A recent decision from the Tennessee Court of Appeals confirmed that a plaintiff cannot rely on the 120-day extension allowed in TCA § 29-26-121( c ) more than once.  On July 11, 2023, the Tennessee Court of Appeals issued its decision in Richards v. Vanderbilt University Medical Center.  In this health care liability action, the issue before the appellate court … Read More

Congratulations to Maggie Roney who was named to the Memphis Business Journal’s Best of the Bar.  Maggie is a shareholder in the firm’s Memphis office. A native Memphian, Maggie has a diverse litigation practice throughout West Tennessee, with particular emphasis in representing defendants in healthcare liability, transportation, product liability, and personal injury litigation. Maggie has successfully defended numerous cases prior … Read More

Justin Joy spoke on June 15th as part of a panel discussing an overview of enacted and proposed privacy legislation in Indiana, Tennessee, Montana, Florida, and Texas.  This legislation introduced requirements governing the collection, use, sale and sharing of consumer data, and established consumer data rights.  The panel discussed the similarities and differences between the laws, key challenges and best … Read More

Lewis Thomason shareholder Heidi Barcus becomes vice-president of the Tennessee Bar Association this week at the TBA’s annual convention.  She will advance to the presidency in 2025. Heidi has been active in the Tennessee Bar Association and served as Knoxville Bar Association President in 2013.  She is currently the Chair of the Knoxville Bar Foundation’s Board of Directors and Co-Chair … Read More

I can remember a week of depositions about 15 years ago in the basement of Bill Vine’s law firm. It was a large medical malpractice action with five different sets of defendants and about eight lawyers sitting around the table. We had been going on for about two days deposing family members of the injured Plaintiff and were finishing up … Read More

Chuck Cagle, Shareholder and Chair of the Education Law and Government Relations Practice Group in Lewis Thomason’s Nashville office, has been appointed as a Trustee by the State of Tennessee for the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools – Commission on Colleges. SACSCOC serves as the recognized regional accrediting body for 800 institutions of higher education that award degrees in 11 … Read More

On May 25, Mary Beth White spoke to the Tennessee Trucking Association at the first ever Spring Fest. She spoke on nuclear verdicts across the country and the effect of these verdicts in the trucking and transportation sector.  A nuclear verdict is defined as a verdict in excess of $10 million.  Mary Beth focuses her practice on commercial and business … Read More

Lewis Thomason is proud to announce that we achieved Mansfield Certification after a rigorous 18-month collaboration with Diversity Lab.  From September 2021 to March 2023 we tracked, measured, and achieved diversity at all levels of our firm to qualify for this important and coveted certification. The Mansfield Certification recognizes the structural changes, actions, focus, and hard work we have taken … Read More

Marty Regan, Shareholder in Lewis Thomason’s Memphis office, delivered the commencement address for the 2023 graduates of the Southern College of Optometry and was presented with an Honorary Doctor of Humane letters. Regan has served as counsel for the Southern College of Optometry since 1985 and his expertise was instrumental in their significant growth and the building of The Eye … Read More