John P. Scanlon

Associate

Phone: 601 933 2055

Email: jscanlon@sdmlaw.com

Personal Information

Born Mississippi 1974

Education

B.A. Degree, University of Mississippi, 1998

J.D. Degree, Mississippi College School of Law, 2005

Professional Information

• Former law clerk to Justice George C. Carlson, Jr., Mississippi Supreme Court, 2005-06

• Research Assistant and Co-Author, Chapter 6: Parties to the Mississippi Civil Procedure volume of Professor Jeffrey Jackson's MISSISSIPPI PRACTICE SERIES

• Member, Mississippi Association for Justice (Secretary, New Lawyers Division, 2007-08)

• Member, Jackson Young Lawyers (Newsletter committee chair, 2007-08)

• Moot Court Board, Mississippi College School of Law

• First Place Team, and Second Best Individual Oralist, Mississippi Moot Court Championship, Jackson, Spring 2005

• Octofinalist, Duberstein National Bankruptcy Law Moot Court Competition, St. John's University School of Law, New York City, Spring 2005

• Sixth Best Individual Oralist, National Entertainment Law Moot Court Competition, Pepperdine University School of Law, Malibu, Fall 2004

• Competitor, Mississippi Moot Court Championship, Jackson, Spring 2004

• Appellate Advocacy Co-Coach, National Bankruptcy Law Moot Court Competition, St. John's University School of Law, New York City, Spring 2006

• Appellate Advocacy Coach, National Entertainment Law Moot Court Competition, Pepperdine University School of Law, Malibu, Fall 2005

• Editor-in-Chief, The Legal Eye, law student newspaper, January 2003-December 2004

• Eagle Scout

• Member, Mississippi State Bar Association

• Member, Hinds County Bar Association

• Admitted to practice in:

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  • The State of Mississippi
  • All Mississippi State Courts
  • United States Courts of Appeal - Fifth Circuit
  • United States District Courts for the Northern and Southern Districts of Mississippi