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J. BRYAN ECHOLS is a member of Dickinson Wright PLLC. His focus is on development of residential and commercial real estate, including zoning and land use, acquisitions and due diligence, financing, development, and leasing. Mr. Echols has assisted owners in the development of single-family, multi-family, mixed use and commercial centers. He also represents lenders in loan transactions, including credit facilities secured by real estate interests. In addition, Mr. Echols represents the Land Trust for Tennessee when landowners voluntarily grant conservation easements to preserve their land for future generations. He earned his B.S. degree from the United States Air Force Academy and his J.D. degree from Vanderbilt University. Mr. Echols is a member of the American, Nashville and Tennessee bar associations and the National Association of Industrial and Office Properties. CARLA FENSWICK is a partner at Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis LLP in the firm's real estate practice. She has extensive experience in the areas of commercial real estate development and commercial leasing of office space and office buildings. Ms. Fenswick is a member of the Business Law Section and Real Property Trust & Probate Section of the American Bar Association, and the Real Estate and Construction Committees of the Nashville Bar Association. She earned her B.A. degree, cum laude, from Vanderbilt University and her J.D., magna cum laude, Order of the Coif, from Tulane University School of Law. N. COURTNEY HOLLINS is a partner with Wyatt, Tarrant & Combs, LLP in Nashville and practices in the areas of real estate, corporate, banking and commercial law. She has lectured for the Nashville Bar Association on real estate and title topics. Ms. Hollins earned her B.S. and J.D. degrees from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. She is a past member of the National Advisory Council (Executive Committee) for the U.S. Small Business Administration. Ms. Hollins is a member of the Nashville (member and past chair, Real Estate Committee), Tennessee (member, Real Estate Committee and Executive Council) and American bar associations, and she is a fellow of the Nashville Bar Foundation. WILLIAM L. NORTON III is a partner in the Nashville law firm of Bradley Arant Boult Cummings, LLP, in Nashville, where his main area of practice is in the commercial finance area, dealing primarily in creditors' rights and insolvency. He is certified as a business bankruptcy law specialist by the Tennessee Commission on Legal Education and Specialization. Mr. Norton is an adjunct professor at Vanderbilt University School of Law and a frequent speaker at seminars on bankruptcy, real property foreclosure and the Uniform Commercial Code. He is the managing editor of Norton Bankruptcy Law & Practice 3d and co-wrote Norton Creditors' Rights Handbook (West). Mr. Norton earned his B.A. and J.D. degrees from Vanderbilt University. He is a fellow at the American College of Bankruptcy, a past president of the American Board of Certification, a past president and founder of the Tennessee Turnaround Management Association, and a past president of the Mid-South Commercial Law Institute. Mr. Norton is a member of the Nashville, Tennessee and American (member, Business Bankruptcy Committee, Business Section) bar associations, and the American Bankruptcy Institute. WILLIAM L. PENNY is a partner in the Nashville law firm of Stites & Harbison, PLLC, where he practices in the area of environmental law. His environmental practice covers a wide range of environmental law at the state and federal levels, including natural resource law, remediation, negotiation with regulatory agencies in environmental matters, superfund litigation, RCRA matters, brownfield redevelopment, wetlands, water quality, radiological waste and compliance, and air pollution control. Mr. Penny regularly counsels clients on compliance issues and represents businesses before state environmental boards, the Department of Environment and Conservation for permit appeals and matters before the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. He has been involved in controversial land use developments where environmental issues were a major factor, and represents contractors, manufacturing companies, local governments and other individuals in environmental matters. Mr. Penny served as general counsel for the Tennessee Department of Health and Environment and, subsequently, the Department of Environment & Conservation for more than eight years. He is a frequent speaker at local, state and national seminars dealing with environmental law, and is an instructor of environmental law at the Nashville School of Law. Mr. Penny is the principal author of the book A Practical Guide To Tennessee Environmental Law. In addition he is a co-author of the ABA Brownfields Third Addition, a Tennessee editor for BNA's Environmental Due Diligence Guide, and has written the Tennessee Chapter for the upcoming ABA publication, Institutional Controls at Brownfield Sites (to be published fall 2011). Mr. Penny is a member of the Nashville (founding chair, Environmental Law Committee), Tennessee (founding chair and serves on the Board of Directors, Environmental Law Section) and American (member, Energy, Environment and Natural Resources Section; Budget Officer) bar associations. He earned his B.A. degree from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville and his J.D. degree from the Nashville School of Law.
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