TABLE OF CONTENTS
SUPER LAWYERS / MID-SOUTH 2011
COVER STORY
FEATURE
6 THE AMAZING CAREER
OF MICHAEL CODY
From guiding billion-dollar public utility
arbitrations to indicting the governor to
representing Martin Luther King Jr., the Memphis
attorney has done it all.
BY NANCY HENDERSON
8 HANDLING THE
DISASTER AFTER
THE DISASTER
Judy Guice fights for victims of Katrina
and the oil spill.
BY KARIN BENNE
5 Q&A: STANDING UP
TO BULLIES
Playwright-turned-lawyer Hank Bates of Carney
Williams Bates Pulliam & Bowman in Little Rock
goes up against those who prey on the poor.
INTERVIEW CONDUCTED AND EDITED BY ROSS PFUND
DEPARTMENT
THE ANNUAL LIST
11 SELECTION PROCESS
SUPER LAWYERS
12 THE TOP LISTS
15 LISTED BY AREA OF PRACTICE
RISING STARS
31 LISTED BY AREA OF PRACTICE
LAW YERS DID NO T PAY TO BE INCLUDED IN THE
EDI TORIAL FEATURES, DEPARTMEN TS OR SUPER LAW YERS
LIS TS PRESEN TED ON THIS TABLE OF CON TEN TS PAGE.
COVER AND TABLE OF CON TEN TS PHOTOGRAPHY B Y
PHILLIP PARKER (CODY) AND JASON NORMAN (GUICE)
