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Admitted: 1999, Alabama; 2002, Mississippi Law School: University of Mississippi, J.D. Member: Lincoln County (Vice President) and American Bar Associations; Alabama State Bar; The Mississippi Bar; Defense Research Institute; Mississippi Young Lawyers Division (Member, Board of Directors). Biography: Phi Kappa Phi; Omicron Delta Kappa. Developmental Editor, Mississippi Law Journal, 2001-2002. Born: Brookhaven, Mississippi, August 12, 1974
Will Allen was born in Brookhaven, Mississippi, on August 12, 1974. He graduated from Samford University in 1996 with honors and then attended the University of Mississippi School of Law where he graduated in 1998, magna cum laude. While attending law school, he was a member of Phi Kappa Phi, Omicron Delta Kappa and was the developmental editor of the Mississippi Law Journal.
Will was admitted to the bar in the State of Alabama in 1999 and began his career in Birmingham, Alabama with Maynard, Cooper and Gale. He joined the Environmental/Toxic Tort group at Maynard Cooper and Gale and specialized in the litigation side of environmental law.
In 2001, Will returned home to Brookhaven, Mississippi, was admitted to the Bar in Mississippi, and joined Allen, Allen, Breeland & Allen, PLLC.
Will specializes in general litigation with an emphasis on civil rights defense, toxic tort defense, employment law and general insurance defense law.
Will is a member of the American Bar Association, the Mississippi Bar Association, the Defense Research Institute, the Mississippi Defense Lawyers Association and the Lincoln County Bar Association. He is a member of the Mississippi Young Lawyers Board of Directors and vice president of the Lincoln County Bar Association. In 2008, Will was selected as Mississippi’s Young Lawyer Delegate to the ABA where he was recently tapped to serve on the Credentials Board.
Will is married to Jenny Allen and they have one son, Sam, and a daughter, Lucy.
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