Paul Barnes is a shareholder who joined the firm's Jackson office in 1998.  He practices in the areas of medical malpractice defense, complex commercial litigation, intellectual property, mass tort defense, and railroad litigation.

Paul obtained both his undergraduate degree (B.M. Ed, 1990) and legal education (J.D., 1998, summa cum laude) at the University of Mississippi, where he was Mississippi Cases Editor of the Mississippi Law Journal and a member of Delta Theta Phi honorary.  He was also the recipient of numerous awards including the Dean Robert J. Farley Award, the Steen Reynolds and Dalehite National Trial Competition Award, the Heidelberg and Woodliff Oral Advocacy Competition Award, the Robert P. Upchurch Award and the William Waller Criminal Law Award. Paul was admitted to the Mississippi Bar in 1998.

Paul is a member of the American Bar Association, the Mississippi Bar Association, and the Federal Bar Association, and is an Associate of the Charles Clark Inn, American Inns of Court.