Stites & Harbison, PLLC welcomes attorney Anna Kate Ferrell to the firm’s Nashville office. She joins the Business Litigation and Torts & Insurance Practice Service Groups. Ferrell’s practice focuses on insurance coverage and defense. She represents clients in all types of personal injury, property damage, business torts and insurance related disputes. Prior to joining Stites & Harbison, Ferrell was an associate in the tort and insurance defense sections of a small Nashville law firm. She gained diverse experience as a litigator, including personal injury, construction defect and insurance coverage cases.
Three attorneys with Bradley’s Nashville office have been promoted to partner. The new partners are Petar Angelov, Robert E. Leonard, Mike Stephens. Angelov is a member of Bradley’s Construction Practice Group and is focused on both litigation and transactional matters within the construction industry, representing general contractors, subcontractors, material suppliers, residential and commercial owners, developers and engineers. He works with clients both before and after problems arise by drafting agreements to position clients to avoid disputes and finding resolution through litigation or arbitration when needed. A business and commercial real estate attorney, Leonard focuses his practice in the areas of commercial real estate transactions, commercial leasing, land development, commercial lending, and general corporate work. He as-sists with drafting, editing and negotiating lease agreements, purchase and sale agreements, financing documents and ancillary closing documents. Leonard also manages and runs closing and conducts due diligence for a variety of real estate transactions. Stephens is a member of Bradley’s Litigation Practice Group where he focuses primarily on commercial litigation matters. He has extensive experience assisting clients with a wide range of legal issues in both state and federal court, including contract disputes, intellectual property matters, and other business torts.
Bradley’s Government Contracts Practice Group has been selected as a 2025 winner of Law360’s “Practice Groups of the Year,” marking the third consecutive year and the fourth time overall that the firm has earned this recognition, including in 2024, 2023, and 2021. The annual Law360 Practice Groups of the Year awards recognize the groups that worked on the largest deals or achieved the biggest wins in the most important cases over the past year from more than 30 key practice areas.
Constangy is pleased to announce that Mary Dohner Smith, Managing Partner of the firm’s Nashville office, has been approved by the Tennessee Supreme Court Administrative Office of the Courts as a Rule 31 Listed Mediator. Dohner Smith represents employers in a wide range of labor and employment matters and brings extensive litigation and counseling experience to her mediation practice.
The law firm of Gullett Sanford Robinson & Martin PLLC (GSRM Law) is pleased to announce that Andrew J. Bellm and Hilary C. Dennen have been promoted to Members. Bellm is a member of the firm’s Estate Planning and Probate Section. He has more than a decade of experience counseling professionals, individuals, and first and multi-generational high-net-worth families in estate planning and probate administration matters. His practice encompasses the development and implementation of comprehensive estate plans, including wills, trusts, powers of attorney, healthcare directives, and guardianship arrangements. Andrew also regularly represents clients in complex probate and trust administration proceedings. Dennen is a member of the firm’s Litigation, Labor and Employment, and Estate Planning and Probate Sections. She represents both individuals and companies in complex civil litigation matters at the trial court and appellate level, including breach of contract claims, employment-related disputes, property disputes, regulatory matters, and trust and estate litigation. In addition, Hilary assists clients with navigating conservatorships, guardianships, and estate administrations.
Litson PLLC today announced the promotion of John Ross Glover to Partner. The promotion further strengthens a leadership team that now includes four former federal prosecutors who have collectively tried more than 90 jury trials. Before joining Litson when the firm launched in 2024, Glover served as a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee, prosecuting financial fraud, firearms, and drug trafficking cases. Then, as an Assistant Attorney General in Tennessee’s Special Prosecutions Division, he managed complex constitutional litigation in federal court and specialized prosecutions. His practice focuses on healthcare fraud defense, government investigations, and high-profile matters involving elected officials.
Bradley is pleased to announce the return of Mark W. Miller as a partner in the Tax and Trusts & Estates practice groups. With more than 25 years of tax law experience, Miller’s practice focuses on sophisticated transactional tax matters, including the structuring of corporate, partnership and limited liability company transactions such as formation, joint ventures, acquisitions, dispositions, and reorganizations. He regularly provides counsel on tax-efficient structuring and implementation of M&A transactions, as well as qualified small business stock (QSBS) issues. Miller also advises tax-exempt organizations and provides tailored counsel to nonprofit hospitals and other healthcare entities.
