Jeff Rimes

Prior to joining with partners Andy Taggart and Lisa Usry, Jeff Rimes was law partners with Lisa Usry in a private law practice. Prior to being in private practice, Jeff served as Judicial Law Clerk to Mississippi Supreme Court Justice Kay B. Cobb. He also served as Vice President of Public Policy for the Mississippi Family Council, now known as the Mississippi Center for Public Policy. Then, Jeff was an attorney with a large, respected local firm.

Jeff received his undergraduate degree in Religion at William Carey College, and his Master’s degree from the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. Jeff earned his law degree, magna cum laude, from the Mississippi College School of Law in 2000, where he served on the Board of the Mississippi College Law Review as Casenote/Comment Editor and as Vice President of the Law Student Bar Association. Jeff also received American Jurisprudence Awards in Contracts I, Contracts II, Civil Procedure and Domestic Relations while attending the Mississippi College School of Law.

Jeff has experience in a wide array of litigation, in both trial and appellate matters, and has extensive experience in representing companies of all sizes, and individuals, in lawsuits. Jeff also has experience in administrative matters, such as representing clients before the Mississippi Board of Nursing, and has assisted with the formation of corporations and other types of companies. Jeff has assisted clients in a broad range of domestic and family law matters, and is experienced in the areas of wills and estates and probate matters. Jeff also serves as an attorney for the School Board of Greene County, Mississippi.

Jeff has assisted numerous non-profit organizations with formation, organization and governance matters, and he is frequently asked to lecture on issues that are unique to non-profit organizations and churches.
Jeff is active in the Christian Legal Society and is an allied attorney with the American Defense Fund. Jeff is married to the former Kristen Bush, of Jackson, Mississippi.

Jeff was selected by Super Lawyers® as a 2009 Super Lawyers–Rising Star in the state of Mississippi in the areas of General Litigation and Family Law. Only 7.5% percent of the lawyers in the state were selected as a Super Lawyer or a Rising Star.

Jeff has received a BV® Peer Review Rating from Martindale-Hubbell. Martindale-Hubbell is the facilitator of a peer review rating process. A BV® Peer Review Rating is the maximum rating a lawyer can receive who has been admitted to the bar for less than ten years and is a rating which indicates high to very high legal abilities and very high ethical standards.