9/1/2010 - Donald Capparella - Donald Capparella and Amy Farrar succesfully petitioned the Tennessee Supreme Court for permission to appeal in the case of Crowley v. Thomas, No. M2009-01336-SC-R11-CV.

9/1/2010 - Amy Farrar - Amy Farrar was appointed to the Executive Council for the Tennessee Bar Association's Appellate Practice Committee.

8/27/2010 - Paul S. Parker - Paul S. Parker and Harlan Dodson will be presenting on October 1, 2010 at the Tennessee Attorney's Memo Probate & Estate Planning Conference. Their topics are "Ethical Issues in Probate Practice" and "Tips on Drafting Wills (Profitably) in 2010". The conference will be held at the Nashville School of Law.

8/27/2010 - Paul S. Parker - Paul S Parker will be presenting at the National Business Institute's seminar on October 27, 2010 Trusts 101 the topics of "Transfers to Trust During Life" and "Ethical Considerations.

8/27/2010 - Harlan Dodson - Harlan Dodson and Paul S Parker will be presenting on October 1, 2010 at the Tennessee Attorney's Memo Probate & Estate Planning Conference. Their topics are "Tips on Drafting Wills (Profitably) in 2010" and "Ethical Issues in Probate Practice." The conference will be held at the Nashville School of Law.

8/24/2010 - Candi Henry - Candi Henry presented a continuing legal education program "Doubling and Trebling of Damages under the Tennessee Consumer Protection Act," for M. Lee Smith Audio.

8/10/2010 - Harlan Dodson - Harlan Dodson has published the annual update to his text, Introduction to Estate Planning and Administration in Tennessee. The book, which reflects changes in estate planning and tax law as of July 2010, is a popular reference manual for both students and attorneys throughout the state.

8/9/2010 - Paul S. Parker - On August 9, 2010 Paul S. Parker presented the topics "Getting Started: Initiating the Probate Process" and "Ethical Issues in Probate Practice" at the National Business Institute seminar Fundamental Probate Procedures & Practice held in Nashville, Tennessee.

7/8/2010 - Margaret L. Behm - Margaret Behm and Candi Henry were featured speakers at the Legal Aid/TALS Seminar on Attorneys' Fees.

7/8/2010 - Margaret L. Behm - Margaret Behm has been selected for inclusion in the 2010 "Mid-South Super Lawyers" list under Business Litigation. Only five perent of Tennessee, Arkansas and Mississippi attorneys are chosen each year.

6/30/2010 - Margaret L. Behm - Margaret L. Behm is recognized by the Tennessee College of Law in their Spring 2010 issue of TennesseeLaw on her involvement with Access to Justice Commission - read more on page 8 and 9 at law.utk.edu

6/22/2010 - Margaret L. Behm - Commission Chair Margaret Behm of the Tennessee Supreme Court Access to Justice Project remarks - read more at tncourts.gov and timesfreepress.com

6/22/2010 - Kristen B. Amonette - Kristen Amonette quoted regarding judgment on property consultant wins pay dispute with country club - read more at nashvillepost.com

9/1/2010 - Donald Capparella - Donald Capparella and Amy Farrar succesfully petitioned the Tennessee Supreme Court for permission to appeal in the case of Crowley v. Thomas, No. M2009-01336-SC-R11-CV.

6/1/2010 - Donald Capparella - Donald Capparella served as Editor in Chief in publishing the new Fourth Edition Editor in Chief of Appellate Advocacy: A Handbook on Appellate Practice in Tennessee (Fourth Ed. 2010), published by the Appellate Practice Committee of the Nashville Bar Association. Amy J. Farrar and Candi R. Henry served as assistant editors. The new Fourth Edition has abandoned the former Question and Answer format in favor of more treatise-like approach. The assistance of Mike Catalano, Clerk for the Appellate Courts, and William T. Owen, Staff Attorney for the Court of Appeals, was invaluable to completing the new publication, along with numerous other members of the bar.

6/1/2010 - Donald Capparella - Part II of Donald Capparella’s article “Premises Liability Law in Tennessee: A Comprehensive Survey and Analysis” was published in the Spring 2010 edition of the Tennessee Trial Lawyer.

4/21/2010 - Donald Capparella - Donald Capparella and Candi Henry were featured presenters at a Tennessee Association for Justice seminar on April 21. They addressed topics including the Tennessee Consumer Protection Act, Standards of Review on Appeal, and Reconciling Competing Causes of Action and Defenses in Insurance Cases.

3/4/2010 - Donald Capparella - Donald Capparella, Amy Farrar, and Candi Henry received training from renowned legal writing expert Bryan Garner during his Nashville seminar on Advanced Legal Writing and Editing.

2/23/2010 - Donald Capparella - Donald Capparella has been asked to return to the Nashville School of Law to teach the Advanced Legal Writing course for fall 2010.

1/28/2010 - Donald Capparella - Donald Capparella was recognized in BusinessTN’s annual list of Tennessee’s Best Lawyers for his appellate work. Business TN compiles this annual list of the best 150 lawyers in the state “whose reputations and current high level of activity distinguish them from the rest” based on the peer review of lawyers, judges, business executives and heads of organizations throughout Tennessee.

1/28/2010 - Donald Capparella - Donald Capparella presented an audio CLE sponsored by M. Lee Smith Publishers titled " January 2010 Tort and Comparative Fault Update."

12/31/2009 - Donald Capparella - Mid-South Super Lawyers magazine - 2009 listed Donald Capparella, Dodson Parker Behm & Capparella, Nashville TN under the Appellate practice area. Super Lawyers is a valuable indicator of peer recognition and professional achievement.

12/17/2009 - Donald Capparella - Donald Capparella was a speaker at the 2009 Annual Review & Ethics Seminar hosted by the Tennessee Association of Justice on Thursday, December 17, 2009. The topic of Mr. Caparella's presentation was "Comparative Fault and Tort Update."

12/17/2009 - Donald Capparella - Donald Capparella spoke at a continuing legal education seminar titled "Ethics and Professionalism: A Session from Ethics, Lies and Videotape, VII" sponsored by the Nashville Bar Association on December 17, 2009.

12/16/2009 - Donald Capparella - Roebuck Case - The Court of Appeals reversed a $700,000 final judgment in an auctioneer fiduciary duty case. Capparella successfully argued that the trail court had improperly certified a summary judgment based upon breach of fiduciary duty as a final judgment, returning the matter to the trial court for further proceedings. Brown v. John Roebuck & Associates, Inc., No. M2008-02619-COA-R3-CV, 2009 WL 4878621 (Tenn Ct. App. Dec. 16, 2009).

12/9/2009 - Donald Capparella - Laughlin Case - Donald Capparella achieved success on appeal in a negligent construction case involving Williamson County homeowners. The Court of Appeals dismissed all of the contractor’s claims for damages, and increase the homeowners’ damages for negligent construction, substantially reversing the trail court’s rulings against the homeowners. The Court also reinstated the possibility of personal liability for the contractor. This case could be an important construction law case regarding disputes over payment and construction defects between contractors and homeowners. Forrest Const. Co., LLC v Laughlin, No. M2008-01566-COA-R3-CV, 2009 WL 4723365 (Tenn. Ct. App. Dec. 9, 2009).

11/18/2009 - Donald Capparella - On November 18, 2009, Donald Capparella moderated a continuing legal education performance presented by the Tennessee Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts in collaboration with the Nashville Shakespeare Festival, titled "Much Ado About Ethics."

11/13/2009 - Donald Capparella - Donald Capparella spoke at a continuing legal education seminar titled "Ethics, Lies and Videotape" sponsored by the Nashville Bar Association on November 13, 2009

11/11/2009 - Donald Capparella - Donald Capparella and Kristen Amonette presented an audio seminar regarding "Marital Property: Pension and Retirement Funds in Light of Lund" sponsored by M. Lee Smith on November 11, 2009.

10/21/2009 - Donald Capparella - Donald Capparella and Amy Farrar presented a continuing legal education seminar titled "Tennessee Tort Law Update" at the Nashville School of Law on October 21, 2009.

10/2/2009 - Donald Capparella - Donald Capparella and Amy Farrar presented a 2009 Tort and Comparative Fault Update at the 3rd Annual Law Conference for Tennessee Practitioners hosted by the Tennessee Attorneys Memo at the Nashville School of Law on October 1 and 2.

5/18/2009 - Donald Capparella - Donald Capparella was named one of 2009's Best of Bar in the Nashville Business Journal. There were 102 attorneys recognized.

4/24/2009 - Donald Capparella - Donald Capparella participated in the Trial Practice for Today's Litigator presented by TennBarU and the TBA's Young Lawyers Division.

3/31/2009 - Donald Capparella - Donald Capparella was successful in asking the Court of Appeals to reverse the trial court's property division of retirement benefits against his clients interest in a divorce case.

3/1/2009 - Donald Capparella - Donald Capparella was listed on Business TN's list of the top 150 lawyers in Tennessee for his Appellate Litigation practice.

1/29/2009 - Donald Capparella - Donald Capparella was successful in asking the Court of Appeals to reverse the trial court's granting of summary judgment against our client. Read the entire opinion here.

12/11/2008 - Donald Capparella - Donald Capparella spoke at a Chattanooga seminar hosted by Tennessee Association of Justice entitled 2008 Annual Review and Ethics. Mr. Capparella's presentation was on the Comparative Fault and Tort Law Update.

12/9/2008 - Donald Capparella - Donald Capparella spoke at a Nashville seminar hosted by Lorman entitled Appellate Practice: A View from the Bench in Tennessee. Mr. Capparella's presentation was on Perfecting the Appeal.

11/19/2008 - Donald Capparella - Donald Capparella spoke at a seminar hosted by the Nashville Bar Association entitled: Appellate Practice for the Trial Lawyer: Anatomy of an Appeal.

11/10/2008 - Donald Capparella - Donald Capparella, working with Amy Farrar as co-counsel, was successful in asking the Supreme Court of Tennessee to reverse the trial court's granting of summary judgment against our client. Read the entire opinion here.

10/1/2008 - Donald Capparella - Donald Capparella was recently named the new Editor for the Tennessee Tort Law letter, a monthly newsletter providing commentary to the bar and the bench on the most recent leading opinions in tort law, published by M.Lee Smith Publishers and Printers. Amy Farrar and Candi Henry are the newly named associate editors.

9/30/2008 - Donald Capparella - Donald Capparella was lead counsel in two jury trials in Davidson County. In Swett v. Salem, Donald obtained a directed verdict in a commercial lease case, where his client successfully defended a breach of lease cause of action. In the second case Johnson v. Gann, Capparella was lead counsel defending an assault and battery tort claim, where the jury awarded only nominal damages in a work-related incident.

9/18/2008 - Donald Capparella - Donald Capparella spoke at two CLE seminars on tort and comparative fault issues to the Tennessee Association of Justice and also a seminar sponsored by M. Lee Smith Publishers and Printers. Capparella also was a co-presenter for a CLE seminar on Legal Ethics for the Nashville Bar Association.

9/10/2008 - Donald Capparella - Donald Capparella, working with Amy Farrar as co-counsel were successful in asking the Supreme Court of Tennessee to reverse the trial court and the Court of Appeals and reinstate a wrongful death case in favor of our client. The court agreed and issued an opinion in the case of Diane Downs ex rel. Ryan Cody Downs v. Mark Bush et al. Read the entire opinion here.

7/8/2008 - Donald Capparella - Donald Capparella has been selected as one of the Nashville Business Journal’s Best of the Bar for his appellate practice. He also received this award in 2004, 2005, and 2007.

6/26/2008 - Donald Capparella - Donald Capparella made a presentation on "Dewald, Boren, Huber and Beyond: The Impact on Your Cases" at a Medical Malpractice seminar hosted by the Tennessee Association for Justice. The seminar, entitled: The New Law and Beyond, focused on the changes flowing from recent Supreme Court decisions on medical malpractice law and how the change will impact clients and their cases.

5/29/2008 - Donald Capparella - The Court of Appeals for the Middle Distrcit of Tennessee issued and opinion in the case of Joseph P. Rusnak, et al. v. Gail Phebus. Mr. Capparella and Ms. Farrar were successful in asking the court to reverse the trial court's previous decision. Read the entire opinion here.

11/1/2007 - Donald Capparella - On November 1, 2007, Donald Capparella was a speaker at the Tennessee Trial Lawers Association's 2007 Annual Review and Ethics Seminar. Donald spoke on Comparative Fault and Tort Update.

10/31/2007 - Donald Capparella - Donald Capparella and Amy Farrar co-authored an article featured in the October issue of the Nashville Bar Journal, entitled "Tips for Becoming a Better Appellate Advocate-Writing the Brief."

9/15/2007 - Donald Capparella - On Spetember 15, 2007, Donald Capparella participated in the Make a Racquet Tennis Tournament benefiting the Nashville Ronald McDonald House. Donald founded the tournament, and this year, it raised over $10,000.

9/14/2007 - Donald Capparella - Donald Capparella and Amy Farrar co-authored an article featured in the September issue of the Nashville Bar Journal, entitled "Tips for Becoming a Better Appellate Advocate-The Oral Argument."

8/1/2007 - Donald Capparella - Donald was one of three finalists for the Tennessee Court of Appeals, Middle Section, chosen by the Tennessee Judicial Selection Commission.

7/27/2007 - Donald Capparella - Donald Caparella was one of five Tennesseans to receive the National Legal Services Corporation Board of Directors Pro Bono Award for outstanding efforts to provide, or support provision of, free legal services to low income clients.

6/21/2007 - Donald Capparella - Donald Capparella has been appointed Chair and Amy Farrar has been appointed Co-Chair of the Appellate Practice Committee of the Nashville Bar Association.

6/18/2007 - Donald Capparella - Donald Capparella has been selected as one of the Nashville Business Journal’s Best of the Bar for his appellate practice. He also received this award in 2004 and 2005.

6/15/2007 - Donald Capparella - Donald Capparella, founder of the Shakespeare Festival, is proud to announce that 2007 is the festival’s 20th anniversary. Two productions, Merry Wives of Windsor and Two Gentlemen of Verona, are coming up this summer in August and September in Nashville’s Centennial Park.

3/20/2007 - Donald Capparella - Donald Capparella spoke at an audio CLE entitled Tort Law: Recent Cases Effecting Your Practice.

1/31/2007 - Donald Capparella - Donald Capparella and Cynthia Chappell, of Dodson, Parker, & Behm, P.C. won a verdict in the amount of $2,119,541.17 in Davidson County Chancery Court on January 31, 2007. Amy Farrar also assisted. This the result of a three day bench trial, in which Chancellor Claudia Bonnyman found the defendant insurance agents liable for professional negligence, breach of fiduciary duty, negligent misrepresentation and breach of contract in a procurement of life insurance case. The verdict included attorney’s fees and double damages under the Tennessee Consumer Protection Act.

1/5/2007 - Donald Capparella - Donald Capparella successfully appealed the dismissal of a $1.2 Million Dollar subrogation case. The Court of Appeals reversed the trial court and reinstated the case in the matter of Travelers Property and Cas Co. v. Terry, 2007 WL 49558 (Tenn. Ct. App. Jan. 5, 2007).

10/18/2006 - Donald Capparella - Donald Capparella spoke at an audio CLE entitled Top Ten Ways to Lose Your Appeal: Practice Tips and Things to Avoid.

4/18/2005 - Donald Capparella - Donald Capparella submitted an editorial to The Tennessean, entitled: "Chavez got it all wrong on Shakespeare and lawyers," which was published on April 15, 2005. Click here to read the article.

1/27/2004 - Donald Capparella - received The Kraft CPAs Board Member of the Year Award recognizing his work with The Nashville Shakespeare Festival. The award was presented by The Center for Nonprofit Management at its 2004 Salute to Excellence award presentation on October 27th. Click here to read The City Paper article. On August 6, 2004, Capparella was featured in the Nashville Business Journal's, "Best of the Bar" for his appellate practice.