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Visibility Rankings  | | #36 out of 2,602 lawyers in Memphis, Tennessee | | #8,430 out of 894,137 total lawyers Overall |
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| Practice Areas | Civil Litigation; Products Liability; Professional Negligence Defense; Class Action; Intellectual Property | | | Peer Review Rating | AV
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What's this? | | | Education | Harvard University, J.D., 1960, Yale University, A.B., magna cum laude, 1957 Phi Beta Kappa | | | Admitted | 1960, Tennessee | |
| Memberships | Memphis (Member, Board of Directors, 1967-1969; Secretary, 1977-1978; Vice President, 1978-1979; President Elect, 1979-1980; President, 1980-1981), Tennessee and American Bar Associations; International Association of Insurance Counsel; American Board of Trial Advocates. | | | Born | Memphis, Tennessee, August 20, 1935 | | | Biography | Listed in: Chambers as Leading General Commercial Litigation Lawyer in Tennessee; The Best Lawyers in America. Named to Top 50 Attorneys in Memphis and Top 100 Attorneys in Tennessee, Mid-South Super Lawyers, 2006, 2007. Adjunct Professor of Law, University of Memphis Law School. Author: "Caveat Emptor in Sales of Realty-Recent Assaults Upon the Rule," 14 Vanderbilt Law Review, March, 1961; "The Competency and Impeachment of Witnesses," 57 Tennessee Law Review 89 (Fall 1989); "Legal Malpractice in the Area of Litigation," 17 Memphis State University Law Review, 541, Summer 1987; "Some Observations on the Art of Advocacy," Vol. II, Memphis Bar Association Magazine, pg. 9, 1992. Winner: Memphis Bar Association's Sam A. Myar, Jr. Memorial Award 1968; Memphis Bar Association's "Lawyer's Lawyer Award" 1989. Recipient, 1993 Humanitarian of the Year Award from the Memphis Chapter of the National Conference of Christians and Jews. President, Junior Bar Association of Tennessee, 1969-1970. Former Member: Supreme Court Advisory Commission on Amending the Tennessee Rules of Civil Procedure; Tennessee Supreme Court Advisory Commission on Drafting Rules of Evidence for the State of Tennessee; Tennessee Appellate Court Nominating Commission. Elected to Membership of the American Association of Appellate Lawyers. Member, Board of Trustees, American Inn of Court Foundation. Fellow: American College of Trial Lawyers. | | | ISLN | 909173225 | |
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