Lee Turner
Special Counsel
Lee Turner joined Dummer Law Group as Special Counsel with his primary emphasis being serving Social Security disability clients through Coastal Disability Services, LLC. Over the past fifteen years Lee has represented hundreds of claimants before the Social Security Administration at all levels of appeal including cases in Federal District Court. Lee is a member of the National Organization of Social Security Claimant’s Representatives.
In addition, Lee has extensive Chancery and Circuit Court experience throughout South Mississippi representing clients in areas such as: land use disputes, personal injury, domestic relations, small business law, and general litigation. He also serves as the elected Greene County Prosecutor, Special Projects Counsel for the City of Leakesville and as the Municipal Prosecutor for the City of Leakesville where he continues to maintain an office and reside. Moreover, Lee has been appointed as Special Master in the Circuit Courts of Lamar, Pearl River and Hinds counties.
Lee is a native and resident of Leakesville, Mississippi and earned his Juris Doctor from the University of Mississippi Law School in 2005. While in Law School he was a member of Phi Delta Phi, Journal of Space Law, and Moot Court. While in Moot Court he was the inaugural 2004 co-champion of the Mississippi Moot Court Competition between the University of Mississippi School of Law and Mississippi College School of Law.
Since 2005 Lee has served in the United States Coast Guard Reserve as commissioned officer where he has attained the rank of Commander. He has had extensive assignments in New Orleans, Washington, D.C., and Memphis in a variety of legal and non-legal billets. While in the Coast Guard he received an American Bar Association Legal Assistance for Military Personnel Team award for his work assisting hurricane impacted service members.
Reported Decisions
Martin v. Comm'r of Soc. Sec., CIVIL ACTION NO. 1:18CV167-HSO-RHW (S.D. Miss. Jun. 14, 2019)
M.D.O.C. v. Pennington, 59 So.3d 636 (Miss. Ct. App. 2009)
Lenior v. Anderson, 12 So.3d 589 (Miss. Ct. App. 2009)
Revette v. Ferguson, 271 So. 3d 702 (Miss. Ct. App. 2018)
Modak-Truran v. Johnson, 18 So.3d 206 (2009) (as Special Master)
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