Judgment upheld on appeal where subsequently discovered materials used to backfill retaining wall would not have altered Trial Court’s grant for summary judgment In Lyon Roofing, Inc. v. Griffith, 2023 Tenn. App. LEXIS 232, *7 (Tenn. Ct. App. June 5, 2023), the City of Carmel, Tennessee was granted summary judgment based on an engineering expert’s undisputed opinion that the retaining … 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
Lewis Thomason Sponsors
Pictured from left to right Elle Shipley (LT Knoxville associate), Claire Heflin (future LT Nashville associate), Ariane Hookman (LT Knoxville associate), Judge Deborah Stevens, and London Lacoste (future LT Nashville associate). Lewis Thomason was recently a proud sponsor of University of Tennessee College of Law’s Law Women End of Year Banquet. The banquet served as an opportunity to welcome a … Read More
Congratulations Marcy Magee and Natalie Bursi
Congratulations to Memphis shareholders Marcy Magee and Natalie Bursi who prevailed in the Court of Appeals of Tennessee in a healthcare liability matter. In this case, the process server failed to serve our physician client personally. In addition to denying liability, insufficiency of process was raised when the complaint was answered. More than a year after the complaint was filed, … Read More