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W. Justin Adams
Partner

Nashville

Anne Sumpter Arney
Partner

Nashville

Trace Blankenship
Partner

Nashville

Justin Adams assists companies and individuals in corporate, health care, and employment transactions and disputes, often serving an integral role as outside general counsel to help his clients avoid potential legal exposure and successfully resolve litigation efficiently and effectively when necessary. Justin also represents individuals in criminal and civil investigations.

Anne Sumpter Arney has more than 30 years of experience working with many health care companies and medical professionals. She advises her health care clients on matters related to business law and transactional issues, as well as assisting them in navigating ever changing health care laws and regulations.

Trace Blankenship regularly advises chief executives, senior management, boards of directors, and entrepreneurs on strategy, execution, and legal requirements of significant business transactions, complex leadership and ownership decisions, and day-to-day operations. He provides responsive day-to-day legal advice on all aspects of corporate operations critical to his clients’ success and growth.

Mark A. Bogdanowicz
Partner

Nashville, Kansas City

Charles W. Bone
Of Counsel

Nashville

John P. Branham
Of Counsel

Nashville

With nearly 20 years of experience in representing creditors from coast to coast, Mark Bogdanowicz helps his clients navigate the costs and uncertainty of doing business with companies and individuals faced with financial distress.

Charles W. Bone guides each client through the business decisions and mergers and acquisitions that pave the way for continued growth and success, minimizing the potential of legal exposure through well-structured transactions and decisions. He serves as a classic “Trusted Adviser” to clients seeking advice on corporate and litigation issues. Charles is known for his success when it comes to “bet the company” matters. His experience covers many industries and areas of law, including business formation, mergers and acquisitions, capital creation, joint ventures, financial institutions, media law, and government relations.

John P. Branham handles all aspects of civil trials for clients, providing a steady presence and achieving successful resolutions in complex matters involving a wide range of claims. A Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, John has tried hundreds of jury and bench trials in the state and federal courts of Tennessee.

Jonathan R. Burns
Partner

Nashville

Spencer Fane attorney Jason Byrd

Spencer Fane attorney Jason Byrd

E. Jason Byrd
Of Counsel

Nashville

Glen A. Civitts
Of Counsel

Nashville

Jonathan R. Burns helps both individuals and businesses with structuring transactions and arranging their personal financial affairs to minimize, defer, or eliminate taxes. He concentrates his practice in the areas of estate planning, probate, corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, real estate, and taxation.

Jason Byrd efficiently and effectively provides clients with informed legal counsel related to transactional matters, franchising and distribution, real estate acquisition and disposition, and commercial leasing, allowing them to take advantage of strategic growth opportunities while maintaining profitability.

Glen Civitts effectively provides a full and complete understanding of all aspects of transactions to help clients achieve their business goals and objectives through sophisticated asset acquisitions, purchasing, financing, or disposition of virtually any type of commercial real estate. He is a corporate attorney specializing in real estate and commercial finance and has an emphasis on health care properties and facilities.

Courtney Lutz Creal
Partner

Nashville

Spencer Fane attorney Leah Creathorn

Spencer Fane attorney Leah Creathorn

Leah Creathorn
Associate

Nashville

James A. Crumlin Jr.
Partner

Nashville

Courtney Lutz Creal successfully manages and resolves her clients’ most critical litigation matters across a wide variety of practice areas, allowing them to achieve efficient and cost-effective outcomes. She focuses her legal practice on commercial litigation and family law, including highly contested divorces and custody actions. She is licensed in Tennessee and Kentucky.

Leah’s private practice focuses on helping startups and large public companies develop agile solutions to challenges and opportunities related to business operations and transactional matters. She brings the ability to provide efficient and effective legal counsel designed to streamline processes or take advantage of acquisitional and sale opportunities. She currently assists on a range of transactional matters including commercial real estate and forming and structuring business entities.

James Crumlin helps clients navigate the corporate legal landscape and avoid costly mistakes, so employers can focus on running successful operations. He concentrates his practice in the areas of labor and employment law, business and corporate law, litigation and dispute resolution, and entertainment and media law.

Abena Echternach
Associate

Nashville

Chase Fann
Partner

Nashville

Jonathan P. Farmer
Partner

Nashville

Abena Echternach helps clients successfully resolve transactions matters when reputation and operational continuity are threatened, achieving successful resolutions that minimize legal and financial exposure.

Chase Fann is a partner in the firm’s Nashville Office, where he represents individual and business clients in civil and criminal litigation. Chase is a passionate litigator with diverse experience across a variety of practice areas in both civil and criminal law. He has represented clients in both state and federal courts at the trial and appellate level in contract disputes, partnership disputes, employment claims (including discrimination, retaliation, and FLSA), entertainment matters, state criminal defense, and white-collar criminal defense. Chase leverages this depth of knowledge and broad exposure across practice areas to serve as practical and effective counsel for a diverse variety of clients.

Jonathan Farmer obtains the best possible results for clients through zealous advocacy and creative, thoughtful solutions, allowing them to navigate potentially damaging situations through risk mitigation, litigation, and alternative dispute resolution. He concentrates his practice in the areas of criminal defense and government investigations, personal injury, wrongful death, and civil litigation.

Spencer Fane attorney Brianna Griffin

Spencer Fane attorney Brianna Griffin

Brianna Griffin
Associate

Nashville

William J. (Paz) Haynes III
Partner

Nashville

Spencer Fane attorney Sam Jackson

Spencer Fane attorney Sam Jackson

Samuel L. (Sam) Jackson
Partner

Nashville

Brianna’s collaborative approach to legal services drives an ability to successfully advocate for her clients’ interests regardless of the legal venue. Her private practice focuses on all aspects of the process for handling complex commercial litigation matters with cost-effective representation for clients. In 2022, she completed a summer associateship with Spencer Fane in the firm’s Nashville office, where she gained significant experience with the firm’s unique and dynamic culture and value proposition.

William J. (Paz) Haynes III represents physicians and other health care providers in negotiating a variety of contracts and business arrangements, providing responsive day-to-day legal advice on all aspects of operation critical to success. He has experience in the areas of labor and employment law, administrative law, health care law, and commercial and civil litigation.

Sam Jackson provides proactive legal counsel to business management leaders in human resources counseling, employment litigation, and traditional labor law, identifying risks, and equipping clients with the tools necessary to minimize the time and resources spent on costly litigation. He practices in the areas of labor and employment and education law, focusing on a variety of legal issues including employment of licensed and classified employees, employee contracts, employee and student discipline, employee and student rights, special education and disability accommodation, First Amendment issues, sexual harassment and civil rights matters, desegregation, tort liability, school finance and taxation, and school construction.

Spencer Fane attorney Jack King

Spencer Fane attorney Jack King

Jack F. King III
Associate

Nashville

Stacey Garrett Koju
Partner

Nashville

Paul W. Kruse
Partner

Nashville

Jack King helps businesses ranging from small startup entities to large public companies with responsive and collaborative client service on all corporate and business transactional matters, allowing them to establish and maintain successful operations. He concentrates his practice on business and corporate law, health care law, real estate law, and entrepreneurial and emerging business law.

Stacey Garrett Koju provides proactive legal advice on all aspects of critical corporate matters, recognizing each transaction is important to the future of a business and its owners and allowing them to maintain successful operations. She concentrates her law practice in the areas of corporate transactions, labor and employment law, employment practices, health care, and higher education.

Paul Kruse assists individuals, small businesses and large companies with their trademarks and associated legal issues, helping to protect the value of their brands and the goodwill symbolized thereby in a proactive manner. In today’s competitive environment where the quality and price playing fields are increasingly level, trademarks are often the only way consumers differentiate one company from another. Consequently, trademarks play a critical role in driving new and repeat business. He helps clients of all kinds protect their trademarks with high-quality, creative, and comprehensive services, including trademark clearance, registration, and policing — all at a predictable cost.

Sam J. (Mac) McAllester III
Of Counsel

Nashville

Spencer Fane attorney Hal McCard

Spencer Fane attorney Hal McCard

R. Harold (Hal) McCard Jr.
Of Counsel

Nashville

Loren E. Mulraine
Of Counsel

Nashville

Sam J. “Mac” McAllester III represents banks, financial institutions, and other lenders in the negotiation and structure of credit facilities secured by all forms of collateral and prepares all necessary loan documentation to facilitate smooth and efficient transactions. For more than four decades, Mac has represented his clients in the enforcement and collection of loans and realization against all types of collateral, including through workouts, restructures, bankruptcies, repossessions, and foreclosures. Mac says his goal is to fully protect the interest of his clients in the event of default and to completely recover his clients’ money.

Hal McCard combines decades of experience as in house and outside counsel for health care enterprises with a deep understanding of health care operations, regulatory compliance, and complex litigation to provide responsive, effective counseling on a full range of legal matters with a practical, client-centered focus.

Loren E. Mulraine merges an understanding of the creative elements of the entertainment and media industries with legal and business skills to protect his clients’ intellectual property, build their business enterprises, and advocate for social justice.

Toni Ojoyeyi
Associate

Nashville, Minneapolis

Andrea P. Perry
Partner

Nashville

Christopher J. (Chris) Raybeck
Partner

Nashville

Toni Ojoyeyi counsels clients on the implementation of effective best practices and policies while helping them navigate an increasingly complex regulatory and compliance environment for businesses. This helps them to avoid employer-employee disputes and potentially costly litigation. Having worked with companies of all sizes, Toni works to develop creative solutions to highly consequential legal issues. Her wide range of global experiences has prepared her to represent a variety of clients. She is fluent in Spanish and conversational in Portuguese.

Andrea P. Perry combines industry insights with responsive, considerate client service to help lending and financial institutions of all types navigate the complex regulatory landscape to achieve efficient, cost-effective transactions. She concentrates her practice in the areas of real estate, commercial lending, general corporate, and tax-exempt organizations. Andrea currently serves as co-practice group leader for the Banking and Financial Services Group.

Chris Raybeck regularly represents banks and other financial institutions in transactional and regulatory matters and regularly represents real estate developers and other parties involved in commercial real estate transactions.

Spencer Fane attorney Gabby Rush

Spencer Fane attorney Gabby Rush

Gabriella Cannone (Gabby) Rush
Associate

Nashville

Bethany M. Stewart
Associate

Nashville

Spencer Fane attorney Travis Strickler

Spencer Fane attorney Travis Strickler

Travis L. Strickler
Associate

Nashville

Gabriella (Gabby) Cannone Rush focuses her legal practice on helping clients successfully navigate complex and challenging litigation matters. She has experience with both civil and criminal matters, including employment law, estate litigation, breach of contract, and criminal appellate work. In addition to litigation matters, Gabby assists with various business and healthcare transactions and contracts, immigration matters, and estate planning.

Bethany Stewart leads critical efforts to help her clients identify potential legal exposure and liability, aiding them in developing legal strategies for litigation scenarios and assisting them in resolving and managing critical litigation matters. She concentrates her law practice in the civil and business litigation areas, with a focus on trade secrets and labor and employment.

Travis continuously evaluates and helps define a client’s tax objectives and estate planning and business succession goals while providing them beneficial insight into the full spectrum of options available. This allows him to help structure transactions and arrange personal finances to satisfy immediate needs while planning for long-term success. Prior to entering private practice, he spent time as an associate with one of the largest financial security companies in the nation, where he received significant experience related to his current legal work.

Jack F. Stringham II
Of Counsel

Nashville

Kristen J. Walker
Senior Associate

Nashville

Spencer Fane attorney Charles Yarbrough

Spencer Fane attorney Charles Yarbrough

Charles N. Yarbrough
Associate

Nashville

Jack F. Stringham II helps both financial institutions and borrowers in commercial loan financings, facilitating efficient and structurally sound transactions that benefit his clients’ goals and objectives. He concentrates his practice in commercial loan transactions, real estate, banking regulation, venture capital, private financings, and general business matters for corporations, limited liability companies, and partnerships.

Kristen Walker is a member of the firm’s Litigation and Dispute Resolution practice group. She successfully creates and implements litigation strategies across various practice areas to resolve critical litigation matters for her clients.

Charles Yarbrough brings the advocacy skills and trial experience his clients need to ensure their rights are adequately represented. From negotiations to the courtroom, Charles represents individuals and companies in a variety of matters including criminal investigations and civil suits.

Edward M. (Ed) Yarbrough
Of Counsel

Nashville

Spencer Fane attorney Stephen Zralek

Spencer Fane attorney Stephen Zralek

Stephen J. Zralek
Partner

Nashville

Edward M. “Ed” Yarbrough represents clients in civil and criminal courts, trying cases and negotiating settlements in a wide variety of matters. His experience matches up well with the needs of individuals and businesses who find themselves headed to state or federal court.

Stephen Zralek is an accomplished litigator who helps clients resolve intellectual property, business, entertainment and technology disputes in federal and state courts, arbitration and mediation. Clients seek Stephen’s advice as a result of his experience in the courtroom, his creative problem-solving, his tenacity, and his engaging approach.