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 goal was to help young attorneys in all practice areas learn the basics of dealing with tax issues. BPJ Associate Kaitlyn Cornett partnered with Managing Director Cindy MacAulay, CPA, of Dixon Hughes Goodman recently to share their expertise.
Read more →If all you know about conservatorships comes from the #FreeBritney movement, you don’t have the whole picture, especially in Tennessee, write BPJ Member Beth Weems Bradley and Associate Sarah Hearn Sexton in the current issue of Tennessee Bar Journal.
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 →
In lieu of a mandatory vaccine program, a number of large employers, including Kroger, Aldi, Target, Amtrak, Walmart, Chobani, and Trader Joe’s, have taken a different approach to getting their employees vaccinated: a vaccine incentive program that rewards employees for getting the COVID-19 vaccine. There have beenRead 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 →
Five BPJ Attorneys Selected as Fellows of Memphis Bar Foundation LeeAnne Cox, Tannera Gibson, David Goodman, Doug Halijan and Laurel Williams have been selected as 2021 Fellows of the Memphis Bar Foundation. The Memphis Bar Foundation is the philanthropic arm of the Memphis Bar Association, with aRead more →