My mom always tried to make every Christmas perfect. Throughout the entire year, she collected wonderful items to put in our Christmas stockings. She put red bows in the holly bushes in front of our house and twinkling lights in the azalea bushes. She ordered country ham from my uncle's little grocery store in Nashville and sourwood bee honey for my dad...

Recently retired Tennessee Supreme Court Chief Justice William M. Barker has joined the Chattanooga firm of Chambliss, Bahner & Stophel PC, where he will serve in the litigation section and practice in the areas of mediation, arbitration and alternative dispute resolution. A native of Chattanooga, Barker entered the private practice...

Tennessee, where the men are men, and the women are ... Supreme Court Justices!

By the time you read this, the smoke will have cleared from the tumultuous race for president of our United States of America. At the early voting venue I considered casting a write-in ballot for James Knox Polk. But he died on Friday, June 15, 1849.

Mr. Borneman has written the best biography of Polk. I recommend that you purchase and read it....

Here's a problem for some of your estate planning clients: on Jan. 1, 2009, the federal estate tax exemption[1] rises to $3.5 million, up from $2 million in 2008.[2] Since current law would repeal the estate tax completely in 2010 but then return it in 2011 to pre-2001 levels, Congress and President Obama are highly likely during 2009 to freeze the...