Porter Malouf

09/21/2023

We are immensely proud to announce that one of our Attorneys, Bud Sheppard, is part of the Leadership Mississippi Bar Class of 2023-24. The group had its inaugural meeting at The Bar Center yesterday, kicking off a year of interactive classes, group projects, and leadership training. Congratulations, Bud, on this great achievement!

Help us welcome the Leadership Mississippi Bar Class of 2023-24, who met for the first time Wednesday at The Bar Center. This group of lawyers takes part in interactive classes, group projects, and leadership training sessions throughout the year. Congratulations on a great start to the year!

06/12/2023

The Mississippi Association for Justice Annual Convention convened in New Orleans, Louisiana this weekend. Attorneys Tim Porter, Mittie Field, and Bud Sheppard are pictured here.

The MAJ convention features sessions on topics impacting trial lawyers by top legal minds.

05/01/2023

Meet the Porter | Malouf Team!

Bud Sheppard, a Jackson native who frequents the Mississippi Gulf Coast, is an Associate Attorney at Porter | Malouf. Bud’s practice focuses on multidistrict litigation, appeals, and plaintiff personal injury.

Prior to joining the firm, Bud clerked for the Honorable Taylor B. McNeel on the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi. Bud received his Juris Doctor magna cm laude from Mississippi College School of Law in 2021, where he served as Editor-in-Chief of the MC Law - Law Review. As Editor-in-Chief, Bud led the publication of Volume 39 and received the Best Comment Award for his article. While in law school, Bud interned for the Honorable Cory T. Wilson on the Mississippi Court of Appeals and Mississippi State Treasurer David McRae.

Bud received his bachelor’s degree in Economics from Loyola University New Orleans, where he served as Student Body President and Chief Justice. Bud is an Alpha Omega of St. Andrew's Episcopal School, where Bud’s peers voted him “Mr. St. Andrew’s.”

04/30/2023

This week, Porter | Malouf associate attorneys Mittie Field and Bud Sheppard and law clerk Jacob Guerrero attended the Capital Area Bar Association (CABA) spring social honoring new bar admittees. Bud serves CABA as the social committee co-chair, planning networking events for our local attorneys.

04/28/2023

Meet the Porter | Malouf Team!

Mittie Field is an Associate Attorney at Porter | Malouf. Before joining the firm, Mittie obtained her bachelor’s degree from The University of Southern Mississippi in 2018 with a major in Business Administration and her Juris Doctor from Mississippi College School of Law, magna cm laude in 2021.

While at Mississippi College School of Law, Mittie was an active member of the Moot Court Board and competed nationally at the August A. Rendigs, Jr. National Products Liability competition and the New York City Bar National Moot Court competition. As a testament to her contributions to the Moot Court Board, Mittie was inducted as a member of the Order of the Barristers in 2021. While in law school, Mittie completed a legal externship with the Department of Veterans Affairs.

04/27/2023

Porter | Malouf associate attorney Bud Sheppard will serve as the inaugural Chairman of the Board of Trustees for the Phoenix Club of Jackson. Bud recently completed his term as President of The Phoenix Club of Jackson, during which the Club implemented two new annual fundraisers, expanded volunteer initiatives, and raised $165,000 to benefit the Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Mississippi.

Additionally, after fifteen years of growth, The Phoenix Club of Jackson established an endowment and non-endowed fund for the benefit of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Mississippi (BGCCM). The Board of Trustees was created to support planned giving development and manage The Phoenix Club of Jackson Fund at the Community Foundation for Mississippi.

Porter | Malouf is proud of Bud’s commitment to serving the Jackson community.

04/25/2023

Meet the Porter | Malouf Team!

Suzanne Smith is a member of the bar of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and an expert in e-discovery. Her career has focused primarily on pharmaceutical and medical device litigation.

Before joining Porter & Malouf in 2021, Suzanne founded and operated a boutique e-Discovery consulting firm specializing in forensic linguistic investigation. For nearly 15 years, Suzanne worked behind the scenes of mass tort litigation, transforming legal teams and trial attorneys into formidable “Davids” against a steady parade of corporate “Goliaths,” reveling in the thrill of finding and turning over case-winning evidence to legal teams.

Suzanne has found a place at Porter | Malouf, working with a team that shares her professional values and cares deeply about the real people hurt by corporate greed and complete disregard of duty and responsibility.

04/24/2023

Last month, the Porter | Malouf team participated in the Legal Beagle 5K benefiting the Mississippi Volunteer Lawyers Project of the Mississippi Bar Association.

The Mississippi Volunteer Lawyers Project places pro bono cases for underprivileged people with volunteer lawyers. Porter | Malouf is a proud sponsor and volunteer for the Mississippi Volunteer Lawyers Project.

04/21/2023

Meet the Porter | Malouf Team!
 
Patrick Malouf’s practice is focused on representing plaintiffs in mass tort litigation. Patrick received his Bachelor of Science degree from Spring Hill College in Mobile, Alabama in 1989, and his Juris Doctorate degree from the University of Mississippi School of Law in 1993.
 
Patrick has extensive experience resolving talcum powder litigation. Patrick was one of the plaintiff’s attorneys in the first talcum powder personal injury case to go to trial in the United States.
 
Patrick is also currently lead counsel for the plaintiff in the Mississippi Attorney General’s talcum powder lawsuit proceeding in the Chancery Court of the First Judicial District of Hinds County, Mississippi.

04/20/2023

Porter | Malouf was honored to be recognized as a Community Club Annual Sponsor of The Phoenix Club of Jackson benefiting the Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Mississippi at the philanthropy’s Annual Meeting on March 16, 2023 at the Country Club of Jackson.
 
Porter | Malouf is proud to support the Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Mississippi.

04/18/2023

Meet the Porter | Malouf Team!

Tim Porter is known as an aggressive advocate who goes the extra mile for his clients. Tim’s passion for his clients and the good he can do for them is what drives him every day, and this passion and experience are the tools he uses to help change lives.

Tim obtained his bachelor’s degree in economics with honors from Ole Miss in 1990 and his Juris Doctor with honors from Ole Miss Law School in 1993. Tim began his legal career as a law clerk for Ed Pittman, Presiding Justice of the Mississippi Supreme Court. After his clerkship, Tim started his fight for justice working as a trial lawyer in Jackson, Mississippi. In 1998, at age 29, Tim participated and performed the closing argument for the Cosey v. E. D. Bullard asbestos trial, which resulted in a jury verdict of 48.5 million dollars.

Tim is a tremendously successful trial lawyer whose efforts have helped compensate thousands of asbestos victims. Not only has Tim had great success in mass tort litigation involving asbestos and silica victims, but he also has an impeccable track record as a product liability lawyer, nursing home abuse, slip and fall, automobile accidents,18-wheeler accidents, as well as numerous other types of personal injury cases.

04/28/2022

Porter Malouf has developed a reputation among our peers, large national insurance carriers, insurance defense attorneys, and judges based on our track record of success. Our law firm has recovered over $457 million in settlements and judgments among just our five most significant recoveries. Because we have recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for our clients, insurance companies know that our attorneys are trial lawyers who do not hesitate to take on the most complex cases and proceed to trial.