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You never know what – or who – lies beneath the surface.  Imagine you are engaged in construction, landscaping, or some other improvement to real property, and suddenly you make a grim [...]

Tennessee Supreme Court and the Access to Justice Commission recently honored the pro bono work of attorneys, law students and law firms in Tennessee.  Carolyn Schott was recognized as “Attorney [...]

Carolyn Schott will be presenting at the Tennessee State Parks 11th Annual Friends Conference.  This is a three-day conference held November 7-9, 2014, at Pickwick Landing State Park.  Ms. Schott [...]

Tennessee Attorney General Herbert Slatery announced that Andrée Sophia Blumstein will join the office as solicitor general.   Mrs. Blumstein will oversee appellate litigation in state and [...]

Note:  This blog post is an excerpt from an article published in the October 2014 issue of the Tennessee Bar Journal and is reproduced here with the TBJ’s permission. As discussed in my first [...]

In September 2010, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) established the Voluntary Self-Referral Disclosure Protocol (“SRDP”) in response to the Patient Protection and [...]

The 2015 edition of Benchmark Litigation, the Guide to America’s Leading Litigation Firms and Attorneys recognizes Andrée Blumstein, Webb Campbell, Phillip Cramer and Bill Harbison as [...]

Note:   This is the third in a series of posts that will examine various aspects of drafting and negotiating physician employment agreements in detail.  The first post addressed initial [...]

This blog post is a summary of a recent Webinar jointly sponsored by the ABA Center for Professional Development and the ABA Health Law Section on Thursday, October 9, 2014.  Tracy Powell, a [...]

In my last blog post, I discussed the rights of a creditor when the debtor owns interests in an LLC.  Can the creditor reach the assets of the LLC?  Under Tennessee law, the answer is no.  The [...]