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Debra Fulton has all been honored by inclusion in the 2019 Mid-South Super Lawyers. Debbie is top rated in Workers' Compensation in Knoxville, Tennessee. 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 selection process is multi-phased and includes independent research, peer ...

John Lawhorn has all been honored by inclusion in the 2019 Mid-South Super Lawyers. John is top rated in Employment and Labor in Knoxville, Tennessee. 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 selection process is multi-phased and includes independent research, ...

Frantz, McConnell & Seymour, LLP has been ranked in the 2020 U.S. News - Best Lawyers® "Best Law Firms" list and regionally in 16 practice areas. Firms included in the 2020 "Best Law Firms" list are recognized for professional excellence with persistently impressive ratings from clients and peers. Achieving a tiered ranking signals a unique combination of quality law practice ...

Frantz, McConnell & Seymour, LLP attorney Reggie E. Keaton was recently recognized by Best Lawyersas the 2020 "Lawyer of the Year" for Litigation - Construction in the Knoxville area. Only a single lawyer in each practice area and designated metropolitan area is honored as the "Lawyer of the Year," making this accolade particularly significant. These lawyers are selected based on ...

Frantz, McConnell & Seymour, LLP attorney Donald D. Howell was recently recognized by Best Lawyers as the 2020 "Lawyer of the Year" for Litigation - Insurance in the Knoxville area. Only a single lawyer in each practice area and designated metropolitan area is honored as the "Lawyer of the Year," making this accolade particularly significant. These lawyers are selected based ...

Frantz, McConnell & Seymour, LLP is pleased to announce that 8 lawyers have been included in the 2020 Edition of The Best Lawyers in America. Since it was first published in 1983, Best Lawyers has become universally regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence. Best Lawyers has published their list for over three decades, earning the respect of the ...

John Lawhorn will be speaking at the East Tennessee EEOC Seminar on “Conducting an Internal Harassment Investigation” on August 28, 2019 at the Sevierville Convention Center. This seminar is sponsored by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission as part of its EEOC Training Institute. The seminar brings together both EEOC enforcement staff and private lawyers to address topics in employment ...

Eleven FMS attorneys were named by Knoxville’s CityView Magazine as Top Attorneys in 2019 in their respective fields. Each year the magazine calls upon members of the local bar association to vote for their peers in various practice areas. We have listed our winning attorneys and the categories in which they were named as Top Attorneys below. We are proud ...

The partners of Frantz, McConnell and Seymour LLP regret to announce that Arthur G. Seymour Jr. died on Monday March 11, 2019 after a brief illness. Arthur was valued partner, mentor and friend whose life’s goal was to continue the legacy set in place by his grandfather 117 years ago of providing quality legal service and guidance to the firm’s ...

In a December, 2017 trial, James E. Wagner defended a workers compensation case involving an employee of Alcoa, Inc. who died from pancreatic cancer. The employee’s widow claimed that the employee’s cancer was caused by workplace exposure to coal tar pitch. The trial court dismissed the case for lack of medical evidence that coal tar pitch could cause this type ...