Congratulations to Robyn Askew and Eric Butler who have been elected shareholders at Lewis Thomason.
Robyn Jarvis Askew is a shareholder in the firm’s Knoxville office. Her practice centers on commercial law with an emphasis on commercial real estate, finance and business transactions. In addition, Ms. Askew represents physicians, nurses and other medical professionals before state licensing boards.
Ms. Askew worked as a real estate developer for more than ten years and has extensive experience with national retailers. Her developed properties include Walgreen’s retail facilities in Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee and Mississippi.
J. Eric Butler, a native of Franklin County, Tennessee, is a shareholder in the firm’s Knoxville office focusing his legal practice in the areas of federal and state taxation, tax controversy matters, white collar criminal defense, and estate planning/probate matters. Mr. Butler handles a large range of tax matters for clients across Tennessee as well as the south-eastern United States involving the Internal Revenue Service and state taxing authorities, to include examinations of returns, collection of delinquent tax debts, criminal tax matters, international tax compliance and enforcement, and litigation of tax issues in both state and federal courts.