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C.C. "Cliff" Gibson, III
Practice Areas:
Personal Injury, Wrongful Death,
Medical Malpractice, Product Liability, Commercial Litigation, Plaintiff
and Defense; Criminal Defense; Real Estate Law; and Business Law.
Professional Biography:
Founder of this firm in 1981, Mr. Gibson
is licensed to practice before all State and Federal Courts in Arkansas, the
8th Circuit Court of Appeals in St.. Louis, and the United States
Supreme Court, and has been admitted pro hac vice before the Courts
of other States. He has twice served as a Special Associate Justice of
the Arkansas Supreme Court by Governor appointment. For seven years,
he served as a Deputy Prosecuting Attorney for Arkansas' 10th Judicial
District. In addition to his private practice, he presently serves as
Civil County Attorney for Drew County, Arkansas. Mr. Gibson has
conducted seminars for the Arkansas Bar Association and the Arkansas Trial
Lawyers Association, and recently lectured on the effect of hedonic
damages in Arkansas wrongful death cases. In a Readers' Poll conducted
in 2002 by a Southeast Arkansas newspaper Mr. Gibson won the "Best Attorney"
designation.
Law School:
University of Arkansas at Little Rock,
J.D., 1981, where he served on the Editorial Board of the UALR Law
Journal
College:
Mississippi State University, B.S., 1977.
Member:
American Trial Lawyers Association; Arkansas
Bar Association; Arkansas Trial Lawyers Association; Southeast Arkansas
Legal Institute; Arkansas Land Title Association
Publications:
Survey of Arkansas Law, 4
UALR Law Journal at 199 et seq. and 233 et seq., and
Specific Performance Is Allowed, 3 UALR Law Journal at 495 et
seq.
Hedonic Damages in
Arkansas: Using Loss of Life Damages to Increase Settlement Value in
Wrongful Death Cases, ATLA Docket (Spring 2003).
Recent Reported Cases:
In Moss v. American Alternative Ins. Corp., 2006 WL 3147438 (E.D. Ark. 2006), Mr. Gibson successfully defended against a summary
judgment motion by a defendant insurance company on a farmer's claim for the tort of bad faith.
See also, Carter v. Georgia-Pacific Resins, Inc., 368 Ark. 19, S.W.3d , 2006 WL 3231953 (2006)."
In Gosney v. Reliable Life
Ins. Co., 293 F.3d 1052 (8th Cir. 2002) Mr. Gibson successfully defeated
immunity claim of insurance company for intentional wrongs committed against
former agent.
In Caldwell v. TACC Corporation, 423 F.3d 784 (8th
Cir. 2005) Mr. Gibson and co-counsel defended District Court findings that
claimants not made-whole by recovery thereby defeating subrogation claim of
worker compensation insurance carrier.
Born:
Greenville, Mississippi, September 14, 1954.
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