Mika Shadid Tucker
2800 Cantrell Road
Suite 500
Little Rock, AR 72202-3472
Phone: 501.375.1122
Fax: 501.375.1027
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Current Position: Associate
Admissions: 2006, Arkansas and 2007, U.S. District Court, Eastern and Western Districts of Arkansas.
Practice Areas: Labor and Employment Litigation; Commercial Litigation, Appellate Advocacy and Creditors' Rights.
Clients Represented: American Standard, Inc./The Trane Company; Crews & Associates, Inc.; First Security Leasing; City of Bryant; Crain Chevrolet Inc. and North Little Rock School District.
Legal Associations/Professional Memberships: Arkansas Bar Association, American Bar Association (Labor and Employment Section), Pulaski County Bar Association.
Education: University of Arkansas, B.A. in Journalism (Advertising/Public Relations) with an emphasis in Latin; University of Arkansas at Little Rock Bowen School of Law, J.D.
Club or Civic Memberships/Community Involvement: Arkansas Children’s Hospital Committee for the Future Executive Board Member 2007-2011, and Arkansas Cancer Research Center’s Legacy League Membership Chair, 2005-2006.
Biography:
Mika Shadid Tucker was born and raised in North Little Rock, Arkansas. After graduating from North Little Rock High School, Ms. Tucker attended the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville as a University Scholar. While studying Public Relations and Advertising, Ms. Tucker served as President of the Student Advertising Association, held several Public Relations internships and was a member of the National Society of Collegiate Scholars.
While attending law school at UALR Bowen School of Law, Ms. Tucker worked at the Prosecutor’s Office for the Sixth Judicial District as an Arkansas Supreme Court Certified Rule XV law clerk. As a student attorney in the UALR Bowen School of Law’s Litigation Clinic, she counseled and represented a juvenile defendant against robbery charges. She also clerked for Perroni, James and House, P.A. during several law school semesters.
Ms. Tucker's practice at Jack Nelson Jones is devoted primarily to trial work, including employment law defense, tort litigation, commercial litigation and appellate advocacy. She has served as lead counsel in trials, mediations and administrative proceedings.
Ms. Tucker gratefully serves two local institutions that had significant roles in her childhood. She has represented her alma mater, the North Little Rock School District, with respect to desegregation matters. Also, Ms. Tucker serves on the Arkansas Children’s Hospital Committee for the Future Executive Board benefiting the hospital at which she underwent heart surgery in 1983.
Ms. Tucker is married to fellow UALR Bowen School of Law graduate, Carson Tucker.