Jackson Jambalaya

Too many reporters in this town are lazy.

You can't teach & practice clinical medicine at UMMC without a current license (PhDs and other researchers/teachers don't need to be licensed).

You don't need a license to call yourself a journalist either.

I guess it would be kind of like.. I am an expert on men although I am a woman?

i agree that the local news outlets could use a better legal go-to person in addition to a better variety of legal "experts."

However, the fact alone of whether one is a member of the mississippi bar is largely irrelevant to whether one can make educated and intelligent commentary on local legal matters. In fact, there is a lawyer in Mississippi who likely knows more about Mississippi law than anyone in Mississippi, and that person is not a MS licensed attorney. He's also a MC Law professor --- Jeffrey Jackson. He authors the Mississippi Practice Series in addition to a few other legal publications on Mississippi law. I would trust his opinion on legal matters before 99.99% of MS Bar members.

Um, he's been teaching at a law school for 20 years. He's an expert.

Those that can, do. Those that can't, teach. Old Chinese Proverb.

Clear example: Those that can't, teach. NOT ALWAYS, but have read if one has had words printed on any subject except medical three times or more, then they are accepted by MSM as experts.

Has anyone beside myself heard this?

Um, no he's not. First of all, they don't consult him mainly on legal theory, they consult him on local cases and judges. Lawyers laugh at him and think his analysis is either wrong or simple-minded and shows he's not practiced. He hasn't practiced in Mississippi, hasn't practiced in a courtroom here much less in over 20 years and even then it was for a short time. Being a law professor doesn't qualify one as an expert. Means you were able to teach out of a casebook and grade essay exams you created.

When I took Civil procedure at MC. there was a HUGE HUGE difference between the civ pro taught by Page, who had years of practice in the Justice Department and Callan, who taught every kind of theory possible. When we got to pretrial practice, you could tell the difference between the Page and Callen students as teh Callen students had no clue about jurisdiction as Callan had spent only a few days on it while Page spent most of the semester on the subject. As for Jackson, smart professor but if I want a quote about the local corruption and judges, he's not the expert.

KF, you are absolutely right. 9 times out of 10 his comments are wrong "as a matter of law" and the tenth time will show he has no grasp on real world law practice.

KF, when exactly did you graduate from law school?

douchebag!!!!

Short comment and, in your case certainly it should be, can you please not launch such a personal attack on a person who is a good guy. What do you hope to achieve? To show that you have a severe insecurity complex.

Steffey puts himself out there in the public eye. He is fair game.