Benjamin W. Jones, a Shareholder in Lewis Thomason’s Knoxville office, has been elected to the Tennessee Bar Association’s Board of Governors. He will fill the District 2 seat and serve a three-year term. The Knoxville Bar Association serves more than 2000 members with an eighteen-member Board of Governors. All policies and programs are either developed or overseen by the Board … Read More
Massive Changes to Reporting Coming in 2024: The Corporate Transparency Act
The Corporate Transparency Act (“CTA”) was passed by the Senate and signed into law by President Trump on December 20, 2020, and was thereby enacted into law effective January 1, 2021 pursuant to the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021, having broad bipartisan support. The CTA requires certain businesses to report their beneficial ownership information to the Financial … Read More
Chris McCarty
Last week Chris McCarty, shareholder in the firm’s Knoxville office, participated in the 2023 Knox County Workforce Summit presented by Knox County, Knoxville Chamber, and presenting sponsor Regions Bank. The program discussed workforce issues and solutions in the region. Chris participated on a panel with the Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development’s Labor Standards Unit and the Tennessee Occupational … Read More
Nicholas Vescovo Named to Memphis Business Journal’s 2023 40 Under 40
Nicholas Vescovo, a shareholder in Lewis Thomason’s Memphis office, has been named to Memphis Business Journal’s 2023 40 under 40. Vescovo regularly counsels clients ranging from start-ups and emerging companies to individual artists and performers to multi-national corporations on all types of intellectual property issues. He has handled matters before the United States Patent and Trademark Office, the United States … Read More
Janet Hayes
This week Janet Hayes, a Shareholder in the Knoxville office, presented at the Knoxville Bar Association’s annual Law Practice Today Expo on “Workplace Investigations: Navigating the Treacherous Trail to Truth.” The session explored investigation traps, offered tips, and discussed best practices for effectively handling sensitive issues in the workplace. Ms. Hayes is an advocate for employers and businesses across the … Read More
Construction Statute of Repose Applied in Suit Against Contractor for Injuries on Public Sidewalk
Construction Industry Statute of Repose Applies to Improvements Dedicated as Public Property In Garamella v. City of Lebanon, et al., 2022 Tenn. App. LEXIS 24 (Tenn. Ct. App. Jan. 24, 2022), the court rejected a plaintiff’s argument that the 4-year construction industry statute of repose did not apply in favor of the defendant contractor where the improvement had been dedicated … Read More
Marshall Stair
Marshall Stair presented an update on the Fair Labor Standards Act at the East Tennessee Lawyers Association for Women this week. Marshall concentrates his practice in employment law with an emphasis on the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA/wage & hour/overtime), insurance casualty defense, and general commercial and tort litigation. While attending law school, he worked for the United States Department … Read More
David Draper
David Draper recently participated in a panel at the ALFA International Client Seminar on supply chain and price volatility in the construction industry. Whether by pandemic, inflation, war, protective tariffs or increased competition for a finite supply, scarcity of parts and materials and their price volatility have triggered project delays and project cancellations. As a consequence, owners and developers, designers … Read More
Noor Obaji
Noor Obaji spoke at the University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law’s Diversity and Pre-Law Day on “My Life as a Lawyer.” She discussed the challenges and triumphs of working as a lawyer. Obaji is an associate in the firm’s Memphis office and she graduated from Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law in 2018. During law school, Ms. … Read More
Movie Lawyers of All Time
When your bar association asks you to do something, whenever and wherever possible, you say “yes.” At least, that was the thought at the forefront of my mind when Marsha and Cathy suggested an idea for a new DICTA column and reached out to me to see if I would be willing to start writing again. They wanted a simple … Read More