On July 15, 2025, Donald Capparella successfully represented the Appellee/Wife in the appeal of a divorce case in the Tennessee Court of Appeals. In Rosalynn (Victor) Addis v. Ryan Keith Addis, M2024-00668-COA-R3-CV, 2025 WL 1936512 (Tenn. Ct. App. July15, 2025)the Court upheld the Trial Court’s finding that the Appellant/Husband was willfully unemployed, and the trial court’s imputation of income to the Husband for child support purposes.
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Donald Capparella has established a reputation as one of Tennessee’s most respected appellate attorneys, with his experience handling a wide variety of matters, from seminal tort law cases to work on many of Tennessee’s landmark cases in other areas of law.
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Michael Bressman serves as Professor of the Practice of Law at Vanderbilt Law School where he has taught a variety of courses over the last 15 years. This year, Professor Bressman received the Hall-Hartman Award honoring excellent teaching for one of the first-year sections of Contracts. He also teaches Intellectual Property and the Arts Clinic, and directs the Law School’s clerkship program.
