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Local Counsel

Local Counsel


Our firm has a long-standing history of acting as local counsel for out-of-town law firms on significant cases. Some representative clients and cases included Oak Ridge Baptist Church for Fred Hagans, with Hagans & Burdine, Phen-Fen Class Litigation for Charlie Parker and Graham Hill with Hill & Parker, Enron Class Litigation for Jim Derrick and Tom Heatherington with Bracewell & Guiliani, Firestone Class Litigation with Richard Mithoff and Michael Phifer, Catholic Diocese with Bob Schick with Vinson & Elkins, Gordon Davenport, Tommy Gillespie, Del Lago and Westfork.

Over the past eighteen years, Paula Elliott has served as guardian and litem for hundreds of children involved in civil litigation. Some of the attorneys in these cases were Paul Gold, Tom Rhodes, Michael Phifer, Matthew Prebeg, Jimmy Williamson, Nicholas E. Zito, Rex Frazier, Joe Stephens, Mary Alice McLarty, Mark Haas, Scott Golemon, Michael Solar, Robert Greening, Peter A. Kraus, Leslie MacLean, Richard Howell, Lisa Takeuchi, Kenna Seiler, Kent Twining, Mark Lapidus, Philip Gordon, Ray Burgess, John Causey, Paul Vhaldiek, Dale Frisby, Nancy Laha Clark, Jeffrey Diamond, Craig Shivers, Vicky Dailey, Jay Craddock, David Coates, James B. Edwards, Mark Ramsey, Dick Law, Angela Clarke, Craig Smyser, Barbara Hilbum, Tamera Madden, Jason Webster, Virginia Wiliford, Kenna Seiler, David Knight, Pete Segelke, Julie Stewart, Alfred β€œTed” Ruemki, Terry Grewing, Laura A. Steelman, James A. Boorman, III, Rene Sigman, David Greenstone, Rosemary Sullivan, Bruce M. Feichtinger, Alexandra Smoots-Hogan, James A. Newsom, Barham Lewis, Brain M. Chandler, Tim Sisk, Adam D. Criaco, Martin McVey, Maggie Rico-Zamora, Maureen Spector, David Merkley, Parker Fauntleroy, James Hall and Murphy S. Klasing.