Six Law Firms Investigating Denied, Late Claims in Black Farmers Settlement

Law firm representatives holding informational meetings in select Southeastern locations.

Durham, NC (PRWEB) August 14, 2008 -- Six law firms, McEachin & Gee (Virginia), Chestnut, Sanders, Sanders Pettaway & Campbell (Alabama), James Scott Farrin (North Carolina), Pogust, Braslow & Millrood (Pennsylvania and New Jersey), Conlon, Frantz & Phelan (Washington, D.C.), and Phillip L. Fraas (Washington, D.C.), announced today that a team from their firms, featuring Attorney Donald Gee, will be traveling to Alabama and Mississippi to discuss the re-opening of the closed 1999 class-action lawsuit, Pigford v. Glickman (Case number 1:08-cv-00940). This suit became known as the "Black Farmer Settlement." The law firms are now evaluating denied, late claims that may now have an opportunity to be considered under a new law, which was proposed in part by Senator Barack Obama.

Mr. Gee and Special Guest Dr. John Boyd, Jr., President, National Black Farmers Association, will be speaking at the following locations:

Monday August 18, 2008

Regency Hotel

400 Greymont Ave.

Jackson, MS 39202

601-969-2141(For Directions Only)

10am to 6pm

Tuesday August 19, 2008

Multi-Purpose Building

678 Main St.

Fayette, MS 39069

10am to 6pm

Wednesday August 20, 2008

Natchez Community Center

215 Franklin St.

Natchez, MS 39120

601-442-5880 (For Directions Only)

10am to 6pm

Thursday August 21, 2008

Southwest Events Center

29 Hwy 48 East

Tylertown, MS 39667

601-876-4011 (For Directions Only)

10am to 6pm

Friday August 22, 2008

John The Baptist M.B. Church

500 Lumberton Rd.

Columbia, MS 39429

601-441-2350 (For Directions Only)

10am to 5pm

The Federation of Southern Cooperatives will be hosting meeting at the following locations:

Thursday August 21, 2008

Doubletree Hotel Birmingham

808 20th Street South

Birmingham, AL 35205

205-933-9000 (For Directions Only)

4pm to 8pm

Friday August 22, 2008

William McKinley Branch Courthouse

4000 Morrow Avenue

Eutaw, AL 35462

205-372-3349 (For Directions Only)

4pm to 8pm

Saturday August 30, 2008

The Slavery & Civil War Museum

1410 Water Ave.

Selma, AL 36703

334-418-4889 (For Directions Only)

Heninger Garrison Davis, LLC will be hosting a meeting at:

Saturday August 30, 2008

Mother Mary School Gymnasium

318 Seale Road

Phenix City, AL 36869-6912

Meeting Starts at 10:00 A.M. EST/11:00 A.M. CST

(Mr. Gee will not be at this location.)

McEachin & Gee, Chestnut, Sanders, Sanders Pettaway & Campbell, Law Offices of James Scott Farrin, Pogust, Braslow & Millrood, Conlon, Frantz & Phelan, and Phillip L. Fraas are the only firms endorsed by the National Black Farmers' Association. These firms are also working with the Federation of Southern Cooperatives/Land Assistance Fund which will be celebrating 41 years of serving the rural south through building cooperatives and saving Black-owned land. The law firms collectively represent over 60,000 black farmers.

The firms have set up an informational telephone line at 1-866-472-7826, available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Also available is an informational website, http://www.blackfarmerclaims.com (http://www.blackfarmerclaims.com), where attorney Donald Gee (http://www.blackfarmerclaims.com) discusses his own childhood working on a black-owned farm. Mr. Gee is an accomplished trial attorney. He obtained a B.A. degree in Political Science from Virginia Commonwealth University, and he received a law degree from Howard University School of Law.

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