Margaret Behm was honored at the Tennessee Bar Association’s 2025 Annual Convention with the Judge Pamela L. Reeves Tennessee Professionalism Award. This honor is awarded each year to a lawyer or judge whose “life and practice display sterling character and unquestioned integrity, coupled with ongoing dedication to the highest standards of the rule of law and the highest standards of the legal profession in Tennessee.”
Behm, founding partner of Dodson Parker Behm and Capparella, has often been referred to as a trailblazer in Nashville’s legal field, with her dedication and commitment to forging coalitions for change. She focuses her practice on business law, employment, municipal law, estate planning, and commercial litigation.
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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.

