Bass attorney to chair new Cancer Society initiative
Posted on November 9, 2009 at 8:09 am
Mike Sontag, leader of Bass Berry’s tax group, is the first chair of an American Cancer Society group that seeks to increase the nonprofit’s planned giving operations. Sontag’s daughter is a cancer survivor.
When asked to chair the Nationwide Gift Planning Advisory Council, I immediately accepted this new challenge… I expect to challenge myself and the other committee members to develop a national strategy for the Society’s planned giving efforts.
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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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Bass lawyer named Bond Counsel fellow
Posted on October 6, 2009 at 1:03 pm
Charlie Wray, the past chair of the public finance practice at Bass Berry & Sims, has been named a fellow at the American College of Bond Counsel. Wray, a former Oak Hill mayor, has been at Bass for 40 years.
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Bass attorney named Bar Foundation fellow
Posted on September 10, 2009 at 7:16 am
Leigh Walton, a 25-year Bass Berry & Sims partner and co-chair of its health care practice, has been named a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation. The nonprofit ABF, which bills itself as “the nation’s leading research institute for the empirical study of law,” hosts its fellowships in residence at its offices in Chicago.
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‘If the economy is this country’s engine, this proposed change is like refusing to use motor oil’
Posted on September 4, 2009 at 1:26 pm
Miller & Martin attorneys Joseph McCoin and Larry Bridgesmith say the core idea behind the Employee Free Choice Act now before Congress would open the door for unions to “use illegal tactics that drag one business into another unrelated business’ labor troubles.”
Organized labor and its cadre of commentators have repeatedly made claims about the ineffectiveness of the NLRB’s remedial provisions in deterring employer misconduct. It would take a healthy dose of hypocrisy or Pollyannaism for these same voices to suggest that weakening the remedial provisions that apply to organized labor would not also promote misconduct.
Buck Cole has a new boss
Posted on 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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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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Stites checks in with Chambers laureates
Posted on June 30, 2009 at 10:03 pmAlmost 30 Stites & Harbison attorneys from eight regional offices have been included in Chambers USA’s 2009 guide to the country’s leading attorneys. The following Nashville attorneys are part of that group:
Julian L. Bibb - Banking & Finance: Transactional, Real Estate
Daniel W. Small - Banking & Finance: Transactional
Robert C. Goodrich, Jr. - Litigation: Bankruptcy
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Burr & Forman’s Ahern makes Chambers list
Posted on June 22, 2009 at 11:39 pm
From regional law firm Burr & Forman comes word that bankruptcy specialist Larry Ahern has been included on Chambers USA’s 2009 list of the country’s top attorneys. Ahern is a fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy, a former director of the American Bankruptcy Institute, chairman of the American Board of Certification and director and president of the Turnaround Management Association.
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Add Neal & Harwell attorneys to Chambers’ list
Posted on June 21, 2009 at 10:28 pmNeal & Harwell becomes the sixth area firm to showcase its attorneys’ selection to Chambers USA’s 2009 best-of list.
James F. Neal - General Commercial Litigation
Aubrey B. Harwell Jr. - General Commercial Litigation
James F. Sanders - General Commercial Litigation
James R. Kelley - Bankruptcy Litigation
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BABC’s Chambers crowd
Posted on June 19, 2009 at 9:06 amBradley Arant Boult Cummings checks in with its 2009 Chambers USA honorees. Its 23 attorneys bring the number of Nashville attorneys reported to be on this year’s best-of list to 87.
Stephen T. Braun, Healthcare
Kevin B. Campbell, Healthcare
Ann Peldo Cargile, Real Estate
Greer Cummings, Real Estate
Jay Hardcastle, Healthcare and Healthcare: Regulatory
John Haynes, Real Estate
Berry Holt, Healthcare and Healthcare: Regulatory
Samuel D. Lipshie, Litigation: General Commercial
Matthew Lonergan, Labor & Employment
Charles J. Mataya, Labor & Employment
John E. Murdock III, Banking & Finance: Transactional
James L. Murphy III, Real Estate: Zoning/Land Use
John W. Myers II, Banking & Finance Transactional
William L. Norton III, Litigation: Bankruptcy
Craig Oliver, Labor & Employment
Robert S. Patterson, Litigation: General Commercial
David Rutter, Real Estate
Charles Sanger, Banking & Finance: Transactional
John Titus, Corporate/M&A
Tom Trent, Real Estate
Thor Urness, Litigation: General Commercial
Richard F. Warren Jr., Real Estate
Robert Wood, Real Estate
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11 Baker Donelson attorneys make best-of list
Posted on at 7:24 amBaker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz becomes the latest to brag on its attorneys who made the annual Chambers rankings. The 11 Nashville lawyers on this year’s list are:
Thomas E. Bartrum – health care (regulatory)
Gary M. Brown - corporate/mergers and acquisitions
Ashby Q. Burks, health care
Richard G. Cowart, health care
Steven J. Eisen, banking and finance
Kenneth P. “Pete” Ezell Jr., real estate
John A. Gupton III, real estate
John S. Hicks, general commercial litigation
Randal S. Mashburn, bankruptcy litigation
Laurence M. Papel, real estate
M. Kim Vance, labor and employment
Check out all the Chambers USA announcements here.
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Sherrard’s Chambers turn
Posted on June 18, 2009 at 12:21 pmA week after Bass Berry and Waller Lansden announced their 2009 Chambers USA honorees, Sherrard & Roe has rolled out its list of attorneys named to the best-of list:
Thomas J. Sherrard – Corporate/Mergers & Acquisitions
John R. Voigt – Healthcare
L. Webb Campbell – Litigation
William L. Harbison – Litigation
John H. Roe – Real Estate
Kim Brown – Real Estate
C. Mark Carver – Real Estate
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