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Best Lawyers named John H. Cocke “Lawyer of the Year” for 2016 for personal injury litigation – plaintiffs in the Memphis, Tennessee area. Best Lawyers, the oldest and most respected peer-review publication in the legal profession, has named Charles M. Merkel, Jr. as the “Jackson, MS Best Lawyers Personal Injury Litigator of the Year” for…

Memphis, TN – A Shelby County, Tennessee jury returned a $23,600,000 verdict in favor of Plaintiffs Courtney Hill and Robert Hill of Desoto County Mississippi on July 10, 2009. Plaintiffs’ counsel are William B. Raiford of the Clarksdale, Mississippi law firm of Merkel & Cocke, Jim Lees of the Charleston, West Virginia law firm of…

Two law partners of Merkel & Cocke are listed as “super lawyers” at the prestigious and selective Mid-South Super Lawyers 2006 magazine, from the publishers of Law & Politics. Charles M. Merkel Jr. and John H. Cocke, of Merkel & Cocke, P.A. have been listed as “super lawyers” in the prestigious and selective Mid-South Super…

We previously reported on a case in which three children were burned as a result of a propane gas explosion. This case was settled for five million three hundred thirty-five thousand dollars with the local propane distributor. The plaintiffs and the local propane distributor had mediated and agreed upon a settlement. The national company, which…