- Butler, Snow & O’Mara and Stevens & Cannada merge to form Butler, Snow, O’Mara, Stevens and Cannada, PLLC.
- During a several-year period of labor unrest, strikes and acts of sabotage in Mississippi, firm represents several clients in a wide variety of labor matters and hundreds of labor arbitrations.
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Mississippi Supreme Court favorably decides Knox Glass Bottle Co. v. Underwood, the case that brought Butler, Snow & O’Mara and Stevens & Cannada together, establishing foundational Mississippi corporate law. -
Firm contributes significantly to authorship of Mississippi Public Utilities Act. -
Bob Cannada is elected Chairman of the firm, serving in that role for 25 years. -
Phineas Stevens pens Quo Vadis, urging the firm to consider long-range objectives and establish a strategy for achieving them. -
Larry Franck publishes Practice and Procedure in Mississippi: An Ancient Recipe for Modern Reform, 43 MISS. L.J. 287, laying intellectual groundwork for judicial rulemaking. In 1981, following much work by other firm members, rules of civil procedure were adopted by the Mississippi Supreme Court. -
Successful defense of Uniroyal in product liability case involves virtually every member of firm in 9-week trial – at the time, the longest civil or criminal trial in Mississippi federal court. -
Firm is associated in DBS cases, marking the start of its Drug and Device defense, a hallmark practice area.