Congratulations to Glenn Walter who successfully tried a case this week in Roane County Chancery Court. The Plaintiff claimed damages to the home he rented to our client. However, after hearing all the evidence, the Judge ruled in our client’s favor and entered judgment against the plaintiff. 

Congratulations to Chris McCarty, Janet Hayes, and Sallie Neese on their win in a contested hearing before an impartial hearing officer. The hearing officer upheld the dismissal of a tenured teacher in an East Tennessee school system. The hearing officer found that the Director of Schools met his burden of establishing grounds for terminating the teacher for insubordination and unprofessional conduct.

Congratulations to the Lewis Thomason appellate team of Janet Hayes and Chris McCarty on another win before the Tennessee Court of Appeals. In this matter, a tenured teacher appealed his dismissal for unprofessional conduct and insubordination, contending the decision of the local Board of Education lacked sufficient evidentiary support, was arbitrary and capricious, and was in violation of his constitutional and … Read More

Michael Goode, immediate past-chair of the Tennessee Bar Association’s International Law and Practice Section, was the Conference Host and a Panelist at the National Association of State Bar Tax Sections’ Annual Meeting held on October 21-22. The panel discussed the challenges in leading their organizations and meeting member demands.

This week Kevin Baskette spoke at the Memphis Chapter meeting of ASHRAE on Contracts, Design Delegation, and Claim Avoidance. The American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers is a global society which focuses on building systems, energy efficiency, indoor air quality, refrigeration and sustainability within the industry.

Mikel Towe, shareholder in Lewis Thomason’s Knoxville office, has been named President of Nucleus Knoxville.  Towe has served on the Board of Nucleus Knoxville since 2017 and was vice-president in 2020. Towe graduated from the University of Tennessee College of Law and devotes his practice to civil litigation focusing primarily in the areas of insurance litigation involving automobile and trucking … Read More

Michael Goode, immediate past-chair of the Tennessee Bar Association’s International Law and Practice Section, spoke at the International Law Forum on “Hot Topics in Internationals Law.” He covered current issues in international law, such as international movement of goods, money, and people, and their relationship to Tennessee, as well as the various regulatory reporting, taxation, and other requirements.