Attorneys Biographies

T. MITCHELL KALOM

General Background

Mr. T. Mitchell Kalom, CFP®, M.B.A, J.D., LL.M has 20 years of experience as a veteran negotiator, business consultant, real estate investor and entrepreneur. In counseling with, evaluating and crafting effective solutions to client needs, Kalom brings to bear his advanced degrees in business and law, tempered by years of real-world business experience. Kalom is fluent in Italian, and has a basic understanding of Spanish and Portuguese.

Mr. Kalom was born in Zion, Illinois in 1961 and shortly thereafter moved to Florence, Italy where he lived until age 11 when he returned to the United States. Mr. Kalom graduated from Ridgewood Preparatory School in Metairie, Louisiana in 1980; was graduated cum laude from Mississippi College in 1984; earned his Masters of Business Administration Degree from the Else School of Management in 1992; his Jurist Doctorate Degree from Mississippi College School of Law in 2006; and received an LL.M in Real Property Development from the University of Miami School of Law in 2007.

Mr. Kalom’s core areas of focus include, but are not limited to, business entities, contracts, real property development and litigation, insurance litigation, conflict resolution, strategic negotiation and deal crafting. In addition, Mr. Kalom’s extensive experience, spanning over twenty years, as a purchaser of Mississippi delinquent property tax liens allows him to provide indepth counsel to entities and individuals involved in or desiring to become active in the purchase of Mississippi delinquent property taxes, tax liens, tax certificates and tax deeds; Mr. Kalom also offers legal advice regarding tax title maturities; and tax title confirmation services for the confirmation of matured tax liens upon which tax deeds have been issued. Kalom also provides legal assistance with suits to set aside tax deeds, general proprety taxation litigation, environmental court representation and tax title litigation representation in Mississippi.

Admitted to Practice

• Admitted to the Practice in Mississippi, 2006 – MSB#102133
• Admitted to Practice before the Supreme Court of Mississippi
• Admitted to Practice before the 5th Circult Court
• Admitted to Practice before the Northern District Court of Mississippi
• Admitted to Practice before the Southern District Court of Mississippi
• Texas Bar, Pending Admission

Professional Associations and Memberships

• Mississippi Bar Assocaition
• American Bar Association (real & intellectual property, corporate, probate and trial sections)
• Harrison County Bar Association
• American Trial Lawyers Association
• National Tax Lien Association
• Institute of Certified Financial Planners
• Institute of Management Consultants
• International Guild of Professional Consultants
• Society of Professional Consultants

Continuing Education

Hofstra University, Winter Legal Studies, Comparative & International Law, at the University of the Netherlands Antilles, Curaçao, December 20, 2004 – January 15, 2005; Wharton School of Management - Executive Negotiation Program: Bargaining for Advantage®, July 24 - July 29, 2005; Hamline University, Summer Legal Studies, Rome, Italy, June – August 2004; Stanford School of Business – Advanced Negotiation Program, March 30 – April 4, 2003; Harvard School of Business – Negotiation and Competitive Decision-Making, November 3-8, 2002; Kellogg School of Business - Negotiation Strategies for Managers, March 11-14, 2001; University of Southern Mississippi in Merida, Mexico: International Business Studies, 1997; London School of Management/Else School of Management, London: MBA Summer International Economics Studies, 1990; Certified Financial Planner, earned 1988 – Present; National Center for Paralegal Training, Atlanta, George, earned paralegal certificate 1986; International Language Studies - Murnau, Germany; Malaga, Spain; and Cusco, Peru.

Honors, Awards and Civic Involvement

Instrumental in establishing Biloxi Environmental Court and Community Policing, 2001–2003; named by The Sun Herald as one of the Mississippi Gulf Coast’s top 10 Community Leaders, 2002; Co-Founder, Biloxi First, non-profit group established to battle urban blight in Biloxi, Mississippi, 2000; adjunct Professor of Real Estate & Real Estate Law, Gulf Coast Community College, Gautier, Mississippi 2000–2001; taught Business Development and Entrepreneurship for Mississippi Consortium for International Development in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, July 1999 and in Minsk, Belarus, June 2001; Recipient, Presented with Business for Russia Award by Mississippi Consortium for International Development, 1998; Recipient, Rotary Scholarship, Brazil Studies Abroad, 1995; President’s Commission on White House Fellowship, Regional Finalist, 1989; Mississippi College Distinguished History & Political Science Alumnus, 1984; Founder and President of Mississippi College Pre-Law Society, 1983.

Support Staff Biographies

Donna Seoane

Senior Paralegal

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