Donald Capparella Moderates TBA Bootcamp Panel
On October 8, 2025, Donald Capparella moderated a panel for the Tennessee Bar Association’s 2025 Bootcamp. The panel, composed of Wende J. Rutherford of Rutherford & DeMarco, R. Michelle Blaylock Howswer of Howswer & Associates, Lisa Helton of Sherrard Roe Voigt & Harbison, and Ann Murphy of Sites & Harbison, discussed appellate oral argument, fresh out of a morning session of oral arguments in the Tennessee Court of Appeals.
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.

