Richard T. Bennett

Practice Areas:

• Alternative Dispute Resolution
• Bankruptcy
• Debtor-Creditor Rights
• Commercial Litigation
• Insurance Defense

Professional Distinctions:

• AV-rated, Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory since 1971.
• The Best Lawyers of America ®, Business Reorganization, Creditors' Rights, Debtors' Rights and Bankruptcy since 1983 and Alternative Dispute Resolution.
• Mid-South Super Lawyers ®, (2007) Alternative Dispute Resolution, Bankruptcy and Creditor/Debtor Rights.
• American Arbitration Association's 2006 Outstanding Director Award.

Professional Affiliations:

• The Mississippi Bar (President 2000-2001)
• Hinds County Bar Association (President, 1983-1984)
• Federal Bar Association (President, 1993-1994)
• Mississippi Bankruptcy Conference, Inc. (President, 1981-1982)
• American Bar Association
• Commercial Law League of America American Arbitration Association
• Fellow, Mississippi Bar Foundation, Inc.
• Assistant Dean for Adjunct Faculty, Mississippi College School of Law
• Trustee, Blue Mountain College
• Fellow, American College of Civil Trial Mediators®

Author:

• "The Effects of Bankruptcy on a Foreclosure Action," Foreclosure Law in Mississippi, Univ. of Miss. Inst. for Continuing Studies, Center for Continuing Legal Educ. (1999)
• Environmental Concerns in Bankruptcy Litigation, 10 Miss. C.L. Rev. 5 (1989)
• "State Variations of Commercial Law-Mississippi," Digest of Commercial Laws of the World (1985)
• Co-author: Historical Sketches of the Early Law School of the University of Mississippi: A Newly Found Memoir, 37 Miss. L.J. 28 (1965)
• Beginnings of the Legal Profession in Mississippi, 36 Miss. L.J. 155 (1965)

Education:

• Mississippi College (B.A. History/Political Science, 1961); (M.A. History, 1962)
• University of Mississippi (J.D., 1965). Phi Alpha Delta; Omicron Delta Kappa

Bar Admissions:

• Mississippi, 1965
• District of Columbia, 1991