Now it looks official
Posted on November 19, 2009 at 1:13 pmThough the merger that brought together law firms Bradley Arant Rose & White and Boult Cummings Conners & Berry was completed what feels like ages ago, the firms maintained separate Web sites until recently. Check out the shiny, new unified home of Bradley Arant Boult Cummings here.
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Think Halloween is scary? Try getting a bunch of lawyers to move by December 15
Posted on October 30, 2009 at 2:08 pm
That’s what the Bass Berry team needs to do.
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Two from Waller up for women-in-business awards
Posted on October 29, 2009 at 10:41 am
Two women from Waller Lansden are finalists in the 2009 edition of the Stevie Awards for Women in Business. Also up for two awards is Marcie Allen of event marketing firm MAC Presents. Here are some details on the work Owen (pictured here at left) and Walker have done.
Carol Owen, finalist in the “Mentor of the Year” category, developed and launched the national organization “Women’s Roundtable” from Waller Lansden’s headquarters in Nashville, after noticing the low female representation in the field of law. This unprecedented nationwide referral and support network for attorneys provides female colleagues with a platform for new business development, referrals, mentorship and a general support system.
Teresa Walker, finalist in the “Best Executive - Service Business - up to 2,500 employees” category, played a pivotal role in helping Waller Lansden remain stable and even grow during the recent economic decline. In 2008, she oversaw the development of a strategic plan that focused on increasing Waller Lansden’s national recognition and raising the profile of its successful healthcare practice. This plan also included a strategy to integrate critical technology that would monitor and improve the firm’s financial management.
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Looking for a cut-rate trial lawyer?
Posted on October 26, 2009 at 2:30 pmIt had to happen: In an era when the prices people are willing to pay for music, movies, art and even yoga lessons have fallen starkly, Bass, Berry & Sims is turning young associates into low-price litigation attorneys. WPLN’s Blake Farmer has the story.
Joe Freedman is launching companies again
Posted on October 16, 2009 at 8:17 amApparently seeking to claim once and for all the title of Nashville’s serial-est entrepreneur, Joe Freedman tells Milt Capps about three new ventures in the legal services arena. And he’s not afraid to say where he doesn’t expect to snare funding for them.
He said his professional networks in New York City, Los Angeles and elsewhere make it much easier for him to raise money in those cities than in Nashville, where investors are “so healthcare-ingrained,” not familiar with software-as-a-service (SaaS) startups, and “too damn nice” to give you a quick No, when they’ve made their decision.
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Former federal prosecutor joins Waller
Posted on October 12, 2009 at 8:16 am
The Birmingham office of Waller Lansden earlier this month welcomed ex-federal prosecutor William Athanas to its ranks. Athanas spent eight years with the Justice Department, most recently as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Alabama’s Northern District.
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The signs they are a’changin
Posted on October 8, 2009 at 7:53 am
Baker Donelson is moving quickly with putting its name on the downtown building where it recently signed on to expand. Workers will have all the required red letters on the side of the Baker Donelson Center well before NBC’s cameras switch on to transmit the Titans taking on the Colts this Sunday night.
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Justice center director gets national award
Posted on September 17, 2009 at 11:48 am
Gordon Bonnyman Jr., executive director of the Tennessee Justice Center in Nashville, is the 2009 recipient of the Morris Dees Justice Award. The award is given annually by law firm Skadden, Arps and The University of Alabama School of Law to a lawyer who has brought about positive change by devoting his or her career to serving the public interest and pursuing justice.
Bonnyman has spent his career representing low-income clients, the elderly, prisoners, disabled persons, and uninsured. Read more about Bonnyman and the award here.
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Buck Cole has a new boss
Posted on September 4, 2009 at 11:19 amLouisville-headquartered law firm Greenebaum Doll & McDonald has named Patrick Northam to lead its hometown and Nashville offices. Buck Cole is the only attorney in the Nashville outpost, which has never recovered numberswise from a Burr & Forman raid three years ago.
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Boult, attorneys make Benchmark list
Posted on August 25, 2009 at 7:02 amBenchmark Litigation, a best-of ranking service that uses feedback from clients and peers, has placed Bradley Arant Boult Cummings on its highly recommended list. Five of the firm’s Nashville attorneys were cited individually.
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Bass Berry is good for women
Posted on August 11, 2009 at 1:30 pmThe downtown firm has again been named one of the best places to work for women.
The winning firms have at least 8 percent lawyers working reduced hours (versus an average 5 percent nationwide) and at least 20 percent women equity partners (versus an average 16 percent nationwide). Bass, Berry & Sims PLC was recognized for a number of ongoing related initiatives, including increased use of flex-time, reduced-hour schedules, and other family-friendly policies.
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Boult marketing director jumps to Gullett
Posted on August 10, 2009 at 2:18 pm
From a firm press release:
The law firm of Gullett Sanford Robinson & Martin PLLC has named Janet Summey as its first Director of Marketing & Business Development.
Before joining the firm, Summey served as Business Development & Practice Support Manager at Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP and as Marketing Manager of Arthur Andersen’s Nashville office.
Summey earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration with a concentration in marketing from the University of Memphis in 1993. She serves as Membership Chair of the Legal Marketing Association’s Nashville City Group.
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Tip of the hat to Waller blog
Posted on August 6, 2009 at 7:31 am
The National Law Journal shines the spotlight on Waller Lansden’s Young Lawyers blog, which regularly likes to take a light-hearted look at life in law.
Recently, GIBI posted “Don’t Stab the Messenger,” a story posted online in the Los Angeles Times in July 2009 about a Santa Ana, Calif. lawyer who was being served with civil court papers and was arrested after trying to stab the messenger with a large hunting knife. Although, the contributors state that they could not come up with a good idea in response to this post, their tongue-in-cheek post was in the lawyer’s defense: “The idiom is ‘Don’t shoot the messenger.’ No one ever told him not to try to stab the messenger.”
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Virginia law firm looks to buy here
Posted on June 28, 2009 at 11:42 amThe leader of century-old Williams Mullen says he wants to be in Nashville, Atlanta and Jacksonville five years from now. The firm, which is about the same size as the new Bradley Arant Boult Cummings, two years ago moved beyond its coastal territory by bringing on a firm with offices in Raleigh and the Research Triangle.
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Lawyers as line workers
Posted on June 7, 2009 at 9:44 amFrom a Times story examining the angst created by layoffs at Wall Street firms:
“To the extent that lawyers are simply churning out the same problems one after the other and are treated as factors of production to be laid off or not because of market forces or marginal declines in profitability,” he said, “the emotional and professional commitment that goes along with being an adviser and a solver of problems begins to diminish.”
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