While not strictly organized by sections, lawyers in the firm tend to concentrate their practices in certain areas. The firm is engaged in general civil practice, encompassing both administrative and litigation matters, including real estate, commercial lending, mortgage based lending, land use planning and zoning, banking, commercial litigation, personal injury, medical malpractice, insurance bad faith, products liability, corporate, environmental, family, probate, tax and estate planning, labor and employment, construction dispute law, bankruptcy and creditors' rights, transportation, and immigration.

Real Estate, Banking and Mortgage Based Financing
Corporate and Business Law
Litigation
Probate and Trust Administration
Elder Law
Tax and Estate Planning
Labor and Employment
Bankruptcy and Creditors' Rights
Family Law
Immigration

REAL ESTATE, BANKING, and MORTGAGE BASED FINANCING

The firm is active in the area of real estate and mortgage based financing. Members of the firm represent sellers, buyers, and developers of real estate, and commercial and institutional lenders. Members of the firm are licensed issuing agents for national title insurance companies and are authorized examining attorneys for all title insurance companies doing business in Memphis.

The firm has represented shopping center, office, and subdivision developers, major "big box" retailers, and other clients in connection with site acquisition, land use, leasing, and related legal and administrative matters.

Attorneys who practice in this area are Jerome A. Broadhurst, William King Self, Jr., Brett A. Schubert, and John B. Maxwell, Jr.

CORPORATE and BUSINESS LAW

The firm handles transactional matters involving corporate formation, corporate governance, and tax planning. The firm's experience ranges from assisting and counseling small family corporations to sophisticated transactions involving hundreds of millions of dollars. Attorneys who practice in this area are Thomas R. Buckner, Jerome A. Broadhurst, and Bruce M. Kahn.

LITIGATION

Apperson Crump PLC has litigation experience in all courts at all levels, from General Sessions Court to the Supreme Court of the United States. Its lawyers also have appeared in the Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth Circuits, and District of Columbia Courts of Appeal; divisions of the United States District Court in Tennessee, Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi, Texas, and numerous other states; various divisions of United States Bankruptcy Court in Tennessee, Mississippi, Texas, Florida, North Carolina and Colorado; the United States Tax Court; state courts in Tennessee, Arkansas and Mississippi; and the National Labor Relations Board.

Its litigation experience in all courts includes:

• personal injury
• medical malpractice
• insurance bad faith
• products liability
  
• property damage
• contract disputes
• constitutional issues
• local governmental issues
• debt collection
• commercial litigation
• workers' compensation
• discrimination under the Fair Housing Act
• environmental litigation
• eminent domain
• employment discrimination
• estate and probate litigation
• labor disputes
• wage and hour issues
• construction contract disputes
• domestic relations
• insurance (defense and subrogation)
• bankruptcy
• taxation
• railroad/transit system
• creditors' rights and remedies, including foreclosure
• business organization disputes
• school law
• condemnation

Attorneys who practice in this area are Gary K. Smith, Bruce M. Smith, Louis Jay Miller, Richard J. Myers, Jerome A. Broadhurst, Christine Worley Stephens, Amy Harden Cannon, Henry L. Klein, Tara Ryan Kostakis, C. Philip M. Campbell, Karen M. Campbell, and Janelle C. Clark.

PROBATE and TRUST ADMINISTRATION

The firm provides representation in the administration of estates, guardianships, and conservatorships in the Probate Court as well as in will contests, disputed claims of creditors in probate, and trust reformations. Thomas R. Buckner, Bruce M. Kahn, William King Self, Jr., Lynn Wilhelm Thompson, and Thomas M. Tweel are active in probate matters.

TAX and ESTATE PLANNING

The firm handles a variety of federal and state income, estate, and gift tax matters, including tax controversy litigation in Tax Court and the U. S. District Courts, tax audits, and applications for private letter rulings, as well as tax and entity planning for individuals, corporations, and other entities. The firm has broad experience in sophisticated estate planning strategies and techniques, including family limited partnerships, sales to grantor trusts, charitable planning, private foundations, charitable lead and remainder trusts, including extensive document preparation. Thomas R. Buckner heads the tax and estate planning section and is assisted by Bruce M. Kahn, William King Self, Jr., Lynn Wilhelm Thompson, Thomas M. Tweel, and Emily G. Ellison.

ELDER LAW

In addition to the services described above in Probate, Trust Administration, Tax and Estate Planning, William King Self, Jr., a Certified Elder Law Attorney, provides services in the following areas:

• Nursing Home Issues: When a loved one is becoming unable to care for himself, the financial and personal issues the spouse and family face can seem overwhelming. If qualification for Medicaid is required, proper planning can help legally protect assets for the benefit of the spouse or for the supplemental needs of the ill individual.
• Housing and Long Term Care Planning: For some seniors planning ahead, long term care insurance is an option to consider, but it is not the only option. We have the experience to advise you, whether you are considering purchasing long term care insurance or an interest in a life care community.
• Estate Administration: When a loved one passes away, we can handle probate of the estate or administration of a trust.
• Conservatorships: When loved ones become unable to make decisions, a court-supervised conservatorship is sometimes the only way to protect them. Properly developing and implementing a plan to protect the loved one and his assets requires experienced counselors.
• Special Needs Trusts: Parents supporting a child with a disability are often concerned about how their child will be cared for after their deaths. Family members can give supplemental assistance to older nursing home residents as well. Special needs trusts provide supplemental assistance to a patient in a nursing home wihtout jeopardizing Medicaid benefits.

Please see http://www.elderlawmemphis.com

LABOR and EMPLOYMENT

The firm has a significant practice representing management in labor relations and employment law. Emphasizing a strategy of preventive labor and employment relations, the firm regularly provides day-to-day counseling on employee relations to companies of all sizes located in Tennessee and the greater Mid-South region.

The firm partners with its clients to formulate work place policies and practices that are calculated to enhance employee relations and to avoid potential disputes. To assist clients in keeping up to date on the changing nature of labor and employment law, the firm regularly publishes labor and employment law matters in a newsletter highlighting important developments of interest affecting today's employers.

When a dispute does arise, the firm works with its clients to create "solutions that work" by providing high quality, responsive representation designed to resolve the dispute as favorably as possible. If the dispute results in litigation, the firm's attorneys remain fully prepared to provide aggressive defense for its clients. The firm is experienced in defending companies against claims of discrimination or retaliation before the EEOC and other federal and state agencies, as well as in the federal and state courts at all levels. The firm is also experienced in representing employers before the NLRB, OFCCP and Department of Labor, Wage & Hour Division. It is regularly involved in cases dealing with issues such as wrongful discharge, regaliatory discharge, non-competition agreements, trade secret litigation, work place privacy, assisting employers in maintaining a safe work place and counseling regarding workers compensation claims and defending workers compensation claims before state agencies and courts, as well as coordinating workers compensation policies with other laws (i.e., the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Family and Medical Leave Act). As employers are daily confronted with new regulations, the firm is also prepared to provide training for all levels of management and non-management employees regarding employee relationships and avoiding litigation.

Our firm enjoys an Of Counsel relationship with the law firm of Jackson, Shields, Yeiser & Holt, a nationally recognized boutique labor and employment firm in Memphis.  Bruce M. Smith also practices in this area.

CREDITORS' RIGHTS and BANKRUPTCY

The firm provides representation in the areas of creditors’ rights, bankruptcy, and insolvency matters and has represented clients in all chapters of the Bankruptcy Code. Our representation includes proceedings ancillary to bankruptcy cases, such as motions for relief from automatic stay; objections to confirmation; defense of preference, fraudulent conveyance, and turnover actions; and assumption or rejection of vehicle, real estate, and equipment leases. The firm also represents secured and unsecured creditors outside of bankruptcy and handles matters regarding replevins, mechanics’ and materialmen’s liens, workouts, foreclosures, and other creditors’ remedies. Bruce M. Kahn is certified in this practice area by the Tennessee Commission on Continuing Legal Education and Specialization and by the American Board of Certification.

DIVORCE and FAMILY LAW

The Divorce and Family Law attorneys of Apperson Crump focus on several practice areas - from divorce to adoption - in the Circuit, Chancery and Juvenile Courts of Tennessee and Mississippi.  Anyone who believes they may be in need of a divorce or family law attorney should gain as much knowledge and information as possible to assist them in determining their legal options.  We are here to do just that by offering services in the following practice areas:  Adoption; Alimony; Child Custody; Child Support; Contempt; Divorce; Paternity; Pre and Postnuptial Agreements; Protective Orders and Domestic Violence.

Attorneys practicing in this area are Christine Worley Stephens, Amy Harden Cannon, and Michelle S. Strocher.  Please see http://www.divorce-memphis.com

IMMIGRATION LAW

We specialize in all areas of immigration including family based petitions, employment based petitions, temporary visas to come to the United States, and relief from removal.

We file applications for many types of temporary visas including:

• B-1/B-2 Visitor's Visas and their extensions
• F-1 Student Visas
• H-1B Specialty Occupation Visas
• K-1/K-3 Fiance/Spouse Visas

We assist clients in the green card process, either through consular processing or adjustment right here in the United States. We provide for our clients relief from removal/deportation including cancellation of removal and voluntary departure. This relief may include asylum/withholding of removal/CAT for our clients who have suffered past persecution or have a well-founded fear of future persecution.

We also specialize in employment-based visas including labor certifications and work visas. Other areas include Temporary Protective Status applications, late registration, and re-registration. For aliens who have been lawful permanent residents, we assist in naturalization applications and interviews.

We also assist with clients who are being detained by ICE for immigration violations. For these clients we have successfully helped clients be released on orders of supervision.

Attorneys practicing in this area are Mona Mansour and Tara Ryan Kostakis.