November 30, 2018 – As part of the firm’s strategy to become more efficient, Spicer Rudstrom’s Board of Directors have decided to close the Texarkana office located at 3723 Texas Boulevard, Texarkana, TX 75503.  We will still service our clients in this area through our Little Rock office. “As part of our strategic planning, we …Read More

By: Newton Anderson I predict that the vast majority of those reading this post have used or have a close family member that has used Uber or Lyft for transportation.  The advantages of ease of use, availability and price are certainly a temptation, even if you own your own car.  Those advantages are fueling tremendous …Read More

Nashville, TN (November 8, 2018): Once a year, Super Lawyers publish an exclusive state-by-state list of “credible, comprehensive and diverse outstanding attorneys”, which no more than five percent of the lawyers in the state are selected by the research team at Super Lawyers to receive this honor.  Spicer Rudstrom attorneys, Newton Anderson, Kevin Bernstein, Marc Dedman, Brian …Read More

By: Steve Collins You know that it is Election Day and I need to take off to go vote.  Hold on, what you do on your time is your business, but what you do on work time is my business.  I do not mean any harm, but I need to go vote. That is fine, …Read More

Spicer attorney in the Nashville office, Marc Dedman, and Caroline Berube, managing partner of HJM Asia Law, recently interviewed Eckart Brodermann, author of UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts.  Check out the full interview featured in Paradigm Magazine, an International Society of Primerus Law Firms publication. 

The Tulane Journal of International and Comparative Law to Present a Dynamic and Provocative Business and Legal Seminar Celebrating 300 years of New Orleans International Business and Discussing How Law Can Help New Orleans Business Engage in More International Commerce On Wednesday, October 24th, 2018 the Tulane Journal of International and Comparative Law will present …Read More

SAM SOOK PAK v. THE GOOD FOOD GROUP LAW FIRM NEWS REPORT Summary By: Brian S. Duffy A McDonald’s restaurant in Brentwood, Tennessee, represented by Spicer Rudstrom was found not liable to a patron who sued for alleged severe injuries sustained when she fell while walking out of the restaurant to her car. Plaintiff at first …Read More

By: Jacob D. Strawn Agreements come in all shapes and sizes: agreements to work for a certain employer; agreements to perform a particular service; agreements to buy a certain product; agreements to rent a certain property, etc. However, where there are agreements, disagreements are sure to follow. As a lawyer, I hear one type of …Read More

Memphis attorney, Kevin D. Bernstein, is featured in the August 2018 edition of The Tennessee Jury Verdict Reporter.  Read the full recap here.

By: Courtney Paterson “An idiopathic injury is one that has an unexplained origin or cause, and generally does not arise out of the employment unless ‘some condition of the employment presents a peculiar or additional hazard.’” McCaffery v. Cardinal Logistics, No. 2015-08-0218, 2015 TN Wrk. Comp. App. Bd. LEXIS 50, at *9 (Tenn. Workers’ Comp. …Read More

Knoxville, TN – As the firm celebrates its 55th anniversary this year, Spicer Rudstrom, PLLC is pleased to announce that Clinton J. Woodfin has been elected to serve as Managing Partner. He succeeds Marc O. Dedman, who served as managing partner since 2013 and has decided to relinquish his position.   Marc remains with the firm …Read More

Spicer Rudstrom, PLLC is pleased to announce the recent addition of Laney K. Cabrera to the Memphis office.  Her primary practice areas include Insurance Defense and Premises Liability. Laney is a 2016 graduate of the University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law and a 2012 graduate of the University of Memphis.   During law …Read More

Spicer Rudstrom, PLLC is pleased to announce the recent promotion of Jared S. Renfroe to partner.  A 2010 graduate of the University of Tennessee College of Law and a 2006 graduate of Lambuth University, Jared has been an associate with the firm for the past three years, primarily concentrating his practice in Workers’ Compensation and …Read More

By: David Barry For the most part, most people reading this blog are not fond of or looking forward to the prospect of having to discuss, consider or participate in the process of terminating or being terminated from one’s employment. But the fact of the matter is that sometimes this outcome is unavoidable. When this …Read More

By: Christopher Myatt Liability waivers are commonplace in modern society. We sign them as part of various agreements and before engaging in all sorts of activities. Nearly always, we sign away these substantive rights without giving it a moment’s thought. Moreover, summer camp operators, trampoline parks, and countless others ask parents to waive their children’s …Read More

Jared Renfroe, an attorney in Spicer Rudstrom’s Memphis office, recently secured a defense judgment in favor of his client in the Tennessee Court of Workers’ Compensation Claims at Nashville. The decision was not appealed, so it has become a final judgment. The facts of the case involve a 10-year employee of a truck stop who …Read More

By: Jacob Strawn Following Gardner v. R & J Express, LLC As explained by Doug Bergeron, attorney in Spicer Rudstrom’s Knoxville office, the Tennessee Supreme Court, in Tathum v. Bridgestone Ams. Holding, Inc., 473 S.W.3d 734 (Tenn. 2015), held that intentional action is no longer a prerequisite for the imposition of sanctions against a party …Read More

By: John Barry Most trial lawyers have had the unfortunate experience of having a disclosed and engaged medical doctor expert to deliver opinions or conclusions that are damaging to their side of the case when that expert is deposed by the adversary attorney.  When that occurs, the adverse counsel will doubtless want to read the …Read More

By: Courtney Paterson Tenn. Code Ann. § 50-6-242 – provides that in “extraordinary cases” in which the injured worker is entitled to increased benefits pursuant to Tenn. Code Ann. § 50-6-207(3)(B), the employee may be entitled to up to 275 weeks of benefits multiplied by his or her compensation rate instead of being awarded the …Read More

By: Darrick O’Dell College is a time of exploration and discovery in many young adults’ lives.  Vigorous study of Physics and Sociology often salted with alcohol-fueled socializing and awkward sexual encounters.  When you populate a community with young adults exploring their sexuality in a fashion often exacerbated by intoxicants, you find a hotbed of risk …Read More