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| Practice Areas | Civil Litigation; Products Liability; Professional Negligence Defense; Class Action; Intellectual Property | | | 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; American Academy of Appellate Lawyers. | | | Born | Memphis, Tennessee, August 20, 1935 | | | Biography | Listed in: Chambers as Leading General Commercial Litigation Lawyer in Tennessee; The Best Lawyers in America for Alternative Dispute Resolution, Appellate Law, Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Legal Malpractice Law, Medical Malpractice Law, Personal Injury Litigation, Product Liability Litigation and Professional Malpractice Law. Named: "Litigator of the Year" by Tennessee Bar Association's Litigation Section in its inaugural award, 2009; Memphis "Lawyer of the Year" for Personal Injury Litigation by The Best Lawyers in America, 2009; Top 50 Attorneys in Memphis and Top 100 Attorneys in Tennessee, Mid-South Super Lawyers, 2006—; Business Tennessee Magazine's "150 Best Lawyers" in the area of Civil Litigation, 2009. 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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