Randi Peresich Mueller

Profile:
Randi is a member of the firm.  She began practicing law in 2000, joining the firm's Jackson office in 2004. She is admitted to practice in Mississippi and Alabama. Randi handles a variety of matters for clients across the country. She represents companies in complex commercial and products liability litigation and manages the litigation of hundreds of cases for several of the firm's mass tort product liability clients. Randi also handles litigation involving claims of insurance bad faith, environmental contamination, professional malpractice, and pharmaceutical products liability.

While in law school, Randi received the Outstanding Student Award for Torts and for Federal Trial Practice.

She was born and raised in Biloxi, Mississippi. After law school, she moved to Jackson, Mississippi where she resides today with her husband Tom and their son.

Admissions and Licenses

Mississippi Bar Association, 2000

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit, 2000

United States District Courts for the Northern and Southern Districts of Mississippi, 2000

Alabama Bar Association, 2005

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit, 2005

United States District Courts for the Northern, Southern and Middle Districts of Alabama, 2005

Practice Areas

Products liability

Mass tort, toxic tort, and environmental litigation

Commercial litigation

Insurance defense and professional malpractice

Construction Law

Premises liability

Experience

Page, Mannino, Peresich & McDermott, PLLC, Jackson, Partner, 2007 - present

Page, Mannino, Peresich & McDermott, PLLC, Jackson, Associate, 2004 - 2007

Brunini, Grantham, Grower & Hewes, PLLC, Jackson, Associate, 2000 - 2003

Publications and Speaking Engagements

"Fundamentals of Construction Law in Mississippi," Presented at Sterling Education Seminar in Biloxi, Mississippi (May 2008)

Moderator, "Globalization and Litigation: Challenges Presented in Domestic Litigation Involving Foreign Products", ABA TIPS Section Toxic Torts and Environmental Law Committee Program, April 2010

Education

University of Mississippi School of Law, Juris Doctor, Cum Laude, 2000

• Outstanding Student Award for Torts
• Outstanding Student Award for Federal Trial Practice
• Member, Moot Court Board

University of Mississippi, Bachelor of Arts, 1997, Cum Laude

• Recipient of Chancellor's Leadership Scholarship

Professional and Civic Involvement

Professional Associations:

• Vice-Chair for the Toxic Tort and Environmental Law Committee of the Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section of the American Bar Association
• Mississippi Bar Association
• Hinds County Bar Association
• Mississippi Women Lawyers Association
• Defense Research Institute
• Alabama Bar Association

Community/Civic Activities

• Gulf Coast Carnival Association
• Center for Violence Prevention, Volunteer

Representative Cases

• May v. Pulmosan Safety Equipment Corp., 948 So. 2d 483 (Miss. App. 2007) (summary judgment for client affirmed in a wrongful death case based on the statute of limitations)

• Tigner v. Bondex Intern., Inc., (Not reported), 2008 WL 4286504 (N.D. Miss. Sept. 15, 2008) (finding client's removal of toxic tort case to federal court proper)

• Middleton v. Arledge, (Not reported), 2008 WL 906525 (S.D. Miss. March 31, 2008) (dismissing potential class action for legal malpractice)

Outside of the office

When not in the office, Randi enjoys spending time with her family, traveling, reading, spin bike classes, and cooking for family and friends.