Whit Rayner, a partner and co-leader of the intellectual property team in the Jackson office, was mentioned in The Journal of Mississippi History Vol. 84 in the article '"We Live in the Future and Not the Past": Mississippi Chooses a New State Flag.' Author Katie Blount, director of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, discusses the events leading up to the selection of a new Mississippi flag and names Whit as the attorney who handled the intellectual property agreement and offered legal guidance to the Commission to Redesign the Mississippi State Flag in 2020.