Slates Veazey represents clients in all types of litigation, with a particular emphasis on construction and insurance coverage disputes. Slates’ construction practice involves representing owners and general contractors in a variety of issues and projects, both public and private. Slates, who is licensed in both Texas and Mississippi, has experience managing construction disputes across the United States, including Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, and Texas. This experience includes prosecuting and defending delay, extra work, impact, and inefficiency claims on public and private jobs, as well as defending general contractors in multi-party disputes arising from the construction of condominium and/or other multi-family residential buildings. Slates also has significant experience pursuing insurance coverage for contractor clients when their insurers deny them coverage.

Slates is a member of Bradley’s Cannabis Industry team, advising clients on a variety of cannabis issues and in a wide range of sectors. From individuals and entities interested in participating in the new Mississippi medical cannabis program and in other markets to non-plant-touching companies impacted by those emerging markets, Slates and his partners provide the full suite of services that Bradley offers to its many other clients -- but with a specific understanding of the ever-changing cannabis industry. His work has been featured in The National Law Journal, Law 360, Bloomberg Law, JD Supra, and the Cannabis Business Executive. Slates also has been quoted by the Mississippi Business Journal and Mississippi Today regarding Mississippi’s medical cannabis program.

Bar Admissions

• Mississippi, 2013
• Texas, 2007

• Mississippi Supreme Court
• Supreme Court of Texas
• United States Bankruptcy Court, Eastern District of Texas
• United States Bankruptcy Court, Northern District of Texas
• United States District Court, Northern District of Texas
• United States District Court, Eastern District of Texas
• United States District Court, Southern District of Texas
• United States District Court, Western District of Texas

Education

• University of Mississippi School of Law, J.D., 2007, magna cum laude; Associate Mississippi Cases Editor, Mississippi Law Journal
• University of Mississippi, B.A., 2004, cum laude

• Non-Compete Agreement Series: Everything You Need to Know (And Probably Don’t) About Covenants Not to Compete - Mississippi

  By Slates Veazey |October 2020