Sherrard Roe Voigt & Harbison is pleased to announce that Cornell Kennedy and Amy Rao Mohan have been named members at Sherrard Roe Voigt & Harbison.

Kennedy practices primarily in the areas of general corporate law and health care. He represents companies and individuals in business formation and dissolution, acquisitions, and various other operational matters. In health care, his practice includes counseling health care companies and providers, including dentists, veterinarians, optometrists, physicians and chiropractors in transactional matters including practice start-ups, practice acquisitions and equity buy-ins. Additionally, as a dental corporate lawyer, Kennedy is a frequent speaker throughout Tennessee on topics such as practice start-ups/transitions, lease negotiation strategies, associate contracts/buy-ins and other employment law matters.

A native of Nashville, he earned his J.D. from The University of Tennessee College of Law. Kennedy graduated magna cum laude from Middle Tennessee State University with a B.S. in Criminal Justice.  He is a member of the Nashville Bar Association, the Tennessee Bar Association and the American Health Lawyers Association.

Mohan founded and heads the firm’s crisis management/media relations practice group, which helps both businesses and individuals in connection with civil and criminal matters or outside of a litigation context. Her practice areas also include general and commercial litigation, including hospital and physician litigation, landlord-tenant disputes, media law, and state and federal appellate litigation.

She earned her J.D. from the University of Tennessee College of Law, where she was a member of the Order of the Coif, and her B.S. at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. Mohan worked as a television reporter and anchor for nearly 8 years, most recently at WTVF, Newschannel 5 in Nashville.  During that time, she received two Emmy awards for her coverage of the 2004 Asian tsunami. She serves on the executive committee of the Tennessee Bar Association’s Communication’s Law Section and is the Nashville Bar Association representative to the Davidson County Board of Ethical Conduct.

She is a board member of Tennesseans for Alternatives Against the Death Penalty and an Advisory Council Member for The Tennessee Innocence Project.