In Legal Terms

MPB Think Radio has been talking about “education” on many of our shows this month. Today, we’re learning about the Right of Students with attorney McKenna Rainey from ACLU – Mississippi . The Mississippi Secretary of State’s Office has a great website about voting. If you need to register to vote you can print off a form, or just call and ask your county clerk to mail you a form. If you’re intere...

Whether you’re at a PTA meeting, City Council meeting, or watching our legislature at work, you’ll notice the Parliamentary Procedure that’s used. These rules exists to facilitate the transaction of business and to promote cooperation and harmony. But it can be a foreign language or a dance you don’t know the steps. To help us out we’ve got attorney Mary Largent Purvis , Director of Legal Analysis...

Mississippi Volunteer Lawyers Project helps individuals represent themselves in court through self-representation clinics. They are able to do this with help from volunteer lawyers. We learn more about the MVLP from their Executive Director and General Counsel, Gayla Carpenter-Sanders . If you need a little bit of help with a legal matter that can be handled without an attorney, you might want to...

It’s Education Week on MPB Think Radio. For In Legal Terms, we’ve brought on the Deans for the two law schools in our state: John Anderson from Mississippi College and Fred Slabach from the University of Mississippi. We hope to learn about the differences between the two schools, what prospective students need to know, and what one can do with a law degree. Law School Admission Council Complete 2...

Laws are not the same from place to place in America. What might be legal in Louisiana or California isn’t necessarily the law here in Mississippi. Let’s learn about some of those differences today with our guest Professor Cal Peeler a guest professor at Ole Miss Law School. https://law.olemiss.edu/faculty-directory/calvin-peeler/ What courts handle the distribution of property in a divorce? Chanc...

We’re discussing liquor laws today. Our guests are from the Department of Revenue: Riley Nelson – Chief of Enforcement for the ABC and attorney Matthew Henry. https://www.dor.ms.gov/abc We hope we can answer your questions with our show today, but if we miss something, maybe it’s answered on the Department of Revenue’s Frequently Asked Questions page. The legal drinking age for beer and/or alcohol...

How would you feel if you needed to go to court or conduct legal business but weren’t fluent in the language? Our guests will help us understand court interpreter service in Mississippi: Deenie Miller, Director of Language Access Mississippi Supreme Court and Dr. Javier Gerardo Gómez, Credentialed Court Interpreter.   H.B. 1217 became law July 1, 2023. The new laws prohibit Limited English Pr...

Everyone loves a puppy! We’ll learn about your rights with a service animal with guest Robert Schwinn the National Legal Administrator at Canine Companions and disability attorney Rick Courtney whose daughter has a service animal.  Canine companions website: https://canine.org/ From their website anyone can pre-order their 2024 puppy calendar, sponsor a puppy, or learn how to donate...

Happy New Year! What I mean is, Happy “ Fiscal “ New Year. Our state starts a new year with new laws. We’ll learn about those new laws from MPB’s legislative reporter – Will Stribling . We’ll learn what laws didn’t pass also. The Mississippi Public Service Commission , on June 13, 2024, approved a new area code to be assigned to the same area occupied by the 662 code. The new area code is 471. Exi...

We’re learning about adoption law today with our guest attorney, Chad King from the firm of Thompson Addison. https://thompsonaddison.com/team-member/chadking/ The Mississippi Department of Child Protection Services can give you more information about adoption and foster care. In Legal terms had their commissioner Andrea Sanders on a recent broadcast. http://inlegalterms.mpbonline.org/episodes/in-...

Department of Public Safety? What all is that and how does it affect you? Eric Brown, General Counsel for MSPS will tell us. https://www.dps.ms.gov/administration/legal-division Guest co-host Adam Kilgore General Counsel, The Mississippi Bar. https://www.msbar.org/media/3109/what-to-do-when-you-get-a-bar-complaint-adam-kilgore.pdf Attorney volunteers are needed to serve as judges during the 2024 M...

Some good news has come out of our latest legislative session; ways to protect youth and families. We’ll let our guests from the Office of the State Public Defender explain: André de Gruy, State Defender, Jennifer Morgan - Family Defense Program Manager, and Tonya Rogillio - IDT Coordinator. We’re talking about the Youth and Family Defense Program. One place to find a directory of public defender...

We’ve all bought something before. Have you bought something that has harmed you? Whose fault is that? We’ll learn about product liability law with attorney Trey Bourn from Butler Snow. The website https://www.butlersnow.com/ has a long long list of News & Events you can select from to learn more about many subjects. More information about our guest can be found as well as the blog: Product Li...

Jury duty – there’s two ways to think of it: a chance to do your American civic duty or a big disruption to your life. How do you see it? We’ll learn more about Jury duty today with attorney Charles “Chuck” Mullins from Coxwell and Associates. If you like to read up on personal injury, nursing home abuse, dog bite law or so many other topics before you act when choosing an attorney Coxwell Law.com...

Attorney Francis Springer has a unique point of view – he’s an attorney but he’s also been a deputy sheriff. We’ll learn about your rights when interacting with police; how you could or shouldn’t handle a stop. You can find a complete list of traffic laws in Mississippi in Title 63 “Motor Vehicles and Traffic Regulations” of the Mississippi Code of 1972, Annotated https://mdot.ms.gov/safetyeducati...

MPB Think Radio’s In Legal Terms with expert host attorney Adam Kilgore. We’ve got our most popular topic on the show today – Estate Planning. Everyone will die at some point. If you want a say on what happens to your property after you die, now is the time to make plans. Our guest Elizabeth Wynn from Kyle-Wynn and Associates will give us tips. If you’d like to read up on estate planning, Kyle-Wyn...

Our guest today is Robert McDuff from the Mississippi Center for Justice. Rob works with litigation cases relating to voting and election issues, racial discrimination, discrimination based on sexual orientation, reproductive freedom, police misconduct, consumer protection, and prisoners’ rights. Information about the work of the Mississippi Center for Justice, can be found on their website: ...

We're talking about The Mississippi Bar . Here to tell us about the work of The Mississippi Bar is their General Counsel Adam Kilgore and Deputy General Counsel Missye Scott. There are over 50 bar associations in Mississippi. https://www.msbar.org/programs-affiliates/local-bar-associations/ Where can you look up a lawyer? h ttps://msbar.reliaguide.com/home Welcome to new In Legal Terms expert...

Our laws are created to help us and protect us. We should try to know our laws and regulations, so we don’t step over the line so as to be illegal, but we should know where the line is to get the most of our rights. Richard Courtney is going to help us navigate the Mississippi laws of Medicaid. https://elderlawms.com/richard-a-courtney/ There’s an easy to remember website where you can see if you...

We’ve got a fantastic show for you today – if I do say so myself. I’m Liz Gill – MPB’s host. We’re going to Celebrate 10 years of In Legal Terms. We’re also celebrating Professor Richard Gershon from the University of Mississippi School of Law. He’s been here with the show since the beginning. https://law.olemiss.edu/faculty-directory/richard-gershon/ Guests include: former Director of Radio at MP...

Our guest host today, in for Professor Richard Gershon, is Adam Kilgore. Adam is General Counsel for The Mississippi Bar where his duties include reviewing all Bar complaints, conducting investigations regarding Bar complaints, prosecuting attorney discipline cases, handling appeals before the Supreme Court of Mississippi, and serving as Bar liaison for the Board of Bar Commissioners, Committee on...

Our guest expert today – attorney Baskin Jones - will tell us about a topic I hope to have to never need to use! Personal Injury law. But it’s good to know, just in case. https://injuredinmississippi.com/ Phone: 601 INJURED (465-8733) If you’re in need of an attorney for personal injury, divorce, intellectual property, or whatever – try looking through the Lawyer Directory and the For the Pub...

Mississippi has some fantastically creative individuals. We want to protect all those ideas by talking about intellectual property. Get your questions ready all you song writers, artists, poets. Kamel King – attorney will help us learn. If someone was thinking of maybe “borrowing” another’s idea or creation. You might want to check out the  2020 Mississippi Code; Title 97 – Crimes; Chapter 45...

No one wants their “rights” taken away from them. No one. We’re going to learn about LGBTQ rights with the guidance of McKenna Raney-Gray, an attorney with ACLU Mississippi. https://www.aclu-ms.org/en/biographies/mckenna-raney-gray-lgbtq-justice-project-staff-attorney https://www.aclu-ms.org/en/campaigns/lgbtq-justice-project https://www.aclu-ms.org/sites/default/files/trans_parent_resources.pdf h...

It’s primary election day in Mississippi. Polls are open until 7pm. We’ll talk about voting today with my guest Pauline Rogers, Executive Director/Co-Founder The RECH Foundation Formerly Incarcerated Convicted People and Families Movement (FICPFM). October 7th - General Election Voter Registration Deadline When you go to the polls today or any time you go to vote, what types of photo IDs may be us...