FedEx Corp. has announced that Mark R. Allen will assume the roles of executive vice president, general counsel, and secretary effective Oct. 1.

2. FedEx Names New EVP, General Counsel - Thursday, August 17, 2017

FedEx Corp. has announced that Mark R. Allen will assume the roles of executive vice president, general counsel, and secretary effective Oct. 1.

3. FedEx General Counsel Announces Retirement - Saturday, July 22, 2017

FedEx Corp.’s executive vice president, general counsel and secretary Christine P. Richards has announced she will retire from her role with the company effective Sept. 30, 2018.

4. Last Word: Freeze Warning, Corker on Obamacare Repeal and The Disney Example - Friday, July 21, 2017

What do you call it when you expect a lot of trouble coming from a specific direction – with a detailed roadmap -- and a completely different controversy comes in from a different direction, hits and leaves a crater. Whatever you call it, that is what happened to Ole Miss football coach Hugh Freeze Thursday evening. Or did it?

5. FedEx General Counsel Announces Retirement - Friday, July 21, 2017

FedEx Corp.’s executive vice president, general counsel and secretary Christine P. Richards has announced she will retire from her role with the company effective Sept. 30, 2018.

6. FedEx CEO Downplays Amazon ‘Industry Disruption’ - Thursday, March 17, 2016

FedEx Corp. founder and CEO Fred Smith never said the word “Amazon,” but the e-commerce giant was clearly on his mind Wednesday.

Smith addressed speculation about “industry disruption” by Amazon from the outset of Memphis-based FedEx’s quarterly earnings conference call. He also defended the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement, noting that both of the frontrunners for the Democratic and Republican presidential nominations are opposed to it.

7. Memphis-Based EdR Sees Strong Leasing Season - Saturday, October 3, 2015

Memphis-based EdR, which owns, develops and manages collegiate housing across 23 states, saw a strong 2015-16 lease term with a total rental revenue growth of 3.8 percent over last year.

The 2015-16 lease term opened with 97 percent occupancy compared with 96.6 percent last year.

8. Memphis-Based EdR Sees Strong Leasing Season - Tuesday, September 29, 2015

Memphis-based EdR, which owns, develops and manages collegiate housing across 23 states, saw a strong 2015-16 lease term with a total rental revenue growth of 3.8 percent over last year.

The 2015-16 lease term opened with 97 percent occupancy compared with 96.6 percent last year.

9. FedEx Records $2.2 Billion Pension Accounting Charge - Saturday, June 20, 2015

FedEx Corp. has changed accounting procedures for its pension plan in order to provide a more timely view of the plan’s performance.

10. FedEx Records $2.2 Billion Pension Accounting Charge - Saturday, June 13, 2015

FedEx Corp. will take a $2.2 billion charge as it changes pension accounting methods.

The Memphis-based company, which said the changes will provide a more timely view of the pension plan’s performance, will record the estimated $2.2 billion non-cash, pretax charge for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2015.

11. FedEx Records $2.2 Billion Pension Accounting Charge - Monday, June 15, 2015

FedEx Corp. will take a $2.2 billion charge as it changes pension accounting methods.

The Memphis-based company, which said the changes will provide a more timely view of the pension plan’s performance, will record the estimated $2.2 billion non-cash, pretax charge for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2015.

12. Building the Base - Saturday, January 3, 2015

It was late September, and local officials were deeply engaged with retail giant Target as the company explored investing in an online fulfillment center in Memphis when the discussions turned toward a familiar subject.

13. FedEx Weighs in on PILOT Incentives - Saturday, August 23, 2014

FedEx has urged Memphis officials to keep tax incentives for businesses in place and suggested that any major changes to the existing program could cause the company to invest elsewhere.

"As we look at the modernization of the Express air hubs, the availability of incentives by local governments is an important factor to our decisions, whether it is here in Memphis, Indianapolis, Newark, Greensboro or Oakland," Christine P. Richards, FedEx executive vice president, wrote in a July 31 letter to City Council chairman Jim Strickland and Memphis Mayor A C Wharton Jr. "We would be disappointed to see action taken to change the PILOT program, particularly with respect to retention, that would disadvantage Memphis in comparison to other locations.”

14. Source: Horizon Under Contract To Be Purchased - Thursday, August 21, 2014

The Horizon, an uncompleted 16-story residential tower overlooking the Mississippi River on the southern end of Downtown, could change hands soon.

A yet-to-be-identified buyer is under contract to purchase the tower, according to sources familiar with the effort.

15. FedEx Weighs In on PILOT Incentives - Wednesday, August 20, 2014

FedEx has urged Memphis officials to keep tax incentives for businesses in place and suggested that any major changes to the existing program could cause the company to invest elsewhere.

"As we look at the modernization of the Express air hubs, the availability of incentives by local governments is an important factor to our decisions, whether it is here in Memphis, Indianapolis, Newark, Greensboro or Oakland," Christine P. Richards, FedEx executive vice president, wrote in a July 31 letter to City Council chairman Jim Strickland and Memphis Mayor A C Wharton Jr. "We would be disappointed to see action taken to change the PILOT program, particularly with respect to retention, that would disadvantage Memphis in comparison to other locations.”

16. Memphis Bar Judicial Poll Released - Tuesday, July 1, 2014

The Memphis Bar Association poll of attorneys on the judicial races on the Aug. 7 ballot shows 16 percent to as high as 38 percent of the attorneys participating have no opinion in many of the judicial races.

17. Harris Files Ford Challenge at Deadline - Thursday, April 3, 2014

Memphis City Council member Lee Harris is challenging Democratic state Sen. Ophelia Ford in the August primary for District 29, the Senate seat held by a member of the Ford family since 1975.

18. EdR Reports Increased Occupancy at School Start - Saturday, October 5, 2013

Memphis-based EdR experienced an increase in occupancy to begin the academic year.

EdR, one of the nation’s largest developers, owners and managers of collegiate housing, announced Monday, Sept. 30, it opened the 2013-2014 lease term with 94.1 percent occupancy, up from 91.1 percent occupancy a year ago. The company also said same-community net rental rates increased 2 percent over last year.

19. EdR Reports Increased Occupancy at School Start - Tuesday, October 1, 2013

Memphis-based EdR experienced an increase in occupancy to begin the academic year.

EdR, one of the nation's largest developers, owners and managers of collegiate housing, announced Monday, Sept. 30, it opened the 2013-2014 lease term with 94.1 percent occupancy, up from 91.1 percent occupancy a year ago. The company also said same-community net rental rates increased 2 percent over last year.

20. FedEx Executives to Speak at Leadership Event - Saturday, July 6, 2013

FedEx Corp. executives will discuss Memphis, leadership and community at a New Memphis Institute breakfast forum Thursday, July 11, from 7:30 a.m. to 9 a.m.

21. FedEx Executives Highlight Leadership Breakfast - Tuesday, July 2, 2013

FedEx Corp. executives will discuss Memphis, leadership and community at a New Memphis Institute breakfast forum Thursday, July 11, from 7:30 a.m. to 9 a.m.

22. Pitching Memphis - Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Staunching a brain drain of college-age creative talent is a task cities around the country are undertaking with varying degrees of enthusiasm.

In Memphis, that sales job begins in earnest each summer. And it results in a big push to introduce college-educated interns to top executives and local cultural attractions – basically, the best the city has to offer – in the hope those young people will put down roots here.

23. Bryce to Keep 318 Workers in Memphis - Friday, April 19, 2013

A packaging maker for retail brands like Frito-Lay and General Mills is getting a tax incentive worth $3 million to keep 318 workers in Memphis and add 95 new employees as part of a $21 million expansion here.

24. Critical Merger Decision Now Centers on School Board - Wednesday, March 6, 2013

The group with the most direct role in what a consolidated school system will look like and how it will operate is now the group at the center of the ongoing federal lawsuit over the merger and the reactions to it.

25. Merger Special Master Could Have Different Terms - Friday, March 1, 2013

The Shelby County Commission, the city of Memphis and suburban Shelby County leaders all agree details of the merger of public schools in Shelby County could come down to a federal court order.

But in their filings Wednesday, Feb. 27, in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee, there are some differences in how the three parties in the federal lawsuit believe the court might become involved directly in the merger.

26. Commission, City and Suburbs Agree on Schools Master - Thursday, February 28, 2013

Attorneys for the Shelby County Commission, the city of Memphis and suburban leaders agree that a special master should be appointed by Memphis Federal Court Judge Samuel “Hardy” Mays.

The master would generally monitor progress toward the August date for the consolidation of Shelby County’s two public school systems.

27. Events - Tuesday, October 16, 2012

The Memphis Association of Law and Business will host a lecture by Christine Richards, executive vice president of general counsel at FedEx, Tuesday, Oct. 16, at noon in the University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law Wade Auditorium, 1 N. Front St. Visit memphis.edu/law for details.

28. Events - Monday, October 15, 2012

The Orpheum Theatre will hold an online auction featuring memorabilia from President and CEO Pat Halloran’s 32 years with the organization Monday, Oct. 15, through Friday, Oct. 19, at orpheum-memphis.com. Proceeds benefit the capital campaign for the Orpheum’s Performing Arts Education & Leadership Centre. Visit the website for a list of available items.

29. EdR Increases Leasing, Decreases Occupancy for Current Academic Year - Tuesday, October 2, 2012

EdR saw net rental rates increase 5.1 percent for its same-community portfolio for the 2012-2013 lease term over 2011-2012.

But the Memphis-based developer, owner and manager of collegiate housing’s same-community opening occupancy was 90.5 percent for the 2012-2013 lease term, compared to 94.7 percent occupancy in the prior year.

30. Mayors Taking MEM Concerns to Nashville - Friday, August 17, 2012

When Memphis Mayor A C Wharton Jr. and Shelby County Mayor Mark Luttrell are in Nashville Monday, Aug. 20, to meet with Gov. Bill Haslam one or both of them will probably also discuss possible incentives for Memphis International Airport.

31. Workforce Preparation - Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam has been hearing the same thing as he travels across the state holding forums on higher education.

Tennessee’s technology centers don’t have the equipment that employers want to see their workers trained on before they hire them.

32. New School System Faces $89M Shortfall - Monday, May 28, 2012

The gap between expenses and revenues for a countywide school system that debuts in August 2013 is estimated at $89 million by the group that is planning what the school system will look like and how it will operate.

33. Seven Schools Chosen For ‘Innovation Zone’ Program - Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Those planning the new consolidated countywide school system to come in August 2013 now have a list of seven elementary and middle schools that will be part of a federally funded “innovation zone.”

34. Leaders Examine School System Options - Tuesday, April 10, 2012

The idea that the consolidation of Shelby County’s two school systems will involve a choice between what one of the existing school systems has over what the other has is an oversimplification.

But there are some choices to be made by the consolidation planning commission.

35. Consolidation Planning Remains in Flux - Monday, April 2, 2012

The way some on the schools consolidation planning commission see it, the group has some momentum going in its goal of selling a still-forming consolidated school system plan to parents – urban and suburban.

36. Planning Commission Reworking System Structure - Monday, March 5, 2012

The schools consolidation planning commission isn’t quite ready to vote on a structure for the consolidated countywide system to come. That milestone vote may come Thursday, March 8.

The hold up is how the new system will handle decisions that are already being dictated by other events in education reform like charter schools and the state’s Achievement School District.

37. More Work Needed Before May Referenda - Monday, February 27, 2012

Municipal school districts may be a good idea.

But what passes for a plan to launch such school systems is dangerously deficient and a disservice to the suburban voters who are being asked to embark down the road to such school districts in a set of referenda in May.

38. Suburban Schools’ Train ‘Has Left the Station’ - Monday, February 20, 2012

The six suburban mayors say the train to municipal school districts is on the tracks and has no time to stop to consider whatever plan the schools consolidation transition planning commission comes up with for a merged public school system.

39. Suburban Mayors Hear Lots Of Concerns From Schools Planning Commission - Friday, February 17, 2012

The group drawing up the blueprint for a consolidated countywide public school system will plan for a school system that covers the entire county including the suburban towns and cities.

That’s what the chairwoman of the schools consolidation transition planning commission told all six suburban mayors Thursday, Feb. 16, as the planning commission talked with the mayors about their plans to create municipal school districts.

40. Education Realty Trust Rebrands, Promotes Key Execs - Monday, January 9, 2012

Memphis-based Education Realty Trust Inc. has had a busy few months, ending fourth-quarter 2011 with several new properties in hand and starting 2012 by turning over a new leaf entirely – to be more specific, a new name, a new logo, new positions for several key executives and a $28 million acquisition.

41. Charlotte Supt. to Talk Schools Merger - Monday, December 12, 2011

The schools consolidation planning commission will talk Monday, Dec. 12, with the former superintendent of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools system in North Carolina.

Peter Gorman resigned as superintendent of the consolidated school system in August to become part of the new education division of News Corp., Rupert Murdoch’s media company.

42. Schools Planning Commission Hires Consultant, Sets Budget - Friday, December 9, 2011

Boston Consulting Group has been hired as the consultant to the schools consolidation planning commission and could begin its work as early as Friday, Dec. 9.

The commission approved the contract through the non-profit Shelby County Schools Education Foundation Thursday afternoon in a unanimous voice vote.

43. USPS Cuts Will be Felt in Memphis - Friday, December 9, 2011

The recent set of U.S. Postal Service recommendations for closings would have a larger impact in Memphis than customers waiting two or three days instead of next-day service for letter and package delivery.

44. Schools Planning Commission Hears From Huffman - Friday, December 2, 2011

The schools consolidation planning commission approved the idea Thursday, Dec. 1, of the Shelby County Education Foundation being the middle man for a contract with an education consultant group.

But a contract with Boston Consulting Group isn’t quite ready yet said planning commission member and attorney Christine Richards who is drafting the agreement.

45. EDR Announces Leasing Results for Academic Year - Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Education Realty Trust Inc. – a Memphis-based developer, owner and manager of collegiate housing – has announced what it is calling “market-leading” leasing results for the 2011-2012 academic school year.

46. Schools Planning Commission Begins Work - Thursday, September 29, 2011

The 21-member schools consolidation planning commission goes to work Thursday, Sept. 29, in a conference room at the city-county Office of Construction Code Enforcement in Shelby Farms.

47. Luttrell Makes Picks for Schools Planning Group - Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Shelby County Mayor Mark Luttrell has picked his five choices for the schools consolidation planning commission: two higher education officials, a corporate attorney, an Episcopal priest heading BRIDGES USA and an elementary school principal.

48. Luttrell Makes Picks for Consolidation Planning Group - Friday, September 2, 2011

Shelby County Mayor Mark Luttrell has picked his five choices for the schools consolidation planning commission: two higher-education officials, a corporate attorney, an Episcopal priest heading BRIDGES USA and an elementary school principal.

49. Archived Article: Daily Digest - Wednesday, March 16, 2005
Poplar Property

Poplar Property

Sells for $4.5 Million

I.S. Fountain Place LLC has purchased 2.13 acres at 5400 Poplar Ave. near Valleybrook Drive from Triad Properties Holdings-Poplar LLC for $4.5 million, according to The Daily News Publi...

50. Archived Article: Focus Box - Thursday, February 11, 1999
Panelists: "The Legal and Ethical Implications of Business Law and E-Commerce," Bryan Campus Life Center, Rhodes College, Feb. 15; Program panelists: Daniel E. Cullen, associate professor of political science, Rhodes College Peter Granoff,...