Garrett A. Anderson
Garrett Anderson joined Fletcher & Sippel’s Jackson, Mississippi office as an associate in 2024. His practice primarily focuses on railroad litigation, commercial litigation, and corporate bankruptcy matters. Prior to joining the firm, Garrett worked at Phelps Dunbar LLP in Jackson, where he handled a variety of commercial litigation, corporate bankruptcy, and appellate matters. He began his career in Stewart Robbins Brown & Altazan LLC’s Baton Rouge, Louisiana office, where he focused on corporate bankruptcy matters, and later clerked for Mississippi Supreme Court Justice Robert P. Chamberlin. Throughout his career, Garrett has represented railroads, state and local governments, and businesses in a variety of litigation and appellate matters, as well as corporate debtors, trustees, banks, and other creditors in complex corporate bankruptcy proceedings across the country.
Garrett Anderson joined Fletcher & Sippel’s Jackson, Mississippi office as an associate in 2024. His practice primarily focuses on railroad litigation, commercial litigation, and corporate bankruptcy matters. Prior to joining the firm, Garrett worked at Phelps Dunbar LLP in Jackson, where he handled a variety of commercial litigation, corporate bankruptcy, and appellate matters. He began his career in Stewart Robbins Brown & Altazan LLC’s Baton Rouge, Louisiana office, where he focused on corporate bankruptcy matters, and later clerked for Mississippi Supreme Court Justice Robert P. Chamberlin. Throughout his career, Garrett has represented railroads, state and local governments, and businesses in a variety of litigation and appellate matters, as well as corporate debtors, trustees, banks, and other creditors in complex corporate bankruptcy proceedings across the country.
Education
- Mississippi College School of Law, Jackson, Mississippi; Juris Doctorate, magna cum laude; Articles Editor, Mississippi College Law Review; Moot Court
- Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, Louisiana; BA in Political Science
Bar Admissions
State of Louisiana
State of Mississippi
United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
United States District Courts for the Eastern, Middle and Western Districts of Louisiana, Northern and Southern Districts of Mississippi and Southern District of Texas
United States Bankruptcy Courts for the Eastern, Middle and Western Districts of Louisiana, Northern and Southern Districts of Mississippi and Southern District of Texas
Publications
New Federal Rule of Evidence Rule 702: A Circuit-by-Circuit Guide to Overruled “Wayward Caselaw” – The Fifth Circuit, 91-2 Def. Counsel J. 2 (Summer 2024) [with Jim Shelson and Nash Gilmore]
Are Chapter 5 Claims Assets of the Estate That a Trustee Can Sell?, 31-1 ABIJ 68 (January, 2024) [with Danielle Mashburn-Myrick]
Difficult to Administer Assets in Chapter 7 Cases: Marijuana Assets, Foreign Assets, Cryptocurrency, Entangled Debtor/Non-Debtor Estates, and Assets Tainted with Environmental Liabilities (LSU CLE 2019)