Jason M. Payne
Jason M. Payne comes from Corinth, Mississippi. He attended Mississippi State University where he received a Bachelors of Science in Animal and Dairy Science in 2003. He received his Juris Doctorate from the University of Mississippi in 2008.
While in law school, Jason served as President of the Environmental Law Society, founded and served as President of the Resource and Agricultural Law Society, served as a Guardian Ad Litem through the Civil Legal Clinic, and was a participant in the inaugural class of the Mississippi Innocence Project which, while he was in the class, aided in the exoneration of three wrongfully convicted men. He also worked as researcher for the National Sea Grant Law Center.
Before joining the firm, Jason clerked in Oxford, Mississippi for the Honorable V. Glenn Alderson, Senior Judge, of the 18th Chancery District of Mississippi. Jason has also served as a leader in the Boy Scouts of America as an adult. He is a member of National Eagle Scout Association, the Maritime Law Association of the United States, the Jackson County Bar Association, and the Young Lawyers Division of Jackson County. He is also a contributing author with The SandBar, a publication of the National Sea Grant Law Center.
Jason resides in Ocean Springs, Mississippi and is an active member of the Pascagoula Propeller Club. His practice areas include, but are not limited to, insurance defense, state and federal workers' compensation defense, environmental law, and business and commercial litigation.