Last week Tennessee lawyers representing the state attended the American Bar Association’s Midyear Meeting where shareholder and former Tennessee Bar President John Tarpley led the Tennessee delegation at the meeting.  As the state delegate for the Tennessee delegation, John presided over the delegation meetings and co-hosted the Tennessee reception at the meeting for bar leaders.  John has served the American … Read More

For more than 25 years, I have been watching workplace trends, always trying to predict the next “hot” legal issue. While monitoring data from government agencies and reading journals has been helpful, experience suggests that the best way to truly anticipate tomorrow’s legal issues is simply sit back and listen to today’s conversations. After all, most of the people talking … Read More

Michael Goode recent spoke on Legal Ethics in the Trusts Practice at the National Business Institute’s How to Use Trusts to…Choose the Right Wealth Planning Instruments for Each Client.  Michael discussed setting reasonable attorney fees, guarding client confidentiality, and verifying testamentary capacity in addition to conflicts of interest in joint representation and fiduciary liability.  Michael focuses his practice on the … Read More

David Draper and Patrick Quinn recently won a defense verdict in a construction arbitration tried in December.  The client, a civil engineer, was retained to design a convenience store to be located at an intersection in suburban Memphis.  The project was shut down by the City of Memphis when City officials discovered the two entrances were located less than 300 feet … Read More

Six attorneys have been named shareholders at Lewis Thomason. Three attorneys are based in Knoxville two in Nashville and one in Memphis Heidi Barcus in the Knoxville office has represented hospitals, physicians, nurses and other health care professionals in healthcare liability matters for over 25 years. Barcus is licensed in Tennessee and Kentucky and has successfully defended numerous regional and local health … Read More

Last month, in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr., Lisa Ramsay Cole shared reflections on our Special Counsel John Manson and his many accomplishments inside and outside the practice of law. This month, we are excited to share reflections on a number of contributors to Black History, including Judge Leland Clure Morton, who played an integral part in desegregating Nashville … Read More

Lewis Thomason’s hospitality and retail attorneys attended the ALFA Hospitality and Retail Practice Group Seminar which was held January 25-27.  Ben Jones was the Program Chair of the event and invited attendees to go “Back to the Future” as they examined what the new normal looks like post-pandemic.  John Tarpley participated in a roundtable discussion on making mediations successful in … Read More

As an expansion of the firm’s highly regarded criminal defense service, Lewis Thomason is launching a statewide government investigations practice group.  Jim Weatherly, John Manson, Miles McDowell, Preston Hawkins, and Chris Sullivan offer more than 50 years of combined experience within the group. “These five attorneys have experience in the representation of businesses and employees subject to State and Federal … 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 the Education Council Chair of the Tennessee Business Roundtable Board. Founded in 1983, the Roundtable has partnered successfully with five Governors and hundreds of businesses, non-profit and government stakeholders to create and promote policies which have contributed significantly to … Read More