You never know what – or who – lies beneath the surface.  Imagine you are engaged in construction, landscaping, or some other improvement to real property, and suddenly you make a grim [...]

Tennessee Supreme Court and the Access to Justice Commission recently honored the pro bono work of attorneys, law students and law firms in Tennessee.  Carolyn Schott was recognized as “Attorney [...]

Carolyn Schott will be presenting at the Tennessee State Parks 11th Annual Friends Conference.  This is a three-day conference held November 7-9, 2014, at Pickwick Landing State Park.  Ms. Schott [...]

Tennessee Attorney General Herbert Slatery announced that Andrée Sophia Blumstein will join the office as solicitor general.   Mrs. Blumstein will oversee appellate litigation in state and [...]

In September 2010, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) established the Voluntary Self-Referral Disclosure Protocol (“SRDP”) in response to the Patient Protection and [...]

The 2015 edition of Benchmark Litigation, the Guide to America’s Leading Litigation Firms and Attorneys recognizes Andrée Blumstein, Webb Campbell, Phillip Cramer and Bill Harbison as [...]

Note:   This is the third in a series of posts that will examine various aspects of drafting and negotiating physician employment agreements in detail.  The first post addressed initial [...]

This blog post is a summary of a recent Webinar jointly sponsored by the ABA Center for Professional Development and the ABA Health Law Section on Thursday, October 9, 2014.  Tracy Powell, a [...]

In my last blog post, I discussed the rights of a creditor when the debtor owns interests in an LLC.  Can the creditor reach the assets of the LLC?  Under Tennessee law, the answer is no.  The [...]

Albert Bart,  Dewey Branstetter, Lisa Helton and  John Voigt  to speak/produce Transactional Practice 2014: Nashville. The TBA sponsored seminar will take place October 24th at 8:00 a.m. at the [...]