Youth court raises funds at Garden to Gavel

Milling about the grounds of the old Camp Montvale in muggy mid-August heat late Sunday afternoon, guests at the second Garden to Gavel dinner enjoyed good music and good food in service of a good cause. That cause would be the Blount County Youth Court, a four-year-old program that sees local high school students serve as “jurors” in select juvenile … Read More

Meet the Barrister – Mikel Towe

A periodic Q & A session with a Lewis Thomason (LT) lawyer  Lewis Thomason: When did you decide to become a lawyer? Mikel Towe: When I was in my third year at UT studying for a BA in History. At the time, I thought I wanted to be a football coach and a history teacher, but decided to start looking … Read More

Charles W. Cagle and R. Loy Waldrop, Jr. Selected as 2017 Elite Lawyers of the South

Charles W. Cagle and R. Loy Waldrop. Jr. have been selected by American Lawyer Media (ALM) and Martindale-Hubbell as 2017 Elite Lawyers of the South.   Charles W. (Chuck) Cagle is a shareholder and chair of the Education Law and Government Relations Practice Group for the firm’s Nashville office. He oversees the firm’s representation of over 70 public boards of education, … Read More

Lewis Thomason Knoxville’s 2017 Annual Construction Seminar

Lewis Thomason Knoxville’s 2017 Annual Construction Seminar, The Business of Construction, will be on September 8, 2017. It will be a full day seminar covering: Construction Outlook, Contract Drafting, Changing Federal Regulations, Hostile Work environment Claims, Wage and Hour Labor Issues, IRS Audits, Construction Law, and Construction Dispute Resolution. For more information and to register please click here.

R. Dale Bay and Brian S. Faughnan Selected as 2017 Elite Lawyers of the South

R. Dale Bay and Brian S. Faughnan have been selected by American Lawyer Media (ALM) and Martindale-Hubbell as 2017 Elite Lawyers of the South.   R. Dale Bay is a shareholder in the firm’s Nashville office, where he served as managing shareholder for 20 years. Since beginning his practice with the firm in 1984, Mr. Bay has concentrated in the … Read More

Lewis Thomason names new managing shareholder

After nearly 10 years managing Lewis Thomason’s Downtown Memphis law offices, Mike Keeney is passing the reins to a defense attorney who spent the majority of her career working part-time. Keeney led the integration of Memphis-based Thomason, Hendrix, Harvey, Johnson & Mitchell PLLC with Knoxville-based Lewis, King, Krieg & Waldrop PC when the two firms merged in 2014 to create one of … Read More

David N. Garst Selected as a Fellow of the Construction Lawyers Society of America

Lewis Thomason announces that David N. Garst has been selected as a Fellow of the Construction Lawyers Society of America. David Garst is a shareholder in the firm’s Nashville office. He is chair of the firm’s Construction Law Practice Group and serves on the firm’s Board of Directors. Mr. Garst practices principally in construction law, focusing on architects and engineers … Read More

Andrea N. Malkin Named Managing Partner of Lewis Thomason’s Memphis Office

Lewis Thomason announces that Andrea N. Malkin has been named the managing shareholder of the firm’s Memphis office. Ms. Malkin focuses her practice in medical malpractice defense, products liability defense, and personal injury defense.  Andrea has been with the firm for over 20 years and has been a shareholder since 2003. She is succeeding Michael E. Keeney who has served as … Read More

Janet Strevel Hayes – How to talk politics at work and not get fired

The celebration of American unity was particularly refreshing this July 4. Divisions created during last year’s campaign season have only deepened since President Trump took office, and many say our country is more divided than at any time in recent memory. The anger, frustration, and resentment permeating family gatherings and polluting social media can also poison the workplace. With politics … Read More