J. Mark Franklin, III
Admitted to bar, 1987, Mississippi
Areas Of Practice:
Commercial and Business Litigation
Real Estate Title Claims and Defense
Lender Liability Defense
Foreclosure Law
Education:
University of Southern Mississippi (B.S., 1984, with highest honors)
Phi Kappa Phi
University of Mississippi (J.D., 1987)
Order of the Barristers
Mississippi Law Journal, 1986-1987
Moot Court Board, 1985-1987
Member:
The Mississippi Bar
Hinds County Bar Association (Chairman, Lawyer Referral Committee, 1996-1998)
Mississippi Bankruptcy Conference (Chairman, Annual Seminar Committee, 1998-1999)
Bar Association of the Fifth Federal Circuit
Madison County Bar Association
Author:
“Judicial Foreclosure,” Foreclosure Law in Mississippi, Univ. of Miss. Inst. For Continuing Studies, Center for Continuing Legal Educ. (Rev’d 2009)
Reported Decisions:
In re Mercer, 246 F.3d 391 (5th Cir. 2001), 218 F.3d 770 (5th Cir. 2000), 211 F.3d 214 (5th Cir 2000), 220 B.R. 315 (Bankr. S.D. Miss. 1998)
Trustmark Nat’l Bank v. Barnard, 930 So. 2d 1281 (Miss. App. 2006)
Weathersby v. Citibank (South Dakota), N.A., 928 So. 2d 941 (Miss. App. 2006)
James v. Chase Manhattan Bank, 173 F.Supp. 2d 544 (N.D. Miss. 2001)
Gober v. Chase Manhattan Bank, 918 So. 2d 840 (Miss. App. 2005)
In re Jackson, 392 B.R. 666 (Bankr. S.D. Miss. 2008)
Gober v. Chase Manhattan Bank, 269 Fed. Appx. 492 (5th Cir. 2008)
In re Evans, 464 B.R. 272 (Bankr. S.D. Miss. 2011), 2011 WL 6258473, 2011 WL 6258859, 2011 WL 6294043, 2011 WL 6294147, 2012 WL 393255, 2013 WL 1788500 (Bankr. S.D. Miss)
GuideOne Elite Insurance Co. v. Mount Carmel Ministries, 2014 WL 11515564, 2014 WL 11515565, 2014 WL 12642001, 2015 WL 72139, 2015 WL 268517, 2015 WL 7871033, 2017 WL 2908866, 2018 WL 379023 (S.D. Miss)
GuideOne Elite Insurance Co. v. Mount Carmel Ministries, 676 Fed. Appx. 269 (5th Cir. 2017)
Mount Carmel Ministries v. Seaway Bank & Trust Co., 2015 WL 13375901 (S.D. Miss.)