With the election behind us, it is time to come together and work for the good of our state. As was reported the day after the election in TBAToday, our legislature will have fewer lawyers when the General Assembly convenes in January. The state senate will have eight lawyers, a decrease of five from the opening of the last session in 2010. The state...

Evans Petree PC has named L. Clayton Culpepper III as a shareholder in the firm. Culpepper, a 2004 graduate of the University of Memphis School of Law, serves in the firm’s Litigation and Intellectual Property Practice groups. He is licensed to practice in Tennessee and Mississippi.

When I was a senior in high school, my father gave me a wonderful Christmas gift. No, not a car. It was something a lot more powerful.

It was a typewriter. And not just any typewriter, mind you, it was a Sears electric typewriter.

Yes, back in the 1960s, Sears & Roebuck made typewriters manufactured right here in the good ole U. S. of A...

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Estate planning attorneys have long encountered a definition problem. Too many potential clients and referring professionals, including other attorneys, equated estate planning with estate tax planning (and planning for Tennessee inheritance tax and state and federal gift tax, all such taxes referred to in this article as “transfer taxes”). Many new...