Tripp Segars is an attorney with the Diaz Law Firm in Madison, Mississippi, where his work centers on personal injury, mass tort, pharmaceutical drug and product liability cases. His current clients include people affected by water contamination at Camp Lejeune, women who developed cancer after using talcum powder products, and families of premature infants who developed necrotizing enterocolitis after being fed cow’s milk-based formula. He also handles 18-wheeler, car, motorcycle and boating crash cases.
Segars has practiced for about 15 years, and the jury in his first case awarded nearly $4.7 million to the family he represented. He has taken part in multidistrict litigation across the country, including service on a Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee. A South Carolina native, he graduated from Clemson University and earned his law degree at Mississippi College, where he interned for Justice Jess H. Dickinson of the Mississippi Supreme Court and with the Gerry Spence Trial Lawyers College in Wyoming.
He is the immediate past president of the Mississippi Association for Justice and serves on its Legislative Committee, and he belongs to the American Association for Justice and the Mississippi Bar. He is a past president of the Phoenix Club of Jackson, which supports the Boys and Girls Club of Central Mississippi, and of the Magnolia Clemson Club, and he has appeared as a guest attorney on WLBT’s LawCall program.