Cowles Edgar Symmes

Cowles Symmes is a member with Page, Mannino, Peresich & McDermott, PLLC. He handles complex commercial and personal injury litigation and has represented a wide variety of businesses and personal clients. Cowles represents multiple clients in complex commercial, premises, and products liability litigation. He has also developed and managed defense strategies while serving as national coordinating counsel for clients sued across the United States. Cowles was born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi and was raised in Gulfport, Mississippi. He attended undergraduate school at the University of Southern Mississippi and law school at Mississippi College before being admitted to practice law in 2001. He is also involved with his local community, as well as the business and legal community throughout Mississippi. Cowles and his wife, Mary Beth, have three children. Awards and Honors Super Lawyers® Selectees Cowles Edgar Symmes included in a Super Lawyers® list Honors Super Lawyer in 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017 AV rating from Martindale-Hubbell Mid-South Rising Star by Lawyers 2010-2013 Other Sources of Feedback About Cowles Edgar Symmes Included on the 2020Mid-South Super Lawyers list Past Lists 2019 Mid-South Super Lawyers list 2018 Mid-South Super Lawyers list 2017 Mid-South Super Lawyers list 2016 Mid-South Super Lawyers list 2015 Mid-South Super Lawyers list 2014 Mid-South Super Lawyers list 2013 Mid-South Super Lawyers list 2012 Mid-South Super Lawyers list 2011 Mid-South Super Lawyers list

• Member

• Ridgway Lane & Associates, Inc. v. Watson, 189 So.3d 686 (Miss.2016)
• Magruder v. Amica Mut. Ins. Co., 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 8591 (S.D.Miss.2009)
• Langston v. Bigelow, 820 So. 2d 752 (Miss.App.2002)
• Callender v. Imperial Palace of Mississippi, LLC, 2008 WL 4372739, (S.D.Miss.2008)
• Adkins v. Ametek, et al., Not Reported in F.Supp.2d, 2003 WL 24011960 (S.D.Miss.2003)(Civ.A. No. 1:02CV728GR)-available at LexisNexis

• Biloxi Chamber of Commerce, Board of Directors
• Gulfport Youth Sports Association
• South Mississippi Soccer Club

• U.S. Court of Appeals 5th Circuit, 2001
• U.S. District Court Northern District of Mississippi, 2001
• U.S. District Court Southern District of Mississippi, 2001
• Mississippi, 2001
• Supreme Court of Mississippi, 2001

• Mississippi Bar Association
• Harrison County Bar Association
• Mississippi Defense Lawyers Association
• Defense Research Institute
• Fraternities and Sororities
• Phi Alpha Delta