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| | Address | | Realtors Building, Suite 400, 306 Gay Street, P.O. Box 198806 | | Nashville, Tennessee 37219-8066 | | (Davidson Co.) | | | |
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| Dodson, Parker, Behm & Capparella, P.C. practices in the following areas of law:
Trial and Appellate Practice in all Federal and State Courts. Bankruptcy, Corporate, Employment Law, Entertainment, Estate Planning and Probate, Health Care, Insurance, Personal Injury, Real Estate, Federal and State Taxation, Family Law, Arbitration, Mediation, Hospitality Law and Beverage Licensing, Land Use Law, Criminal Law, Municipal, Zoning Law, Administrative Law, Telecommunications Law and Technology Law. | | Year Established: 1985 | | Firm Size: 10 | Representative Clients:
Anesthesia Services of Middle Tennessee, Inc.; AT&T Mobility; Best Brands, Inc.; Creative Entertainment, Inc.; Cryosurgery, Inc.; Davis Properties, Inc.; Dial Corporation; Dupont Powder Coatings USA, Inc.; El Dupont DeNemours; Good L Corporation; HSBC Mortgage Services; JSA Foundation; Kennon Construction Co.; Key Bank; Lipman Realty; McNeeley, Pigott & Fox; Makin' Music, Inc.; Metropolitan Development and Housing Agency; Metropolitan Transit Authority; Quaker Oats Corporation; Randstad USA; Raskin Holdings; Saber Industries; Santa Fe Cattle Company; Security Archives; Smart Data Strategies, Inc.; Sony Music Publishing; Southern Restaurant Group; Sun Entertainment, Inc.; ThinkLink Learning, Inc.; Travelers Insurance; Waller Buick. | | Harlan Dodson, Jr. (1916-1986). | | Harlan Dodson, III (Member) born Nashville, Tennessee, August 3, 1944; admitted to bar, 1969, Tennessee and U.S. District Court, Middle District of Tennessee; 1970, U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit; 1973, U.S. Tax Court; 1980, U.S. Supreme Court. Education: Duke University (B.A., 1966); Vanderbilt University (J.D., 1969). Phi Delta Phi. Member, Vanderbilt Law Review, 1968-1969. Author: Introduction to Estate Planning and Administration in Tennessee, . Professor, Nashville School of Law. Member, Metropolitan Charter Commission. Member, Uniform Probate Code Study Commission, 1995-1996. Member: Nashville, Tennessee and American Bar Associations; Tennessee Trial Lawyers Association. Fellow: Tennessee Bar Foundation. Practice Areas: Business; Estate Planning; Probate; Trial and Appellate Practice. Email: Harlan Dodson, III | | Paul S. Parker (Member) born Waterloo, Iowa, November 19, 1949; admitted to bar, 1975, Tennessee and U.S. Tax Court; 1980, U.S. District Court, Middle District of Tennessee; 1982, U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit. Education: Cornell College (B.A., cum laude, 1972); Vanderbilt University (J.D., 1975). Member, 1973-1974 and Administrative Editor, 1974-1975, Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law. Member: Nashville (Chairman, Tax Section, 1979-1980; Treasurer, 2002-2003), Tennessee and American Bar Associations. Practice Areas: Estate Planning; Probate; Taxation. Email: Paul S. Parker | | Margaret L. Behm (Member) born Canastota, New York, August 12, 1951; admitted to bar, 1976, Tennessee. Education: University of Tennessee at Knoxville (B.A., with high honors, 1973; J.D., 1976). Recipient, Margaret Brent Women Lawyers of Achievement Award, ABA Commission on Women in the Profession, 1992. Lecturer, Appellate Advocacy Practice, 1988-1995; Trial Practice, 1997-1999, Vanderbilt School of Law. General Counsel, Metropolitan Development and Housing Authority Agency, 2003— and Metropolitan Transit Authority, 2003—. Tennessee Judicial Selection Committee, 1994-2004. Board of Directors, Federal Home Loan Bank, 1996-2003. Member: Nashville, Tennessee (Chair, Commercial, Bankruptcy and Banking Section, 1991-1992 ) and American Bar Associations; American, Tennessee and Nashville Bar Foundations. Practice Areas: Business Litigation; Employment Law; Bankruptcy; Business Law; Estate Planning; Land Use. Email: Margaret L. Behm | | Travenia A. Holden (Member) born Nashville, Tennessee, May 10, 1961; admitted to bar, 1987, Tennessee; U.S. District Court, Middle and Eastern Districts of Tennessee and U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit. Education: Howard University (B.A., 1983); North Carolina Central University (J.D., 1986). Fellow, Nashville Bar Foundation (2005-2006). Member: Tennessee Bar Association (Executive Counsel, Elder Law Section, 2007-2008); National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys; Lawyers Association for Women. Reported Cases: Daron v. Department of Corrections 1999 Tenn App Lexis 759. Practice Areas: Employment Law; Contracts; Civil Litigation; Elder Law. Email: Travenia A. Holden | | Kristen B. Amonette (Member) born Memphis, Tennessee, June 11, 1977; admitted to bar, 2002, Tennessee; U.S. District Court, Middle District of Tennessee and U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit. Education: Rhodes College (B.A., 1999); University of Tennessee at Knoxville (J.D., 2002). Recipient, Awards of Academic Excellence in Civil Procedure I, Trial Practice, Case Development, Pre-Trial Litigation, and Family Law. Student Materials Editor, Tennessee Law Review. Member: Nashville, Tennessee and American Bar Associations; The Association of Trial Lawyers of America; The Lawyers Association for Women. Practice Areas: Civil Litigation; Estate Planning; Probate; Family Law. Email: Kristen B. Amonette | | Donald Capparella (Member) born Winston Salem, North Carolina, January 11, 1959; admitted to bar, 1985, Tennessee, U.S. District Court, Middle District of Tennessee and U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit. Education: University of North Carolina, Greensboro (B.A., magna cum laude, 1981); University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (J.D., 1984). Co-Author: Book, "Tennessee Law of Comparative Fault," Second Edition 2002 (Supp. 2005); Editor and Co-Author: "Appellate Practice Handbook," 2nd, 3rd and 4th Editions, 1995, 2002. Professor, Nashville School of Law, 2005—. Member, Harry Phillips American Inns of Court, 1999-2003. Member: Nashville, Tennessee and American Bar Associations; Tennessee Association for Justice; American Inns of Court (Barrister). Fellow: Nashville Bar Foundation. Practice Areas: Appellate Practice(50%, 60); Business Litigation(30%, 85). Email: Donald Capparella | | —————————— | | Amy Jenkins Farrar (Associate) born Raleigh, North Carolina, June 30, 1978; admitted to bar, 2005, Tennessee. Education: Wake Forest University (B.A., cum laude, 2000); University of Mississippi, Oxford (J.D., cum laude, 2005). Phi Delta Phi. Member 2003-2004, and Membership Director, 2004-2005, Mississippi Law Journal. Member, Moot Court Board, 2003-2005. Member: Nashville (Co-Chair, Appellate Practice Committee, 2006-2007), Tennessee and American Bar Associations; Tennessee Association for Justice; Lawyers Association for Women. Practice Areas: Appellate Practice; Civil Litigation; Employment Litigation; Environmental Litigation; Business Law; Torts. Email: Amy Jenkins Farrar | | Gregory D. Buppert (Associate) born Towson, Maryland, March 8, 1972; admitted to bar, 2005, Tennessee; 2006, U.S. District Court Middle District of Tennessee. Education: Bowdoin College (A.B., 1994); George Washington University Law School (J.D., 2005). Member: Nashville, Tennessee and American Bar Associations. Practice Areas: Business Transactions; Commercial Real Estate; Business Formation; Civil Litigation; Environmental Law. Email: Gregory D. Buppert | | OF COUNSEL | | Cynthia Chappell (Of Counsel) born Memphis, Tennessee, February 13, 1968; admitted to bar, 1993, Tennessee. Education: Rhodes College (B.A., 1990); Memphis State University (J.D., 1993). Member: Nashville and American Bar Associations; National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers; Tennessee Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. Practice Areas: Criminal Defense; Family Law; Litigation. Email: Cynthia Chappell | | Michael B. Bressman (Of Counsel) born Plainfield, New Jersey, July 27, 1967; admitted to bar, 1992, Georgia; 1993, District of Columbia; 1996, U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit; 1999, Tennessee; U.S. District Court, Middle District of Tennessee. Education: Vanderbilt University (B.A., summa cum laude, 1989); Harvard Law School (J.D., cum laude, 1992). Phi Beta Kappa; Omicron Delta Kappa. Harold Stirling Vanderbilt Scholar. Executive Editor, Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, 1991-1992. Law Clerk to Honorable Karen LeCraft Henderson, United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit, 1992-1993. Member: Nashville and Tennessee and American Bar Associations; District of Columbia Bar; State Bar of Georgia. Practice Areas: Civil Litigation; Appellate Practice; Business Law; Telecommunications Law; Administrative Law; Technology Law. Email: Michael B. Bressman |
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