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.

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

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.

3/31/2010 - Margaret L. Behm - Margaret Behm is recognized by Nashville Post in its selection of 2010 In Charge, March/April 2010 issue. This is a definitvie list of businesspeople and community leaders who are shaping Middle Tennessee's growth.

3/31/2010 - Harlan Dodson - Harlan Dodson is recognized by Nashville Post in its selection of 2010 In Charge, March/April 2010 issue. This is a definitive list of businesspeople and community leaders who are shaping Middle Tennessee's growth.

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.

1/4/2010 - Amy Farrar - Amy Farrar has been appointed for the third consecutive year as Chair of the Nashville Bar Association's Appellate Practice Committee.

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.

12/16/2009 - 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).

10/9/2009 - Margaret L. Behm - Margaret Behm was selected for inclusion in the 2010 edition of Super Lawyers, Corporate Counsel Edition in the specialty of Business Litigation. The Corporate Counsel Edition is aimed at the people within corporate America who hire outside counsel.

10/1/2009 - Margaret L. Behm - Margaret Behm was selected by her peers for inclusion in the 2010 edition of The Best Lawyers in America® in the specialty of Labor and Employment Law. For over a quarter of a century, Best Lawyers has been regarded – by both the profession and the public – as the definitive guide to legal excellence in the United States.

9/19/2009 - Candi Henry - Candi Henry was honored as one of Nashville's Top 30 Under 30 at a ceremony hosted by the Nashville Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. The award reflects her contributions to the community as an attorney as well as her volunteer efforts.

6/30/2009 - Margaret L. Behm - Margaret L. Behm has been elected to the board of the YWCA.

6/11/2009 - Margaret L. Behm -  Margaret L. Behm was a panelist for the Nashville Bar Association's seminar entitled "Name that Judge! How to Avoid 'The Price is Right' ". She spoke on the differences between the judicial selection process recently enacted by the Tennessee General Assembly and the previous system.

6/10/2009 - Margaret L. Behm - Margaret L. Behm was awarded CABLE's Molly Todd Cup. The Cup honors outstanding women who spend much of their lives making the world, and particularly Nashville, a better place to live. CABLE is a networking group of more than 450 business and civic minded members.

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

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.

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.

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.

11/10/2008 - Amy Farrar - Amy Farrar, working with Donald Capparella 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.

11/7/2008 - Margaret L. Behm - Margaret Behm successfully represented Nirvana Beverage in a Davidson County Chancery Court action in which the Court upheld Metro's issuance of a certificate of compliance allowing Nirvana Beverage to apply for a liquor license

10/1/2008 - Margaret L. Behm - Margaret Behm was selected by her peers for inclusion in the 2009 edition of The Best Lawyers in America® in the specialty of Labor and Employment Law. For over a quarter of a century, Best Lawyers has been regarded – by both the profession and the public – as the definitive guide to legal excellence in the United States.

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.

9/10/2008 - 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.

9/10/2008 - Amy Farrar - 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.

8/21/2008 - Margaret L. Behm - Margaret Behm has been selected as one of the Nashville Business Journal's Best of the Bar for her commercial litigation practice.

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.

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.

5/29/2008 - Amy Farrar - 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.

1/16/2008 - Margaret L. Behm - The firm would like to congratulate Chancellor Richard Dinkins, a former member of our firm. He was recently appointed to the Tennessee Court of Appeals. Read the entire article here.

9/7/2007 - Margaret L. Behm - Margaret Behm was selected for inclusion in the 25th anniversary edition of The Best Lawyers in America in the specialty of Labor and Employment Law.

8/6/2007 - Travenia A. Holden - Travenia Holden has been named as the Middle Tennessee Delegate of the Executive Council for the Tennessee Bar Association Elder Law Section for 2007-2008.

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.

7/13/2007 - Harlan Dodson - Harlan Dodson was featured in the Nashville City Paper in a "Conversation with a Leader".

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.

6/12/2007 - Harlan Dodson - On Friday, June 8, 2007 Nashville School of Law hosted a Recognition Dinner honoring Harlan Dodson, where he received the Distinguished Faculty award for his service as an instructor at the school since 1975.

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).

11/30/2006 - Margaret L. Behm - Margaret L. Behm was named by the Nashville Business Journal as “Best of the Bar” for 2006.

11/1/2006 - Margaret L. Behm - Margaret Behm was named as one of three finalists for Attorney General for the State of Tennesse by the Tennessee Supreme Court in October 2006.

9/15/2006 - Amy Farrar - Dodson, Parker & Behm, P.C. is pleased to welcome a new associate, Amy J. Farrar. Amy comes to Dodson, Parker & Behm, P.C. from the Tennessee Supreme Court, where she worked as a law clerk with the Honorable Cornelia A. Clark. Amy is a graduate of the University of Mississippi School of Law, 2005, and Wake Forest University in 2000.

6/3/2006 - Margaret L. Behm - Margaret L. Behm was quoted in the May 2006 issue of the Nashville Bar Journal in an article titled “Practicing Law – The Women’s Prospective” regarding the expanded role of women in the profession.