We are pleased to announce that Robert Gatewood has joined the firm as a Senior Attorney.
Read more →Congratulations to Tannera George Gibson on being chosen one of Memphis’s Super Women in Business for 2022 by the Memphis Business Journal.
Read more →We are pleased to congratulate Lani Lester, a BPJ Associate, on her selection as one of the Memphis Business Journal’s Top 40 Under 40 for 2022.
Read more →Charles (Chas) Higgins (pictured), Josh Lawhead, Melisa Moore and Mary Petrinjak have been selected as 2022 Fellows of the Memphis Bar Foundation. Beth Weems Bradley, a BPJ Member as well as a Fellow, currently serves as the President of the foundation.
Read more →The new year has started with four new senior-level attorneys joining our team at Burch, Porter & Johnson to add depth and strength across the breadth of our firm. Our new colleagues are: Josh Whitehead, Jon Lakey, John Cook, and Carl Jacobson.
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BPJ Partner Jennifer Hagerman has been appointed by the Supreme Court of the State of Tennessee to the position of Vice-Chair of the Board of Professional Responsibility for 2022. That board, administered by the state Supreme Court, is charged with supervising the ethical conduct of attorneys. ItRead more →
Tannera George Gibson, MBA President It was a historic day: On December 2, BPJ Partner Tannera George Gibson began her term as the first African-American female President of the Memphis Bar Association in its 147-year history. (Click HERE to read the Daily Memphian story and HERE forRead more →
Congratulations to BPJ Associate Patrick Hillard on being selected as a member of the inaugural class of Presidential Fellows by the National Bar Association, the nation’s oldest and largest network of predominantly African-American lawyers and judges. Hillard is one of only four lawyers in the 12-memberRead more →
When the Memphis Business Journal asked BPJ Associate Lani Lester why she became a lawyer as part of this year’s Best of the Bar edition, she admitted she began her career with a romantic idea of what a lawyer could do – be a modern-day knight, courageouslyRead more →
March 2, 2021 is the 50th anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court decision in the case in which BPJ attorney Charles F. Newman represented the opponents to the construction of an Interstate expressway through Overton Park and Midtown Memphis. To mark the occasion, the Memphis Bar Association held a WebinarRead more →