Leslie F. Bishop will be speaking at M. Lee Smith’s eighth annual Tennessee Workers’ Compensation Conference in Nashville on  November 20-21, 2014.  For more information click here.   Leslie F. Bishop, a Lewis Thomason shareholder, is responsible for all aspects of a general defense litigation practice, with an emphasis in workers’ compensation and employment law. Her employment practice ranges … Read More

  In the summer of 2012, Edd Peyton of the law firm Lewis Thomason attended a Saturday Legal Clinic at Benjamin L. Hooks Central Library. In the course of providing free legal service, attendee Vera Smith asked if he would agree to represent her on a pro bono basis after the clinic. He agreed. Ms. Smith had previously purchased a used vehicle and experienced numerous mechanical issues causing her to … Read More

In 2013, the Tennessee Legislature passed dramatic reforms to the Workers’ Compensation Act, Tenn. Code Ann. § 50-6-101, et seq., which went into effect on July 1, 2014. It would be impossible to provide a full summary of those changes in this space, but here are some of the most significant ones: The legislature changed the definition of “injury” to … Read More

When the Union County school board voted July 30 to enroll 626 first-year students in the Tennessee Virtual academy, applause and smiles broke out. The vote demonstrated the benefit of hiring a smart lawyer.                                                     … Read More

Jonathan L. May spoke on Medicare Set-Asides in Workers’ Compensation at the National Business Institute’s Advanced Workers’ Compensation Seminar. Mr. May is an associate in Lewis Thomason’s Memphis office and practices in the area of civil litigation, handling matters in state and federal courts throughout Tennessee. He has substantial experience defending claims involving workers’ compensation and insurance bad faith. In … Read More

Justin N. Joy will speak on Cybersecurity: Lessons Learned and Future Tools at the Sawyers & Jacobs, LLC Bank Tech Summit October 22-24, 2014. Justin N. Joy is shareholder in the firm’s Memphis office. To see all information regarding the Sawyers & Jacobs, LLC Bank Tech Summit click here.

Whitney Henry Kimerling has been named on the Nashville Bar Foundation’s 1st Leadership Class.  The nine-month professional development program will kick-off in September and run through May 2015. Whitney Henry Kimerling is an associate attorney in the Nashville office of Lewis Thomason.  Ms. Kimerling’s general civil litigation practice focuses on product liability.  Her experience also includes medical malpractice, premises liability, … Read More

By: Janet Hayes Unless you have been living under a rock, you are bound to have heard about the Supreme Court’s recent decision in what is now referenced simply as “the Hobby Lobby case.” From the water cooler to social media to glamour magazines, the decision has been debated and dissected unlike any legal case in recent history. It is … Read More

 By: David N. Garst   In the United States, parties to lawsuits are granted broad rights to obtain information possessed by other parties and witnesses in relation to the dispute.  the process for obtaining this information is called “discovery.” Courts permit many forms of discovery, including written questions, oral examination of witnesses, entry upon land (inspection of the project site) … Read More

By:  Brian S. Faughnan   I am a relatively fortunate lawyer. In addition to being permitted to write this column from time to time, representing lawyers and law firms gives me a decent sense of ethical issues that are being faced by lawyers in their daily practice across our state. I admit it’s a rough justice kind of calculation, but … Read More