TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Aug 14, 2023

The Nashville Business Journal has awarded its 2023 Lifetime Achievement distinction to Nashville lawyer Charles W. Bone, a founding partner of Bone McAllester Norton, which merged with Spencer Fane in 2021. According to the Journal, Bone was selected as this year’s honoree for the critical role he has played in Middle Tennessee’s growth, noting that he has provided counsel to more than 100 financial institutions and was responsible for forming the first community bank holding company in Tennessee. He also was a leader in the campaign that defeated the 2009 “English only” referendum in Nashville, an adviser for Al Gore and instrumental in the release of Cyntoia Brown, a juvenile convicted of murder. The Journal sat down with Bone for an interview about the state of the legal profession, what law schools should be teaching and some of his most memorable cases.