Shelly Gunn Burns, Attorney

Shelly Gunn Burns

Attorney

601-326-3320
sburns@wmjwlaw.com

Mary Nell Holland

Legal Assistant for Shelly Burns

Areas of Practice

  • Civil Litigation
  • Personal Injury
  • Automobile Accidents
  • Governmental Liability
  • Medical Malpractice
  • Premises Liability
  • Products Liability
  • Insurance Bad Faith
  • Insurance Litigation
  • Real Estate Litigation
  • Construction Defects
  • Appellate Practice

Education

  • Mississippi College School of Law, Jackson, Mississippi, 1997
  • Mississippi State University, 1992

Bar Admissions

  • Mississippi, 1997
    Texas, 2013
  • U.S. District Court Northern District of Mississippi
  • U.S. District Court Southern District of Mississippi
  • U.S. Court of Appeals 5th Circuit
    Admitted Pro Hac Vice in Multiple Jurisdictions
  • Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals

Professional Associations and Memberships

  • Mississippi Defense Lawyers Association
  • Defense Research Institute (Medical Liability and Health Care Law and Women in the Law Committees)

Appellate Decisions

  • Carroll v. Singing River LLC, 309 So. 3d 567 (Miss. Ct. App. 2020)

Representative Appellate Decisions

  • Blailock ex rel. Blailock v. Hubbs, 919 So.2d 126 (Miss. 2005)
  • Brandon HMA, Inc. v. Bradshaw, 809 So.2d 611 (Miss. 2001)
  • Christian v. McDonald, 907 So.2d 286 (Miss. 2005)
  • Jones v. Jackson Pub. Sch., 760 So.2d 730 (Miss. 2000)
  • Sutherland v. Estate of Ritter, 959 So.2d 1004 (Miss. 2007)
  • Tentoni v. Slayden, 968 So.2d 431 (Miss. 2007)
  • Wells v. Tucker, 997 So.2d 908 Miss. 2008)

Publications

  • Co-Author, Mississippi Trial Handbook, 3d (Mississippi Practice Series), 2021-2022 Cumulative Supplement