John C. Leggett, Attorney at Law

Attorney John C. Leggett has been practicing law for 24 years, since receiving his Juris Doctorate from Mississippi College School of Law in 1990. After being in private practice for many years, John was unanimously appointed by the Superior Court Judges of the Cherokee Judicial District to fill the unexpired term of the late Chief Magistrate Judge. At the end of that term in the fall of 2012, John joined with Attorney Barry Benton in anticipation of Mr. Benton’s imminent retirement and John’s return to private practice. John C. Leggett, PC is again a private practice law firm specializing in estate planning, elder law, probate and real estate. His firm prepared over 1000 estate plans in 2013 and again in 2014. The firm assists with the coordination of multi-state planned-giving services for several charitable organizations, prepares instruments to facilitate the charitable giving intentions of donors, assists field representatives and planned-giving directors, presents seminars on estate planning and elder law concerns for client groups, and conducts will clinics and planned giving seminars for various non-profit organizations throughout the southeast. In addition, the firm’s probate practice includes representation of estates, establishment of guardianships, and various related matters. John is the son and grandson of United Methodist ministers, and his grandfather was the head of the Mississippi Methodist Foundation, the planned-giving department for the state's two Methodist conferences, from 1968 through 1989. John graduated from Millsaps College in 1985 where he received his B.A in History. He is married and has three daughters.