From the Vault — "The Mississippi Advocate"

Microsoft. 3M. Progressive Insurance. Wayne Drinkwater's corporate clients–which he tends to defend in multimillion-dollar lawsuits–are household names. But the partner with Bradley Arant Boult Cummings in Jackson, Mississippi, may be best known for the long string of cases he's tried with the goal of enacting change in the public interest. "I think that one of a lawyer's obligations is not simply to do well, but to do good," he told us in the 2007 edition of Mid-South Super Lawyers Magazine. An excerpt: One of Drinkwater's most important cases changed Mississippi law and was the impetus for reform in other states as well. He represented Joe Hogan, who had applied to Mississippi University for Women's nursing school but was denied admission because of his sex. The case went to the Supreme Court in 1982, which invalidated single-sex higher education. "My old boss, Chief Justice Burger, voted against us, which was predictable,"…

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