Jones, Funderburg, Sessums, Peterson & Lee (JFSPL) is a small law firm operated by five partners and staff in a 99-year-old house on the major north-south thoroughfare in Jackson, Mississippi.

We respectfully ask that your review this website for a better understanding of the mission of the firm and the background of the partners. As an introduction, we have included specific areas of practice concentration for each of the partners, as well as the experience of the partners in his field. Representative publications of the partners are provided, as are a brief listing of some of the firm’s clients. In all immodesty, we have listed our selection through peer recommendation and review in various legal organizations and associations of long standing. If after reviewing this information you would like to talk to any or all of the partners, and if you can forgive us for such snobbery, please call us. We appreciate your interest in the firm and hope that we can be of assistance to you.

JFSPL consists of four native Mississippians and a refugee from southern Kentucky who came to Millsaps College in 1978 and never left. All received undergraduate degrees from the best public and private colleges in the state, and then attended either the University of Mississippi School of Law (three partners) or the Mississippi College Law School (two partners), achieving J. D. degrees over a period of 15 years. Jones planted the seed that grew into JFSPL in 1993, cultivated it for ten years with Funderburg and seven years with Sessums, and then saw it flower with the addition of Peterson and Lee in 2005 and 2006, respectively. The cookie-cutter blandness of the partners’ backgrounds is deceiving. Each partner has abilities, strengths, beliefs, motivations and weaknesses peculiarly only to him. All have tried cases as first-chair trial counsel, usually assisted by another partner, and each is not only free but encouraged to develop his practice independent of the others. As is always the case, it is the diversity of the partners, each with his own experiences, successes, failures and skill set, that has made the firm successful.

The tie that binds JFSPL is the partners’ core belief that absolute integrity must attend everything the firm does. If the partners cannot operate ethically and pursue a matter zealously within the bounds of the law, then that matter is returned to the client. The partners not only agree but demonstrate every day the belief that each and every client of the firm is absolutely entitled to our best regardless of whether the matter entrusted to the firm is worth $100 or $1,000,000. We believe that a lawyer who makes decisions for the client based solely on the prospective recovery ‘ the money ‘ is disserving that client. With all our might, we strive to create a relationship of faith and trust with our clients that means that no decision or recommendation is ever made based solely on the money. Every client deserves better from us. If we continue to be any good at what we have joined together to do, it will be because we each believe that money is a by-product of the highest quality legal services we can provide. We proceed on that basis, and we have never had occasion to doubt that conviction. If you have a matter within the broad range of the firm’s fields of practice, we hope that you will allow us to demonstrate these precepts to you and provide the highest quality legal services that can be found in Mississippi.

Thanks for your consideration, JFSPL

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