Rachel M. Pierce
One Mississippi Plaza, Seventh Floor
201 S. Spring Street
Tupelo, MS 38804
Direct: (662) 690-8176
Fax: (662) 842-3873
e-mail: piercer@phelps.com
Service Areas
Practice
Rachel is an associate in the commercial litigation regional practice group in the firm's Tupelo office. Her experience includes the defense of physicians and hospitals in negligence claims, as well as the defense of merchants in premises liability claims, and employers in actions stemming from covenants not to compete. She also has experience in copyright law and health care law.
Education
- University of Mississippi, J.D., magna cum laude, 2001; Executive Editor, Mississippi Law Journal; Board Chair, Moot Court
- Mississippi University for Women, B.A. in English, summa cum laude, 1997; Centennial Scholarship Recipient; Honors Program Participant
Memberships/Affiliations
- Member: The Mississippi Bar (Secretary, Young Lawyers Division, 2009-2010); American Bar Association; Lee County Bar Association (President, past Vice President); Lee County Young Lawyers' Association (Past President); Editorial Board Member, Mississippi Lawyer Magazine; Mississippi Defense Lawyers Association; Lamar Order; American Inns of Court; Mississippi Business Journal's "Top 40 Under 40," 2006; Leadership Mississippi, Graduate