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brian.m@montaguelawyer.com 601-450-1111 607 Corinne St, Suite A3, Hattiesburg, MS 39401 |
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PROFESSIONAL BIOGRAPHY AND REPRESENTATIVE CLIENTS
Biography
Mr. Montague is a graduate of Vanderbilt University (BA ‘81), University of Mississippi Law School (JD ‘83), the Judge Advocate General’s School (JA Officer Basic and Advanced Courses, 1992 and 1994), and the Command and General Staff College (Command and General Staff Officer Course, 2001).
Mr. Montague is admitted to practice before the Mississippi Supreme Court, the United States District Courts for the Northern and Southern Districts of Mississippi, United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, the United States Court of Military Appeals, the Mississippi Court of Military Appeals, the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, and the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana (pro hac, 1991).
Professional memberships include membership in the American Bar Association, Mississippi Bar Association, Mississippi Defense Lawyers Association, Association of Trial Lawyers of America, Bar Association of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals and District of Columbia Bar Association.
Mr. Montague’s community and public service includes the following: 2007 Associate Member of the Year, Greater Hattiesburg Home Builders Association. Served on Military Active Duty at Mobilization Center Shelby in Support of Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom from 1 April 2004 to 6 June 2005. Member, United Way of Southeast Mississippi Board of Directors Member, Greater Hattiesburg Homebuilders Association Board of Directors Colonel and Senior Army National Guard Judge Advocate, Mississippi Army National Guard, Joint Forces Headquarters - Mississippi Recipient, Mississippi Business Journal’s Top 40 Under 40, 1997 President, Rotary Club of Hattiesburg, 1997-98 President, Hattiesburg Downtown Association, 1995-97 Recipient, Pine Burr Award, Pine Burr Area Council, Boy Scouts of America, 1994 Staff Director, U.S. Senate Leadership Office, Office of the Republican Conference Secretary (U.S. Senator Thad Cochran), 1985-86
Writings include a paper presented in 2008 to the Hattiesburg Home and Products Show and in 2007 to South Mississippi homebuilders seeking certified builder status entitled Residential Construction Defect Claims and Litigation, a Mississippi Law Journal case note on exculpatory clauses in residential leases, published at 52 Miss. L. J. 913 (1982), a 2003 paper presented to the Hattiesburg Kiwanis Club on the Mississippi Civil Justice Reform Act of 2002, entitled One Year Later: A Look at Civil Justice Reform in Mississippi, and a joint effort with the Office of the First U.S. Army Staff Judge Advocate to publish locally at MOB Center Shelby a Commander’s Legal Guide, a thirty-four page reference for military commanders on non-judicial punishment of soldiers, trial by courts-martial, obtaining and preserving evidence, pretrial restraint and confinement, administrative law, Lautenberg Amendment, standards of conduct, UCMJ Article 31 (Fifth Amendment) rights, and other matters of military law.
Mr. Montague has also authored and presented lectures and briefings to thousands of commanders and soldiers as part of their training prior to deployment to Iraq and Afghanistan on these subjects: Law of War (including Geneva Convention, humanitarian treatment of combatants and non-combatants, and rules for use of force), the Uniformed Services Employment and Re-Employment Rights Act (USERRA), Service members’ Civil Relief Act (SCRA), fraternization, government ethics rules, and wills and powers of attorney.
Military related honors include:
Representative Clients
Representative business clients include Canal Insurance Company and its insureds, Canal Indemnity Company and its insureds, Georgia Casualty and Surety Company and its insureds, Larry T. Johnson Construction, Inc., Old Growth Development LLC, Flannigan Construction, MegaGate Broadband, Inc., Strickland General Agency, Carolina Casualty Insurance Company, military commanders and soldiers, the Greater Hattiesburg Homebuilders Association and certain area homebuilders. Representative individual clients include those needing to administer an estate, those forming or dissolving businesses, those victimized by predatory lending practices, persons with business interests at stake in divorces, persons seeking advice in contract negotiations, those with commercial real estate issues, insurance defense clients (ranging from commercial trucking companies to mom and pop store owners), those who have experienced residential construction defects, and others. See Practice Areas. |
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fourth generation Hattiesburg native and a 1983 graduate of the
University of Mississippi Law School, Brian Montague has established
a well respected law practice focusing on civil litigation in state
and federal court, commercial trucking representation, corporate and
transactional work, insurance defense and coverage, local government
law, residential construction issues, and estate probate and
administration. See
For contributions to the
Law Day Award on May 3, 2005, by South Central Mississippi Bar
Association “For Outstanding Service to Our Country and Steadfast Commitment to
the Law”