| 1013 Jackson Avenue P.O. Box 269 Oxford, Mississippi 38655 (Lafayette County) |
Telephone: 662-234-3414 Telecopier: 662-234-0604 Tom@Freelandlawfirm.com |
Our Web Pages
These web pages are designed to provide a profile and history of
the Freeland & Freeland law firm and its members. 
There is a discussion of the firm's history that includes details about
the connection between Phil Stone, who was a lawyer in the firm, and William
Faulkner. The profile pages include profiles of the members of the firm, T.H. Freeland
III, T.H. Freeland,
IV, and Joyce Freeland. They may be reached by email at
Hal@Freelandlawfirm.com, Tom@Freelandlawfirm.com, and Joyce@Freelandlawfirm.com, respectively. The staff can be reached at Staff@Freelandlawfirm.com.
Profile
Freeland & Freeland and its predecessor firms, particularly James Stone & Sons, have been located at 1013 Jackson Avenue in Oxford since 1905. Throughout its history, the firm's main work has been civil litigation, particularly complex litigation in federal and state court. The firm has had a long tradition of outstanding appellate advocates, including past attorneys such as Phil Stone, Taylor McElroy (a former justice of the Mississippi Supreme Court), James L. Robertson (also a former justice of the Supreme Court), and currently, T. H. Freeland, III. In Papasan v. Allain , 478 U.S. 265 (1986), the firm successfully represented schools and schoolchildren in twenty-three counties of North Mississippi. This case resulted in substantial additional funding for the schools in the counties involved.
The firm is located in a Victorian building that has been a law office for over a hundred years. William Faulkner's early novels were typed by the secretaries there, as a result of Faulkner's friendship with Phil Stone, with whom T. H. Freeland, III, began practice in 1958.
The firm has long practiced railroad and insurance defense and corporate litigation. Both T. H. Freeland, III and T. H. Freeland, IV became early experts in Mississippi law involving defense of bad faith insurance claims, publishing a leading article and lecturing on the subject. Additionally important areas of practice have been banking law, both in litigation on behalf of banks and in litigation involving failed banks, real estate practice, civil rights litigation, and employer/employee litigation. The firm has a long tradition of bar service and pro bono work, particularly in the area of capital defense.
Names of representative clients and references are available on request to the firm.
