A. Kelly Sessoms, III

Areas of Practice

• Insurance Defense
• Premises Liability
• Products Liability
• Medical Malpractice Defense
• Banking and Financial Institutions
• Commercial Litigation
• Industrial Accidents
• Education Law
• Employment Law

Bar Admissions

• Admitted to Mississippi Bar (1992)
• Alabama Bar (2010)
• Admitted to practice in the Northern and Southern Districts of Mississippi
• Northern, Middle and Southern Districts of Alabama,
• U.S. Court of Appeals Fifth and Eleventh Circuits
• U.S. Supreme Court

Education

• University of Georgia (B.S., 1989)
• University of Mississippi School of Law (J.D., 1992)
• Associate Editor, Mississippi Law Journal
• Editor, Journal of Space Law
• Phi Delta Phi

Honors and Awards

• AV Preeminent Peer Review Rated for Highest Level of Professional Excellence by Martindale-Hubbell Legal Directory
• Mid-South Super Lawyers

Associations and Memberships

• Mississippi Bar Association, (Litigation Section – Executive Committee, Chairman 2016-2017), Young Lawyers Division, (President, 2004-2005), Fellows of the Young Lawyers Division
• Outstanding Young Lawyer of Mississippi (2001-2002)
• Fellows of the Mississippi Bar Foundation
• Jackson County Bar Association (President, 2000-2001)
• Alabama State Bar
• Mobile Bar Association
• Mississippi Defense Lawyers Association (Director, 2009-2011)
• International Association of Defense Counsel
• American Inns of Court, Russell Blass Walker Chapter (President, 2009-2010)
• Council of School Board Attorneys

Public Service

• Board Attorney, Pascagoula-Gautier School District
• Jackson County Chamber of Commerce (Chairman of the Board, 2014-2015)
• United Way of Jackson and George Counties (Board Chair 2021-24, Board of Directors)
• Pascagoula Rotary Club

Reported Cases

• Sims v. City of Moss Point, 2022 WL 866262 (S.D. Miss. 2022)
• Jones v. Singing River Health Services Foundation, 742 Fed. Appx. 846 (5th Cir. 2018)
• Corley V. Bolttech Mannings, Inc., 2014 WL 1668496, (S.D. Ala. 2014)
• Pascagoula School District v. Tucker, 91 So.3d 598 (Miss. 2012)
• Accu-Fab & Construction, Inc. v. Ladner, 778 So.2d 766 (Miss. 2001)
• Knight v. U.S. Fidelity & Guaranty Ins. Co., 65 F.3d 34 (5th Cir. 1995)