James R Mozingo |

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JAMES R. MOZINGO, MOZINGO|QUARLES, PLLC. For the last 40+ years Jim Mozingo has negotiated his clients’ most important contracts and agreements and litigated their critical business, commercial and bankruptcy cases. He has handled numerous business acquisitions and contracts throughout the United States and internationally. His broad experience also includes LLC and shareholder agreements, government contracts (including privatization), supply and marketing agreements, employment contracts and “business divorces.” Mozingo has litigated or arbitrated contract breaches and interference, construction cases, real estate sales, corporate disputes, fraud, insurance coverages, lender liability claims, commercial collections, professional liability, sales and use tax assessments, municipal annexations, environmental liability and Medicaid provider reimbursements. He has represented bankruptcy trustees, secured creditors, lien and equitable claimants, unsecured creditors (including committees), lessors, business debtors, insurance carriers, “white knights” and purchasers of assets from bankruptcy estates.

Mozingo holds the highest rating (AV) in the peer-rated Martindale-Hubbell™ listings and has for many years been found in the Mid-South Super Lawyers listings. In 2011 the Mississippi Business Journal named Jim as one of Mississippi's 50 Leading Attorneys. A Fellow of the Mississippi Bar Foundation, Mozingo holds a B.A. in Politics from Washington & Lee University (1975) and was awarded his Juris Doctor “with distinction” from Mississippi College School of Law (1978), where he served as Associate Editor of the Mississippi College Law Review. Jim served as a member of the Mississippi Board of Bar Admissions for 21 years, 7 as chairman examining in the fields of business organizations and bankruptcy. Jim is also a frequent presenter at continuing legal education programs involving business, commercial, bankruptcy and ethics issues.

Jim is licensed to practice in all Mississippi courts, state and federal, and is a member of the bars of the 5th, 6th and 11th Circuit Courts of Appeal as well as the United States Supreme Court. He has appeared in state and Federal courts throughout Mississippi and in Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Tennessee and Texas, as well as handling significant commercial arbitration proceedings in St. Louis, Atlanta, Nashville and Knoxville.

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