Harris “Trip” H. Barnes, III

Work Experience

• Prosecutor Intern, 1972, Honorable Albert Necaise, District Attorney, Gulfport, Mississippi
• Cunningham & Cunningham, Booneville, Mississippi
• Practiced law in Gulfport, Mississippi for thirteen years:
  • Mize, Thompson & Blass
  • Newton & Newton
• Formerly a Shareholder/Director of Dossett, Goode, Barnes and Broom, P.A., Jackson,
• Mississippi.
  • Currently, President and a Shareholder of Barnes, Bailey, Janoush & Dick, P.A., Flowood,
  • Mississippi with emphasis in the areas of mergers, acquisitions, sales of
  • businesses, taxation, wills, trusts, estate planning, probate administration, trust
  • litigation and modification, qualified and non-qualified deferred compensation,
  • civil and criminal tax controversy, civil and criminal tax trials in all courts;
  • divorce/tax, asset protection, and related tax areas; active in the formation of
  • Captive insurance companies.
• Practice limited to matters of taxation since 1980.
  • Tried approximately 200 cases in civil courts;
  • Tried 40 cases in the United States Tax Court;
  • Planned hundreds of estates;
  • Preparing for and litigating numerous estate tax returns (Form 706).

Professional

• Member of Mississippi State Bar Association
  • Past Chairman of Taxation Section
  • Past Chairman of the Professionalism Committee
  • Member of the Trusts and Estates and Business Law Sections
• Member of Tennessee Bar Association
• Member of Arkansas Bar Association
• Admitted to practice before the State Courts of Mississippi, U. S. District Courts, U. S.
  • Tax Court, and U. S. Supreme Court
• Member, past President (1999-2000) of the Hinds County Bar Association
• Past President of the Mississippi Tax Institute, Inc.
• Member of the Financial Planning Association, Fellow Mississippi Bar Foundation (2002)
• AV Preeminent Rated Lawyer for 41 years, Martindale Hubbell: AV Preeminent Rated
  • firm (top 5% in Taxation and Estates & Trusts)
• Marquis Who’s Who in America
• Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award by Marquis Who’s Who
• Top 50 Mississippi Super Lawyers® (2010 by MS Business Journal) (its inaugural edition)
• 26th Oldest law firm in the State of Mississippi
• Approved as a representative by the National Football League Players Association

Seminars

• Conducted over three hundred (300) seminars for professional, academic, and civic groups on taxation, business, and estate planning.
• Seminars conducted for the Mississippi Society of Certified Public Accountants (all 8- hour Seminars)
• Estate & Gift Taxation Simplified
• Using Trusts in Income & Estate Tax
• Using Trusts in Income & Estate Planning
• Using Ideas to Minimize Estate & Gift Taxes
• The Limited Liability Co.
• Limited Liability Co.: Tax Consideration
• Income Taxation of Estates and Trusts
• How Trusts Can Cut Income and Estate
• How Trusts Can Cut Income and Estate
• Limited Liability Company & Business Considerations
• Do’s And Don’ts of Tax Practice
• Sleeping Better At Night: Do’s And Don’ts of Tax Practice
• Sleeping Better At Night: Taxation of LLCs, LLPs, LPs and Other Partnerships
• Taxation of LLCs, LLPs, LPs, and Other Partnerships
• Income Taxation of Estates and Trusts
• Taxation of LLCs, LLPs, LPs, and Other Partnerships
• Estate Planning: Tackling the Fundamentals
• Estate Planning: Tackling the Fundamentals
• Estate Planning: Tackling the Buying and Selling of Businesses
• The CPA’s Role: Tax Update for Pass-Through Entities: S Corporations and
• Partnerships
• Tax Update for Pass-Through Entities: S Corporations and Partnerships
• AICPA’s Annual Business Law Updates I and II
• Strategies and Tactics in the New War Against Higher Individual Taxes I and II
• Practical Tips and Techniques for Dealing with the IRS
• Estates and Trusts: Mastering Complex Income Tax Issues
• Tax Strategies for Business; Planning Techniques and Current Issues
• Estate Planning Essentials: Tax Relief for Your Clients
• Business Valuation and Litigation Services Conference
• Estate Planning Essentials: Relief for Your Clients
• How to Settle an Estate for A Client From A TO Z
• The Complete Trust Workshop
• Advanced Selected Issues for Trusts, Estates, and Their Beneficiaries
• The Complete Trust Workshop Mississippi State Society of CPAs Annual
• Convention
• Succession planning and use of Captive Insurance Companies
• BANK State of Mississippi Banking
• Finance Conference Planning with Captive Insurance Companies
• Form 1041: Income Taxation of Estate and Trusts
• Business Law Essentials for Practitioners
• Succession Planning for the Small Business
• This Year’s Top Tax and Financial Planning Ideas
• This Year’s Best Income Tax, Estate Tax, and Financial Planning Ideas
• Limited Liability Companies: Losses, Liquidations, Continuations, and Sales
• Introduction to Business Acquisitions
• Estate and Life Planning Issues for the Middle-Income Client
• How to Settle A Client’s Estate

Community Activities

• Past Chairman-Elect and Secretary of the Board of Deacons, First Presbyterian
  • Church, Gulfport, Mississippi
• Sunday School teacher and member of Choir, First Presbyterian Church, Jackson, MS
• Past Vice-President and President-Elect of Gulfport Kiwanis Club
• Three-time Past Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Salvation Army, Gulfport, Mississippi
• Director, Past Vice-Chairman, and twice Chairman of the Hinds County Advisory Board of the Salvation Army
• Past President and Secretary of the Harrison County MSU Alumni Association
• Director, Hinds County MSU Alumni Association; President of the MSU Law Alumni Association
• Jackson Downtown Rotary Club (Sergeant at Arms 1998-1999), Director; Member North
• Jackson Rotary Club
• Eagle Scout, achieved with 2 palms, and God and Country Award before age 15, Boy
• Scouts of America
• Past Chairman of the Sustaining Membership Committee of Boy Scouts of America
• Elected a 1979 Outstanding Young Man of America by the National Jaycees
• Member, Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity

Personal

• Family: Wife, Sandra S. Barnes
  • Children: Patrick S. Barnes, Elizabeth Blair (Barnes) Riley, and Bryan P. Barnes
  • Grandchildren: Hayes Riley, Keaton Riley, Ruth Elizabeth Riley, and Ella Grace Riley
• Author: “Financial Survival in the 80’s” and “Financial Survival After Tax Reform”
• Interests: Family, sports, and reading
• Pilot – Instrument rating, 2,200 hours