No series of columns on Tennessee legal history would be complete without one relating to my hometown, at least no series written by me. By hometown, I do not refer to Chattanooga. While I have been a proud member of the Chattanooga Bar for 30 years and have lived on Signal Mountain for 24 years, my true hometown is Soddy-Daisy, which lies in Hamilton...

Nashville lawyer Jeremy H. Cherry has been named a partner at Ortale, Kelley, Herbert & Crawford, where he handles residential and commercial real estate, commercial lending, corporate law, probate and estate planning. Cherry received his law degree in 2002 from the University of Tennessee College of Law.

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For nearly 40 years, the most powerful man in Tennessee was a lawyer and farmer from Somerville. His name was John Wilder. Guvnah Wilder, that is. From 1971 through 2007, John Wilder served as Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee. Governors came and went. Democrats had majorities in the legislature, lost them, and then got them back. Republicans held...

Few fields of law are as heavily influenced by history than that dealing with banks and other financial institutions. Since the earliest days of the Republic, this country has had a dual or overlapping system of state and federal chartering and regulation of banks, and while there may be those who wonder why this odd method of establishing banks remains...