Bradley Isbell joined Waddell, Cole & Jones, PLLC in August, 2022.  Bradley achieved the high score on Arkansas’s summer 2022 uniform bar exam and is licensed to practice law in both Arkansas and Missouri.  Bradley’s practice focuses on the areas real estate law, including transactions and easement and partition actions; business and commercial law, including regulatory compliance, mergers, acquisitions, entity formation, contract formation and negotiation, and commercial litigation; as well as probate and estate planning. 

 

Education

 

Bradley obtained a bachelor’s degree in agribusiness and a master’s degree in agricultural economics from the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, where he graduated as a Bumpers College Senior Scholar.  During his master’s research, Bradley published two articles on price risk management in the Mississippi River grain and barge markets.  He then worked as an instructor of agribusiness at the University of Arkansas, teaching undergraduate courses on marketing, business management, and basic accounting. 

 

Bradley received his J.D., with honors, from the University of Missouri School of Law in Columbia, Missouri, where he was selected as a member of the Order of the Coif.  At Mizzou, Bradley was a member and associate managing editor of the University of Missouri Law Review and published a Case Note on Missouri appellate criminal procedure.  During law school, Bradley worked as a summer clerk for the Missouri Attorney General’s Office where he represented the State of Missouri in criminal appeals cases. He also completed two semesters-in-practice with the Cole County, Missouri prosecuting attorney’s office. These experiences allowed him to develop his research, writing, and oral argument skills, which he uses to better serve his clients.