International Business Council Breakfast: Doing Business in Latin America

Leaders of global corporations headquartered in the Nashville area will discuss their operations and business strategies for the Latin American market.

Panelists include:

• Dave Berryman, president, Gibson Guitar Corporation
• Eduardo Minardi, president Bridgestone Latin America Tire Operations, and executive vice president, Bridgestone Americas, Inc.
• Tod Shuttleworth, senior vice president and group publisher, Thomas Nelson
• Darrell S. Freeman, Sr., chairman, Zycron, Inc.

John Scannapieco will moderate the breakfast.

$10 per person; light breakfast provided.

Register here.

2010 Product Liability Conference

Hope Cannon, Russell Morgan and Tom Warburton will participate in the conference.

Kay K. Bains Published in Commercial Lending Review

Kay Bains was published in the January-February 2010 issue of Commercial Lending Review.

Time Warner Cable arena subcontractors awarded $2.38 million

The architect of Time Warner Cable Arena has been ordered to pay more than $2.38 million after a jury found it negligent in its design and administration of the project’s construction. William R. Nash Inc. and Applegate Heating & Air Conditioning Inc., the arena’s mechanical and ductwork subcontractors, sued architect Ellerbe Becket for professional negligence in its preparation of the plans and specifications for the arena and its design management of the arena construction project. The subcontractors sought damages equal to the cost of extra work they had to perform to correct serious design deficiencies in the arena’s ventilation systems. Both firms were represented by the Charlotte office of Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP.

“We are delighted that the jury agreed with our central argument that there were design defects and that it was the architect’s responsibility to resolve them,” said John D. Bond III, managing partner of Bradley Arant’s Charlotte office. “We are especially pleased that the jury saw fit to give our clients everything they asked for and compensated them fully for the extra costs they incurred.”

The two-week trial focused on problems with the design of the HVAC and kitchen exhaust ductwork systems, which Ellerbe was responsible for designing and Nash and Applegate were responsible for building and installing.

“It’s important to note that all design deficiencies were corrected during construction,” said James C. Smith, litigation partner at Bradley Arant and lead counsel for Nash and Applegate. “The construction team had to take the long way around the barn to get it done properly, but the arena’s ductwork is now code-compliant.”
The case was tried in Mecklenburg County Superior Court before Judge Albert Diaz. Smith teamed with attorneys Roger Jones and Nicole Campbell from Columbia, Md.-based Huddles Jones Sorteberg & Dachille P.C.

Sam Lipshie Quoted in The Tennessean Regarding Music Rights

Chris Grissom Quoted in the Birmingham Business Journal

Brian Wahl Selected to Participate in Annual State Bar Leadership Forum

Christopher C. Puri Selected for Two AHCA Committees

2009 Litigation Update: What An In-House Counsel Needs To Know

This seminar, being held in the firm's Nashville office, is the 4th our firm has offered for in-house counsel who may not be trial lawyers or litigators, but who deal with disputes, do not have a large in-house staff of lawyers, but who are expected by their employer to be knowledgable about many different areas of the law. This specific seminar is geared towards giving the attendees "2009 updates," primarily recent developments, in specific topics that in house counsel have to deal with and provide advice to their employers: intellectual property, attorney client privilege, ethics issues for in-house counsel, white collar/governmental investigations, labor/employment, US Supreme Court decisions, and business judgment decisions in settling disputes.

Nine Bradley Arant Boult Cummings Nashville Attorneys Ranked as "Tennessee's Best 150 Lawyers" for 2010

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP is pleased to announce that nine attorneys from its Nashville office have been named to BusinessTN's "Tennessee's Best 150 Lawyers 2010" list.