David W. Mockbee—President
E-mail address: dmockbee@mhdlaw.com
Phone: 601-353-0035
David W. Mockbee is the president of Mockbee Hall & Drake, P.A. He was born in Brookhaven, Mississippi on December 2, 1949. Mr. Mockbee is a U.S. Army Reserve veteran who has reached the rank of captain. He has been successfully practicing law for over 36 years.
Areas of practice
- Construction law
- Government contracts law
Admitted to practice
- Mississippi, 1974
Education and educational achievements
- B.A., Davidson College, 1971
- J.D., University of Mississippi, 1974, with honors
- Editor-in-Chief, Mississippi Law Journal
- Phi Delta Phi Award - outstanding senior law student
- Mississippi Valley Title Insurance Company Award
- West Publishing Company Awards
- Frederick P. Hamel Memorial Award
- Am. Jur. Awards
Honors and awards
- American College of Construction Lawyers, Fellow
- American College of Trial Lawyers, Fellow
- American Board of Trial Advocates, Associate
- National Board of Trial Advocacy, Certified Trial Advocate
- College of Master Advocates & Barristers, Senior Counsel
- Litigation Counsel of America, Fellow
- Mississippi Bar Foundation, Fellow
- AV® Preeminent™ Peer Review Ratedsm by Martindale Hubbell®
- Repeatedly selected to:
- The Best Lawyers in America in the categories of Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation and Construction Law; and selected as the 2011 Jackson, MS Construction Lawyer of the Year by Best Lawyers in America;
- The International Who’s Who of Construction Lawyers;
- Chambers USA America’s Leading Lawyers for Business in Litigation: Construction, Bank 1; and
- Mid-South Super Lawyers (top 50 in Mississippi)
Professional activities
- Adjunct Professor, Mississippi State University School of Architecture (legal aspects to fifth-year students)
- General Counsel, American Subcontractors Association of Mississippi
- Member, ABA Public Contract Section
- Member, ABA Forum on the Construction Industry
- Certified Mediator, State of Mississippi
- AAA Construction Industry Arbitration Panel Member
Articles and publications
- Mississippi Construction Law (1994 and 2005 (Second Edition))(370 page treatise)
- Architect/Engineer Expert Witnesses: Professionals or Prostitutes? 5 ACCL Journal, p71 (2011)
- Engineer's Legal Exposure for Facilities Built on Expansive Soils, American Society of Civil Engineers Technical Council on Forensic Engineering, Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities (Vol. 25, No. 1, p. 7 (2001)) (co-author)
- Mississippi law contributor to State-By-State Guide to Construction Contracts and Claims (From A Contracting And Claims Perspective), Aspen Publishers, Inc. (2006, supplemented annually)
- Mississippi law contributor to Lien and Bond Claims in the 50 States, American Subcontractors Association, Inc. and the Foundation of the American Subcontractors Association, Inc.
- Anatomy of a Construction Defect Case (University of Mississippi, 2007)
- Mississippi Contract Law for Professional Engineers and Mississippi Construction Contracts for Professional Engineers (Jackson), 2006 (Half Moon, LLC)
- Mold and Mildew Problems in Buildings (Jackson), 2002 (Lorman Education Services)
- Construction Contracting for Public Entities in Mississippi (1999) (Lorman Education Services)
- Mississippi Construction Law (October 3, 1994) (Construction Education Management Corporation)
- Mississippi Construction Law: What Do You Do When . . . ? (1990 and 1993) (National Business Institute)
- Mississippi Construction Law (1981)
- Mississippi law contributor to “Economic Loss Doctrine,” American Bar Association, Committee on Construction Litigation, Mississippi Section
- Mississippi law contributor to “No Damage for Delay, American Bar Association, Committee on Construction Litigation
- Authentication: A Comparison of Mississippi Procedure and the Federal Rules of Evidence, 49 Miss.L.J. 151 (1977) (co-author)
- Municipal Annexation in Mississippi, 45 Miss.L.J. 393 (1974) (co-author)
- Conflicts of Laws - Statutes of Limitations - Substantive Foreign Statute Commencing at Time of Discovery Governs (analysis of the 5th Circuit's decision in Alabama Great Southern Railroad v. Allied Chemical Corp., 44 Miss.L.J. 27 (1973)
