Lewis Thomason shareholder Joseph Clark and associate Samantha Bennett maintained LT’s successful trend in medical malpractice trials last week with a victory in Shelby County Circuit Court. Jury deliberations lasted less than two hours after the four-day trial, with the jury finding in favor of LT’s defendants, a medical clinic and two doctors. Joseph Clark maintains a general civil trial practice … Read More

A periodic Q & A session with a Lewis Thomason (LT) lawyer  LT: When did you decide to become a lawyer? Cheryl Estes: I always wanted to be a lawyer. My parents were concerned because the job opportunities for female attorneys at that time was not particularly great. This was reinforced when one of the senior partners confided in my … Read More

  Lewis Thomason is pleased to welcome five new associates at our offices across the state. In Knoxville, we welcome Brady Cody. Brady received his undergraduate degree in public policy from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and his J.D. from the University of Tennessee. He served as a summer associate for Lewis Thomason Knoxville in both 2014 … Read More

A periodic Q & A session with a Lewis Thomason (LT) lawyer  LT: What do you enjoy most about being a lawyer? Ed Owens: It beats work. I do enjoy solving problems, though. LT: You’re  stranded on a desert island – what music are you listening to?  Ed Owens: Soundtracks from musicals, Broadway or Hollywood.  LT: What do you want … Read More

If you are sleeping well on November 30th and wake to the sudden sound of screaming around midnight, please take a deep breath and just go back to sleep. The screaming should be unrelated to either Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton by that point, but it is still expected as of December 1, 2016. December 1st is the effective date for … Read More

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Lewis Thomason’s Annual Employment Law Seminar will be held on September 22, 2016 from 1:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the Knoxville Museum of Art.  For more information please click here Employment Law Seminar.

Justin Joy will be speaking at the National Business Institute’s Seminar – LLCs From Start to Finish on September 15 – 16, 2016. For more information please click here. Mr. Joy has a variety of experience in various general civil litigation matters including business and commercial litigation, insurance coverage disputes, healthcare liability defense, medical device liability defense, personal injury and … Read More

A Restraining Order was granted to Bethel University halting Tennessee Education Department and State Board of Education Administration Action. Click here to view Bethel Press Release. Bethel University is represented by the Lewis Thomason team of : Samuel L. Jackson is a shareholder who practices in the area of Education Law in a variety of legal matters, including employment of … Read More

A periodic Q & A session with a Lewis Thomason (LT) lawyer  LT: When did you decide to become a lawyer? Dale Bay: I was a sophomore in college when I had a professor accuse me of plagiarizing a paper I wrote on a book assignment. He was angry he couldn’t flunk me because he couldn’t find any “proof” that … Read More