and is perfect for corporate events, private dinners or simply for people who love to have memorable meals. Well-presented plates of lobster, steak, chops and duck in a sleek setting, with a slightly more casual lunch of pizza, sandwiches, fish and the like. 425 President Clinton Ave., 501-285–8381

COPPER GRILL

Whether you’re looking for a casual dinner, a gourmet experience or the perfect business lunch, Copper Grill is the choice urban restaurant for Little Rock’s food enthusiasts. It’s where you can let go and relax in the comfortable dining room, enjoy a glass of wine at the lively bar or share a spread of appetizers outside on the street-side patio. Check out our daily happy hour specials Monday-Friday from 4-7 p.m., and Saturdays enjoy brunch from 11 a.m.-3 p.m. and all day happy hour. 300 E. Third, 501-375-3333

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SEPTEMBER

DOE’S EAT PLACE

What has become a Little Rock landmark of national renown, Doe’s Eat Place has its origins in the unlikeliest of models, a no-frills diner deep in the Delta. But then, nothing about Doe’s is quite what one would expect from a world-class steakhouse — except fabulous steaks, that is. 1023 W. Markham St., 501-376-1195

MIDTOWN BILLIARDS

Celebrating 85 years! This late-night favorite has been operating since 1940, serving hamburgers, brats, turkey, spam and egg, grilled cheese and BLTs. Midtown’s hamburger has been voted “Best Hamburger in Arkansas.” The Burger Challenge is back by appointment on Sundays, because you need the Good Lord’s help to eat it! Happy Hour is 3-8 p.m., and Tuesday is live trivia. Karaoke is every other Saturday! 1316 Main St., 501372-9990

NORTH LITTLE ROCK/ARGENTA FOUR QUARTER BAR

This Argenta favorite doesn’t serve your average bar food. The menu features locally sourced pork, handmade sauces and famous hand-pattied burgers along with weekly specials that you won’t find anywhere else. Even better, the kitchen is open until 1:30 a.m. every night. Four Quarter also offers a great selection of rotating craft beers on draft. With great live music, a hidden patio, shuffleboard and dominoes, Four Quarter Bar has it all. 415 Main St., North Little Rock,

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HOT SPRINGS

SQZBOX

Hand-tossed house made pizzas, subs and salads. Brewery on-site, sells beer to go (on Sunday!) Gluten free and vegan options abound. Craft cocktail menu, gorgeous patio. Delivery available through our website using third-party delivery. sqzbx.com, 236 Ouachita Ave., Hot Springs, 501-609-0609

PINE BLUFF

SARACEN RESTAURANTS

Though the Saracen Casino Resort upped the stakes for gaming in Arkansas, they’ve had an equally impressive impact on Arkansas’s culinary landscape, as is evident in the property’s best-in-state offerings. At the Red Oak Steakhouse, you’ll dine in a venue recognized as the state’s best for four years running. Expect to enjoy Kobe beef from the South’s only restaurant licensed by the Japanese Beef Council, or choose primegrade beef, bison and seafood alongside a carefully curated menu in the property’s flagship restaurant. Red Oak’s signature cuisine is presented in a class of its own, with Saracen’s focus on offering the best steaks in the South, carefully managed from pasture to plate, and a wine list celebrated by Wine Spectator. Legend’s is a must-try, with a constantly updated menu offering the best of what you can expect in casual dining. Or try The Post, serving more catfish than any restaurant in the state. Saracen Casino Resort, 1 Saracen Resort Drive, Pine Bluff, 870-686-9001

LAKEVIEW

GASTON’S RESTAURANT

Gaston’s wants to make sure you experience everything in Lakeview, including their award-winning restaurant. The restaurant sits on the White River, with amazing views and a quiet atmosphere you are sure to love. The chef, Rick Gollinger, has weekly specials that start on Thursday nights and last the entire weekend. Also, there is a buffet on Sundays that you do not want to miss. Due to limited seating, Gaston’s Restaurant operates on a reservation-only basis. Open daily from 6:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. 1777 River Road, Lakeview, 870-431-5203

Mark your calendars for Sept. 5-12.

with Nichole Niemann

IN DEFENSE OF THE AMATEUR GARDENER

WHY DON’T ARKANSAS CANNABIS LAWS HAVE A GROW-YOUR-OWN PROVISION?

BY JACK A. ROWE

“We make our own whiskey and our own smoke, too.” —Ol’ Bocephus, the third-best Hank Williams

At the risk of agreeing with ol’ Bocephus up there — multi-instrumentalist savant turned reactionary buffoon — well, I gotta agree with ol’ Bocephus up there. We do indeed make our own whiskey and our own smoke. Or, at least, we can if we decide we want to, subsequently put our minds and mettle to it, and are willing to accept the fact we may well wind up in jail — prison, actually, not jail — if we get caught doing it. And these are two substances — hemp and hooch, weed and whiskey — that are legal in the state of Arkansas.

You know, mostly.

As ever and always necessary when writing about the pretty ridiculous medical marijuana law we have on the books here in Arkansas, a disclaimer: Anything is better than nothing, and the less people we lock up for buying or selling or smoking weed, the better. And, at the risk of agreeing, in the same column, with both Bocephus and the most annoying dude on your dorm floor freshman

year (probably), let’s just all accept that the fact marijuana was ever illegal in the first place at all, to any degree, is really, really dumb. Ergo, our sorta-dumb law that sorta-kinda makes weed legal has cleared the bar, however low, to be a genuine improvement.

But the fact that Arkansas’s medical marijuana regulations omit a grow-your-own provision is tantamount to travesty. Goes against the whole spirit of the enterprise, unless we pretend that medical marijuana is only valuable inasmuch as it treats, directly, a very specific condition in an individual and that there are no incidental benefits to be had through the loosening of onerous restrictions on personal choice and horticultural liberty, or that maybe the growing of a plant itself by a patient might be inherently therapeutic. A big argument against the grow-your-own provision (supposedly) is that it would be easy for a — gasp — noncard holder to get away with (*checks notes*) growing an otherwise-permissible plant. Would a grow-your-own provision en-

courage violation of whatever restriction(s) the state would place on cultivation — gotta have a card, be a caregiver for a patient with a card, etc.? Sure, at least as much as any other industry restrictions beg to be broken. But this is Arkansas, a state full of scofflaws in a nation founded by the same, and never a place where the illegality of a thing has hindered its production overmuch. And that being said, I’ll cede a point to our statewide editorial board of record here, whose yearslong campaign to stand athwart the coming decriminalization regime and shout, “Stop!” was, while wrong-headed and comically alarmist, very much spot-on in one aspect: Medical marijuana was always going to be a stalking horse for full legalization, if not for the true medical-access evangelists then at least for the rest of us in the stressed-out peanut gallery. Yep, fellas, you got us. Had us clocked from the get-go.

You can still take your aw-shucks, whydo-you-think-they-call-it-dope country-lawyer routine and shove it, though, ya bunch

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of sanctimonious cornpone squares. Fine bunch of free-market conservatives you turned out to be.

Regardless, there aren’t many things that would make me vote against wider access to marijuana, the fact I do not partake (anymore) notwithstanding. But the gross display of greed inherent in the last recreational bill that came up for a vote sure enough did the trick. Listen, greed is rarely good and it’s never pretty, but it takes a special kind of grubby rapacity — faux-populist in the streets, hedge-fund weasel in the sheets — to float a bill purporting to expand adult choice while simultaneously disallowing backyard agriculture (in Arkansas!) and also handing most of the new licenses for growing operations to the big outfits that already hold exclusive rights to major grow operations on the medical side.

and imprisonment.

A grow-your-own provision in marijuana law — even just medical marijuana; I’m a reasonable guy and all for incremental change — can absolutely alleviate one of those problems. The last one, arguably the most significant of the lot. But it absolutely doesn’t change the other ones. (OK, maybe the cast-of-character one, too, I guess, but don’t count on it; stoners and other assorted drug people do not have a monopoly on grating personalities or general assholery.) Look, tomatoes are legal to buy and grow, and that doesn’t stop any but the most militant and annoying tomato aficionados and DIYers from going to the grocery store.

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It’s not only greedy, it betrays a pretty significant lack of understanding, or maybe just a lack of interest, in the very business these goons look to dominate. If you possess a license to grow marijuana at commercial scale, and you are worried about Joe SixJoint down the holler growing a few plants of his own so that he doesn’t have to drive to town every other week and buy your little glass jar of … ugh, flower, I guess we’re calling it now … then I just don’t know what to tell you.

Tomatoes (good ones) are hard to grow too, you see, and while I might prefer my homegrown ones — I do, for the record — I also like to eat them off-season, and in greater quantities than I might happen to have. Sometimes I just screw up my tomato plants and want a tomato anyway. Big Tomato and Edward’s Cash Saver are gonna be just fine, trust me, as would Big Weed if Arkansans were allowed to dabble in the occasional act of backyard green thumbery.

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Actually, I do: Growing weed is easy, but growing good weed is hard

Same thing with whiskey, by the way, to bring us back to Bocephus. Along with farmers, my family tree is lousy with moonshiners and degenerate drinkers, and I was well along the path of the latter when I decided to dabble in the former. Much like weed, whiskey is relatively simple to create, but an incredible pain in the ass to craft well. I mean, I had a still built right there in town (got a fellow booze enthusiast with a knack for tinkering to fix up a smokeless rig, very sneaky if I do say so myself), and yet believe me when I tell you: my purveyor of spirits did not suffer a drop in sales even in the prime of my successful enterprise.

I mean, I’m pretty sure I walked to the liquor store at least once while the damned thing was running a batch.

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You know how easy it is to grow weed, just like literally grow it? So easy a child could do it. I know that because I grew it when I was a child. (An older child, granted, like a teenager, but still.) I’m actually not sure if it would’ve been any good or not (but, for real, it wouldn’t’ve) because my partner in crime volunteered to put our little grow set-up in his room — we knew about grow rooms because the same adolescent black market that could get you a worn-out copy of Playboy in those days could, if worked just right, also yield the occasional High Times. His mother promptly busted our stupid, stupid asses.

At a damned sleepover, no less, as we plotted which part of the woods behind his house would be our little green goldmine. Not the proudest moment for an aspiring hillbilly cartel.

The difference here is that, while distilling spirits at your house is technically a felony here in Arkansas, I’m pretty sure the cops don’t care and I’m positive the big distillers don’t. They know good and well your whiskey sucks and theirs is good. They have scale, you have a hobby.

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That wasn’t my last foray into the world of guerilla agriculture, and some of my subsequent ones were much more successful, but even the really good ones were still beset by interminable wait times, a rotating cast of the very worst and most annoying characters you’re ever likely to meet, any number of other mundane but infuriating problems particular to the world of, you know, gardening, and of course the crippling paranoia that comes from the constant fear of arrest

So really, I don’t begrudge the big growers their profit margins. I just can’t respect someone with that kind of juice running up the score. Not very sporting! Forget your raggedy copy of High Times, boss, you gotta be a scientist to even get off the ground in today’s marijuana industry. I mean, I got farming in my blood, guerilla and otherwise, but that stuff they’re growing today doesn’t even have any seeds. It’s not natural, I tell you.

Now, if I can only remember where I buried that still.

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LAST FIRST DAYS

It was a bog standard August Monday morning — brighter than it was hot, but with an unmistakable promise of soul-melting heat to come — and The Observer was up and out the door before 7 a.m. It was the first day at Little Rock Central High School, and, as I’ve done every non-COVID year since 2012, I was taking my daughter to school.

In previous years, I’ve looked forward to this particular August tradition and everything that accompanies it. Between the clothes shopping, the obsessing over which notebook and which pens to get, the excitement of getting her schedule a few days before, and the incomparable relief that comes with realizing you’ve made it through another summer without going insane, few events on a parental calendar are rarely so fun and exciting for dad and daughter alike.

This year, however, promised to be different. She was starting her senior year, and I’d been quietly dreading it all summer, purely for selfish reasons. This would likely be the last time I took her to her first day of school, ending a fun little ritual that has spanned nearly two decades of my life. She plans to leave the state for college, and, while I wholeheartedly support that decision given the current governor’s attacks on LGBTQ+ students, thinking about her starting college 1,200 miles away next year added to the emotional weight I was feeling on that Monday morning.

As she chatted my ear off on the drive to school, I couldn’t help but picture the 4-year-

old version of her doing the same 13 years ago as we walked to Jefferson Elementary for the first day of pre-K. The yellow-andwhite flowered dress with pink buttons and a matching pink backpack had long since given way to a black T-shirt sporting the band Pierce the Veil, baggy pants and a de rigueur clear backpack, but the blond-headed kid beside was still as gentle-hearted, opinionated and self-confident as she ever was. I took a bit of comfort in that, even as I choked back a rogue tear.

First-day memories continued to pop up as we drove. There was the first day of kindergarten, when she only wanted me to walk her as far as the front doors so she could walk to her classroom by herself, “like a big girl.” I thought about her first day of third grade, when she told me she wanted me to only walk her as far as the sidewalk in front of the school, then changed her mind when we got there and held my hand as we walked the rest of the way to the building. There were the strange first days of seventh and eighth grade, when COVID stole our tradition and the prospect of continued remote classes made everyone feel a bit rattlesnakey. And I thought about the first day of ninth grade, which feels like it happened barely a month ago, when it seemed impossible that my little 13-year-old could ever navigate a school so large.

By the time we got to Central and into the cafeteria for the Senior Breakfast, an annual tradition where seniors and their guests eat a continental-ish breakfast served by the

PTA, I found myself unable to put my feelings about the whole thing into words. I was happy and proud and excited for her future and all of the great things I know she’ll do. I was also sad and wistful about how the whole thing felt like the beginning of the end of a major chapter in both of our lives, and I was more than a little scared about the state of the world she would soon be entering. John F. Kennedy once said, “To have a child is to give fate a hostage.” I’ve always hated this quote because it felt like an unnecessarily cynical worldview. Yet, in that moment, I started to understand it just a bit. Every baby bird eventually has to fly away from the nest, and your job as a parent is to do the best you know how to prepare them not just for the leap from the safety of the nest but for whatever they might encounter in the skies once they are aloft. But no matter how much you prepare them, no matter how extensive your teaching might be, you’ll never cover everything. It’s just not possible. You still have to send them out into the world and hope for the best, however, and that is absolutely terrifying to contemplate.

I think she could tell that I was struggling to process the emotions of the moment. She leaned over and put her head on my shoulder in between bites of scrambled eggs.

“I love you, Papa,” she said.

It was perfect timing. I leaned over and put my head against hers.

“I love you, too, boo boo.”