Attorneys Craig Allen, Benjamin Reese and Robert Carden have joined the law firm of Spears, Moore, Rebman & Williams as shareholders.
Allen is an experienced litigator, having tried more than 135 jury trials to verdict over his 38-year career. His practice areas have included railroad, Federal Employers Liability Act, construction, products liability, premises liability and personal injury.
Allen has lectured widely on those topics as well as general litigation principles and has been honored by a number of attorney ratings services, including Martindale-Hubbell, Super Lawyers and the Tennessee Jury Verdict Reporter.
Allen earned his law degree from the University of Tennessee College of Law and is a fellow of the Chattanooga Bar Foundation and a master of the Brock-Cooper Inn of Court.
Allen and his wife, Liz, are the parents of three sons and live in Hixson.
Reese focuses his litigation practice in the areas of construction, premises liability, commercial transportation and trucking, railroad litigation and workers’ compensation.
Reese joins Spears Moore during his 15th year of practice in Tennessee, during which time he has “learned to balance zealous advocacy with collegiality and respect for the profession and his adversaries,” reads a news release from Spears Moore.
A native of Chattanooga, Reese graduated from The McCallie School and earned his J.D. from the Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law at the University of Memphis. He is admitted to practice in Tennessee.
Reese and his wife, Kelly, have two young daughters.
Carden focuses on representing insureds and self-insureds, with emphases on construction, personal injury, labor and employment, railroad litigation and workers’ compensation.
Carden has gained a wealth of experience in multiple contexts during the course of his practice, having successfully resolved multimillion-dollar claims, directed crisis-management teams, overseen federal investigations and provided industry-specific risk management counsel.
Carden earned his J.D. from the Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law at the University of Memphis. He’s active in the community, serving as vice president of the CBA’s Young Lawyers Division, a board member of the CHI Memorial Foundation and vice president of the Lookout Mountain Conservancy.
He and his wife, Suzanne, recently welcomed their first child, Walter.
In addition to welcoming three new attorneys as shareholders, Spears Moore has named Joseph Alan Jackson II a shareholder.
Jackson began his career in private practice at Spears Moore in 2013 after a clerkship with the Hon. Walter E. Johnson of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia.
Jackson has litigated in a variety of areas in state and federal courts, including banking and commercial law, trade secrets, employment, civil rights, class actions and complex litigation.
Jackson received his J.D., magna cum laude, from the University of Tennessee College of Law, where he was elected to the Order of the Coif and served as editor-in-chief of the Tennessee Law Review.
He has been selected by Super Lawyers as a Mid-South Rising Star for the years 2016-18.
Jackson has served on the board of the CBA’s Young Lawyers Division and currently serves on the Chattanooga Alumni Chapter Board for the University of Tennessee and as a member of the Knights of Columbus.
He and his wife, Lindy, have three young daughters.
Spears Moore has also hired associate Chris Ramsey.
Ramsey joined the firm afterhis 2017 admission to practice in Tennessee and a year clerking for the Chancery Court for the 11th Judicial District and a summer position with the Circuit Court for the 11th Judicial District.
Ramsey practices civil litigation in a variety of areas, including business, commercial and corporate disputes, health care liability and automobile liability.
Ramsey is a “Double Dawg,” having earned his B.A. in history, magna cum laude, from the University of Georgia, and his law degree from the University of Georgia School of Law, where he served on the editorial board of the Journal of Intellectual Property Law.
With these additions, Spears Moore “continues to deepen and expand its litigation presence in Chattanooga and beyond and increase its capacity to represent clients in a wide variety of litigation practice areas,” says the firm in its news release.
Source: Spears Moore