Rachel McCallister, associate in Lewis Thomason’s Memphis office, has been elected Vice-President of the Association for Women Attorneys. The Association for Women Attorneys is a bar association of Memphis and Shelby County. Its members are dedicated to supporting fellow attorneys, educating themselves and others in the law, and being of service to the community with particular reference to the legal … Read More
Noor Obaji Elected President of the Association for Women Attorneys
Noor Obaji, associate in Lewis Thomason’s Memphis office, has been elected President of the Association for Women Attorneys. The Association for Women Attorneys is a bar association of Memphis and Shelby County. Its members are dedicated to supporting fellow attorneys, educating themselves and others in the law, and being of service to the community with particular reference to the legal … Read More
Benjamin W. Jones Elected to ALFA International’s Board of Directors
Benjamin W. Jones, a shareholder in Lewis Thomason’s Knoxville office, has been elected to ALFA International’s Board of Directors. ALFA International’s Board of Directors is comprised of 16 committed attorneys from member firms in the United States and worldwide who ensure proper governance of our organization. Members of the Board of Directors serve three-year terms and are elected by their … Read More
Lewis Thomason Elects Brad W. Craig as Board Member
Lewis Thomason’s shareholders have elected Brad W. Craig, a shareholder from the firm’s Nashville office to the firm’s Board of Directors. Mary Beth White, Kevin Baskette, and Benjamin Jones were also reelected for another two-year term. They join current Board members, Rodney Fields, Janet Hayes, David Garst, Margaret Cooper Roney, and Joseph Clark. Brad Craig is a seasoned litigator … Read More
David Garst Presents
On September 30, David Garst presented a seminar for the Tennessee Engineers’ Conference on the Risks of Design-Build Construction from the perspective of a consulting professional engineer. The seminar was moderated by Dale Crow of Risk Strategies. This presentation was part of an annual series of risk management seminars presented to the Tennessee Engineers’ Conference by Lewis Thomason and Risk … Read More
Forbes Names Jacqueline B. Dixon One of Nashville’s 2024 Best Divorce Lawyers
Jacqueline B. Dixon has been named one of Nashville’s best divorce lawyers for 2024 by Forbes Advisor, a division of Forbes magazine. Jacqueline B. Dixon in the Nashville office is a trial lawyer with over 35 years of experience in all aspects of family law, including divorce, custody, and adoption; wills, estates, conservatorships, probate litigation; as well as personal injury, … Read More
Jim Weatherly
Jim Weatherly was recently elected Member at Large for the Board of Directors of the Legal Aid Society of Middle Tennessee. The Legal Aid Society provides legal services throughout Middle Tennessee and the Cumberlands. They have 48 attorneys in eight offices across Tennessee. Jim is Special Counsel in the firm’s Nashville office. He has over 40 years of legal experience … 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
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