Bass, Berry & Sims is pleased to announce that 25 of its attorneys were named to the 2025 Mid-South Super Lawyers edition. In addition, 22 attorneys were recognized in the Rising Stars category this year. The Super Lawyers list recognizes no more than 5% of attorneys in each state. The Rising Stars list recognizes no more than 2.5% of attorneys in each state. To be eligible for inclusion in Rising Stars, a candidate must be either 40 years old or younger, or in practice for 10 years or less.

Mid-South Super Lawyers 2025

Memphis
  • John S. Golwen: Business Litigation
  • Michael R. Hess: Health Care
  • Richard R. Spore, III: Real Estate
  • T. Gaillard Uhlhorn V: Real Estate
  • Shannon Wiley: Health Care
Nashville
  • J. Page Davidson: Business/Corporate
  • Brian M. Dobbs: Construction Litigation
  • Felix R. Dowsley, III: Banking
  • R. Todd Ervin: Tax
  • David R. Esquivel: Business Litigation
  • Craig V. Gabbert, Jr.: Business Litigation
  • Tim K. Garrett: Employment & Labor
  • Anna M. Grizzle: Health Care
  • Angela Humphreys: Business/Corporate
  • Howard H. Lamar, III: Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Britt K. Latham: Securities Litigation
  • Travis G. Lloyd: Health Care
  • W. Brantley Phillips, Jr.: Business Litigation
  • Brian D. Roark: Health Care
  • Glenn B. Rose: Bankruptcy: Business
  • Michael D. Sontag: Tax
  • Overton Thompson, III: Securities Litigation
  • F. Mitchell Walker, Jr.: Securities & Corporate Finance
  • Elizabeth S. Warren: Health Care
  • Jessalyn H. Zeigler: Personal Injury Products: Defense

Mid-South Super Lawyers also released Top Lists for those attorneys who received the highest point totals in the Mid-South state nominations, research and blue ribbon review process. Listed below are the Bass, Berry & Sims attorneys that received these honors.

Top 100 Tennessee Super Lawyers 2025
  • Angela Humphreys
  • W. Brantley Phillips, Jr.
  • Michael D. Sontag
  • Jessalyn H. Zeigler
Top 50 Women Mid-South Super Lawyers 2025
  • Angela Humphreys
  • Jessalyn H. Zeigler
Top 50 Memphis Super Lawyers 2025
  • John S. Golwen
Top 50 Nashville Super Lawyers 2025
  • Angela Humphreys
  • Michael D. Sontag
  • Jessalyn H. Zeigler

Mid-South Super Lawyers Rising Stars 2025

Knoxville
  • McKeehanon Rue: Real Estate
Memphis
  • Whitney Mosey: Health Care
  • Marisa Rouse: Real Estate
Nashville
  • Angela Bergman: Civil Litigation: Defense
  • Nathan Brown: Civil Litigation: Defense
  • Margaret Dodson: Securities Litigation
  • Richard Eiler: Health Care
  • Jeanne Marie Evans: Health Care
  • Jeremy A. Gunn: Business Litigation
  • R. Turner Henderson: Real Estate
  • Courtney A. Hunter: Civil Litigation Defense
  • Tyler Huseman: Securities & Corporate Finance
  • Brian Irving: Business Litigation
  • James R. Litzow: Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Greg Maczko: Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Sara Morgan: Business Litigation
  • Elaine Naughton: Health Care
  • Marc A. Rigsby: Health Care
  • Mary Lindsey Stansell: Securities & Corporate Finance
  • Jamie Steakley: Health Care
  • W. Benjamin Tarpley: Securities & Corporate Finance
  • Hunter Yoches: Employment Litigation: Defense

About Mid-South Super Lawyers

Super Lawyers is a rating service of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. The annual selections are made using a patented multiphase process that includes a statewide survey of lawyers, an independent research evaluation of candidates, and peer reviews by practice area. The result is a credible, comprehensive, and diverse listing of exceptional attorneys. More information can be found at http://www.superlawyers.com/