Heidi Barcus, shareholder in Lewis Thomason’s Knoxville office, was on the panel for the Present and Powerful Speaker Series featuring Donna Brazile at the recent American Bar Association Midyear Meeting. This series was coordinated by the GP Solo and Law Practice Division with the objective of advancing, promoting and educating members about issues facing women in the legal profession and … Read More

Last week Tennessee lawyers representing the state attended the American Bar Association’s Midyear Meeting where shareholder and former Tennessee Bar President John Tarpley led the Tennessee delegation at the meeting.  As the state delegate for the Tennessee delegation, John presided over the delegation meetings and co-hosted the Tennessee reception at the meeting for bar leaders.  John has served the American … Read More

Michael Goode recent spoke on Legal Ethics in the Trusts Practice at the National Business Institute’s How to Use Trusts to…Choose the Right Wealth Planning Instruments for Each Client.  Michael discussed setting reasonable attorney fees, guarding client confidentiality, and verifying testamentary capacity in addition to conflicts of interest in joint representation and fiduciary liability.  Michael focuses his practice on the … Read More

David Draper and Patrick Quinn recently won a defense verdict in a construction arbitration tried in December.  The client, a civil engineer, was retained to design a convenience store to be located at an intersection in suburban Memphis.  The project was shut down by the City of Memphis when City officials discovered the two entrances were located less than 300 feet … Read More

Six attorneys have been named shareholders at Lewis Thomason. Three attorneys are based in Knoxville two in Nashville and one in Memphis Heidi Barcus in the Knoxville office has represented hospitals, physicians, nurses and other health care professionals in healthcare liability matters for over 25 years. Barcus is licensed in Tennessee and Kentucky and has successfully defended numerous regional and local health … Read More

Lewis Thomason’s hospitality and retail attorneys attended the ALFA Hospitality and Retail Practice Group Seminar which was held January 25-27.  Ben Jones was the Program Chair of the event and invited attendees to go “Back to the Future” as they examined what the new normal looks like post-pandemic.  John Tarpley participated in a roundtable discussion on making mediations successful in … Read More

As an expansion of the firm’s highly regarded criminal defense service, Lewis Thomason is launching a statewide government investigations practice group.  Jim Weatherly, John Manson, Miles McDowell, Preston Hawkins, and Chris Sullivan offer more than 50 years of combined experience within the group. “These five attorneys have experience in the representation of businesses and employees subject to State and Federal … Read More

Chuck Cagle, shareholder and chair of the Education Law and Government Relations Practice Group in Lewis Thomason’s Nashville office, has been appointed the Education Council Chair of the Tennessee Business Roundtable Board. Founded in 1983, the Roundtable has partnered successfully with five Governors and hundreds of businesses, non-profit and government stakeholders to create and promote policies which have contributed significantly to … Read More

Mary Beth White was part of a panel for a webinar for the Trucking Industry Defense Association on 30(b)(6) depositions.  The webinar provided tips and practical advice on how to prepare a trucking company’s safety director for a corporate representative deposition in which the plaintiff’s attorney will be using Reptile Theory tactics to disparage the trucking company and its safety … Read More

John Tarpley recently spoke to the 2023 Tennessee Bar Association Leadership Law class.  John established the Tennessee Bar Association Leadership Law program in 2003 and took this opportunity to discuss the history of the program with this year’s participants.  John is a former President of the Tennessee Bar Association and served on the TBA’s Executive Committee for a number of … Read More