Clare S. Millette

Clare S. Millette is a Jackson litigator at Cosmich Simmons & Brown with more than 15 years of experience representing large corporations in state and federal litigation. Her listed practice areas include Appellate, Asbestos & Talc, Environmental Litigation, General Litigation, Insurance Litigation, Premises Liability, Product Liability, and Toxic Tort. She has served as national coordinating, regional, and local counsel for corporate clients in complex exposure matters.

Millette earned a J.D., cum laude, from the University of Mississippi School of Law in 2007 and a B.A. in Journalism, magna cum laude, from the University of Mississippi in 2004. In law school, she served on the Mississippi Law Journal, Moot Court Board, and honor organizations. Her academic and advocacy training supports work that requires concise briefing, close procedural analysis, expert-witness challenges, and persuasive written and oral presentation.

Millette has participated in trials, dispositive motions, appellate briefing, expert depositions, and national docket management for premises, products-liability, asbestos, and environmental-exposure matters. Her representative experience includes Fifth Circuit appellate briefing, successful expert challenges, summary-judgment work, interlocutory appeals to the Mississippi Supreme Court, Deepwater Horizon personal-injury litigation, and multidistrict asbestos proceedings. She also advises Mississippi medical-cannabis businesses on licensing and commercial legal issues.

Clare S. Millette has been recognized by Super Lawyers, Best Lawyers in America, Litigation Counsel of America, and the Mississippi Business Journal, among other organizations. She has also held leadership roles in bar and defense-lawyer groups and has served on the Mississippi Cannabis Trade Association board. Her practice combines national-coordinating experience, trial and appellate advocacy, and regulatory counseling for companies facing complex product, exposure, insurance, and emerging-industry legal issues.

Law Office Affiliations

• Attorney, Cosmich Simmons & Brown, PLLC
• Member, Arkansas Bar Association
• Member, Louisiana State Bar Association
• Member, The Mississippi Bar
• Marketing Committee Co-Chairman, Asbestos Medicine DRI (2024)
• Chairman, Capital Area Bar Association – Women’s Initiative Committee (2021-2022)
• Member, Defense Research Institute: Asbestos Section
• Member, Defense Research Institute: Toxic Torts & Environmental Law Committee
• Member, Defense Research Institute: Women in the Law Committee – Toxic Torts & Environmental Law Litigation
• Member, Mississippi Bar Association, Appellate Practice Section
• Member, Mississippi Bar Association, Litigation Section
• Member, Mississippi Bar Association, Women in the Profession Section
• Member, Defense Research Institute: Asbestos Medicine Seminar – Marketing Committee (2016-Present)
• Member, University of Mississippi Alumni Association
• Member, Junior League of Jackson (2007-2013)

Licensed State

• Arkansas
• Louisiana
• Mississippi

Education

• University of Mississippi School of Law
  Juris Doctor (JD) Cum Laude
• University of Mississippi
  B.A. 2004, Journalism Magna Cum Laude

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