Bill Mendenhall, shareholder in the Firm's Jackson office, concentrates his practice in general corporate law, business transactions, economic development projects and commercial real estate. He regularly represents clients in business acquisitions, commercial lending transactions and insurance regulatory matters. He has represented real estate developers, banks and other commercial institutions, and public bodies in real estate developments, financings, foreclosures and dispositions. He has also served as borrower's counsel and lender's counsel in acquisitions of nursing homes, assisted living facilities, office buildings, restaurants, hotels and apartment developments. For many years, he served as corporate and regulatory counsel to one of the state's largest domestic insurance companies.
- Co-author – "Use of Public Incentive Finance in Commercial Real Estate Developments: A Developer's Perspective," The Real Estate Finance Journal, Summer 2007
- "Paternal Inheritance Rights of Illegitimates Under Mississippi Law: Greater Than Equal Protection?" 53 Mississippi Law Journal 303 (January 1983)
- "Constitutional Law – First Amendment-Attorney Advertising That is Not False, Misleading or Deceptive is a Protected Form of Commercial Speech" 52 Mississippi Law Journal 679 (January 1982)
- Listed in Best Lawyers in America® in Corporate Law and Real Estate Law since 1999
- Listed in Chambers USA for Corporate Law since 2003
- Listed in Mid-South Super Lawyers since 2006
- Named among the top 50 attorneys in Mississippi by Mid-South Super Lawyers (2010, 2011)
- Named a 2011 Leader in Law by the Mississippi Business Journal
- Secretary of State's Business Law Advisory Group (1993 – present); Chair, Corporate Laws Subcommittee
- Member – American, Mississippi and Capital Area Bar Associations
- Chair – Business Section of the Mississippi Bar Association
- Mississippi Law Institute – Member (1986 – 1992), Chairman (1992)
- President – Stewpot Community Services, Inc. (1994)
- Leadership Jackson (1996)
- Recipient – Member of Distinction, Mississippi World Trade Center (2011)
- Board of Directors – Mississippi World Trade Center (2012 – 2014)
- University of Mississippi, J.D., 1984, cum laude
- University of Mississippi, B.A., 1980, magna cum laude
- Phi Kappa Phi
- Omicron Delta Kappa