Rebecca Ferguson

Partner & Manager, Family Division

My name is Rebecca, but those close to me call me Becca. I grew up in Camden, far from interstates and malls — sustained on sports and church. Since the fourth grade, I’ve known I’d be a lawyer. It’s a calling, not simply a job to me. It’s been my plan for so long that I can’t even remember how it started!

I went to Henderson State for college where I met my husband, James, our first year. He played baseball for the school. I already had a love for baseball, but marrying a baseball player meant most fall afternoons were spent studying and watching practices, and most spring afternoons were spent studying and watching games.

Baseball quickly became a huge part of my life, and from March to October each year, my life doesn’t look much different even now. We, as a family, are huge Houston Astros fans, spending the majority of the year watching baseball, preferably in person on our bucket list quest to visit all the baseball stadiums.

Surprisingly, James also aspired to become a lawyer. Being in all the same classes in college and attending law school together cemented our romance. We settled on Bowen in Little Rock because, well, you can’t take the Arkansan out of Arkansas!
James and I are quite literally living a romance novel, together since 2006, through undergraduate and law school. Let me tell you, if you can study and pass the bar together, you are destined to be together forever. That is no small feat with the stress and pressure surrounding that exam. Now, we have two perfect little girls, Evelynn and Vivian, and are both partners at our respective law firms.

I spent the first eight years of my legal career as a public defender, representing the most impoverished and disenfranchised among us, and protecting our American values. My transition several years ago to Lion Legal was a natural progression of my commitment to provide affordable access to the highest quality legal services possible.

Statistically, most cases settle before final trials, but my heart is in the courtroom. I’m a bang-up trial attorney with extensive court experience. I thrive in front of juries and judges, and love the dramatic presentation required to win cases. (I didn’t say drama, did
I? No one ask my parents just how dramatic they think I am.)

As the partner and manager of our Family Division, I work primarily on domestic cases with some criminal cases mixed in. My knowledge of criminal defense goes well with domestic cases, because surprisingly and all too often, they go hand-in-hand. The number one reason that attorneys lose cases is lack of preparation – I don’t care how “good” you are; 90% of winning is preparing before you walk through the courthouse doors. I particularly love my work at Lion Legal because of our team approach to our cases, allowing each of us time to communicate thoroughly with our clients and be absolutely prepared for trial, every time.

I strive for a consistent work-life balance – next to impossible because of my perfectionist and competitive nature. James and I agree the work-life imbalance that sometimes plagues us is worth the benefit of demonstrating an unparalleled work ethic to our girls, a critical component of our parenting style. Most would describe our careers as “lawyers,” but right now, it feels like our primary career is uber-drivers to our volleyball playing, competitive dancing pre-teen girls. When we are not working our two jobs (ha), adding to our list of visited baseball stadiums, or on our boat, we escape to our 16 acres in Cabot – the perfect-for-us private refuge to recharge.

My email is [email protected].