Honors and Awards:

• Top 40 Under 40.  Each year, the Memphis Business Journal selects the top 40 individuals under the age of 40 in Memphis.  I understand that I was honored for both my achievements as an attorney and the success that I had recently experienced as a business owner in opening my own firm., Top 40 Under 40, Memphis Business Journal, 1999
• Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition. In 2003, I received a Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition from Congressman Harold Ford, Jr. for community service. , Congressman Harold Ford, Jr., 2003
• Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition. In 2003, I received a Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition from Congressman Harold Ford, Jr. for community service. , Congressman Harold Ford, Jr., 2003
• Certificate of Appreciation for Outstanding and Meritorious Service to Community.  In 2003, I was honored by the City of Memphis and the FedEx Retiree Club Association with an award for outstanding and meritorious community service.  I recieved a lovely plaque from the association and a certificate of appreciation signed by our mayor. , FedEx/City of Memphis, 2003
• Wall of Tolerance.  Ms. Rosa Parks and Mr. Morris Dees (chairs of the National Campaign for Tolerance) honored me in 2005, by authorizing my name to be placed on the Wall of Tolerance, Southern Poverty Law Center/National Campaign for Tolerance, 2005

Bar/Professional Activity:

• Member of the American Association for Justice
• Entertaining Motions.  For the past 20 years, I have been actively involved in the bar associations annual production where we raise money for charity and poke friendly fun at our profession and the community.  In the past years, I have served as director of the program, writer of many of the skits and one the actors and singers in the show.  As of late, I have reduced my involvement to writing some skits and playing small roles in the production.

Pro bono/Community Service:

• Routinely host missionaries at our home
• Routinely handle pro bono matters
• Routinely sit as special judge
• Teach Sunday School
• Women of Concern Legal Advisorfor the past 16 years, I have served as one of the legal advisors for a non-profit organization called Women of Concern. 

Scholarly Lectures and Writings:

• Spoke at CLE seminar on advanced trial advocacy, 2007
• Spoke at continuing legal education seminar sponsered by National Business Institute on handling medical malpractice cases, 2008
• In March of this year, I participated as a speaker in the Tennessee Bar Association's Continuing Legal Education program concerning handling medical malpractice cases. , Speaker, Handling Medical Malpractice Cases, Tennessee Bar Association, 2009

Verdicts and Settlements:

• Confidential settlement in product liabiilty case, 2006
• Confidential settlement in wrongful death medical malpractice case, 2006
• Confidential settlement in wrongful death medical malpractice case, 2006
• $1.6 million settlement in wrongful death medical malpractice case, 2006
• $7.225 million verdict in Sevier County, TN, in a medical malpractice case.  To date, this is the largest judgment on jury verdict for any type of case in the history of Sevier County, Tennessee and the largest judgment on verdict in a medical malpractice case in the history of the state.  There has been at least one larger verdict, but it was reduced by the trial court before the judgment was entered, 2006
• Confidential settlement in wrongful death case arising out of the death of 15 year old, 2007
• $507,000 verdict in a medical malpractice case in Shelby County, TN, 2007
• $875,000 settlement in medical malpractice action, 2008
• $250,000 settlement in wrongful death personal injury action, 2008
• $900,000 settlement in a medical malpractice case., 2008
• $250,000 settlement in personal injury claim arising out of motor vehicle accident, 2009
• Confidential settlement in wrongful death medical malpractice case in Shelby County, TN, 2009
• Confidential settlement in a medical malpractice case after two weeks of trial, 2009

Other Outstanding Achievements:

• I served as law clerk to United States District Court Judge Robert McRae in 1988 and 1989, and that was perhaps my greatest honor as a lawyer

Educational Background:

• Graduated from Vanderbilt Univesity in 1985
• Adjunct Professor at the University of Memphis College of Law.  Served as an adjunct professor at the University of Memphis College of Law.  I taught a class called Mediation and Settlement Negotiation Skills to 2nd and 3rd year law students.