Rodney A. Fields Featured Speaker at “The Managing Partners Forum”

Rodney A. Fields, the Managing Shareholder at Lewis Thomason’s Knoxville office, will be a featured speaker at the UT College of Law Career Center’s “The Managing Partners Forum.” To kick off the school year, leaders of several prominent Tennessee law firms will speak to UT Law students at the first Managing Partners Forum, set for Wednesday, August 27. Panelists will … Read More

Leslie F. Bishop Speaking at M. Lee Smith’s Eighth Annual Tennessee Workers’ Compensation Conference, Nov. 20-21

  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

Dramatic Reforms to Workers’ Compensation Act

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

“Virtual” Students Enrolled in TNVA

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

Medicare Set-Asides in Workers’ Compensation

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

Employers Must Look Beyond Hobby Lobby Case

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

PRESERVATION OF EVIDENCE

 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

DON’T GET CAUGHT FLAT-FOOTED: UNDERSTANDING THE 3.4(f) EXEMPTION

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