Business Law Forum 2025: 4.75 General, 1 Dual

Courses Included

• Business Law Forum 2025: Ethics Issues in Entity Formation in Tennessee
  
  

  This interactive session will present hypothetical scenarios that implicate attorney ethics in business formation and subsequent representation. Audience members will be asked to consider issues of client identity, conflicts of interest, confidentiality, and former client conflicts when resolving these ethical dilemmas. We will also discuss unique Tennessee Professional Conduct Rules in this area.

  Course Information

  Format:Online VideoDual Credits:1.00General Credits:0.00

  Speakers/Producers

  

  • Paula Schaefer, University of Tennessee College of Law, Knoxville
    Paula Schaefer is the Art Stolnitz Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Tennessee College of Law. Professor Schaefer’s scholarship and teaching focus on the subject of attorney...
• Business Law Forum 2025: Drafting Tax & Economic Provisions of Operating Agreements
  
  

  For many business attorneys, the tax allocations and economic provisions of LLC operating agreements are a collection of mysterious paragraphs that the "tax people" will look at, not the business lawyer's domain. However, these provisions can substantially impact the members of an LLC. In this session, you'll learn about what these sections mean, why they are important, and the different approaches that can be used in drafting them.

  Course Information

  Format:Online VideoDual Credits:0.00General Credits:1.00

  Speakers/Producers

  

  • Alexander Davie, Riggs Davie PLC, Brentwood
    Alexander Davie's legal practice encompasses a wide variety of corporate and securities matters. He has worked extensively with technology companies, including startups, and emerging growth companies,...
• Business Law Forum 2025: Delaware Corporate Law - The Times They Are A Changing (Or Are They?)
  
  

  Although Delaware’s corporate law has a reputation for being nuanced and ever-evolving, 2024 was a banner year for judicial and legislative decision making impacting corporations and their constituents. This session features commentary from a leading Delaware practitioner who is among those at the center of these events, offering his observations on the developments and their origins.

  Course Information

  Format:Online VideoDual Credits:0.00General Credits:1.00

  Speakers/Producers

  

  • Joan Heminway, The University of Tennessee College of Law, Knoxville
    Professor Joan Heminway brought nearly 15 years of transactional business law practice experience when she joined the faculty of the UT College of Law in 2000. She was an attorney in the Boston office...
  • Brad Sorrels, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Wilmington
    Brad is a partner in Wilson Sonsini’s Delaware office and serves as chair of the firm’s governance litigation practice. His practice focuses on corporate governance litigation and...
• Business Law Forum 2025: Practical Tips for Contract Drafting
  
  

  Our panel will explore practical advice for drafting clear and effective contracts, including best practices for starting from forms, pitfalls to avoid when using precedents, and tips for concise, consistent contract language.

  Course Information

  Format:Online VideoDual Credits:0.00General Credits:1.00

  Speakers/Producers

  

  • Tyler Huseman, Bass, Berry & Sims PLC, Nashville
    Tyler Huseman is a senior associate at Bass, Berry & Sims PLC. His practice focuses on a variety of corporate and securities matters, including public and private mergers and acquisitions, capital...
  • Courtney Keehan, Chambliss, Chattanooga
    Courtney Keehan is a senior associate at Chambliss and advises on business matters related to mergers and acquisitions, the formation of private investment funds, environmental compliance, health...
  • Laura McKinney, Chambliss, Bahner & Stophel, P.C., Chattanooga
    Laura McKinney is a shareholder at Chambliss and chair of the firm's business section. With over a decade of experience in multiple jurisdictions, Laura helps navigate the diverse business and legal...
  • Kevin Reid, Riggs Davie PLC, Suite 320
    Dillon Reid is a Nashville-based corporate and securities attorney. He has extensive experience in the areas of securities offerings, mergers and acquisitions, and general corporate affairs. He has...
• Business Law Forum 2025: Entity Selection and Formation in Tennessee
  
  

  An introductory course on basics, and some nuances, related to selecting, forming and maintaining legal entities in Tennessee. The session will provide an overview of various entities that can be formed under Tennessee law, best practices associated with advising clients on entity selection, and entity governance matters and comparisons to Delaware law.

  Course Information

  Format:Online VideoDual Credits:0.00General Credits:1.00

  Speakers/Producers

  

  • Van East III, Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP, Nashville
    Van is a transaction attorney primarily serving clients in a broad range of commercial real matters, including acquisitions, dispositions and leases.  Van's practice also includes corporate...
  • Nathan Harris, Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP, Nashville
    Nathan assists clients with a wide range of legal issues pertaining to businesses. Nathan's experience includes representing both buyers and sellers in acquisitions and divestitures, acting as outside...
• Business Law Forum 2025: A Beginner’s Guide to Debt Tax and Usury in Tennessee
  
  

  During this session, participants will get a crash course in Tennessee debt tax and usury statutes – two of the more unique characteristics of Tennessee law that can be a trap for the unwary. This session will cover topics such as the calculation of debt tax, debt tax allocation, scope of payments covered by usury, the applicable formula rate, savings clauses, and example applications.

  Course Information

  Format:Online VideoDual Credits:0.00General Credits:0.75

  Speakers/Producers

  

  • Leslie Ford, Bass, Berry & Sims PLC, Nashville
    Leslie Ford is a member at Bass, Berry & Sims, where she specializes in advising public and private companies on a diverse range of high-value financing transactions. She represents both borrowers...
  • Katherine Smalley, Bass, Berry & Sims PLC, Nashville
    Katie Smalley is a member at Bass, Berry & Sims, where she represents public and private borrowers, private equity sponsors, and financial institutions in a wide array of financing transactions,...