On June 12, Leitner, Williams, Dooley and Napolitan celebrated its 130th year of the founding of the firm. Founded in 1882 as a partnership of two brothers, W.G.M. Thomas and L.M. Thomas, Leitner, Williams, Dooley & Napolitan has grown into a defense firm of national reputation. The firm’s growth has been the result of successful relationships with successful clients – Fortune 500 corporations, major companies, small businesses and individuals.
Awarded the highest Martindale Hubbell rating available, the firm is proud to be associated with the many professional and honorary organizations that have recognized its members.
Its attorneys incorporated a city, consolidated counties and represented America’s rising corporations. Members of the firm have been honored with judgeships, including the appointment of H. Ted Milburn to the United States Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals by President Ronald Reagan. Senior member Paul R. Leitner has been associated with the firm since 1952, first as an insurance investigator and then as an attorney in 1954.
Leitner is “convinced that the greatest asset that any organization has is its staff of employees and other personnel. One of the most successful corporations in the world today is Southwest Airlines. Its philosophy is that its employees are its greatest asset and its reason for success. That is exactly what my former partners told me as a young lawyer as I grew to know them and their philosophies. It is my fervent hope that the firm will continue the tradition and believe in and adhere to the principles of the deceased partners who preceded me.”
Today, the firm has expanded into a multi-state network of approximately 100 attorneys spanning the Southeast and beyond its offices in Chattanooga, Nashville, Knoxville, Memphis, Atlanta and Oxford, Miss. The firm has attorneys who are admitted to practice law in all state and federal courts in Tennessee and Georgia, in the state courts of Alabama, Arkansas, District of Columbia, Florida, Kentucky, Mississippi, and North Carolina, in the Fifth, Sixth, and Eleventh Courts of Appeals and in the United States Supreme Court.
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