On May 12, 2026, DPBC’s Donald Capparella conducted an interactive presentation on Creativity & the Use of Archetypes in the Practice of Law for the Tennessee Bar Association’s Spring 2026 Leadership Law (TBALL) class in Columbia, Tennessee. Also present at the seminar were Columbia Mayor Chaz Molder, Tennessee Supreme Court justices Jeffrey Bivins and Sarah Campbell, and attorneys Ryan Durham and Amy Mohan.
Thirty-four lawyers from across the state were accepted into the TBA Leadership Law (TBALL) program for the 2026 class. The program aims to serve the legal profession by equipping participants with the vision, knowledge and skills necessary to serve as leaders in the profession and in the community as a whole.
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.
