At the Annual Meeting last year, I told people that we were going to spend this year in celebration. After nearly two years of enduring a pandemic that kept people indoors and away from one another, I thought we all needed an opportunity to come together and celebrate. Moreover, we had cause to celebrate. The pandemic brought uncertainty. It brought massive disruption. Still our bar association weathered the challenges and, in many ways, grew stronger by necessity. I was content to make this a year of simply getting back to some semblance of normalcy. Continue reading the article in the December issue of DICTA, page 5.
I am also a beneficiary of the dedication and skill of the many volunteers in our bar who make this engine go.
About Post Author
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.
