TDLA News

TDLA welcomes the following new members:

Debra L. Fulton of Frantz, McConnell & Seymour, LLP, Knoxville, is a University of Tennessee College of Law graduate, practices in the areas of product liability and workers' comp, and is a member of DRI.

Jennifer Milam Lankford of Cornelius & Collins, LLP, Nashville, is a University of Tennessee College of Law graduate, practices in the area of employment law, and is a member of DRI.

Amanda C. Waddell of Rainey, Kizer, Reviere & Bell, PLLC, Memphis, is a University of Mississippi Law School graduate and practices in the area of medical malpractice.

TDLA welcomes two more new members:  Chad Massey and Rob Sands of Dix and Associates in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.  Chad's practice is in the area of automobile defense work and Rob practices in both automobile and insurance coverage.  They have applied for membership in DRI as well.  Thank you to Steve Dix for sponsoring these two individuals for membership in TDLA.

TDLA welcomes the following new members of TDLA:

Marty Roy Phillips and Ashley Donnell Cleek, both of Rainey Kizer Reviere & Bell, PLC's Jackson, Tennessee office.

Marty is a 1991 of University of Tennessee College of Law, practices in the area of medical malpractice and is a member of DRI.

Ashley is a 2004 graduate of the University of Tennessee Knoxville, and practices in the area of medical malpractice.

At dinner on Friday, October 11, John Barringer passed the 28 year old Buffalo tie to Brad Box.  John and Laurie were presented with gifts to thank them for their years of hosting the Hospitality Suite and for John serving on the TDLA Board of Directors and eventual Presidency.

Congratulations to TDLA member, Jill Steinberg of Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz PC, Memphis, on her recent defense verdict in a medical malpractice wrongful death case relative to gastric bypass surgery.  To learn more about this matter, please visit the TDLA's Members Only section.

Congratulations to TDLA member, Brad Gilmore, on his recent defense verdict in a civil rights case.  For more information, please go to the Members section.

Congratulations to TDLA member, Kay Anderson, on her recent defense verdict.  To learn more about this medical malpractice/neurosurgery matter, please go to Members/Verdicts.

Congratulations to DRI members Rebecca Adelman and Peter B. Winterburn, shareholders in the Memphis office of Hagwood Adelman Tipton, PC, who recently won a verdict for the defense in binding arbitration in a medical malpractice case against a Grenada County nursing home tried in Mississippi.

To learn more about this case, go to Members/Verdicts.