Mitchell

Meade concentrates his practice on product liability, pharmaceutical, toxic tort, and transportation litigation. He is AV®-Preeminent™ Peer Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell®, and recognized in Best Lawyers in America® and Who’s Who Legal in Product Liability and Super Lawyers® in Class Action/Mass Tort. Meade represents clients in litigation throughout the United States. He is President of the Mississippi Bar Association and previously served as the Practice Group Leader for Butler Snow's Products, Catastrophic & Industrial Litigation group.

• Toxic Torts, Asbestos & Silica Litigation
• Tort, Transportation & Specialized Litigation
• Drug & Device Litigation
• Environmental Litigation
• Trucking Litigation
• Insurance
• Products, Catastrophic & Industrial Litigation
• Transportation & Trucking Rapid Response

Meade defends a variety of product liability disputes for manufacturers and distributors, including serving as national/regional counsel. He defends toxic tort suits, including talc, asbestos, silica, and chemical exposure suits and represents industrial machinery and component manufacturers and consumer product manufacturers and sellers. He also represents trucking companies involved in over the road accidents. Further, he defends companies involved in consumer protection suits and has extensive experience defending complex fire, explosion, and premises liability disputes, as well as representing companies in the energy industry.

Meade is involved in a variety of professional and community organizations. Meade is President of the Mississippi Bar and previously chaired its Litigation Section. He previously served as the President of both the Capital Area Bar Association and Jackson Young Lawyers. He is active in the American Bar Association’s Tort, Trial and Insurance Practice Section, where he serves as an officer, and has served on the governing Council and chair of the Content Management Committee, Commercial Transportation Committee, Book Publishing Board and Membership Committee. He also serves as Butler Snow’s representative to the Lex Mundi Legal Network. He is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and the Mississippi Bar Foundation and a Bencher of the American Inns of Court, Charles Clark Chapter.  Meade previously served on the Board of Directors of the Greater Jackson Chamber Partnership, as President of Leadership Greater Jackson Alumni Association, as a fundraiser chair and as a civic club president.

• Johnson & Johnson, et. al. v. MS Attorney General v., 315 So. 3d 1017 (Miss. 2021).
• Goudreault v. Chevron, USA; Jackson County Circuit Court (2019).
• MS Attorney General v. Daiichi, et. al., Hinds County Chancery Court (2019).
• Cook v. PPG Industries, et. al., 2014 WL 4626492 (S.D. Miss 2014).
• Hinton v. Dick’s Sporting Goods, et. al., 2013 WL 6384601 (S.D. Miss. 2013).
• Myrick, et. al. v. Enviro, Inc.; Jones County Circuit Court, 2011.
• Wilkins v. Wiley Sanders, et. al, Bolivar County Circuit Court, 2010.
• Perry v. Clear Channel Broadcasting, 2008 WL 190573 (S.D. Miss. 2008).
• King v. Correction Corporation of America, et. al, Northern District of Mississippi, 2008.
• Jones v. Hillcraft Furniture, Inc., et. al., Hinds County Circuit Court, 2008.
• Boteler v. Pleko Southeast Corporation, et. al., 2006 WL 1364387 (S.D. Miss. 2006).
• Wansley v. Yamaha, 900 So.2d 1167 (Miss. 2005).
• Beir v. Sydran Food Services, 2005 WL 8163267 (N.D. Miss. 2005).
• T. James Anderson, Jr. v. State of MS, et al., Southern District of Mississippi, 2004.
• Taggert, et al. v. Ryder Truck Rental, Inc., Smith County Circuit Court, 2000.
• National School Services, Inc. v. Crossroad Consulting, Inc., et al., Hinds County Chancery Court, 1999.
• Sims v. Sims, Rankin County Chancery Court, 1998.
• Pine Belt Regional Waste Management Authority v. Jones County Property Owners, Jones County Chancery Court, 1995.

• Martindale-Hubbell®
  • AV®– Preeminent™ Peer Review Rated
• Best Lawyers in America®
  • Product Liability Litigation – Defendants, 2011-Present
• Super Lawyers®
  • Mid-South Super Lawyers, Class Action/Mass Torts, 2007-Present
  • Top 50: Mississippi Super Lawyers, 2012, 2014-2015, 2019-Present
• Who's Who Legal, Product Liability Defence, 2017-2022
• Lifetime Achievement Selection, America’s Top 100 Attorneys®
• Charles Clark American Inn of Court, 1998-2000, 2021-Present
• Graduate, International Association of Defense Counsel Trial Academy
• Outstanding Young Lawyer of Mississippi, Mississippi Bar, 2003-2004
• Graduate, American Bar Association, TIPS Leadership Academy, 2007
• Fellow, American Bar Foundation
• Fellow, Mississippi Bar Foundation
• Top 40 Under 40, Mississippi Business Journal, 2004
• Distinguished Leadership Award, Community Leadership Association, 2005
• Fellow, Young Lawyers Division, American Bar Association
• Fellow, Young Lawyers Division, Mississippi Bar

• Mississippi, 1993
• U.S. District Courts
• Tennessee: Middle, Western
• Mississippi: Northern, Southern
• U.S. Court of Appeals
• 5th Circuit

• University of Mississippi, J.D., cum laude, 1993
  • Associate Editor - Comments, Mississippi Law Journal
  • Phi Kappa Phi, Academic Honorary
• University of Mississippi, B.Accy., cum laude, 1990
  • Inductee, Student Hall of Fame
  • Omicron Delta Kappa, Leadership Honorary
  • Mortar Board, Academic and Leadership Honorary

• Clerkship, Federal Judge Tom S. Lee, U.S. District Court, Southern District of Mississippi, 1993-1994

• International Association of Defense Counsel (IADC)
• Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel (FDCC)
• Lex Mundi Legal Network
  • Firm Representative, 2006-Present
• American Bar Association
  • Member, ABA House of Delegates, 2023-Present
  • Tort, Trial and Insurance Practice Section
    • Vice-Chair, 2024-Present
    • Secretary, 2023-2024
    • Revenue Officer, 2020-2023
    • Governing Council, 2017-Present
    • Content Management Committee, Past Chair
    • Book Publishing Board, Past Chair
    • Membership Committee, Past Chair
    • Commercial Transportation Committee, Past Chair
    • Toxic Tort and Environmental Law Committee, Past Vice Chair
    • TIPS NOW, Fellow, 2006-2007
    • TIPS Leadership Academy, 2007-2008
• Defense Research Institute (DRI)
• Mississippi Defense Lawyers Association
• Trucking Industry Defense Association
• Transportation Lawyers Association
• Mississippi Bar
  • President, 2024-2025
  • President-Elect, 2023-2024
  • Summer School Committee
    • Chair, 2022-2023
    • Member, 2007-2008, 2019-2020
  • Litigation Section
    • Chair, 2015-2016
    • Executive Committee, 2010-2017
  • Young Lawyers Division
    • Director, 2000
    • Public Information Committee, Past-Chair
    • Bar Admission Ceremony Committee, Past-Chair
    • Local Affiliates Committee, Past-Chair
• Capital Area Bar Association
  • President, 2016-2017
  • Board Member, 1999-2000, 2012-2018
  • Programs Committee, Past Chair
• Claims and Litigation Management Alliance
• Jackson Young Lawyers
  • President, 1999-2000
  • Treasurer, 1997-1998

• Author, “A Dive into Third-Party Litigation Financing and Third-Party Medical Funding,” ABA/TIPS, Commercial Transportation and Litigation Newsletter (2023).
• Presenter, "Hot Topics Involving Trucking Company Issues," 2023 ABA Transportation Mega Conference, March 3, 2023 (CLE Presentation).
• Author, “Who’s on First: The FDA or the FTC?” Pro Te: Solutio, Vol. 12 No. 1, March 2019.
• Author, “Defending TBI and CRPS Cases,” The Brief, Vol. 47 (2017).
• Presenter, "Deposition Basics," Mississippi Bar Center, Jackson, MS, 2015 and 2017 (CLE Presentation).
• Presenter, "Handling and Defending the High Exposure/Subjective Complaint Case," 2017 ABA Transportation MegaConference (CLE Presentation).
• Presenter, "Cars and Trucks of the (Not So Distant) Future, and the Litigation to Follow," ABA Automotive, Products Liability and Commercial Transportation Webinar (2016) (CLE Presentation).
• Author, "Deposition Basics," The Mississippi Lawyer, Fall 2015.
•  Author, "Cars & Trucks of the Future (Plus Litigation to Follow)," ABA/TIPS Commercial Transportation Litigation Committee Newsletter, Summer 2015.
• Presenter, "Driving Innovations and Investigation Technology," 2015 ABA Transportation Megaconference (CLE Presentation).
• Book Editor/ Contributing Author, "Damages: A State by State Summary," American Bar Association, 2014.
• Presenter, "Learn Trial Techniques from the Best," 2014 ABA 23rd Annual Spring CLE Meeting, (CLE Presentation).
• Presenter, "Litigating Against An Experienced Truck Accident Attorney," 2013 ABA Commercial Transportation Committee Webinar (CLE Presentation).
• Presenter, "Recent Developments in Class Actions: The American and Canadian Perspective," 2013 Lex Mundi Litigation, Arbitration and Dispute Resolution Meeting (CLE Presentation).
• Book Editor, "Mississippi News Reporters' Legal Handbook," Mississippi Bar Association (2009).
• Author, “What's In the Black Box? A Show and Tell With Car and Truck EDRs,” ABA/TIPS, Commercial Transportation Litigation Committee Newsletter (2009).
• Author, "E-Discovery: It's Coming, Are You Ready?," Transportation and Trucking Industry Seminar, Denver, Colorado, 2006 (Industry Paper and Lecture).
• Presenter, "It's Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday: Multiple Defendants Joinder/Venue Severance," 2006 Harris Martin Mississippi Silica Conference (CLE Presentation).
• Presenter, "It's Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday: Multiple Defendants Joinder/Venue Severance," 2005 Mississippi Bar Association Summer School for Lawyers (CLE Presentation).
• Author, “Law in the Fifth Circuit Since Daubert,” 998 Supplement for Products Liability Advisory Committee Experts/Evidence Action Group's Deskbook (1998).
• Author, "Basic Principles of Bankruptcy and State Reclamation," Mississippi College Law Review, Vol. 18-2, 1998.
• Author, “The Lobby Reform Act of 1994,” Mississippi Municipalities, Vol. 43, No. 11 (1994).
• Author, “Discovery Abuse and a Proposed Reform: Mandatory Disclosure,” Mississippi Law Journal, Vol. 62-3 (1993).

• Greater Jackson Chamber Partnership, Board of Directors, Board Member, 2009, 2012-2018
• Leadership Greater Jackson, Graduate, 2001
• Leadership Greater Jackson, Alumni Association, President, 2004-2005
• Community Leadership Association, Distinguished Leadership Award, 2005
• Mississippi Arthritis Foundation, Jammin for Joints Fundraiser, Past Co-Chair
• University of Mississippi School of Law, Lamar Order
• Jackson Exchange Club, Past-President
• Mississippi Museum of Art
• Jackson Rotary Club