Practice Areas
Admissions
- Mississippi
- United States Supreme Court
- United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
- United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
- United States District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi
- United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi
- All Mississippi State Courts
- Tribal Courts of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians
Education
B.A., English, History, Political Science, Naval Science University of Mississippi, 1969
United States Naval Justice School, Newport, Rhode Island
J.D., University of Mississippi School of Law, 1975
Jack Ables has litigated cases in seven states, including cases involving large loss insurance fraud, securities fraud, antitrust and R.I.C.O. violations, a gas well blow-out, print media and motion picture defamations, commerce between the United States and a foreign government, mass tort and natural disaster insurance coverage disputes, and numerous industrial and consumer products. Jack was involved in preventing illegal statistical sampling to influence the decennial U.S. census of 2000. His defense of a libel action over Orion’s “Mississippi Burning” led to the reopening of the investigation of the 1963 murder of Medgar Evers and to the conviction of Evers' murderer in 1994. Jack has been recognized continuously since 2007 in three of Marquis Publications’ directories: Who’s Who In the World, Who’s Who in America, and Who’s Who in American Law. He serves clients in Austria, Australia, Belgium, Canada, China, France, Germany, and the United Kingdom. He serves on the National Steering Committees for ALFA International’s Commercial Litigation, Insurance and Product Liability Practice Groups and served for several years as Editor of the Products Liability Practice Group’s national publication.
Professional Affiliations
American Bar Association
Bar Association of the Fifth Federal Circuit
Defense Research Institute
Energy Bar Association
Federal Bar Association
International Association of Defense Counsel
The Mississippi Bar Association
Mississippi Bar Foundation
Southeastern Legal Foundation
Honors & Awards
Best Lawyers in America®
- Personal Injury Litigation - Defendants
- Product Liability Litigation - Defendants
2011 Mississippi Business Journal Leadership in Law Recipient
Martindale-Hubbell, AV Preeminent® Rated
Mississippi Law Journal, Associate Editor
Jackson Contact for ALFA International, The Global Legal Network
Magister, Phi Delta Phi Chairman, Committee of the Young Lawyers' Section, Mississippi Bar Association on The Effect of the Proposed Rules of Civil Procedure on Existing Substantive Law, 1981–1983
Mississippi Law Institute, 33rd, 34th, 35th and 36th
Top Rated Lawyer - Personal Injury Defense
Recognitions
- Jackson Henderson Ables Named to Leadership in Law 2011
- DCH&B Attorney Named Mississippi Journal's 2013 Lawyer of the Year
- Eighteen Daniel Coker Horton & Bell Attorneys Recognized As 2016 Best Lawyers In America®.
- Best Lawyers Named Eighteen Daniel Coker Horton & Bell to Best Lawyers for 2018
- 2019 Daniel Coker Horton & Bell Best Lawyers in America Announced
News
- August 15, 2017
- August 15, 2016
- August 17, 2015
- June 2012
- August 2009
- June 2009
- 2008
Publications
“A Handbook of Mississippi Environmental Law," Government Institutes Press, (With Larry D. Moffett, Esq.)
“Katrina - Who Pays For What in Mississippi? An Update on Current Litigation and Coverage Law Review," ALFA International Publications, 2005
“Spoliation of Evidence in Mississippi," DRI Compendium, 2006
“Product Liability Law," ALFA International Compendia, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004
“A Fifty-State Reference to Property and Casualty Insurance Claims and Litigation,” Mississippi Section, ALFA International Compendia
“A Multi-State Compendium of Health, Life and Accident Insurance Claims and Litigation," ALFA International Compendia, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2004, Mississippi Section
Co-Editor in Chief, ALFA International’s Product Liability Newsletter
Seminars & Speaking Engagements
Recent Victories
- March 24, 2015
- April 2014
- March 2014
- July 2012
- July 2012
- June 2012
- June 2010
Community/Civic Activities
Military Service
Lieutenant, United States Navy, Administrative and Legal Officer, Twentieth Naval Construction, Regiment, United States Atlantic Fleet, 1969-1972