At various times during his law career, Flournoy was appointed special master, arbitrator, or commissioner for several high-profile court cases.
During a controversial re-indexing of Kanawha County records by Works Progress Administration officials in 1935 and 1936, Flournoy served as chairman of the Charleston Bar Association's Re-Indexing Committee, which completed an independent investigation of the re-indexing progress, as ordered by the bar association's executive committee [REF].