Elena R. Mosby
Associate
Thinking forward. By tradition.
Contact
130 North Court Avenue
Memphis, TN 38103
Memphis, TN 38103
Tel: 901.524.5104
Fax: 901.524.5024
Practice Areas
Admitted to Practice
Mississippi, 2021
Tennessee, 2022
United States District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi, 2021
United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi, 2022
United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee, 2023
United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, 2022
Tennessee, 2022
United States District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi, 2021
United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi, 2022
United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee, 2023
United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, 2022
Bar Admissions
Memphis Bar Association
Tennessee Bar Association
Mississippi Bar Association
Tennessee Bar Association
Mississippi Bar Association
Elena R. Mosby (Peters) practices in the areas of labor and employment law, white collar and government investigations, and corporate and business litigation. Her passions lie in litigation, compliance, and their intersection.
Prior to joining Burch, Porter & Johnson, Elena served as a law clerk to the Honorable Rhesa H. Barksdale (United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit) and the Honorable Kristi H. Johnson (United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi). She also worked for the Honorable Michael K. Randolph (Supreme Court of Mississippi) during law school.
Elena is a native Memphian and attended Rhodes College. After graduation, she moved to Washington, D.C., to work for the Department of Justice. As a member of the Criminal Division’s Fraud Section, she traveled across the country to assist prosecutors and federal agents investigate and prosecute health care fraud. Elena participated in over five federal jury trials and also assisted the Fraud Section’s Deepwater Horizon Taskforce in implementing a process safety monitorship for a Fortune 500 company.
Elena then attended the University of Mississippi School of Law, where she served as Executive Editor of the Law Journal and a member of the Moot Court and Negotiation Boards. She won multiple Outstanding Student, oral advocacy, and professionalism awards before graduating in the top of her class in 2021.
Education
University of Mississippi School of Law – Oxford, MS (J.D., 2021), summa cum laude
Rhodes College – Memphis, TN (B.A., Political Science, 2015), cum laude
Experience
- Second chair in temporary restraining order proceeding, successfully defending against issuance of injunctive relief in trade secrets dispute
Professional Honors and Activities
- Named Best Lawyers® “Ones to Watch” for Litigation – Labor & Employment in the Memphis area (2025)
- Phi Delta Phi Award (2021)
- Judge William Allen Pepper Award (2021)
- Mississippi Law Journal Award (2021)
- Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society (2019)
- Outstanding Student Awards in Constitutional Law II, Contracts, Criminal Procedure I, Evidence, Legal Profession, Torts, Wills & Estates
- First Place, Copeland Cook Taylor & Bush Moot Court Competition (2019)
- Top Lawyer Award and Best Negotiator Award, Contract Drafting & Negotiations (2019)
- Executive Editor, Mississippi Law Journal; The University of Mississippi School of Law
- Mock Trial team, Rhodes College
