TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Apr 4, 2022

The TBA election results are in and Edward D. Lanquist Jr. of Nashville has been elected to the office of vice president. He will ascend to office of president-elect in 2023 and lead the organization as president for the 2024-2025 bar year. Mary Dohner Smith and William “Billy” Leslie also were elected as Middle Grand Division governors on the TBA Board of Governors. Lanquist, a co-founder and shareholder of Patterson Intellectual Property Law, is the TBA’s current general counsel. He also serves on the executive committee of the TBA Intellectual Property Section and is a member of the TBA Young Lawyers Division Fellows. Lanquist has been active in the American Bar Association and the Nashville Bar Association as well. He is a past chair of the ABA Young Lawyers Division and a past president of the NBA. At Patterson, he focuses his practice on patent, trademark and copyright litigation, intellectual property counseling and technology law. Dohner Smith is a partner at Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete where she handles employment compliance and litigation. Leslie is associate general counsel with the Tennessee Department of Commerce and Insurance and the current TBA Young Lawyers Division president. All will take office at the TBA Convention June 15-18 in Nashville.