Talbot named to firm’s membership
Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard, PLLC has elected Jack Talbot to the firm’s membership effective Wednesday. Talbot was elected along with Colt Galloway, Audra Hamilton, Jacob McElroy, Jeff McWhirt, Michael Nored and Emily Runyon.
Talbot serves on the Board of Directors of the Pine Bluff Downtown Development and is a member of Fifty for the Future of Pine Bluff Board of Directors. He is also a member and past president of Pine Bluff Rotary Club and a Paul Harris Fellow.
“I am pleased to announce our firm’s newest members. They are representative of the bright future we have ahead and the values that were established when our law firm was founded in 1954,” said Mitchell Williams Managing Director Jeff Thomas. “Jack Talbot is an outstanding person and highly talented lawyer. I am confident he will continue our firm’s commitment to exceptional service to our clients, responsibility to serving our communities and dedication to the legal profession,” said Thomas.
Talbot has extensive experience as a trial lawyer with a focus on business law, agriculture and real estate. He represents a variety of clients but primarily assists agribusinesses, landowners, land managers, farming partnerships, cooperatives, forest product companies and other business entities. He provides litigation services and advice on a range of operational matters including contract and transactional issues, leasing, tenant and land management issues, title, boundary and easement disputes, bankruptcy, debt and finance disputes, and environmental and business torts. Talbot handles administrative and regulatory litigation for clients having contested matters before the U.S. Department of Agriculture and various state-level agencies and commissions. He also represents individuals, families and fiduciaries in disputes involving wills, trusts and gifts and the administration of trusts and estates. Talbot practices in the firm’s Little Rock office.
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Talbot earned a Juris Doctor with honors from the University of Arkansas School of Law and a Bachelor of Arts from Westminster College. He is a member of the Arkansas Bar Association where he is involved in the real estate section and the agricultural law section. He is also a Fellow of the Arkansas Bar Foundation and is a member of the American Agricultural Law Association. Talbot was appointed to the Arkansas Supreme Court Committee on the Unauthorized Practice of Law.
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