On May 31 Lewis Thomason shareholder Jacqueline B. Dixon was the keynote speaker at the 2024 Tennessee Faith & Justice Summit presented by the Tennessee Supreme Court Access to Justice Commission. She spoke on “Identifying Family Law Concerns.” The summit brings together members of the legal community, faith-based leaders, and faith-based community members to discuss the Access to Justice program … Read More
Summer Associates
Lewis Thomason is pleased to welcome 11 summer associates to the firm this summer! In our Knoxville office we have Ryan Jernigan, Cameron Kirkland, Parker Bohne, and Emily Allen; in our Memphis office we have Lydia Cates, Blake Huffman, Dane Norvell, Ethan Pfister, Reagan Renshaw, and Evan Pham; and in our Nashville office we welcome Lucy Potter.
Peter C. Robison Joins Lewis Thomason
Lewis Thomason, a leading law firm in Tennessee, is pleased to announce the addition of Peter C. Robison as special counsel in its Nashville office. With an impressive background and a wealth of experience, Robison brings valuable insights and skills to the firm’s legal team. Robison’s credentials include a law degree from Vanderbilt University Law School and an undergraduate degree … Read More
Chris McCarty
Chris McCarty, Lewis Thomason education and employment attorney, spoke at the National Student Safety and Security Conference & Workshop this week on The Troubling Legal Gap in Schools’ Ability to Prevent Mass Shootings. The NSSCW helps over 300 administrators, teachers, police chiefs, first responders, safety professionals, and community leaders to identify and share best practices concerning school safety and help … Read More
Loy Waldrop
Loy Waldrop, a senior attorney in the Knoxville office, recently participated in a panel discussion on gun violence in our society with the Leadership Asheville Forum at University of North Carolina Asheville. Loy focused on firearm death rates in the United States and peer countries and recent US Supreme Court decisions involving the Second Amendment. Other panelists discussed local firearm … Read More
Natalie Bursi, Samantha Bennett, Laura Deakins and Nicholas Vescovo Inducted as Memphis Bar Foundation Fellows
Natalie Bursi, Samantha Bennett, Laura Deakins and Nicholas Vescovo, shareholders in Lewis Thomason’s Memphis office, have been named Fellows of the Memphis Bar Foundation. Fellows are chosen based on their devoted and distinguished service to the legal profession and the administration of justice and their adherence to the highest standards of professional ethics and personal conduct.
Marshall Stair
Knoxville shareholder Marshall Stair presented his annual Fair Labor Standards Act update on April 30th to the Knoxville Bar Association. The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) establishes minimum wage, overtime pay, recordkeeping, and youth employment standards affecting employees in the private sector and in Federal, State, and local governments. Marshall concentrates his practice in employment law with an emphasis on … Read More
Chuck Cagle
Chuck Cagle recently spoke at the Association of Independent and Municipal Schools’ (AIMS) state retreat on The Pitfalls of Purchasing Construction Services from a Purchasing Cooperative and on Problems Associated with Restraints for Special Education Students. AIMS is an organization of public city and special school districts that was founded in 1992 to promote their development and improvement in Tennessee. … Read More
Congratulations
Dale Bay, Margaret Roney, and Dawson Ogletree recently obtained a defense verdict in favor of an urgent care physician in a two-week wrongful death healthcare liability trial in Montgomery County Circuit Court. The plaintiff alleged the defendant physician misdiagnosed the decedent with gastroesophageal reflux disease four days prior to his death from cardiac tamponade as a result of a rare … Read More
BREAKING EMPLOYMENT LAW NEWS
The U.S. Department of Labor (“DOL”) announced on April 23, 2024, that it will raise the Fair Labor Standards Act’s (FLSA) minimum annual salary threshold in a series of two steps. First, on July 1, the threshold will increase from $35,568 to $43,888 per year. Then, on January 1, 2025, it will increase to $58,656. The FLSA mandates that employers … Read More