Mississippi & Alabama Trial Counsel(601) 202-1111
Legal Education

CLE & Speaking

Practical programs designed to help lawyers prevent mistakes, manage cases more deliberately, and recognize injury issues when they appear outside a personal-injury practice.

Trial Advocacy & Practice Series

Professional-development programs.

Each topic can be developed as a reusable one-hour CLE with learning objectives, a presentation deck, written paper, speaker notes, and a one-page takeaway.

Signature Topic

The Rule of Three

A practical framework for litigation management, persuasion, workflow, and follow-through—beginning with initiate, respond, advance.

Client Relations

Managing Client Expectations

Scope, realistic outcomes, communication cadence, difficult conversations, delay, money, and the three recurring questions: where are we, what happens next, and what should the client expect before the next update?

ADR

Maximizing Mediation

Timing, mediator selection, client preparation, advocacy, negotiation strategy, mediator style, subject-matter fit, and post-mediation follow-through.

Practice Management

Knowing When to Associate Counsel

Recognizing when staffing, funding, experts, subject-matter experience, or expected trial demands justify bringing in additional counsel—and how to evaluate that counsel with the client's interests first.

PI Issue-Spotting Series

Programs for lawyers who do not primarily handle personal-injury matters.

The PI Claim Hidden Inside a Family-Law File

Spotting injury claims, settlements, minors' interests, liens, and related issues that appear during domestic practice.

Five UM/UIM Traps for Non-PI Lawyers

A practical introduction to coverage issues and preservation problems that can affect an automobile-injury claim.

The First 72 Hours After a Commercial-Vehicle Collision

Preservation, investigation, electronic evidence, vehicles, witnesses, insurance, and early expert decisions.

When Probate Is Also a Wrongful-Death Case

Issue spotting where estates, beneficiaries, survival claims, authority, and wrongful-death litigation intersect.

The Third-Party Claim in a Workers' Comp File

Recognizing potential claims against parties other than the employer and coordinating overlapping rights and obligations.

Preserve It or Lose It

Evidence steps before vehicles, video, electronic data, physical conditions, or witness recollection disappear.

PI Deadlines Every General Practitioner Should Spot

A framework for identifying limitations, notice requirements, preservation needs, and urgent referral moments. Jurisdiction-specific law must be verified for each program.

Ethical Referrals & Co-Counsel Relationships

Mississippi and Alabama referral structures, documentation, client choice, fee division, advertising, and professional responsibilities—ideally co-presented with independent ethics counsel or a bar representative.

Custom Local-Bar Program

A 20–60 minute issue-spotting presentation tailored to the audience's practice areas, followed by a practical checklist attendees can keep.

Faculty Packet

For CLE program directors

Programs can be adapted for bar associations, law schools, plaintiff or defense groups, local bars, solo/small-firm sections, and national CLE providers.

  • 60-minute standard format
  • Clear learning objectives
  • Written course paper
  • Projection-ready slide deck
  • Speaker notes
  • One-page attendee checklist
  • Mississippi / Alabama adaptation
  • Shorter lunch-and-learn version available
For Attorneys

Have a case that may need additional trial resources?

Everett Pepper and Pepper & Odom work with referring and associated counsel on complex injury and wrongful-death matters in Mississippi and Alabama.