Higginson Lawyers

Her experience in representing clients facing hard financial times began in law school where she clerked at the Public Defender’s and Sen. Blanche Lincoln’s office, and Vanessa understands the challenges individuals face with a job loss, sudden illness, the cost of childcare and rising costs of living.

Vanessa graduated from the UA in Fayetteville with a B.A. in Advertising/Public Relations.  She graduated from UA – Little Rock, William H. Bowen School of Law in 2007. She has been a practicing attorney for 10+ years, specializing in consumer bankruptcy matters, debtor-creditor litigation, and consumer transactions.  She is currently on the executive committee...

Bob Sexton has practiced law in Arkansas for over 20 years. Originally from Lonoke, he has lived in Arkansas his entire life. He attended Ouachita Baptist University and earned his law degree from the Bowen School of Law at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Sexton began working with Mike Rainwater in the 1990s, and along with Stephen Holt, co-founded Rainwater, Holt & Sexton in 2006. Now the largest personal injury law firm in Arkansas, the firm has grown from a small team to over 30 attorneys and more than 100 support staff. “We’re big enough to go against any insurance...

Landon was born and raised in Batesville, Arkansas and is proud to call Batesville his hometown. Landon has practiced in Little Rock with one of the largest national law firms in Arkansas with over 500 attorneys and 25 offices nationwide where he regularly worked with some of the largest corporations in Arkansas and the nation, as well as small and medium-sized companies. His experience in working on large scale transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, and other strategic transactions, as well as all matters related to corporate governance and business development is what sets him apart in Batesville. When asked what excites...

Experienced and trusted injury attorney Alan LeVar has been practicing law in Arkansas for the past 20 years. As a former Municipal Judge Mr. LeVar has an extensive amount of experience helping those in his community.

James Law Firm is a criminal defense firm located in Little Rock, Arkansas and serves clients throughout the state. Practice areas encompass homicide and other violent crimes, robbery, drug crimes, DWI, sex crimes, weapons charges, white collar crimes including organized crime/RICO, juvenile crimes, death penalty cases, and other felonies and misdemeanors, as well as appeals.

Founded in 1994 by William O. “Bill” James, Jr., the firm is comprised of dedicated and diverse professionals with extensive legal experience and multilingual skills. They work as a team, giving clients the benefit from each attorney’s specific background. Among them, the lawyers are admitted to...

Tax, trusts and estates lawyer who enjoys helping his clients meet and exceed their individual, family and business objectives.

Matthew Hartness is committed to helping resolve the legal problems faced by individuals and businesses throughout the state of Arkansas. It is our service that has made The Brad Hendricks Law Firm one of the largest law firms in the state for twenty years. Our Little Rock, Arkansas law firm has had great success with civil litigation cases involving everything from car accidents and trucking collisions, to Social Security Income and Social Security Disability, to personal injury and bankruptcy. Matthew focuses on personal injury, business litigation, trucking litigation, and wrongful death.

Brad Hendricks has a family tradition of dedication to the law. His father was also an attorney in Little Rock, and a former circuit judge in Pulaski County.

Brad has worked for many years as a trial attorney almost exclusively handling medical malpractice cases. His practice focuses on representing children with cerebral palsy or other birth injuries caused by obstetric or pediatric malpractice. Several of the cases he has settled or won at trial have been reported in a number of legal publications.

In 1980, the State of Arkansas called upon Brad Hendricks to bring the prison system...

Tim Reed was born in southeast Arkansas and did a lot of growing up in the delta. Before concluding grade school, he moved to central Arkansas and has lived there since. An avid musician, Tim attended the University of Arkansas in Little Rock, where he majored in music with an emphasis on guitar and graduated magna cum laude. Tim played guitar professionally for many years, continues to play, and is regarded by his peers as one of the best guitarists in Arkansas. Tim attended law school at the University of Arkansas in Little Rock, graduated with honors, and began his legal...

Grant Wise is an attorney based out of the Little Rock office dedicated to helping his clients with all of their family law needs, including divorce, adoption, and child custody and visitation issues. He recognizes how difficult family matters can be and is passionate about helping his clients resolve their problems and achieve their goals so they can get back to living the lives they want and deserve. Grant Wise was born and raised in Paragould, Arkansas, and grew up helping out on his family’s small cattle farm. He called Jonesboro home for six years before moving to Little Rock in...

I love being family law attorney because I get to celebrate people during some of the happiest moments of their life, and get to help them through some of the most difficult. My primary practice areas include adoption, divorce, child custody, child support, paternity, and guardianship matters. I am a certified public accountant (CPA, inactive status) which is very useful for my clients who are seeking to divide up large assets and retirement plans.

Licensed in Arkansas & Texas

Mr. Ray graduated Summa Cum Laude from Henderson State University before earning his Juris Doctor from the William H. Bowen School of Law, where he is qualified for membership to the Who’s Who Among American Law students. Mr. Ray earned the respect of both his clients and peers by being named to the Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers by Martindale-Hubbel for demonstrating the highest possible ethical standards and legal ability. And, he has earned a rating of “10.0 – Superb” from the online legal directory, Avvo, where peers and clients have posted their rankings in terms...

For forty years, Lamar Porter has handled all aspects of personal injury litigation (motor vehicle, trucking, defective products, and catastrophic injury cases). For the last twenty-five years, Lamar has focused primarily on medical malpractice litigation, representing patients and their families in cases against medical providers who have caused serious injury or death. Mr. Porter heads the medical malpractice and litigation section of the law firm and has been closely involved in the firm’s drug and medical device cases. He has extensive experience in handling birth injury cases (obstetrical malpractice). Although only a handful of malpractice verdicts have ever been handed...

Formerly a Cop and Judge. Decades in the legal community. Personally available to all clients from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. It costs you nothing to talk for a bit and see how we might help you.

I, a native of Memphis, TN., am a graduate of Memphis Central High School, and of The University of Memphis; I then graduated from Southern University Law Center. After graduating from Southern, I moved to Washington D.C., where I worked as a policy analyst, writing policy for the United States Department of Agriculture. I then worked at a subrogation firm negotiating insurance claims for companies across the United States, including Walmart and Home Depot. After that, I worked as a Staff Attorney at the Center for Arkansas Legal Services in Pine Bluff, AR. While there, I went before the court...

Born in Little Rock, Mike Rainwater’s family roots trace back to Crawford and White County. A graduate of North Little Rock High School, Mike attended Henderson State and Louisiana Tech. After college, he worked as a computer programmer in several states before deciding to pursue law. While working full-time at Texas Eastern Corporation, he attended South Texas College of Law at night and discovered a true passion for the legal field. Mike returned to Arkansas to raise a family and began his legal career as a Deputy Prosecuting Attorney in Little Rock. He later entered private practice, gaining experience in commercial...

My name is Jacob Denson. I am the founder of Denson DWI & Drug Defense, PLLC. I am from Sherwood, Arkansas. I attended college at Arkansas State University in Jonesboro, Arkansas, where I earned my Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics with a Minor in Statistics. After college, I entered the work force. I worked with my father in his local automotive repair shop. I received an email inviting me to apply to law school while at work one day. I was accepted to law school, and completed my Juris Doctorate degree at University of Arkansas at Little Rock Bowen School...

Kacey Ziegler is an Attorney with over ten years of experience in estate planning, probate, and elder law and over twenty years of experience in real estate issues. Kacey works with her estate planning clients to find the best option to meet their goals and budget. She also represents families to navigate the difficulties of probate, adult guardianships, or Medicaid qualification. Kacey speaks regularly to groups on the subject of revocable and irrevocable trusts, avoiding probate, and advanced directives. Kacey opened Maumelle Law Group in October 2023 after nine years as an associate attorney with another estate planning firm. Kacey's interest...

Brian Light joined wh Law | We Help in 2020. His practice is focused on Bankruptcy matters.

Brian grew up in Little Rock, where he graduated from Little Rock Central High. After earning his undergraduate degree at the University of Central Arkansas he attended the University of Arkansas School of Law in Fayetteville.

While in law school, he worked in the school’s Pro Bono Bankruptcy Clinic, where he discovered that helping the people of Arkansas through the bankruptcy process was the best way for him to use his law degree. Since graduating from law school in 2014 he has helped hundreds of...

Jessica is a bankruptcy attorney who has been helping clients get a fresh start since she joined wh Law in 2019. Originally from Little Rock, she received her bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and Economics from Saint Louis University. Before becoming a lawyer, Jessica spent 10 years as a Certified Public Accountant. To say Jessica is a numbers person through and through is an understatement! Jessica wears many hats at wh Law, but her favorite part of the job is connecting with clients on a personal level and ensuring client satisfaction. One of the things Jessica works toward every day...

I am Joe Calhoun, a registered patent attorney also licensed in Arkansas and California, with over twenty-five years of legal and related business experience in commercial law and client counseling, especially in the intellectual property fields. My primary practice areas include the creation or registration of intellectual property rights, the guiding of clients’ commercialization of those rights, the assignment or licensing of such rights to or from others, and the enforcement of (or defense against) infringement claims. After earning my Bachelor of Science degree from Tulane University (Biology and Psychology), and graduating from law school at the University of San...

Megan E. Wooster is an experienced litigation attorney with a relentless passion for domestic relations cases. Ms. Wooster is also a qualified Attorney Ad Litem, appointed by the Courts, to represent minor children in custody & probate cases. Ms. Wooster is dedicated to her clients and will aggressively fight to obtain the best resolution for you.

Megan is a Tennessee native who moved to Arkansas to attend law school. Prior to M.W. Law, PLLC in 2013, Megan was a domestic relations litigation attorney at the James Law Firm and an insurance defense litigation attorney at Anderson Murphy Hopkins, LLP. In...

Thomas G. Buchanan is an experienced personal injury lawyer in Little Rock. Tom is committed to helping those who have been seriously harmed with no fault of their own get fair and just compensation from insurance companies. He is dedicated to fight for each of his clients' rights and that includes taking cases to trial to get the recovery that they deserve. His passion for obtaining justice on behalf of injury victims has earned him the reputation as one of the most tenacious and skilled courtroom advocates.

Michael J. Watton is the senior partner at Watton Law Group. As a leading national consumer bankruptcy lawyer, he has guided thousands of clients through bankruptcy and debt consolidation, as well as successfully representing individuals in suits against mortgage servicers, payday lenders, and large financial companies. Mr. Watton is admitted to practice in the state courts of Wisconsin, Colorado, Missouri, Utah, Ohio, Florida, New York, Arkansas, Virginia, Arizona, and Kansas, as well as the federal courts in certain districts of those states and in the US 7th and 8th Circuit Courts of Appeals. Attorney Watton is AV Rated by Martindale-Hubbell,...

CCR Law Firm is an award winning law firm, made up of former police/ former prosecutors/ former insurance defense counsel/ and former in-house counsel for a trucking company. Our attorneys have been ranked among the best by their peers and clients. Call CCR when it is serious.

Admitted: United States Supreme Court Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals U.S. District Courts for the Eastern and Western Districts of Arkansas Arkansas Supreme Court Honors: AV Preeminent Martindale Hubbell Rating, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 Mid-South Super Lawyers (Business Litigation), 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 Arkansas Bar Association, Frank C. Elcan, II Leadership Award, 2005

He has extensive litigation experience as both a plaintiff and defense counsel in the areas of personal injury, product liability, insurance coverage disputes, construction, contract and general litigation matters. He is a member of the Arkansas Bar Association Litigation Section and practices primarily in the commercial litigation field. He has repeatedly been named one of the top Attorney's in Little Rock, in Arkansas and has also been named a Mid-South Super Lawyer.
He has formerly represented several Fortune 500 companies, insurance companies, construction companies, and a national proprietary trade school in its insurance, tort and contract claims matters including student health...

Christopher Heil was born in New York City and raised in New Jersey, just outside of Philadelphia. He moved to Little Rock when he was seventeen years old. He feels that living in different places at such an impressionable age has given him an appreciation for the interesting and diverse cultures in our country. This exposure strengthened his sense of justice, of right and wrong, and ingrained a strong compassion so that he understands that right and wrong are not always black and white, but often gray. This compassion and understanding make him a valuable part of The Brad Hendricks...

I became a lawyer later in life after experiencing first hand as a single mother and business owner how helpless one can feel in a judicial system that seems out of reach to all but those with endless resources. I know what it is like to be faced with the need for legal representation having limited resources and a judicial system that is too often dismissive of those with modest means. I made a vow to never forget how terrified and helpess I felt and how differently many things in my life might have been had I had someone advocating...

A native of the Delta who has spent the last several years practicing law in Central Arkansas, Caitlin Leggett Ginardi knows that small town charm will often take you as far as big city experience. Fortunately for her Clients, Caitlin has both. Caitlin enjoys working closely and developing one-on-one relationships with each of her clients. She takes great pride in supporting her clients as they face some of the most difficult and emotional times of their lives. Many of her friends have become her clients, but all of her clients have become her friends. From out-of-the-box settlement strategies to aggressive...

Joseph Gates is an Arkansas personal injury attorney and the founding attorney of Gates Law Firm, PLLC. With a strong belief in equal access to justice, Joseph has built his career advocating for clients injured by negligence, holding corporations and insurers to the same legal standards as ordinary individuals. His practice focuses on major personal injury matters, including car wrecks, trucking and 18-wheeler collisions, product liability, and traumatic brain injury cases.

You can learn more about me at my website, www.laportejennerlaw.com, and you can reach me via email at frank@laportejennerlaw.com. I'm a central Arkansas attorney that owns and operates the LaPorte-Jenner Law firm with my wife, Kelli LaPorte-Jenner. Our firm focuses on issues that impact families and local businesses. We have years of experience in the area of family law, probate, civil and commercial litigation, probate, as well as criminal and appellate practice. I previously worked for Pulaski County, where I lead the county in a wide range of complex trials and appeals. I also provided guidance to the elected officials of the county....

Jennifer is the founder and owner of the Flinn Law Firm, P.A. located in downtown Little Rock, Arkansas. She is also an Adjunct Professor at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock Bowen School of Law, where she teaches a course in Education Law. Prior to starting her own practice, Jennifer served as a policy advisor to Governor Mike Beebe, specializing in education and health care policy. Jennifer has also served as an attorney in the Arkansas Department of Education's General Counsel's Office, and immediately upon graduating from law school, Jennifer had the pleasure of serving as a judicial law...

Bryan is a solo practice attorney concentrating his practice in the areas of Business Law, Commercial Litigation and Transactions, Elder, Estate Planning, Probate Law, Family Law and Real Estate. Bryan has a passion for Arkansas families and their personal relationships, businesses, assets, and real estate. He is an active member of New Life Church of Arkansas donating his time and education for the enrichment of others lives for the greater good of the community.

Kelli is a compassionate and dedicated lawyer whose practice focuses on family and criminal law. Kelli is passionate about helping her clients through some of the most difficult times in their lives; she is known for her strong advocacy skills and her commitment to fighting for her client's best interests. Kelli's family law practice includes divorce, child custody, and child support. Kelli also works as an attorney ad litem representing children in high conflict custody cases. She understands that family law matters can be highly emotional and complex, and she is committed to helping her clients navigate the legal system...