Thomason Hendrix partners J. Kimbrough Johnson and Elizabeth T. Collins represented an internal medicine physician and an infectious disease specialist in a recent medical malpractice trial. The plaintiff alleged that the defendant doctors had improperly diagnosed gout instead of septic arthritis. After a two week trial, the jury ruled in favor of the defendant physicians finding no negligence.

At a meeting on Friday, Oct. 26, Lewis King shareholders elected Reba Brown, Robert F. Chapski and Benjamin W. Jones to serve on the firm’s Board of Directors. They join Rod Fields, David Garst, Larry Giordano and Dick Krieg. Deborah Stevens of the Knoxville office was elected to serve another term as president, and Lisa Ramsay Cole will continue to … Read More

Mayor Madeline Rogero, in keeping with a pledge to make Knoxville more business friendly, has appointed 11 leaders to the newly created Business Advisory Council. The Business Advisory Council (BAC), to be presented to City Council on Tuesday, is organized through the Office of Business Support, which is managed by Patricia Robledo and under the supervision of Deputy to the … Read More

Lewis, King, Krieg & Waldrop, PC, attorney James B. Kyle has been selected for a prestigious fellowship with the U.S. Army War College. Kyle, a Tennessee National Guard Lt. Colonel, will spend the majority of his fellowship in Washington, D.C., working with the deputy assistant secretary of the Army’s Department of Environmental Safety and Occupational Health. He will train as … Read More

The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee has dismissed a significant and historic environmental class action lawsuit. A class of Plaintiffs comprised of owners of property adjoining a river first sued the Defendant, an upstream manufacturing facility, in 1989. In a continuous series of subsequent lawsuits, the Plaintiffs have repeatedly claimed that the facility causes water … Read More

Nashville Children’s Theatre, the oldest professional children’s theatre in the country, recently named Lewis, King, Krieg & Waldrop attorney Winston Harless chairman of its board of trustees. Harless was previously a tenured professor of Theatre and Communication at Freed-Hardeman University and performed at Opryland U.S.A. He’ll now take over leadership duties at the 81-year-old institution that was originally opened as … Read More

The Tennessee Bar Association (TBA) recently awarded its 2012 Summer Star of the Quarter Award to Katrina Atchley, an attorney in the Knoxville office of the Lewis, King, Krieg and Waldrop, P.C., law firm. Atchley was recognized for her work as Chair of the TBA Children’s Issues Committee and her work producing the coloring book CASA Speaks for Polly. As … Read More