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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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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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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Waller wouldn’t recommend it
Posted on July 14, 2009 at 2:05 pmWaller Lansden’s Young Lawyers blog points to an ABA Journal article about an interesting potential pitfall of recommending subordinates on LinkedIn.
According to the ABA, “[m]anagement-side employment lawyers are advising their clients against writing recommendations for current or recent employees on LinkedIn.” Apparently, a positive recommendation by an employer on LinkedIn could be offered as evidence to support a discrimination claim. The employee could offer the LinkedIn recommendation as evidence to refute an argument that poor performance caused the employee’s subsequent termination. The ABA article cites another article by the National Law Journal. According to the NLJ, plaintiffs’ lawyers may be “scouring these sites, looking for evidence to dispute firings, as most LinkedIn recommendations are positive.”
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Bass Berry, Waller lawyers on best-of list
Posted on June 12, 2009 at 2:02 pmAlmost 30 Bass Berry attorneys have been named to Chambers USA’s list of the nation’s top business law minds. Listed below are those attorneys as well as the 18 Waller Lansden lawyers also on the list. Stay tuned for announcements from other local firms.
Honorees from Bass:
Lee Barfield – Litigation, General Commercial; Litigation: Medical Malpractice Defense
Dewees Berry – Real Estate
Jim Cheek – Corporate/M&A
Michael Dagley – Litigation, General Commercial
Page Davidson – Corporate/M&A
Wallace Dietz – Litigation, General Commercial
Felix Dowsley – Real Estate
Karen Ellis – Labor & Employment
Tim Garrett – Labor & Employment
John Good – Corporate/M&A
Paul Jennings – Litigation, Bankruptcy
Howard Lamar – Corporate/M&A
Claire Miley – Healthcare; Healthcare Regulatory
Scott Noonan – Healthcare
Allen Overby – Corporate/M&A
William Ozier – Labor & Employment
Michael Peek – Real Estate
Cynthia Reisz – Healthcare
Todd Rolapp – Corporate/M&A
Cynthia Sellers – Banking & Finance, Transactional
Mark Sheets – Real Estate
Richard Spore – Real Estate
John Stemmler – Real Estate
James Tate Jr. – Banking & Finance, Transactional
Bob Thompson – Banking & Finance
Overton Thompson – Litigation, General Commercial
Mitchell Walker – Corporate/M&A
Leigh Walton – Healthcare
And those from Waller:
George W. Bishop III - Healthcare
Robert E. Boston - Labor & Employment and Litigation: General Commercial
Jeffrey A. Calk - Real Estate
Robert R. Campbell, Jr. - Real Estate
J. Chase Cole - Corporate/M&A
Waverly D. Crenshaw, Jr. - Labor & Employment
Marcus Crider - Labor & Employment
Paul S. Davidson - Litigation: General Commercial
Ames Davis - Litigation: General Commercial
James M. Doran, Jr. - Litigation: General Commercial
Matthew T. Harris - Real Estate
J. Reginald Hill - Healthcare
Nora L. Liggett - Healthcare and Healthcare: Regulatory
Gerald F. Mace - Banking &Finance: Transactional
E. Marlee Mitchell - Corporate/M&A
E. Andrew Norwood - Media & Entertainment
Patricia O. Powers - Healthcare and Healthcare: Regulatory
G. Scott Rayson - Healthcare
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In case you were itchin’ to know
Posted on June 5, 2009 at 11:30 amFour days after news of the $430 million AIM Healthcare purchase broke on NashvillePost.com, Waller Lansden follows up to remind everyone that it represented the AIM shareholders in the deal:
Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis, LLP represented shareholders of AIM Healthcare Services, Inc. in the sale of equity in the company and certain affiliates to Ingenix. Terms of the all-cash transaction, which was finalized on June 1, 2009, were not disclosed.
Full release here.
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Former AG to coordinate lobbying for foundation
Posted on February 9, 2009 at 11:07 pm
Paul Summers, Tennessee’s attorney general from 1999 to 2006 and now a partner at Waller Lansden, is stepping up his time commitment to a national charity focused on youth suicide prevention.
Summers has been involved with JFI for more than a decade and currently chairs the organization’s board of directors. He will continue his law practice at Waller Lansden while he assists JFI as pro bono Director of Government Affairs. Specifically, he will coordinate with the 49 state Attorneys General across the nation who now work with The Jason Foundation as “Ambassadors” within their respective states. As part of the JFI staff, Summers will develop new programs utilizing the Attorneys General in building awareness and prevention efforts on youth suicide.
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