Earl Lamar Denham
Member
Email: earl@denhamlaw.com

Practice Areas: Hurricane-Related Litigation; Personal Injury; Complex Litigation; Constitutional Law; Divorce; Child Custody; Maritime Accidents; Criminal Law; Real Estate Litigation; Medical Malpractice; White Collar Crime.

Admitted: 1972, Mississippi

Law School: University of Mississippi, J.D., 1972

College: University of Mississippi, B.S., 1969

Member: The Mississippi Bar; American Bar Association; National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers; Mississippi Trial Lawyers Association; Southern Trial Lawyers Association (Member, Board of Governors); The Association of Trial Lawyers of America; The Lamar Order.

Biography: Omicron Delta Kappa; Sigma Phi Epsilon.

Languages: Spanish.

Reported Cases: Warwick v. Gautier Utility Dist. (setting aside lower court dismissal of utility rate dispute and directing liability); McClain v. White (setting aside default judgment); Barnes v. Singing River Hospital Systems (applying discovery rule for first time to state Tort Claims Act case and reinstating medical malpractice claim dismissed by lower court); Logan v. Logan (establishing step-parents' custody rights); Logan v. Logan (landmark lien giving custody of child to step father over natural mother); Gulf Coast Research Laboratory v. Amaraneni ($461,000 victory at trial remanded for further hearings in a civil rights action under 42 U.S.C. §1983 and landmark establishment of expectation of continuing employment for at will state employees); State v. Roderick (declaring Mississippi RICO statute on usury unconstitutionally void for vagueness); Touart v. Johnston (affirming trial victory of youth court judge over board of supervisors); Dunn v. Dunn (landmark decision involving equitable liens in a domestic case); Lawler v. Government Employees Ins. Co. (establishing that statute of limitations in Mississippi does not begin to run for minors until age 21); Extension of Boundaries of City of Moss Point v. Sherman (Municipal annexation--contestants' win at trial affirmed); In re Jordan (capital murder conviction reversed); Robinson v. Robinson (affirming divorce); Denham v. Ramsey (striking down Mississippi residency requirements for voting).

Born: July 1, 1947

ISLN: 907912840