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Chris graduated cum laude from SMU Dedman School of Law, where he was a member of the Dean’s honor roll and Chief Counsel of the Child Advocacy Clinic.. Prior to law school, Chris received his B.B.A. in Management and Operations, with a minor in finance, from the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas in Austin, where he was a member of the Gamma Beta Phi Honors Society, the Brass Ring Consulting Program, and an intern for the Texas House of Representatives 78th Legislature.. In addition to his legal career, Chris serves on the Board of GOALS, a non-profit organization that seeks to improve the life of special needs children.. Chris has offices in Southlake, Frisco and Arlington, Texas.

Warren Norred uses his engineering and business experience to help others starting their own organizations in the Arlington area. He's been involved in the community for nearly thirty years, leading efforts to make Arlington a better place to live with such activities as helping to found the Arlington Classics Academy (the nation's largest start-up charter school), and political fights to keep Arlington and Texas a great place to build a business.. Warren's wife Annette assists him in the office as office manager and paralegal. The firm, Norred Law, PLLC, is a mid-size legal practice focused on business matters, civil litigation, intellectual property, and bankruptcy issues. The main office is centrally located in downtown Arlington, but we also have offices in Southlake, Dallas, Plano, Waco, and Fort Worth.

The founder of Holloway Law, Dave is an experienced trial attorney, having tried over 40 cases in his career. He focuses on representing entrepreneurs and small businesses, helping them grow and protect their valuable assets, ideas, and business practices. Additionally, Dave is Of Counsel to the Shlanksy Law Group, handling their business litigation in Delaware.. Dave also serves as a contract attorney with the Office of the Child Advocate, where he represents children in Delaware who have been placed into foster care. Dave represents these children throughout their entire stay in foster care, and, in some cases, for years beyond that.. Prior to founding Holloway Law, Dave spent 4 years as a Deputy Attorney General with the Delaware Department of Justice, where he served as a prosecutor in the Misdemeanor Trial Unit, the New Castle County Felony Trial Unit, and the Wilmington Felony Trial Unit. In time his time as a prosecutor, Dave handled thousands of cases, including traffic offenses, DUI’s, shoplifting/thefts, burglaries, drug dealings, robberies, firearms offenses, and homicides.. In addition to his normal caseload, he was also the lead prosecutor for the Drug Diversion Program in the Court of Common Pleas and the Mental Health Program in Superior Court; this experience gives him unique insight into how the criminal justice system deals with those who are battling addiction and/or mental health issues.. After his time as a prosecutor, Dave worked as a Copyright Litigator, where he represented photographers in complex, multi-million dollar Federal lawsuits against large publishing companies.. Dave received his law degree from the Temple University Beasley School of Law, where he focused on Trial Advocacy and public service. His dedication to public service work while at Temple Law earned him induction as a Fellow into the Rubin Public Service Honor Society.. While in law school, Dave served as a Judicial Intern for the Honorable Ellen M. Ceisler in the Court of Common Pleas of the First Judicial District of Pennsylvania. He also interned and participated in a Clinical Program for the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office.. Dave has served as a Guest Lecturer for the Delaware Supplemental Bar Review, where he has lectured on the Rules of Evidence.. Dave holds a Bachelors in Business Administration (B.B.A.) from Temple University’s Fox School of Business, where he majored in Risk Management and Insurance.

Bill is an accomplished corporate executive and lawyer, who practices law with the pragmatism of a business person. Currently, Bill is the President and a practicing attorney with Dolan Law LLC. He also serves on the Pennsylvania Bar Association Unauthorized Practice of Law Committee, is a member of the Taxation Section of the Delaware State Bar Association, and is a member of the Business Law Section of the American Bar Association. Additionally, Bill is a member of the board of directors of the Delaware Valley Filmmaking Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing the arts throughout the Delaware Valley. Prior to Bill’s current role, he practiced law with Richards, Layton & Finger, an internationally recognized corporate law firm.. Bill graduated from Rutgers School of Law—Newark magna cum laude, was a member of its Law Review and Moot Court Board, interned for the Honorable Novalyn L. Winfield in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of New Jersey, and was a research assistant and teaching associate for the Legal Research and Writing department.. Prior to law school, Bill had an accomplished business career. He was the Chief Executive Officer of a boutique mortgage company for nearly ten years, was a majority partner in a regional title company, was a real estate investor, and produced two independent films. Since 2003, Bill has been a regular guest on television and radio programs and a speaker at a variety of events as a financial services, real estate, and legal expert.

Kas R. DeCarvalho is a Partner with Pannone Lopes Devereaux & O'Gara LLC and a member of the firm's Corporate & Business Team. With nearly 20 years of expertise and specific focus on business and transactional law, his practice includes business structuring and formations, financing, mergers and acquisitions, commercial real estate, intellectual property, international business ethics and compliance, arts and entertainment law and education law. His clients include private businesses, individuals and nonprofit organizations. Attorney DeCarvalho is also the founder of Original Innovative Concepts LLC, a product development and licensing venture, and Rhode Island Martial Arts, Inc., a non-profit entity providing training and life skills to inner-city youth.. Mr. DeCarvalho is also an active community volunteer, presently serving on the boards of multiple nonprofit and business development organizations, including the Providence Economic Development Partnership, the Greater Providence YMCA, RI Public Television, Thurgood Marshall Law Society, The Metropolitan Career and Technical Center (The MET School), the Providence Athenaeum, Oasis International and Progresso Latino. He is also an appointed member of the Rhode Island Commission on Judicial Tenure and Discipline, an member of the Rhode Island Commodores and is a graduate of Leadership Rhode Island/Omega Class. He has been recognized for his skills as a corporate attorney in the New England edition of Super Lawyers.

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Sonya Smith Wright is a graduate of Emory University School of Law, where she was inducted into the Order of the Barristers for outstanding oral advocacy and legal writing. She is an experienced litigator with a wealth of diverse experiences. Wright began her career with a large defense firm in its civil litigation department, where she participated in several state jury trials and successfully defended a multimillion dollar lawsuit in federal court for a national hotel chain. She also tried one of the first medical malpractice cases to ever go to arbitration in Tennessee obtaining a full defense verdict.  Wright's practice is divided between four main practice areas: business advice and litigation; insurance disputes; probate litigation, adoptions and conservatorships/guardianships; and agriculture law.. Wright has a passion for advising business owners. From start-up to winding down and succession planning and everything inbetween, she has drafted purchase and sale agreements, worked with clients on all types of contracts, and designed discovery plans for businesses that can be used throughout the country to help cut costs and ensure a strong and consistent defense if that time comes. Wright has also defended businesses in a host of cases from construction litigation to premise liability to partner disputes to other contract disputes.  Wright always works with her clients to make strategic decisions that are best for the business.. Wright also has vast experience in the insurance field.  She has represented business owners and homeowners when natural disasters have occurred including fires, tornadoes, hail, sinkholes and other natural disasters and worked with individuals after the death of a family member in the life insurance arena.. Because of her own life experiences, Wright has developed a niche in helping families with different matters after the passing of a loved one, not only in the life insurance arena but in probate and will contests. She has also helped families dealing with the decline of a loved one through conservatorships. She especially enjoys helping play a small role in growing families in the area of adoptions.. Wright grew up on a tobacco and cattle farm just outside of Lebanon, Tennessee, where she and her sisters were involved in 4-H and FFA because of the passion for the farm, Wright has remained active in her agriculture roots and enjoys representing, advising and supporting those involved in agriculture with all types of legal issues that arise.  She has served as the state advisor for the Tennessee Junior Angus Association, a director on the Tennessee Angus Association Board of Directors, and the Beef Superintendent of the Tennessee State Fair. She lives on a farm outside of Lebanon with her husband, son and two daughters.

Mackenzie is a highly personable and results-oriented Attorney and Government Relations professional, who possesses a thorough understanding of the law and has vast experience in government, business and non-profit organizations. Her passion for advocating on behalf of others and her legal training and experience make her an invaluable asset to the Collins Law Firm clients.

I assist clients in corporate, technology, information technology, intellectual property, and entertainment (film) transactions. I also enjoy working with entrepreneurs to create new value propositions and was certified as a New Product Development Professional.. In the technology sector, I am one of less than 10 attorneys in private practice to be named a Fellow in the World Technology Network (selected by over 1,000 internationally recognized experts and futurists who are current Fellows for innovative legal work recognized to be of "the greatest likely long-term significance"). I literally wrote the book on technology law -Frey on Technology Transactions – as well as dozens of other books and articles on technology, intellectual property, and entertainment law.  I have been selected “attorney of the year” by legal rating services in Technology Law, Information Technology Law, and Intellectual Property Law.. In the entertainment area, I represent a number of film production companies and serve as President of the Nashville Film Festival (one the top 10 film festivals in the U.S.). I have written award-winning scripts, acted in films, crewed, and served as producer/associate producer for several film projects.. I believe strongly in ethical business practices - and I back up this commitment by serving as General Counsel to the Board of the Ethics and Compliance Officers Association (the trade association for the Chief Compliance Officers of the Global 1000).  I have designed a number of cost effective, sustainable, and defensible internal control programs for Fortune 100 companies to help them mitigate their compliance risks and assure their employees behave in an ethical way.

William Hicky is a West Tennessee native, having been born and raised in Memphis. He graduated from the University of Mississippi in 2003 with a Bachelor of Business Administration degree, where he was a member of the National Society of Collegiate Scholars and on the Chancellor’s Honor Roll. William also received his law degree from the University of Mississippi School of Law in 2006.. William is admitted to practice in every State and Federal Court of Tennessee, including the Federal Bankruptcy Courts, 6th Circuit Court of Appeals, and Supreme Court of the United States.. Hicky Law focuses its practice in the areas of business & contract litigation, debt collection & negotiation, corporate fraud recovery as well as personal injury, car & tractor trailer wrecks, premises liability, and workers’ compensation. He has received an AV rating through Martindale-Hubbell's peer review for highest ethical standards and legal ability.. William is a member of the Tennessee and Nashville Bar Associations where he currently serves as a Board Member on both Young Lawyers Divisions as the Professional Development Director (NBA) and Public Policy Liaison (TBA). He is also a member of the Harry J. Phillips American Inn of Courts.. Prior to opening Hicky Law, William was a senior associate at Rudy, Wood, Winstead, Williams & Hardin, PLLC in Nashville where he primarily concentrated in the areas of personal injury and workers’ compensation defense. Prior to that firm, William was an associate at Taylor, Pigue, Marchetti & Blair, PLLC where he represented numerous financial institutions in debt collection and bankruptcy proceedings as well as business litigation and insurance defense.. William has been long-active in the Nashville philanthropic community and has been named to the Nashville BAR Foundation's Leadership Forum and one of Nashville’s Top 30 Under 30 by the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. He is a member of St. George’s Episcopal Church.

Mr. Winston counsels clients ranging from small local businesses to large national companies in business sales and acquisitions. Mr. Winston also maintains a general practice in estate planning, debt collection, probate, corporate law, litigation, and criminal defense. He earned his juris doctorate, cum laude, from the University of South Carolina in 2014. In law school, Mr. Winston was the recipient of the CALI Excellence for the Future Award in Advanced Legal Writing.. Mr. Winston is a member of the Knoxville Bar Association and the Federalist Society. Mr. Winston enjoys spending time with his wife, Jessie, an art teacher at Bearden Middle School, and their two children, Jacob (b. April 2015) and Kate (b. April 2017).

I am the Founder and Chief Legal Counsel of Counsel & Clarity Legal, PLLC. Counsel & Clarity provides legal support to businesses, including growth-stage companies, small businesses, start-ups, and entrepreneurs.. Our core legal service offering, Profit from Legal™ is a fractional Chief Legal Officer service, designed to improve a business's growth, stability, efficiency, and profitability. Our clients pay a flat annual rate, and all legal services included in the Profit from Legal™ service plan are delivered on an unlimited basis. Invoice financing is available.. We also provide custom business legal services on request, including but not limited to Mergers & Acquisitions support, contract drafting and review, legal consulting, dispute resolution, and more!. For more information, visit our website.