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HONORS & AWARDS
Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP is pleased to announce that partner
Lela M. Hollabaugh
has been named to Benchmark Litigation’s Top 250 Women in Litigation list for 2022. Hollabaugh has served as the lead trial lawyer in more than a dozen jury trials, as well as more than two dozen bench trials, arbitrations and administrative hearings. She advises leading natural gas pipeline companies and other infrastructure clients on issues involving location, land acquisition, construction and operations.
The Metropolitan Nashville-Davidson County General Sessions Court Judge Lynda Jones has been elected District 7 Board of Governors of the American Judges Association (AJA) for 2022 – 2024. District 7 is comprised of Illinois, Ohio, Iowa, Indiana, Kentucky, West Virginia, and Tennessee.
Marlene Eskind
Moses has been selected for Chambers High Net Worth 2022 in the category of Family/Matrimonial in Tennessee. Chambers High Net Worth ranks the leading lawyers and law firms for international private wealth. Moses oversees complex divorce and family law issues with an emphasis on protecting her clients’ wealth and planning for their future.
Junaid Odubeko
was one of six attorneys at Bradley Arant Boult Cummings to be appointed to a leadership role within the American Bar Association’s (ABA) Litigation Section. Odubeko has been appointed co-chair of the Privacy & Data Security Committee. His practice is focused on advising and representing clients in complex commercial and business disputes and real estate litigation.
Chambers USA High Net Worth selected Stites & Harbison, PLLC attorney
Gregory D. Smith
for inclusion in its 2022 guide in the category of Family/ Matrimonial for USA: Tennessee. He is one of only four attorneys honored for Tennessee. Chambers High Net Worth ranks top lawyers and law firms in the international private wealth market. This is his second time earning the honor. Smith is a family law lawyer with 37 years of experience whose practice focuses on complex, difficult disputes between spouses and former spouses.
ON THE MOVE
Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP is pleased to announce that Petar Angelov has joined the firm’s Nashville office as an associate in the Construction Practice Group. Angelov focuses his practice on both litigation and transactional matters within the construction industry. He primarily represents general contractors, subcontractors, material suppliers, residential and commercial owners, developers, architects, and engineers in litigation, arbitration, contract negotiation, and contract drafting.
The law firm of Gullett Sanford Robinson & Martin PLLC (GSRM Law) is pleased to announce the addition of attorney Grayson Smith Cannon to the firm. Grayson joins the firm as a partner in the Wills, Trusts and Estates Section.
Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP is pleased to announce that Nathan S. Harris and Benjamin Katz have joined the firm as partners in the Nashville office. Harris is a member of Bradley’s Corporate & Securities Practice Group and works with clients throughout the entire business lifecycle, while Katz is a fintech attorney in the firm’s Litigation and Banking and Financial Services practice groups and serves as a trusted advisor and outside general counsel to companies in the electronic payments industry.
Edward “Ed” D. Lanquist Jr. and Scott M. Douglass have joined Baker Donelson’s Intellectual Property
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Group as shareholders in the Nashville and Memphis offices, respectively. “We are extremely happy to welcome Ed and Scott to Baker Donelson,” said Adam S. Baldridge, chair of Baker Donelson’s Intellectual Property Group.
Legal Aid Society of Middle Tennessee and the Cumberlands, Tennessee’s largest nonprofit law firm, announced that Zac Oswald has been promoted to senior deputy director of client services. In this role, Oswald will continue to lead the firm’s housing practice group while taking on additional leadership responsibilities across the firm. Oswald had previously served as managing attorney of Legal Aid Society’s Gallatin office since 2018 and originally joined the firm as a staff attorney in 2014.
Samuel Raque has joined Patterson Intellectual Property Law as an associate of the firm. Raque, a registered patent attorney, will practice in the areas of intellectual property protection, including patent prosecution, counseling clients on their intellectual property portfolios, patent infringement, and the litigation of intellectual property law matters. Prior to joining Patterson Intellectual Property Law Raque served as an associate of Stites & Harbison with their intellectual property and technology group.
FIRM NEWS Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP
is pleased to announce that the firm is among more than 180 large law firms participating in the Mansfield Rule 6.0 certification process. The newly released version of the Mansfield certification is aimed at diversifying leadership. The parameters have expanded in scope while increasing with rigor each year with input from an advisory board of diversity leaders and other stakeholders. Since Diversity Lab launched the initial certification in 2017, the requirements have evolved, but have remained focused on driving progress in the legal industry.
Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP
has signed a long-term lease to move its Nashville office to ONE 22 ONE, a new high-rise office building located in the Gulch, with a targeted occupancy of late 2023. Bradley, one of Nashville’s largest business and litigation law firms, will occupy the top four floors of the 24-story building, utilizing approximately 100,000 square feet of office space with future space allowance.
Nashville law firm Tate, Wilson, Johnson, Meyer & Cherry, PLLC has relocated from downtown Nashville to Brentwood in Maryland Farms.
NBA NEWS
Abby Sparks has been officially named as the new Executive Director of the Nashville Bar Association. Sparks is an experienced and authentic executive with a passion for providing creative solutions and leading successful teams. To this position, she brings a host of leadership and legal experience, most recently serving as the Assistant Commissioner of People Operations for the Tennessee Department of Human Services. She is an active member of Nashville’s legal community and is a Past President of the Lawyers’ Association for Women-Marion Griffin Chapter. You can reach Abby Sparks at Abby.Sparks@NashvilleBar.org. n
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