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HONORS & AWARDS

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP is proud to announce that Lela Hollabaugh was one of ten of the firm’s partners who has been named among the world’s leading product liability defense practitioners in the Who’s Who Legal: Product Liability Defence 2021. Additionally, Hollabaugh was named to the 2021 Benchmark Top 250 Women in Litigation list. Hollabaugh advises leading natural gas pipeline companies and other infrastructure clients on issues involving location, land acquisition, construction and operations.

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP is pleased to announce that Alé Dalton was a recipient of the Alumni Promise Award at the University of Tennessee Knoxville’s Alumni Awards Gala. The Alumni Promise Award recognizes alumni under the age of 40 who have demonstrated distinctive achievement in a career, civic involvement, or both.

Tennessee Defense Lawyers Association (TDLA) has selected Stites & Harbison, PLLC attorney Rachel Dix Bishop as the recipient of the 2021 Rising Star award. The Rising Star award honors a TDLA member who has been practicing law for 10 years or less and who has made significant contributions to TDLA, to the defense bar and/or who has promoted the interests of young lawyers in Tennessee this year.

Edition. Dickinson Wright PLLC is pleased to announce that the firm’s labor and employment practice attorneys, Joshua Burgener and M.

Reid Estes, Jr.,

are recognized in the Benchmark Litigation Labor and Employment 2022

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP is pleased to announce that Matthew C. Lonergan and Chuck Mataya have been recognized in the 2021 Benchmark Litigation Labor & Employment guide as “Labor & Employment Stars.”

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP is pleased to announce that Tom Trent, a partner in the firm’s Nashville office, has been recognized for the second consecutive year with a 2021 Client Choice Award presented by Lexology. Trent has also been elected to a second term on the Board of Regents of the American College of Mortgage Attorneys (ACMA). The Litigation Counsel of America (LCA) has named Stites & Harbison, PLLC attorney Lauren Paxton Roberts as a Fellow. Roberts joins five other Stites & Harbison attorneys who are Fellows of the LCA.

ON THE MOVE

McGlinchey Stafford is pleased to announce that Michael

(Mike) Schwegler

has joined its national business corporate practice in its Nashville office as a member (partner). Schwegler has represented lenders, creditors, and businesses in commercial and consumer lending transactions, consumer finance regulation and compliance, real estate, workouts, bankruptcy, and commercial litigation matters.

Sherrard Roe Voigt & Harbison is pleased to announce M. Alex Carver and

Micah N. Bradley

have joined the firm as associates in the firm’s business and commercial litigation group. Before joining Sherrard Roe Voigt & Harbison, Carver was an honors fellow with the Tennessee Office of the Solicitor General and Bradley was a law clerk for the Honorable Eli Richardson in the Middle District of Tennessee.

Hearsay | Honors & Awards, On the Move, Firm News

Dickinson Wright PLLC is pleased to announce that Rachel Schaffer Lawson has joined the firm’s Nashville office as Of Counsel. Lawson is an alcohol and hospitality lawyer who focuses on helping business owners with their legal needs so they can get back to focusing on their businesses. Lawson joins Dickinson Wright from Schaffer Law Firm, which she founded back in 2011.

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP is pleased to announce the addition of Van P. East III to the firm’s Real Estate Practice Group as a partner in the Nashville office. East has extensive experience in commercial real estate, representing clients in purchasing, financing, leasing and selling commercial properties ranging from shopping centers to vacant land.

Josh Bolian has joined the firm of Riley Warnock & Jacobson, PLC. Bolian represents clients in, and counsels clients on, commercial litigation. Before joining Riley Warnock & Jacobson, Bolian served as a law clerk to the Hon. Thomas L. Ambro of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and practiced at Robbins, Russell, Englert, Orseck & Untereiner in Washington, D.C.

Stites & Harbison, PLLC welcomes attorney J. Ross Hutchison to the firm’s Nashville office. He joins the Construction Service Group as a Member (Partner). Hutchison’s practice focuses on both litigation and transactional matters within the construction industry. His clients primarily consist of residential and commercial owners, developers, architects, engineers, general contractors, subcontractors, and material suppliers.

Spencer Fane LLP is pleased to announce John Branham and Bill Wright have joined the firm in the Nashville area as Of Counsel attorneys. Branham will join the Litigation and Dispute Resolution Practice Group in the Nashville office, while Wright bolsters the Tax, Trusts, & Estates Practice Group in the Hendersonville office.

Lewis Thomason’s shareholders have re-elected David Garst, a shareholder in the firm’s Nashville office, to the firm’s Board of Directors for another two-year term. Garst is chair of the firm’s Construction Law Practice Group. He practices principally in construction law, focusing on architects and engineer’s professional liability, construction defect litigation, construction contract law, professional discipline, and commercial litigation.

Sherrard Roe Voigt & Harbison is pleased to announce that Thomas B. Hall has joined the firm as an associate. Hall is a member of the firm’s business and commercial litigation group, where he will concentrate on complex construction matters. Before joining the firm, Hall was an associate at Smith Cashion & Orr, PLC.

FIRM NEWS

After serving as Disciplinary Counsel with the Board of Professional Responsibility for the past 12 years, Kevin Balkwill is excited to announce the opening of his new firm, Ethics Law, PLLC. The firm will concentrate on attorney ethics, regulation and licensing.

Spencer Fane LLP, an Am Law 200 law firm operating across the nation, is pleased to announce its combination with Bone McAllester Norton PLLC, one of Nashville’s preeminent law firms and one known for its deep commitment to clients and the community. Effective October 1, 2021, the addition brings 38 total attorneys practicing from Nashville and Hendersonville.

Effective January 1, 2022, MTR Family Law, PLLC, (MTR) will merge into and establish the new Family Law Practice Group of Gullett, Sanford, Robinson & Martin, PLLC (GSRM.) During the past several years, the firms have had a strong working relationship, referring countless clients and matters to each other.

Manier & Herod participated in the Tennessee Workers’ Compensation’s reception and fundraising auction to benefit Kid’s Chance of Tennessee. The organization was created to provide educational opportunities and scholarships for the children of workers who were seriously injured or killed on the job. n