David W. Mockbee

American College of Construction Lawyers, Fellow
American College of Trial Lawyers, Fellow (State Chair 2015-16)
American Board of Trial Advocates, Associate (MS Chapter President 2016)
National Board of Trial Advocacy, Certified Trial Advocate
College of Master Advocates & Barristers, Senior Counsel
Mississippi Bar Foundation, Fellow
Repeatedly Listed in:
- The Best Lawyers in America;
- The International Who’s Who of Construction Lawyers;
- Chambers USA America’s Leading Lawyers for Business; and
- Mid-South Super Lawyers (top 50 in Mississippi)

Mockbee Hall & Drake, P.A., President 1994-present
Phelps Dunbar, Partner 1986-1994
Jones, Mockbee, Bass & Hodge, Partner 1984-1986
Jones, Mockbee & Bass, Partner 1982-1984
Jones & Mockbee, Partner 1981
Sole Practitioner 1980
Reynolds & Mockbee, Partner 1977-1980
Watkins, Pyle, Ludlam, Winter and Stennis, Associate 1975-1977
Law clerk to Judge Charles Clark, Former Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit 1974-1975

Adjunct Professor, Mississippi State University School of Architecture (legal aspects to fifth year students)
Former General Counsel, American Subcontractors Association of Mississippi
Member, ABA Public Contract Section
Member, ABA Forum on the Construction Industry
Certified Mediator, State of Mississippi
AAA Construction Industry Arbitrator and Mediator Panel Member

Mississippi Construction Law, (3d Ed. 2015)
“The Measure of Malpractice – There is a Place for the Threshold Approach in Evaluating Design Errors and Omission” published in the Journal of the American College of Construction Lawyers Vol. 7, No. 1 (Winter 2013)
“Architect/Engineer Expert Witnesses: Professionals or Prostitutes?” published in the Journal of the American College of Construction Lawyers Vol. 5, No. 2 (Winter 2011)
“Engineer’s Legal Exposure for Facilities Built on Expansive Soils” published in the American Society of Civil Engineers Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities Vol. 25, No. 2 (Jan/Feb 2011)(Awarded Outstanding Paper of 2011)
Mississippi law contributor to “State-By-State Guide to Construction Contracts at Class 11” Aspen Publishers, Inc.
Mississippi law contributor to “Lien and Bond Claims in the 50 States,” American Subcontractors Association, Inc. and the Foundation of the American Subcontractors Association, Inc.
Mississippi law contributor to “Economic Loss Doctrine,” American Bar Association, Committee on Construction Litigation, Mississippi Section
Mississippi law contributor to “No Damage for Delay, American Bar Association, Committee on Construction Litigation
“Authentication & Identification,” 49 Mississippi Law Journal 151, 1978
“Municipal Annexation in Mississippi,” 45 Mississippi Law Journal 393, 1974

American Subcontractor Association National Conventions
Construction Specification Institute National Conventions
Numerous Mississippi Construction Law Seminars
Numerous state, local and in-house presentations to construction industry groups and firms

Supreme Court of Mississippi
United States District Courts for the Northern and Southern Districts of Mississippi
United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
United States Court of Federal Claims
United States Supreme Court

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