Leadership Law aims to serve the legal profession by equipping participants with the vision, knowledge and skills necessary to serve as leaders in the profession and in the community as a whole.
The TBA’s Leadership Law program this week begins its 10th year with an opening retreat for the class of 2013. Programming started Thursday afternoon and continues through Saturday at Montgomery Bell State Park. The 32 members of the class have already heard from some of the leading lawyers in the state, including Byron Trauger, Houston Gordon, Lewis Donelson, Randy Kinnard and TBA presidents Jackie Dixon, Gail Ashworth, Pam Reeves, Charles Swanson and John Tarpley. The group will meet monthly until graduating during the 2013 TBA Convention in Nashville June 12-15.
Samuel P. Funk has been named head of the litigation practice group at Sherrard & Roe, PLC, the Nashville Ledger reports. The group manages a wide range of commercial disputes in administrative agencies and state and federal courts, as well as all forms of alternative dispute resolution. Funk, a graduate of Wake Forest University and the University of Maryland School of Law, was also an inaugural member of the Tennessee Bar Association Leadership Law program.