For many years, Cook Timber Company cut timber various counties in Central Mississippi. A large portion of that wood Cook sold to Georgia-Pacific. In the late 1990’s, the wood market became extremely soft, forcing Georgia-Pacific to cut the prices it would pay to purchase wood from suppliers, including Cook. Eventually, G-P went to a core…
Tammra Cascio was recently inducted as a Fellow of the Mississippi Bar Foundation during the 2016 annual meeting. She was recognized by her colleagues for outstanding legal ability and devotion to the public and the profession. Cascio, an attorney with the firm of Heidelberg, Steinberger, Colmer and Burrow with offices in Pascagoula and Jackson, also…
Firm members, James Heidelberg and April McDonald, recently secured a defense verdict in federal court in a malicious prosecution case. The action centered on a 2011 incident where James Hagen, former Ocean Springs Alderman, was arrested on charges of unlawful touching of a minor, embezzlement, and possession of child pornography on a city issued computer. …