TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Jan 15, 2020

The Tennessee Supreme Court today announced Larry Bridgesmith has been selected as chair of the Alternative Dispute Resolution Commission. Bridgesmith is an adjunct professor of law at Vanderbilt University Law School and coordinator of its Law and Innovation program. He co-founded LegalAlignment, which provides technology tools to assist lawyers in managing the delivery of legal services more efficiently, and is the co-founder of Accelerate Institute, a knowledge management company focused on implementation of artificial intelligence. Before joining the law school, he was the founding executive director of the Institute for Conflict Management at Lipscomb University. He replaces Ed Silva, whose term as chair expired earlier this month. The court also announced today that J. Marcus Rudolph and Lori Thomas Reidwill have joined the commission. They replace Mary Ann Zaha and Virginia Lee Story.