- Divorce
- Child Custody and VisitationBridgforth & Buntin represents clients in all types of family and domestic relations including adoption, child custody and support, alimony and spousal support, property division, grandparents’ rights, divorce, termination of parental rights, revisions of birth certificates and name changes. The firm’s attorneys have litigation experience in all of these areas and can provide experienced counsel and guidance.
- Adoption
- Spousal Support
- Criminal DefenseAdam joined Bridgforth, Buntin & Emerson, PLLC, in November 2008. He is a native of Hernando, Mississippi and attended Hernando High School and the University of Mississippi. While in law school at Ole Miss, he served on the Moot Court Board. After practicing in a large firm in Jackson, MS for two years, he moved back home to DeSoto County. Adam served as the Youth Court Prosecutor, then public defender, and now serves as a part time public defender for DeSoto County Circuit Court. While Adam has a general practice that includes most aspects of legal representation, his main focus areas are personal injury, commercial litigation, estate planning and probate, and representation of clients charged with misdemeanor and felony crimes. Adam has been named a “Rising Star” in the legal community in 2010, 2012, 2013, and 2014 by Super Lawyers magazine. The National Academy of Criminal Defense Attorneys named Adam to its Top Ten Under 40 list in 2014 for criminal defense attorneys in the State of Mississippi.
- DUI/DWIThe attorneys at Bridgforth & Buntin have litigated and settled numerous cases in which clients were injured or killed as a result of automobile accidents, commercial trucking accidents, motorcycle accidents, drunk driving accidents, accidents involving police cars and governmental vehicles, accidents involving farm equipment, as well as accidents involving unsafe highways and bridges.
- Wrongful DeathBridgforth & Buntin has extensive experience in all types of liability cases. Its attorneys have successfully obtained verdicts and settlements in cases of bridge and highway collapse, negligent highway design, defective products, unsafe premises, boating accidents, civil rights violations, police and governmental liability, workplace injuries, and a variety of other cases in which individuals have been injured or killed through a careless act, defective product, or other negligence.
- White Collar CrimesMembers of the firm of Bridgforth & Buntin have served as municipal judges, city, county, and state prosecutors. Having that experience enables the firm to better understand and evaluate criminal prosecutions and to advise its clients. The firm has defended major criminal offenses from death penalty cases to white collar crimes. Its attorneys have also handled numerous misdemeanor, including traffic and DUI offenses.
- Misdemeanors
- Corporate Law
- Employment ContractBridgforth & Buntin provides a diverse range of business related services such as formation of corporations, partnerships, LLCs and other business entities, preparation of business agreements, buy/sell provisions, transfer restrictions, employment contracts, personal services contracts, vendor contracts and agreements, contract negotiation, and other services which enable its clients to form and carry out their objectives. The firm’s clients have ranged from small start-up businesses to large multi-state corporations.
- Real Estate LitigationBridgforth & Buntin has a comprehensive real estate practice throughout Mississippi and the Mid-South. The firm represents both buyers and sellers in contracts and negotiations, due diligence investigation, title examination and insurance, closings, financing, refinancing, and tax free exchanges. Bridgforth & Buntin has represented countless buyers, sellers, and lenders in all types of residential transactions, ranging from the sale of a single family lot to the development of major subdivisions. The firm has extensive experience in commercial and industrial real estate matters, including multi-state transactions involving apartment complexes, hospitals, churches, industrial parks, and some of the largest shopping centers in Memphis, DeSoto County, and North Mississippi. The firm advises buyers and sellers on contractual negotiations, due diligence, environmental studies, financing, and other complex real estate issues.
- Construction LitigationBridgforth & Buntin recognizes that it is usually in the best interest of the client that matters be resolved without the expense and time required by trial. Every effort is made to resolve issues in the most timely and cost effective manner. The firm’s attorneys are familiar with alternative methods of resolution such as arbitration and mediation. Arbitration may be involuntary, involves a formal hearing, and is binding on the parties. Mediation is voluntary, informal, and non-binding. The purpose of mediation is to assist the parties in coming to an agreement with respect to their dispute. Attorneys Taylor Buntin and Barry Bridgforth are mediators certified by the Mississippi Supreme Court. Both attorneys have extensive litigation experience in both state and federal courts in a wide variety of legal matters, from automobile accidents to construction litigation, eminent domain, and commercial law. Both have represented plaintiffs and defendants over the course of their legal careers and seek to provide impartial guidance toward resolution of the parties’ legal issues. The law office is centrally located in DeSoto County, Mississippi and provides comfortable, state of the art conference areas.
- Eminent DomainThe attorneys at Bridgforth & Buntin have represented businesses, farms, and individuals in state and federal condemnation cases involving the Mississippi Department of Transportation, the Tennessee Department of Transportation, various cities and counties, TVA, Entergy, and other governmental bodies and utilities. They are knowledgeable concerning the compensation which is due for the taking or damage to real property for public use.
- Easement
- Land Use and Zoning
- Personal InjuryTaylor Buntin has been practicing law since 1977 and was a founding member of Bridgforth, Buntin & Emerson, PLLC. While in law school at the University of Mississippi, he was a member of Phi Delta Phi. He was a member of the DeSoto County Board of Education from 1985-1987. Taylor served as the Assistant District Attorney in the 17th Judicial District from 1984-1987, the DeSoto County Prosecuting Attorney from 1989-1991, and also served on the Board of Bar Commissioners from 1999 until 2001. Taylor has been recognized as a top attorney in our community in the area of Personal Injury Litigation by Super Lawyers magazine every year since 2007.
- Medical MalpracticeThe attorneys at Bridgforth & Buntin have helped clients obtain verdicts and settlements in medical negligence cases involving surgical negligence, misdiagnosis or untimely diagnosis, medication and pharmaceutical errors, and other injuries to patients caused by the malpractice of physicians, hospitals, and health care facilities. The firm has also handles claims involving negligence by engineers, contractors, accountants, appraisers, and other professionals.
- Estate PlanningBridgforth & Buntin’s attorneys are authorized to write title insurance for some of the largest title insurance companies in the United States. The firm has experience in examining and solving title problems and issues. Bridgforth & Buntin handles foreclosures, boundary and easement disputes, construction liens and litigation, title disputes, partitions, and real estate litigation of all kinds.
- WillsGeneral Civil Litigation, Personal Injury, DUI/DWI, Misdemeanor and Felony Criminal Cases, Estate Planning, Wills and Probate, Commercial Law, Administrative Law, Municipal Annexation and Incorporation litigation, Local and State Government law
- Power of AttorneyBridgforth & Buntin offers a broad range of services designed to assist clients in planning for their future contingencies. Those issues can be addressed through wills, living or testamentary trusts, durable powers of attorney, healthcare directives, and other documents which help ensure that the client’s wishes are preserved. Bridgforth & Buntin also handles probate of wills and the administration of estates and has successfully tried many cases involving contested wills, trusts, and other estate related litigation. Bridgforth & Buntin can assist heirs and beneficiaries in obtaining statutory provisions to which they may be entitled under the law, including widows or widowers’ allowances, homestead rights, children’s support, and other benefits to which they may be entitled.
- ProbateZoning, planning and land use, Commercial real estate, Residential real estate, Corporate law, Probate law, Estate planning, Commercial law
- Foreclosure