In June, the Arkansas Bar Foundation and Arkansas Bar Association congratulate C. C. Cliff Gibson III of Monticello as the 2020 recipient of the James H. McKenzie Professionalism Award. This award recognizes sustained excellence through integrity, character and leadership to the profession and the community which garners the highest honor to the legal profession. The team at Gibson & Kieth, Attorneys at Law have always done their best to serve their community with honor and integrity. Contact us today to learn how we can add the respect and kindness that your case needs to succeed.
Paul W. Keith is the new president-elect designee of the Arkansas Bar Association. He was elected without opposition at the close of nominations on October 31, 2018. Keith will serve a one-year term as president-elect beginning in June 2019 before assuming the office of president at the Association’s 2020 Annual Meeting. Keith is an attorney with the Gibson & Keith law firm in Monticello and serves as Hamburg’s city attorney. He has been actively engaged in the Arkansas Bar Association for many years. He currently serves as chair of the Jurisprudence and Law Reform Committee and recently served as chair of the Board of Governors. He has also served as chair of the 2015 Annual Meeting and as chair of the Continuing Legal Education Committee for two years. He has served on the Mock Trial and Long Range Planning Committees and the Strategic Governance Task Force. The Association has awarded him with two Golden Gavel Awards for his service. Paul was recently appointed to the Supreme Court Committee on Professional Conduct and is licensed to practice before the United States Supreme Court. Keith’s leadership capacities extend to his church and community including serving as president of the Hamburg School Board. He and his wife Kandi sing in their church choir; he also teaches Sunday school and serves as lay leader for the church. He is the Chancellor for the Southeast District of the United Methodist Church. Keith has served as president of the Southeast Arkansas Legal Institute and as Special Associate Justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court. Paul is a Fellow of the Arkansas Bar Foundation. He is a three-time alumnus of the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville: B.A. in 1978, J.D. in 1993, and LL.M. in 1994. Keith and his wife, Kandi, have been married 36 years and have three adult children and three grandchildren.
On April 16, 2018, the Office of Research and Justice Statistics ("ORJS") published a report based on Arkansas court data that contradicts the talking points of most tort reform proponents.
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