Order of the Coif. Recipient, Hinds County Bar Association Professionalism Award, 2007. Mississippi Bar Foundation Professionalism Award 2013. Listed in: Best Lawyers in America: Bet-the-Company Litigation, Mass TortClass Action Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Environmental Litigation, Banking and Finance Litigation, Environmental Law; Chambers USA, America's Leading Lawyers for Business: Commercial Litigation, Environment; Mid-South Super Lawyers: One of Mississippi's Top 50. Managing Editor, Vanderbilt Law Review, 1967-1968. Law Clerk, U.S. District Judge, 1968-1969. Author: The Mississippi Jury: Law and Practice; Damages Law for Mississippi Trial Practice. Private Law Practice, 1969—. Member: Mississippi State Senate, 1974-1980 (Chairman: Appropriations Committee, 1979; Legislative Audit Committee, 1978; Constitution Committee, 1975-1979). Chairman, State Board of Public Welfare, 1980-1984. Lawyers Advisory Committee, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, 2001-2004. Governor's Judicial Appointments Advisory Committee, 2004-2012; Chairman, Committee on Judicial Elections Campaign Intervention 2014-15.