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Caroline Lewis is originally from Gurdon, Arkansas. The first person in her family to attend a four-year college, Caroline obtained her Bachelor of Arts degree in Russian and Political Science from Ouachita Baptist University in Arkadelphia, Arkansas. As an undergraduate, Caroline spent a semester abroad in Almaty, Kazakhstan, where she studied Russian. She earned her Master of Arts degree in Slavic Languages and Literatures from the University of Kansas in 1998. After taking a year-long hiatus, Caroline enrolled in law school at the University of Arkansas School of Law in Fayetteville, Arkansas, and obtained her law degree in 2002.

While in law school, she served as the Research Editor of the Arkansas Law Review. Caroline was also an active member of the moot court program. As a competitor, she was honored for her writing and oral advocacy skills in the intramural and National Moot Court competitions. Caroline served on the Board of Advocates as the Ben J. Altheimer Moot Court Competition Chair, for which she drafted the problem and bench brief. For her service to the law school and her achievements in moot court, Caroline was awarded the 2002 Outstanding Service to the Law School Award and received the 2002 Appellate Advocacy Prize.

Caroline received the Vincent W. Foster, Jr., Scholarship two years in a row. During her first interview with the scholarship selection committee, she met the Honorable William R. Wilson, Jr., of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas, who served on the committee. Not only was she awarded the scholarship, Caroline was invited to serve Judge Wilson as his law clerk for two years after completing law school, an invitation she happily accepted. She has worked in the areas of insurance defense, including subrogation, workers’ compensation defense, complex commercial and antitrust litigation, estate planning and probate law, and the development of business entities in Arkansas. She has submitted appeals to the Full Commission of the Arkansas Workers’ Compensation Commission, the Arkansas Court of Appeal, the Arkansas Supreme Court, and the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Caroline joined The Brad Hendricks Law Firm in January 2009 as the firm’s law clerk, but recently joined the firm as an attorney. Her practice is evolving and includes general civil and appellate litigation. Licensed for seven years, Caroline’s primary focus is to serve the firm and its clients in any requested capacity with the ultimate goal of helping to obtain a favorable result for each client.

Caroline and her husband, Stephen, welcomed daughter Catherine Elizabeth in April 2009. Caroline, Stephen, and Cate, together with their three dogs and three cats, proudly call Little Rock home.

With his range of experience in private practice and state government, Mark White is equipped to provide competent, courteous service to a wide variety of clients from all over Arkansas.

He devotes the majority of his law practice to representing injured workers in claims for workers' compensation and Social Security Disability benefits. He also devotes a significant amount of time to civil litigation in a variety of matters, including personal injury, construction law, and business law. He is admitted to practice before all state and federal courts in Arkansas, as well as the Supreme Court of the United States, and he handles cases from the entire state.

In 2006, Mr. White was named a Special Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Arkansas. Prior to joining the firm, he served as an Administrative Law Judge for the Arkansas Workers' Compensation Commission. He also spent four years as Policy Advisor to the Governor of Arkansas, working on the Governor's behalf with the Legislature and with many of the state's regulatory agencies, including the Labor Department, the Workers' Compensation Commission, the Bank Department, the Insurance Department, and the Department of Environmental Quality.

Mr. White holds a law degree from the University of Arkansas and a bachelor's degree from Ouachita Baptist University. He is a member of the Arkansas Bar Association and the Arkansas Trial Lawyers' Association.

With fifteen years of experience, Paul White works hard to fashion wills and trusts that meet the needs of Arkansas families, and to help grieving families navigate safely through the probate process.

He devotes the majority of his law practice to estate planning, wills & trusts, probate, elder law, and Medicaid planning. He also handles personal injury and other civil litigation matters.

Mr. White was formerly General Counsel to the Arkansas Baptist Foundation, and prior to that Deputy City Attorney for the City of Little Rock.

Mr. White holds a law degree from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and a bachelor's degree from Ouachita Baptist University. He is a member of the Arkansas Bar Association and the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys.