Watkins Ludlam Winter & Stennis, P.A. welcomes three new Associates to the firm: David T. Ash, Karen Clay and Christopher S. Pace.

David T. Ash graduated cum laude from Mississippi College School of Law (J.D. 2007) where he was Managing Editor of the Mississippi College Law Review and a member of the American Bar Association, Student Division, and the Christian Legal Society. He received the Business Law Award for the Business Section of the Mississippi Bar Association. David graduated summa cum laude from Mississippi College (B.S., 2003) where he received the Scott-Swor Founders Award, the Perry Academic Award, the G.M. Rogers Memorial Award, the Amy Brand Memorial Scholarship and was inducted into the Mississippi College Hall of Fame. As an undergraduate, David served as Vice President of the Mortar Board, Vice President of Alpha Chi, and was a member of Delta Mu Delta and Alpha Lambda Delta Honor Societies. David joins the firm's Real Estate team.

Karen Clay graduated in 2007 from Mississippi College School of Law, where she was an Executive Editor of The Mississippi College Law Review and a member of the Moot Court Board. During law school, Karen was a Mississippi Moot Court Competition finalist in 2006 and the ABA Moot Court Regional Champion in 2007. She received the Frisby Griffing Marble Scholarship, 2005; the Betty B. Tucker Award, 2006; and the American Jurisprudence Award in Domestic Relations. Karen graduated from Mississippi University for Women (B.A., 2002), and from the University of Tennessee with her Masters of Science in College Student Personnel, 2004. Karen joins the firm's Litigation and Labor and Employment practice groups.

Christopher S. Pace Chris is a magna cum laude graduate of the University of Southern Mississippi (B.S., 1994), a magna cum laude graduate of Mississippi College (M.B.A., 2004) and a magna cum laude graduate of the Mississippi College School of Law (J.D., 2007), where he served as an Executive Editor of the Mississippi College Law Review.  He won the Hearin-Leon Hess Scholarship, the Mississippi Bar Foundation Scholarship, the Mississippi Chapter of the Federal Bar Association -Robert Hauberg Award and the American Jurisprudence Awards for Legal Writing, Secured Transactions and Constitutional Law. Chris will practice in the firm's Gaming and Resort Practice Group, assisting the firm's gaming clients in regulatory, licensing, commercial, finance and real estate matters. His addition to the firm strengthens the resources available to assist clients operating in the gaming and resort business, manufacturers and distributors, lenders to the industry and investors.