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Thomas B. Shepherd III 
Board of Directors
Shareholder
  
633 North State Street
P.O. Box 427
Jackson, Mississippi 39202
  
Phone (601) 949-4711
Fax (601) 949-4804
Email tshepherd@watkinsludlam.com
   
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Areas of Practice:
Administrative / Gaming Law
Contract Law
Corporations Law
Bar Admissions:
Mississippi, 1984
Education:
Washington and Lee University School of Law, Lexington, VA, 1984
J.D.
Honors: Cum Laude
Law Review: Washington and Lee Law Review, Writer, 1983 - 1984


University of Mississippi, Oxford, Mississippi, 1980
B.B.A.
Honors: Cum Laude


Published Works:
Mississippi Corporations: Formation and Operation with Forms, The Harrison Co., 2002


Encyclopedia of Mississippi Law, Mississippi Practice Series, Jackson and Miller, Vol. 4, Chapter 35: Gaming, 2001


International Casino Law, Institute for the Study of Gambling & Commercial Gaming, Mississippi Section, 1999


Classes/Seminars Taught:
The 13th Annual National Institute on the Gaming Law Minefield, Panelist Speaker, February 5, 2009 - February 6, 2009


Honors and Awards:
Listed in The Best Lawyers in America, Corporate Law and Gaming Law


Listed in Chambers USA: America's Leading Business Lawyers


Top 40 Under 40, MS Business Journal, 1996


Leadership Jackson, 2000 - 2001


Leadership Mississippi


Omicron Delta Kappa, President


Beta Alpha Psi, President


Professional Associations and Memberships:
Mississippi Secretary of State's 2008 Business Reform Committees - Corporations Law Committee
Co-Chairman


American Bar Association
Member


American Bar Association, Business Law Section, Gaming Law Committee
Member


The Mississippi Bar
Member


The Mississippi Bar, Business Law & Gaming Law Sections
Member


Hinds County Bar Association
Member


Mississippi Secretary of State Business Law Advisory Group
Member


International Association of Gaming Advisors, 2001 - Present
Board of Trustees, Member


Mississippi Secretary of State Business Law Advisory Group, 2000 - 2007
Chairman


The Mississippi Bar, Gaming Law Section, 1996 - 1997
Chairman


National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws, 1992 - 1996
Mississippi Commissioner


The Mississippi Bar, Business Law Section, 1994 - 1995
Chairman


Fraternities/Sororities:
Beta Alpha Psi
Omicron Delta Kappa
Phi Delta Phi
Birth Information:
1958, Solomons, Maryland