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Lewis Thomason Names New Shareholders
Samantha Bennett focuses her practice primarily in the areas of medical malpractice defense and insurance defense. Before attending law school, Bennett spent several years working as a medical malpractice paralegal and held a position as an adjunct professor in The University of Memphis Department of Political Science. A 2012 magna cum laude graduate of The University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law, she is a member of the Memphis Bar Association and the Tennessee Bar Association. Natalie Bursi practices primarily in the areas of health care liability defense and insurance defense. She has served on the Board of Directors of the Memphis Bar Association and is a member of the Tennessee Bar Association. Bursi earned her B.A. magna cum laude at the University of Tennessee, and her J.D. cum laude at the University of Memphis. Laura Deakins focuses on appeals, health care law, personal injury litigation and professional liability. She is a member of the Association for Women Attorneys (AWA), serves on the Executive Counsel for Appellate Section of the Tennessee Bar Association, and is a Hearing Committee Panel Member of the Tennessee Board of Professional Responsibility. She is a member of the Tennessee Supreme Court Historical Society, the Leo Bearman, Sr. American Inns of Court, and the Memphis Bar Association. She earned her J.D. at the University of Memphis. Nicholas L. Vescovo regularly counsels clients ranging from startups and emerging companies to individual artists and performers to multi-national corporations on all types of intellectual property issues. He has handled matters before the United States Patent and Trademark Office, the United States Copyright Office, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, and the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board. Vescovo is a member of the American Bar Association Intellectual Property Law Young Lawyers Action Group Section, the Tennessee Bar Association Young Lawyers' Division and the Memphis Bar Association Young Lawyers' Division. He earned his B.S. and his J.D. at the University of Memphis.
Brian S. Faughnan, shareholder in the Memphis office of Lewis Thomason, was recently elected the President-Elect of the Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers. A frequent author and speaker on ethics and professional responsibility issues, he shares his thoughts on ethics and lawyering at his blog, Faughnan on Ethics. He is a co-author of the book “Professional Responsibility in Litigation” and “Professional Responsibility in Litigation, Second Edition” published by the ABA. He is a member of the American Bar Association, Tennessee Bar Association, and Memphis Bar Association, and is a Fellow of the Tennessee Bar Foundation. Faughnan earned his J.D. at the University of Memphis, magna cum laude. He holds a B.A. from Rhodes College. Faughnan serves as Lewis Thomason's Associate General Counsel and works in conjunction with the firm's president in all ethics and professional responsibility matters within the firm. Faughnan’s practice is focused on commercial litigation, appellate litigation, and media law. The Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers is comprised of more than 450 lawyers, law professors and judges holding an interest in lawyers’ professional responsibility, legal ethics, legal malpractice, and the evolving law of lawyering, primarily through the application of the rules of lawyer ethics to the practice of law. APRL was founded in 1990.
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