Christine Staples recently joined Memphis-based Buckman as global vice president of water technologies. She comes to Buckman from Ecolab, where she held a number of executive leadership positions in both the water and energy industries.

2. Staples Joins Buckman As VP of Water Technologies - Wednesday, February 7, 2018

Christine Staples recently joined Memphis-based Buckman as global vice president of water technologies. She comes to Buckman from Ecolab, where she held a number of executive leadership positions in both the water and energy industries.

3. Cordova Apartment Community Sells for $27.9M - Thursday, August 10, 2017

The Charleston, a 284-unit apartment community on the east side of Houston Levee Road just south of U.S. 64, has sold for $27.9 million, marking a new chapter for a property that was built just last year.

4. Cordova Apartment Community Sells for $27.9M - Friday, August 4, 2017

The Charleston, a 284-unit apartment community on the east side of Houston Levee Road just south of U.S. 64, has sold for $27.9 million, marking a new chapter for a property that was built just last year.

5. Cordova Apartment Community Sells for $27.9M - Wednesday, August 2, 2017

The Charleston, a 284-unit apartment community on the east side of Houston Levee Road just south of U.S. 64, has sold in a $27.9 million deal.

In the transaction, Peak Capital Partners, doing business as PC Charleston LLC, purchased the 24-acre parcel from local developer Wesscorp Communities, doing business as Charleston HL Apartment Community LLC. Charles W. Misenhelter, signed the deed on behalf of the sellers.

6. Orleans at Walnut Grove Sells for $29.2 Million - Thursday, February 18, 2016

317 Royal Chartres Square E.
Cordova, TN 38018

Sale Amount: $29.2 million

Sale Date: Feb. 4, 2016

Buyer: PC Orleans LLC

7. 276-Unit Cordova Apartments Sell for $29.2M - Saturday, February 13, 2016

The 276-unit Orleans at Walnut Grove apartment community has sold for $29.2 million.

PC Orleans LLC, an entity of Provo, Utah-based investment firm Peak Capital Partners, paid an equivalent of $105,731 per unit to buy the property at 317 Royal Chartres Square E. from Orleans Apartment Community LLC, according to a Feb. 4 warranty deed.

8. 276-Unit Cordova Apartments Sell for $29.2 Million - Friday, February 12, 2016

The 276-unit Orleans at Walnut Grove apartment community has sold for $29.2 million.

PC Orleans LLC, an entity of Provo, Utah-based investment firm Peak Capital Partners, paid an equivalent of $105,731 per unit to buy the property at 317 Royal Chartres Square E. from Orleans Apartment Community LLC, according to a Feb. 4 warranty deed.

9. Espitia Joins Michael Hatcher as Chief Financial Officer - Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Ed Espitia has joined Michael Hatcher & Associates Inc. as chief financial officer. Espitia comes to the Memphis-based landscape services firm after serving since 2010 as finance manager for Schulz Xtruded Products, a Germany-based pipe maker with operations in North Mississippi.

10. Coston-Holloway Finds Myriad Ways to Give Back - Thursday, October 3, 2013

Joann Coston-Holloway, an associate with Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz PC, is Shelby County’s district representative for the Tennessee Bar Association.

One of her roles is helping plan the Young Lawyers Division’s upcoming Wills for Heroes event, where attorneys will provide basic wills, living wills, and health care and financial powers of attorney to first responders and their spouses or partners.

11. Henry Named Sales Manager at Mercedes-Benz of Collierville - Wednesday, September 18, 2013

Edgar L. Henry II has been named sales manager for Mercedes-Benz of Collierville, scheduled to open next spring. In his new role, Henry will manage the sales of all new and pre-owned cars sold at the dealership.

12. Aerotropolis Manager Bowman Completes Delta Leadership Program - Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Chad Bowman, aerotropolis project manager for the Memphis and Shelby County Division of Planning and Development, has graduated from the Delta Leadership Institute Executive Academy, a yearlong Delta Regional Authority program designed to foster collaborative initiatives across the Delta region.

13. Baker Donelson Litigator Tom Comes Full Circle - Thursday, May 30, 2013

Robert Tom, commercial and business litigation attorney for Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz PC, has been elected shareholder of the law firm.

The 35-year-old Tom grew up in Memphis and attended Memphis University School before going to Emory University in Atlanta to study business and finance. Becoming an attorney was never even on his radar screen.

14. Blazing a Trail - Saturday, February 23, 2013

Susan Stephenson is one of the most accomplished and highly visible women in the Memphis business community. She is the co-founder of Independent Bank, the city’s second-largest bank as ranked by assets and one that largely steered clear of the mortgage mess that dogged competitors during the financial bust.

15. James Lee House B&B Granted Development Loan - Saturday, January 26, 2013

The conversion of the longtime vacant James Lee House into a luxury bed-and-breakfast inn is moving along in Victorian Village.

The Center City Development Corp., an arm of the Downtown Memphis Commission, granted developers Jose Velazquez and J.W. Gibson a $130,000 development loan for The James Lee House Bed & Breakfast at 690 Adams Ave. at its Friday, Jan. 18, meeting.

16. James Lee House B&B Granted Development Loan - Thursday, January 24, 2013

The conversion of the longtime vacant James Lee House into a luxury bed-and-breakfast inn is moving along in Victorian Village.

The Center City Development Corp., an arm of the Downtown Memphis Commission, granted developers Jose Velazquez and J.W. Gibson a $130,000 development loan for The James Lee House Bed & Breakfast at 690 Adams Ave. at its Friday, Jan. 18, meeting.

17. James Lee House Bed & Breakfast Granted 10-Year Tax Freeze - Thursday, January 10, 2013

The James Lee House redevelopment is moving along in Victorian Village. 

The Center City Revenue Finance Corp., a board of the Downtown Memphis Commission, approved a 10-year payment-in-lieu-of-taxes (PILOT) agreement for The James Lee House Bed & Breakfast at 690 Adams Ave. at its Tuesday, Jan. 8, meeting. The PILOT benefit over the 10-year term is $309,778.

18. James Lee House B&B Granted 10-Year Tax Freeze - Wednesday, January 9, 2013

The James Lee House redevelopment is moving along in Victorian Village.

The Center City Revenue Finance Corp., a board of the Downtown Memphis Commission, approved a 10-year payment-in-lieu-of-taxes (PILOT) agreement for The James Lee House Bed & Breakfast at 690 Adams Ave. at its Tuesday, Jan. 8, meeting. The PILOT benefit over the 10-year term is $309,778.

19. McLain Joins Counterpart in Copywriting Role - Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Rebekah McLain has joined Counterpart Communication Design as copywriter. In her new role, McLain will write copy for print and websites, with areas of expertise including higher education, security and disability law, neuropsychology and hospitality.

20. US Firms Seeing Fewer Women as Associates - Thursday, December 20, 2012

There aren’t as many women associates working at U.S. law firms as there have been in the recent past.

That’s according to the latest numbers from the National Association for Law Placement, which show women accounted for 45.05 percent of all associates in 2012, down from 45.35 percent the year before.

21. Lee House Development Could Propel District - Tuesday, August 21, 2012

In the 19th century, Victorian Village was home to Memphis’ elite.

Nowadays, the 10-square-block area in Downtown Memphis has one of the highest concentrations of historic structures in the city, with 24 properties on the National Register of Historic Places within four blocks.

22. Cowart Finds Perfect Fit At Fisher & Phillips - Thursday, June 28, 2012

Craig Cowart, a partner in the Memphis office of Fisher & Phillips LLP, joined the firm’s local office after it opened here in January.

23. Stone Joins Metropolitan Bank As Mortgage Specialist - Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Kent Stone has joined Metropolitan Bank as a mortgage specialist.

24. Baker Donelson Announces Scholarship Recipients - Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Memphis-based law firm Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz PC has announced the 2011 recipients of the Baker Donelson Diversity Scholarship.

They are law students Sharonda Childs, Jervonne Newsome and Bobbi Roquemore.

25. After the Flood - Monday, June 14, 2010

For two weeks after the floodwaters in Nashville receded, lawyers from Bass, Berry & Sims PLC worked from makeshift offices all over the city.

Their own offices, on the 23rd through 29th floors of a Downtown building two blocks from the swollen Cumberland River, sustained no damage. However, the parking garage – which is also where the electrical and HVAC systems were located – flooded and stayed that way for days. Without power, none of the building’s tenants could return.

26. Baker Donelson to Help Launch Memphis Homeless Clinic - Thursday, March 4, 2010

The homeless community in Memphis and many other cities has grown by leaps and bounds since the housing market all but collapsed, and people left without homes and perhaps jobs struggle to meet even their most basic needs.

27. Pat O’s Sold Back to Bank - Monday, August 3, 2009

A mini bidding war broke out Friday during the trustee’s sale of the former Pat O’Brien’s bar at 310 Beale St., but in the end the bank that foreclosed on the property came in with the highest bid of $827,000.

28. Barboro Flats Developer To Begin Second Phase - Tuesday, July 21, 2009

100 S. Main St.
Memphis, TN 38103
Permit Amount: $8 Million
Project Cost: $18.2 million
Permit Date: Applied July 2009
Completion: Summer 2010
Owner: 100 South Main Partners
Tenant: TBA
Contractor: Montgomery Martin Contractors LLC
Architect: Looney Ricks Kiss Architects Inc.

29. $17.5M Trustee’s Sale Of Horizon Closes - Thursday, July 16, 2009

The sale of the Horizon apartment building at 717 Riverside Drive Downtown has closed and was recorded July 7 in a successor trustee’s deed, according to the Shelby County Register of Deeds. The 16-story building was foreclosed by the lender, Capital One NA, which subsequently bid on the building during the trustee’s sale on the Shelby County Courthouse steps.

30. Capital One Buys The Horizon for $17.5M - Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Capital One NA reclaimed the 16-story The Horizon at 717 Riverside Drive in a foreclosure sale Tuesday afternoon on the steps of the Shelby County Courthouse.

The New Orleans-based bank foreclosed on the property last month after the building’s developer, The Bryan Co. of Ridgeland, Miss., defaulted on a $58.6 million loan dated Aug. 7, 2007. The Bryan Co. operated in that transaction as Riverside Bluffs LLC.

31. Another Downtown Building In Foreclosure - Tuesday, June 16, 2009

The real estate slump has claimed another victim in the Memphis skyline, but this time it didn’t wait for the property to be completed.

Still under construction, the 16-story Horizon at 717 Riverside Drive Downtown is now in foreclosure, according to a first-run foreclosure notice that appears on Page 35 of today’s print edition of The Daily News and also at The Daily News Online, www.memphisdailynews.com.

32. Levy Receives Ruby R. Wharton Award - Wednesday, March 5, 2008

Dr. Marian Levy, associate professor and director of the Master of Public Health program at the University of Memphis, has received the Ruby R. Wharton Outstanding Woman Award in the area of race relations.

33. Baker Donelson FormsSubprime Mortgage Task Force - Thursday, October 4, 2007
     Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz PC has formed a Subprime Mortgage Task Force, a multi-disciplinary practice group of attorneys from across the firm's five-state and Washington region.
   

34. Ogletree Deakins' Holmes Honored for Labor and Employment Work - Thursday, September 27, 2007

Charles V. Holmes is one of four attorneys in the Memphis office of Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart PC to be named in the 2008 edition of The Best Lawyers in America.

Holmes, along with Thomas L. Henderson, Frederick J. Lewis and Donna K. Fischer, were named top lawyers in the area of labor and employment. The four were among 77 of the firm's attorneys across the U.S. and the U.S. Virgin Islands featured in the new edition of Best Lawyers.

35. Baker Donelson AttorneysHonored by Chambers USA - Friday, June 22, 2007
     The 2007 edition of business lawyer directory Chambers USA has named 28 attorneys at Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz PC as leading practitioners. Attorneys from the firm's offices in Memphis, Atlanta, Birm

36. Hugueley Named Chief Nursing Officer For Methodist Extended Care Hospital - Wednesday, June 20, 2007

Sandra Hugueley has been named chief nursing officer for Methodist Extended Care Hospital (MECH). Hugueley joined Methodist in 1996 as a registered nurse and became nurse manager of Medical-Surgical ICU at Methodist North Hospital in 1997. She recently served as corporate director of Interim Administrative Services.

37. Law Job Interview Begins With Summer Programs - Thursday, June 14, 2007

Farris DeBoard is a rising third-year law student at Tulane University in New Orleans. But what he learns during his eight weeks as a summer associate at Burch, Porter & Johnson PLLC might make the biggest impact on what practice area he pursues and where he'll be doing it.

38. Decision Not to Attend Medical School Led McLaren to Legal Profession He Loves - Thursday, May 31, 2007

James B. McLaren Jr. made a decision at the age of 20 that forever changed his life. Just weeks before he was set to begin the process of attending medical school at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, McLaren decided not to go.

39. Multi Modal Conference to Focus on Memphis' Growing Role in Global Marketplace - Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Memphis was a much different place in 1947.

The Interstate Highway System still was in the planning stages. The birth of FedEx was 24 years away. Global trade meant shipping cotton and lumber downriver to the Port of New Orleans before it was delivered to the world.

40. Baker Donelson AmongTop-Grossing Law Firms - Friday, July 14, 2006
    Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz PC is ranked 140th on the 2006 Am Law 200, The American Lawyer magazine's annual list of the 200 highest-grossing law firms in the country.
    In 2005, th

41. Memphis Legal Community Helps Women Face Life, Work Issues - Thursday, June 29, 2006

Angie Davis has handled many challenges in her seven years as an associate attorney with Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz PC, but the biggest one so far involves balancing depositions with soccer practice.

42. Baker Donelson MakesCut With 22 Leading Attorneys - Wednesday, June 21, 2006
     The 2006 edition of Chambers USA, a directory of America’s business lawyers, listed 22 attorneys from Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz PC as leading practitioners in their fields. Attorneys from the firm’s

43. More Law Firms Latch on to Paperless Trend - Thursday, December 8, 2005

A paperless law office would appear to be a contradiction in terms, given that most law firms dedicate entire rooms, basements and even floors to the storage of legal documents.

However, the idea of a paperless office is gaining popularity within the legal community, according to the Memphis Bar Association.

44. YMCA Board of Directors Names New CEO - Wednesday, November 30, 2005

The YMCA metropolitan board of directors named Keith G. Johnson CEO of YMCA of the Memphis & the Mid-South. Johnson is a 27-year YMCA veteran who has served in various positions in Atlanta, Fort Worth and New Orleans. His earliest position with YMCA of Memphis & the Mid-South was as vice president and executive director of the Fogelman Downtown YMCA. He graduated from Georgia State University.

45. Baker Donelsonto Reopen in New Orleans - Friday, October 21, 2005
Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz PC has announced that it will reopen its New Orleans office Monday. The Memphis-based firm was forced to relocate its New Orleans personnel to offices in Baton Rouge and Covington, La., as a result of Hu

46. Lawyers Learn Hard Lessons From New Orleans - Thursday, October 6, 2005

After living in the New Orleans area, Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz PC attorney Roy Cheatwood is familiar with hurricanes churning through the Gulf of Mexico. So it's understandable that he didn't think too much about Hurricane Katrina as it passed over South Florida as a building storm.

47. Legal Community Deals With Gulf Coast Disaster - Thursday, September 8, 2005

It's an unimaginable scene that will be ingrained in the memories of Americans for a lifetime. The death and destruction wrought by Hurricane Katrina along the Gulf Coast is affecting lives in ways that will be felt for years to come.

48. Baker Donelson TemporarilyMoves New Orleans Office - Friday, September 2, 2005
Memphis-based Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz PC has signed a lease for office space in Baton Rouge, La., to enable the more than 30 attorneys in the firm's New Orleans office to continue serving clients. The relocated office is expect

49. CCC Works to Discourage Downtown Panhandling - Friday, July 15, 2005

Nora Tucker has heard most of the stories, but occasionally a stranger greets her with a new one. For instance, recently Tucker - a board member of the South Main Association who stays in touch with many businesses in the arts district - was approached by three modestly dressed men who took a different tack in asking her for money.

50. Archived Article: Law - Thursday, December 30, 2004
2004 Proves to be Good Legal Year

Memphis Law Firms See Year of Growth

LANCE ALLAN

The Daily News

Looking back at the legal community in the year 2004, one fact emerges more than any other: Law firms were on the move. Whether merging wit...

51. Archived Article: Daily Digest - Wednesday, August 11, 2004
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35.86 Acres in Maher Trails

Financed for $1.5 Million

Chamberlain & McCreery Inc. has financed 35.86 acres near Billy Maher Road in Maher Trails Subdivision for $1.5 million, according to The Daily News Public Records Database, www.m...

52. Archived Article: Law Talk - Thursday, May 13, 2004
Lane, I apologize for not getting back to you last week

Fisher Takes Law Career Down Unique Path

LANE GARDNER CAMP

The Daily News

Gwyn R. Fisher currently serves as marketing/communications coordinator for Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldw...

53. Archived Article: Daily Digest - Friday, February 20, 2004
Wal-Mart Reports

Baker Donelson Opens

New Orleans Office

Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz PC has opened an office in New Orleans. The expansion, part of the firm's strategic growth plan for the South Central United States,...

54. Archived Article: Tech Briefs - Wednesday, August 23, 2000
Troubleshooting, Fixing and Upgrading PCs, a two-day course offered by CompEd Solutions, a division of Rockhurst University "Troubleshooting, Fixing and Upgrading PCs," a two-day course offered by CompEd Solutions, a division of Rockhurst ...

55. Archived Article: Tech Briefs - Wednesday, November 10, 1999
PlanetRx Nextel Communications Inc. announced it has activated its digital cellular and Nextel Direct Connect coverage in the Belmont and Raleigh, Tenn., areas as well as the Hatchie National Wildlife Refuge. The company also announced it has expand...

56. Archived Article: Law Focus2 - Thursday, July 22, 1999
Coping with supervisor sexual harassment Coping with supervisor sexual harassment Employers will go far in protecting themselves from vicarious liability by implementing the principles in Ellerth and Farragher By James H. Stock Jr. Special to The Da...

57. Archived Article: Memos - Wednesday, July 30, 1997
Dr Dr. Raymond R. Lagesse has been named assistant to the vice president for academic affairs at State Technical Institute. Lagesse previously worked at the State University of New York College at Geneseo where he was associate dean and director of ...

58. Archived Article: Jts Budapest Students - Thursday, October 12, 1995
10/12 jts Budapest students Hungarian law students visit U of M Exchange takes local school international By JAMES SNYDER The Daily News When five Hungarian law students from Eotvos Loran University in Budapest arrived at the University of Memphis l...