Member:

Knoxville Bar Association, Tennessee Bar Association, American Bar Assocation, Federal Bar Association, International Bar Association, Tennessee Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (Life Member) and Fellow with the American Academy of Criminal Defense Lawyers

Honors:

Fellow:  American College of Trial Lawyers
Fellow:  International Society of Barristers
Senior Counsel:  The College of Master Advocates and Barristers
DICTA Best Writing Award: 2000 & 2004
Life Member:  Judicial Conference of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals
Selected for The Best Lawyers in Amereica 2001 - Present
Master of the Bench, Hamilton Burnett Inns of Court, 2006 
Chairman of the Knox County Democratic Party, 1989-1991
University of Tennessee Legal Clinic Certificate of Merit, 1977
Governor Lamar Alexander Certificate of Appreciation, 1982
Special Master, Knox County Criminal Court, 1996, 2000 and 2006
Guest Legal Analyst, Court TV, 1999
Guest Legal Analyst, Oxygen Network, 2007

Reported Cases:

State v. Severs, 759 SW 2d 935 (Tenn Crim App., 1988); Sims v. Livesay, 970 F2d 1575 (6th Cir, 1992); Dillon v. State, 844 SW2d 139 (Tenn., 1992), cert. denied 507 US 988, 113 S. Ct. 1589, 123 L.Ed.2d 155, 1993; United States v. Pipes, 87 F3d 840 (6th Cir, 1996); State v. Irick, 973 SW2d 643 (Tenn. Crim. App., 1998); Dillon v. United States, 184 F3d 556 (6th Cir 1999); Riggs v. United States, 209 F3d 858 (6th Cir 2000); Greene v. TN Dept of Corrections, 265 F3d 369 (6th Cir 2001), Hickman v. State of Tennessee, 153 S.W.3d 16 (2004); United States v. Stone, 432 F3d 651 (6th Cir 2005), Partin v. State of Tennessee, 127 S.Ct. 1240, 167 L.Ed.2d 57 (2007).

Publications

"Juries: Our Life Blood," DICTA, Volume 34, Issue 5, May 2007.

"Our Temples of Justice," DICTA, Volume 31, Issue 8, Setpember 2004 - awarded best article for 2004.

"Trial Manual for Habitual Criminal Cases in Tennessee" appearing in The Champion, 1984

"Cross-Examination of Government Scientific Witnesses" appearing in The Champion, September/October 1993.

"Pretrial Release - Community ties to the 21st Century," The Champion, September/October 2003

Killer Cross-Examinations "The Pit Bull" published in 1996

"Justice Kidnapped" published in 2000.

"Clarence Darrow: Lessons for Today's Lawyer" published in 2004, by request, placed in collection in the library of the University of Tennessee College of Law and the Archives of Federal Court Historical Society.

"The Design of Justice," Dicta, Volume 26, Issue 9, October 20, 2000 - awarded best article for 2000

"A Plea for Chivalry", Dicta Volume 27, Issue 3, March 21,2001

"Crime in America", International Society of Barristers Quarterly, Volume 35, No. 4, October 2000.

Contributing author "Tennessee Death Penalty Defense Manual", Tennessee Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.