Rainey Kizer Selects Cleek, Crider, Stewart, and Thompson As New Partners

JACKSON, Tenn. (February 22, 2012) - Attorneys Ashley Cleek, Adam Crider, Jonathan Stewart, and J.V. Thompson have been selected as partners in Rainey, Kizer, Reviere & Bell PLC (Rainey Kizer).

Cleek is a graduate of the University of Tennessee College of Law. He served as senior editor of the Tennessee Law Review and received Certificates of Extraordinary Achievement in both Criminal Law and Workers’ Compensation. He is a member of the firm’s Malpractice Defense Group.

Crider, also a University of Tennessee College of Law graduate, is a member of the Rainey Kizer Business Law Group. He is an associate member of the American Inns of Court, Howell Edmunds Jackson Chapter.

Stewart earned his law degree, with honors, at the University of Memphis. While in law school, he was a member of the Tennessee Journal of Practice and Procedure. He is a past president of the Jackson-Madison County Bar Association, Young Lawyers Division, an associate member of the American Inns of Court, Howell Edmunds Jackson Chapter, a member of the Defense Research Institute, and a Tennessee Defense Lawyers Association member. Stewart is a member of the firm’s Tort and Insurance Group.

Another University of Memphis graduate, Thompson served on the editorial board of the University of Memphis Law Review and was National Chairman of the National Conference of Law Review. A member of the firm’s Tort and Insurance and Employment Law and Civil Rights Practice Groups, he is an associate member of the American Inns of Court, Howell Edmunds Jackson Chapter.

Rainey, Kizer, Reviere & Bell, PLC, with offices in Jackson and Memphis TN, is a Martindale Hubble AV-rated law firm and was named a Go-To Firm® by Fortune 500 general counsels. The full-service law firm represents local, state, and national clients before state and federal courts and regulatory agencies throughout the Mid-South. For more information, visit www.raineykizer.com.