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Dickinson Wright PLLC is pleased to announce that Jeffrey M. Beemer and M. Reid Estes, Jr. in the firm’s Nashville office have been included in the 2021 Mid-South Super Lawyers. Joshua Burgener and Colin Ferguson, also in the Nashville office, are included in the 2021 Mid-South Super Lawyers Rising Stars.

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP is pleased to announce that Kelley Meyerriecks has joined the firm’s Nashville, TN, office as a senior attorney. Meyerriecks will practice as part of the firm’s Real Estate team. Meyerriecks drafts, negotiates and administers contracts for land leases, track leases, right of entry, and utility crossing licenses by collaborating with a range of clients, including Fortune 500 companies, individuals, and governments.

Stites & Harbison, PLLC announces the addition of Thomas A. Dozeman. Dozeman joins the Nashville, Tenn. Office as a member of the Business Litigation Service Group. He earned his J.D. from Vanderbilt University Law School in 2021. Dozeman was a Dean’s Scholar at Vanderbilt and the managing editor of Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law. He served as Circuit President of the Vanderbilt Law School Co-Counsel Mentoring Program.

joins Lewis Thomason as an associate attorney in the firm’s Nashville office. McDowell practices in the areas of General Civil Litigation, Transportation, Products Liability, Criminal Defense, Family Law, and Sports and Entertainment. McDowell graduated from the University of Tennessee College of Law where he served as Vice President of the Sports and Entertainment Law Society, Treasurer of the Marilyn Yarborough Chapter of the Black Law Student Association, and as a Diversity and Inclusion Fellow. McDowell was the 2021 recipient of the James Powers Award in Criminal Advocacy and the Julian Blackshear Outstanding Student Award.

Baker Donelson has added 3 new associates in its Nashville office, Abby Parker Nix, Tyler Saenz, and Keyne Villert. Nix previously served as a pro bono fellow and summer associate for the Firm, while Villert worked for a law firm in New York City and served as counsel for a large title insurance underwriter. Saenz helps public and private clients develop, protect, and grow their businesses.

Ford Harrison LLP announces that Paige Lyle has joined its Nashville office. Lyle counsels clients from corporations and governmental entities to small family-owned businesses on the day to day legal ramifications of managing a workforce.

Hall Booth Smith, P.C. is pleased to welcome Tanner W. Yancy as an Associate to its growing office in Nashville, Tennessee. Tanner focuses his practice on healthcare litigation, transportation, insurance coverage, intellectual property, and general liability disputes.

Kay Caudle has joined the Silicon Valley-based firm, Scale, LLP, as Counsel. Kay is a member of the firm’s Corporate & Securities practice group where she supports growth-oriented companies through every aspect of the business cycle, providing commercial contract, employment, privacy, and outside general counsel advice. Prior to joining Scale, Kay was General Counsel for STR, LLC, for fourteen years.

Ann Pruitt, Executive Director of Tennessee Alliance for Legal Services will leave her role on March 31, 2022, after nearly nine years of service to the Tennessee Access to Justice community. In addition to leading TALS, Pruitt served on the Tennessee Supreme Court’s Access to Justice Commission from 2013 to 2020, where she co-chaired the Public Awareness Committee from 2013-2018 and served as Vice Chair of the Commission in 2019. She is a co-founder of the Tennessee Bar Association’s (TBA) Corporate Counsel Section and long-time member of the TBA’s Access to Justice Committee, which she currently chairs.

Sherrard Roe Voigt & Harbison is pleased to announce Andrea Sinclair’s elevation to member. Through her trusts and estates practice, Sinclair works with clients to plan for life’s joys, challenges, and transitions. Sinclair drafts wills, powers of attorney, living wills, prenuptial and postnuptial agreements, and a variety of trusts and other tax-efficient vehicles related to wealth enhancement and transfer. Her representation often involves coordinating clients’ corporate, non-profit, and real estate transactions and litigation. Sinclair also manages the administration and litigation of trusts, probate estates, guardianships, and conservatorships and counsels executors, trustees, guardians, and conservators on their fiduciary duties.

bison II, Erik C. Lybeck and Mozianio

III have been elected partners at Neal & Harwell, PLC. Harbison joined the firm in 2015 and his practice focuses on business and civil litigation. Lybeck joined the firm in 2016 and has a practice focused on complex litigation, including business torts, eminent domain, governmental liability, entertainment litigation and white-collar criminal cases. Reliford has been with Neal & Harwell since 2019, with his practice focusing on complex commercial litigation, entertainment law, white-collar and regulatory defense, securities litigation, and crisis management.

Gullett Sanford Robinson & Martin PLLC attorney M. Thomas McFarland has been elected to member level in the firm. Thomas is a member of the firm’s Litigation section. His practice involves commercial litigation in the areas of business torts, breach of contract claims and real estate.

Nationwide employment law firm Jackson Lewis P.C. is pleased to announce the firm opened its 63rd office in Nashville, Tenn., and added four new principals. Stephen Price will lead the Nashville team. n

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