This month’s Top Ten List is the Top Ten Most Famous (Infamous) Trials in American History. Please remember these rankings are entirely subjective (if you want to disagree, write and submit your own column) Admittedly, important trials such as that of Claus von Bulow, the Nuremburg trials, and the court martial of William Calley, to name a few, did not make this subjective cut. Nonetheless, I think there is a pretty good argument that the following are the most famous trials in our nation’s history. Read the full article here in the May 2023 Volume 51 Issue 5 of DICTA.
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Jason H. Long has a practice primarily dedicated to the defense of healthcare liability matters and professional board representation. He represents individual physicians, physicians’ groups, nurses, nursing facilities and other care providers in complex legal matters in Tennessee and Kentucky. He also handles matters involving business litigation, civil trial defense, nursing home and long-term care defense as well as legal malpractice defense. Mr. Long has served as president of the Tennessee Bar Association and as president of the Tennessee Bar Association Young Lawyers Association. He currently serves as president of the Knoxville Bar Association (KBA) and past president of its young lawyer division, the Barristers. Mr. Long is a regular contributor to DICTA, the KBA’s legal newsletter and he taught legal writing at the University of Tennessee College of Law for 15 years.
