Attorneys Justin Gilbert and Jessica Salonus are representing the parents of a Cheatham County girl in a lawsuit contending the principal and school district violated the Americans with Disabilities Act, among other allegations.
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Salonus Selected for Leadership Program
GRMSB Attorney Jessica Salonus was recently named to the 2015 Tennessee Bar Assoociation’s Leadership Law Class.
She joins 36 other attorneys from across the state in this six-month leadership intensive.
Members will learn about leadership in the legal profession, issues in the courts, policymaking in state government and the importance of community service.
The full press release from tba.org is below.
TBA Selects Attorneys for 2015 Leadership Law Class
37 lawyers from across the state join six-month leadership training program
NASHVILLE, Nov. 12, 2014 — Now in its 12th year, Leadership Law is designed to equip Tennessee lawyers with the vision, knowledge and skills necessary to serve as leaders in their profession and local communities. The class will meet for its first session in January, and then spend the next six months learning about leadership in the legal profession, issues in the courts, policymaking in state government and the importance of community service.
Class members are:
Jamie Ballinger Holden, Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz PC, Knoxville
Rebecca Barnett, Stites & Harbison PLLC, Memphis
Mary Beard, FedEx Corporation, Memphis
Anthony Clark, Clark & Cox PLLC, Paris
Jeremy Cothern, Berke Berke & Berke, Chattanooga
Christopher Cotton, Made Ya Look Entertainment, Nashville
Andrae Crismon, Legal Aid Society of Middle Tennessee & the Cumberlands, Murfreesboro
Ashonti Davis, Butler Snow LLP, Nashville
Jacob Dickerson, Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz PC, Memphis
Nikylan Doanto Knapper, Office of the Solicitor, U.S. Department of Labor, Nashville
David Garrison, Barrett Johnson Martin & Garrison, Nashville
Jason Gichner, Dodson Parker Behm & Capparella, Nashville
Matthew Haskell, Gulllett Sanford Robinson & Martin PLLC, Nashville
Ashley Holliday, West Tennessee Legal Services Inc., Jackson
Rachel Hurt, Arnett Draper & Hagood, Knoxville
Susan Jones, Metropolitan Department of Law, Nashville
Regina Lambert, Stanfill Wealth Management LLC, Knoxville
Ellis Lord, Miller & Martin PLLC, Chattanooga
Holly Mancl, Penn Stuart, Bristol
Sean Martin, Martin Heller Potempa & Sheppard, Nashville
Jonathan May, Lewis Thomason, Memphis
Gilbert McCarter, McCarter Catron & East, Murfreesboro
Charles McDaniel, Legal Aid Society of East Tennessee, Chattanooga
Rebecca McKelvey Castañeda, Stites & Harbison, PLLC, Nashville
Charity Miles Williams, Legal Aid of East Tennessee, Knoxville
Charles “Chaz” Molder, Hardin Parkes Kelley & Carter PLLC, Columbia
David O’Neil, Brentwood Police Department, Brentwood
Robert Peal, Neal & Harwell, Nashville
William Rieder, Spears Moore Rebman & Williams PC, Chattanooga
Jessica Salonus, Gilbert Russell McWherter PLC, Jackson
Brooklyn Sawyers, United States Attorney’s Office, Knoxville
Amber Shaw, Law Office of J. Houston Gordon, Covington
Lauran Stimac, Glassman Wyatt Tuttle & Cox, Memphis
Jeffrey Usman, Belmont University College of Law, Nashville
Andre Wharton, The Wharton Law Firm, Memphis
Taylor Williams, Paine Tarwater and Bickers LLP, Knoxville
Charlotte Wolfe, Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC, Nashville
Source: http://www.tba.org/press-release/tba-selects-attorneys-for-2015-leadership-law-class
Gilbert McWherter Scott Bobbitt PLC is pleased to announce that four lawyers have been named to the 2016 Edition of Best Lawyers, the oldest and most respected peer-review publication in the legal profession.
Best Lawyers has published their list for over three decades, earning the respect of the profession, the media, and the public as the most reliable, unbiased source of legal referrals. Its first international list was published in 2006 and since then has grown to provide lists in over 65 countries.
“Best Lawyers is the most effective tool in identifying critical legal expertise,” said CEO Steven Naifeh. “Inclusion on this list shows that an attorney is respected by his or her peers for professional success.”
Lawyers on the Best Lawyers in America list are divided by geographic region and practice areas. They are reviewed by their peers on the basis of professional expertise, and undergo an authentication process to make sure they are in current practice and in good standing.
Gilbert McWherter Scott Bobbitt PLC would like to congratulate the following attorneys named to the 2016 Best Lawyers in America list:
- Jonathan Bobbitt, Litigation – Labor and Employment
- J. Brandon McWherter, Commercial Litigation
- J. Brandon McWherter, Insurance Law
- Michael L. Russell, Employment Law – Individuals
- Michael L. Russell, Labor Law – Union
- Clint Scott, Insurance Law
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Firm ranked in 2016 “Best Law Firms”
U.S. News & World Report and Best Lawyers, for the sixth consecutive year, announce the “Best Law Firms” rankings.
Gilbert McWherter Scott Bobbitt PLC has been ranked in the 2016 U.S. News – Best Lawyers® “Best Law Firms” list regionally in 4 practice areas.
Firms included in the 2016 “Best Law Firms” list are recognized for professional excellence with persistently impressive ratings from clients and peers. Achieving a tiered ranking signals a unique combination of quality law practice and breadth of legal expertise.
The 2016 Edition of “Best Law Firms” includes rankings in 74 national practice areas and 122 metropolitan-based practice areas. One “Law Firm of the Year” is named in each of the 74 nationally ranked practice areas.
Ranked firms, presented in tiers, are listed on a national and/or metropolitan scale. Receiving a tier designation reflects the high level of respect a firm has earned among other leading lawyers and clients in the same communities and the same practice areas for their abilities, their professionalism and their integrity.
Gilbert McWherter Scott Bobbitt PLC received the following rankings in the 2016 U.S. News – Best Lawyers “Best Law Firms”:
Metropolitan Tier 1
- Nashville
- Employment Law – Individuals
Metropolitan Tier 2
- Nashville
- Labor Law – Union
Metropolitan Tier 3
- Memphis
- Commercial Litigation
- Insurance Law
All five of Gilbert Russell McWherter Scott Bobbitt partners have been named to the 2015 Super Lawyers or Rising Stars list. Justin Gilbert, Michael Russell and Jonathan Bobbit were named to the 2015 Super Lawyers list. Super Lawyers selects attorneys using a patented multiphase selection process. Peer nominations and evaluations are combined with independent research. Each candidate is evaluated on 12 indicators of peer recognition and professional achievement. Selections are made on an annual, state-by-state basis.
Clint Scott and Brandon McWherter, also partners with Gilbert Russell McWherter PLC, have been named 2015 Rising Stars of Super Lawyers, a periodical featuring outstanding and noteworthy attorneys nationwide. Receiving the Rising Star award is very prestigious and has a rigorous process of nomination and elimination. Rising Star nominations must be attorneys that are under 40 and have been practicing law for under a decade. Once nominated by a peer that has directly worked with the nominee, the nominee is evaluated based on a set of defined criteria. Less than 2.5% of all lawyers are ever awarded a Rising Star by Super Lawyers.
Super Lawyers is rating service of attorneys who have received a high-degree of professional achievement and peer recognition. Covering over 70 practice areas, the selection of a Super Lawyer is a multi-phased process which includes research, peer nominations, and of course peer review. Super Lawyers Magazine features the profiles of Super Lawyers and is distributed to attorneys in the state or region and to ABA-accredited law school libraries. Super Lawyers Magazine is published nationwide including all fifty states and Washington, D.C. and is read by over 13 million subscribers.
With four Tennessee offices in Jackson, Nashville, Memphis & Chattanooga, the employment and insurance claim lawyers of Gilbert Russell McWherter can serve clients across West, Middle and East Tennessee, including Knoxville, Clarksville, Murfreesboro, Johnson City, Kingsport, Franklin, Bartlett, Germantown and Collierville.
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Bobbit Receives AV Preeminent Rating
Attorney Jonathan Bobbitt has Achieved the AV Preeminent® Rating – the Highest Possible Rating from Martindale-Hubbell®
Bobbitt, an employment lawyer based in Brentwood, TN at the firm of Gilbert Russell McWherter, has earned the prestigious AV Preeminent® rating from Martindale-Hubbell®. Bobbitt joins fellow Gilbert Russell McWherter attorneys Justin Gilbert, Michael Russell, Brandon McWherter and Clint Scott in being recipients of this prestigious award.
The AV Preeminent Rating is Martindale-Hubbell’s highest possible rating for both ethical standards and legal ability, even after first achieving this rating in 1998.
For more than 130 years, lawyers have relied on the Martindale-Hubbell AV Preeminent® rating while searching for their own expert attorneys. Now anyone can make use of this trusted rating by looking up a lawyer’s rating on Lawyers.com or martindale.com. The Martindale-Hubbell® AV Preeminent® rating is the highest possible rating for an attorney for both ethical standards and legal ability. This rating represents the pinnacle of professional excellence. It is achieved only after an attorney has been reviewed and recommended by their peers – members of the bar and the judiciary. Congratulations go to Justin Gilbert, who has achieved the AV Preeminent® Rating from Martindale-Hubbell®.
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Attorneys Awarded Super Lawyers Designation
The 2014 Super Lawyers have been announced, and the attorneys of Gilbert Russell McWherter Scott Bobbitt were again recognized for excellence in the fields of employment law and insurance coverage.
Attorneys Clint Scott and Brandon McWherter selected to Super Lawyers Rising Stars Mid-South 2014 for Insurance Coverage.
Jonathan Bobbitt was selected as a Super Lawyers Rising Star for the Mid-South 2014 for Employment & Labor.
Attorney Michael Russell was named a Mid-South Super Lawyer for Employment & Labor.
Justin Gilbert was named to the prestigious Tennessee Top 100 by Super Lawyers.
The annual selections are made using a patented multiphase process that includes a statewide survey of lawyers, an independent research evaluation of candidates and peer reviews by practice area. Super Lawyers, a Thomson Reuters business, is a rating service of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement.
Heaven’s Cradle, a fund of the West Tennessee Healthcare Foundation, will host the 2nd annual Twilight Run and Rooftop Rendezvous on Thursday, May 29, 2014. The event includes an evening 5K race, 1 mile Run/Walk and a rooftop rendezvous with live music and dinner by Coyote Blues.
Early registration is $30. Runners must register by May 23 to be guaranteed a t-shirt. Late registration (May 23 or later) is $35. Rendezvous dinner tickets are $10 and open to anyone, not just runners. The run will be held at Parking Garage #3 (700 West Forest Ave.) on the campus of Jackson-Madison County General Hospital with dinner atop the garage. Music, dinner and pre-registration begins at 5:00 p.m. with the run starting at 6:30 p.m.
Gilbert McWherter Scott Bobbitt PLC Managing Partner Clint Scott and his wife Ashby Scott, attorney for Evans | Petree PC, are sponsors of this years’ Heaven’s Cradle Twilight Run and Rooftop Rendezvous.
Heaven’s Cradle was established in 2011 by Gary and Abby Lackey in memory of their son, Davis Arnold Lackey, who was stillborn. The group is working to remove the silence surrounding infant loss and to ease the suffering of grieving parents and grandparents. Funds raised this year will provide “Grace Bags” for all families delivering in Jackson, an addition to the Serenity Garden at Jackson-Madison County General Hospital, start up for Remembering Photography, and facilitated special training for clinical staff working with bereaved families.
The 2014 Twilight Run & Rooftop Rendezvous is presented by: West Tennessee Healthcare, Arrington Funeral Directors & Crematory, FirstBank, Woman’s Clinic, Jackson Regional Women’s Center, Mid-South Perinatal Associates, Jackson Clinic OB/GYN Department, ING/Steve & Brad Little, Clint & Ashby Scott, and Browning & Graves.
Online registration is available at www.twilightrun.eventbrite.com.
Gilbert Russell McWherter PLC has been selected for the 2013 United States Excellence Award amongst all its peers and competitors by the Small Business Institute for Excellence in Commerce (SBIEC).
Each year the SBIEC conducts business surveys and industry research to identify companies that have achieved demonstrable success in their local business environment and industry category. They are recognized as having enhanced the commitment and contribution of small businesses through service to their customers and community. Small businesses of this caliber enhance the consumer driven stature that United States is renowned for.
Gilbert Russell McWherter PLC has consistently demonstrated a high regard for upholding business ethics and company values. This recognition by SBIEC marks a significant achievement as an emerging leader within various competitors and is setting benchmarks that the industry should follow.
Read the full press release at SBIEC.org
McWherter and Scott obtain jury verdict in excess of $2 million dollars after two week jury trial in United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee.