David Draper

David Draper recently participated in a panel at the ALFA International Client Seminar on supply chain and price volatility in the construction industry.  Whether by pandemic, inflation, war, protective tariffs or increased competition for a finite supply, scarcity of parts and materials and their price volatility have triggered project delays and project cancellations. As a consequence, owners and developers, designers … Read More

Noor Obaji

Noor Obaji spoke at the University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law’s Diversity and Pre-Law Day on “My Life as a Lawyer.”  She discussed the challenges and triumphs of working as a lawyer.  Obaji is an associate in the firm’s Memphis office and she graduated from Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law in 2018. During law school, Ms. … Read More

David Garst

On March 7, David Garst participated in the 2023 SpeakUP legislative engagement event sponsored by the American Institute of Architects Tennessee.  The seminar series took place at the Tennessee State Capitol Building.  Mr. Garst and Dale Crow of Risk Strategies presented a seminar entitled “Proven Contract Negotiation Techniques for Design Professionals” to architects and architectural educators from across Tennessee.  Mr. … Read More

Heidi Barcus and Joseph Clark.

Attorneys considered among the top in their field receive elite acknowledgment. Congratulations to Heidi Barcus and Joseph Clark.

Jacqueline B. Dixon

Jackie Dixon, shareholder in the Nashville office, co-wrote the Cover Story in the March/April issue of the Tennessee Bar Journal on mothers and daughters who practice law, The Battle for Equality is Sometimes Fought in Inches. Jackie and Psonya C. Hackett (co-author) conducted interviews with several Tennessee Lawyers whose daughters followed in their footsteps. This article was originally published in … Read More

Chuck Cagle

Chuck Cagle recently presented to doctoral level education classes at Lincoln Memorial University on “Conducting an Efficient and Productive IEP Meeting.”  Cagle is a frequent speaker on education matters.  He oversees the firm’s education practice group and has served as an adjunct professor at Vanderbilt University teaching courses in K-12 Education Law and Public Policy and the Law of Higher … Read More

Super Lawyers 2022

Each year, no more than five percent of the lawyers in the state are selected by the research team at Super Lawyers to receive the designation of Super Lawyer. Super Lawyers, part of Thomson Reuters, is a rating service of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. The … Read More

Noor Obaji

Noor Obaji Elected Vice President for the Association for Women Attorneys in Memphis Noor Obaji, an associate in the firm’s Memphis office, has been elected Vice President for the Association for Women Attorneys in Memphis. The Association for Women Attorneys is a bar association of Memphis and Shelby County founded in 1979. Its members are dedicated to supporting each other … Read More

Chuck Cagle

Chuck Cagle recently spoke at the Tennessee School Boards Association’s Legislative and Legal Institute on “How to Conduct Attorney-Client Meetings Within the Scope of the Public Meetings Act.”  Chuck is a shareholder and chair of the Education Law and Government Relations Practice Group for the firm’s Nashville office. He oversees the firm’s representation of over 70 public boards of education, … Read More

Congratulations Heidi Barcus

Heidi Barcus, shareholder in the firm’s Knoxville office, was elected vice-president of the Tennessee Bar Association and will serve as president of the Tennessee Bar Association in 2025-2026.  She will take office as vice president this summer at the TBA Convention and then automatically advance to president-elect in June 2024 and then president in June 2025.  Heidi joins a long … Read More