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December 15 - Chattanooga ALAN L. CATES is a member of the tax and estate planning practice group in the Chattanooga office of Husch Blackwell Sanders, LLP, where he practices in tax and estate planning. He has been engaged in the private practice of law in Chattanooga since 1975 and has been licensed as an attorney since September 1972. Mr. Cates is a past president of the Chattanooga Bar Association. He has presented at events throughout the country as well as for the Tennessee Bar Association and several local bar associations. Mr. Cates also has given presentations to estate planning councils, exempt organizations, the Annual Convention of the Georgia Society of CPAs, the Tennessee Society of CPAs, estate planning and giving seminars at events for Georgia Tech, Texas A&M and the University of New Haven, and currently serves as a faculty member for the National Planned Giving Institute at the College of William & Mary. He earned his B.S. degree from the University of Tennessee and his J.D. degree from the University of Tennessee College of Law. Prior to entering private practice, Mr. Cates was employed by the University of Tennessee as its planned giving officer. He has been on the faculty of the National Planned Giving Institute at the College of William & Mary for more than 25 years. By invitation of various professional and tax exempt organizations, he is a frequent speaker on topics involving taxation, estate planning, business succession planning, and probate and trust issues. Mr. Cates is a Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, a Fellow of the Tennessee Bar Foundation and a Fellow of the Chattanooga Bar Foundation. He also serves with a group of other attorneys in Tennessee on the Tennessee Probate Study Committee in reviewing and commenting on pending legislation in the areas of trusts, estates and related issues. December 16 - Knoxville HOWARD E. JARVIS is a member of Woolf, McClane, Bright, Allen & Carpenter, PLLC, where his primary areas of practice include toxic tort, environmental, product liability and insurance defense litigation. In his practice, he has served as either lead counsel or lead co-counsel in toxic tort and environmental litigation in Tennessee, Kentucky, Louisiana, Texas, Alabama, California, Georgia, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, New York and Florida. Mr. Jarvis is listed in The Best Lawyers in America in the area of product liability litigation. On behalf of several petrochemical companies, he has handled multi-plaintiff toxic tort cases in various jurisdictions. These cases have involved both personal injury and property damage claims as a result of alleged chemical exposure. Mr. Jarvis has argued cases in the Tennessee Supreme Court and the Tennessee Court of Appeals, the Georgia Supreme Court and the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals. He is a member of the Knoxville, Tennessee and American (Litigation and Corporate Counsel sections) bar associations. Mr. Jarvis also is a member of the Defense Research Institute. He has served as the chairman of the Fee Dispute Committee of the Knoxville Bar Association and was awarded the President's Award in 1997 for his service to the Bar. Over the last several years, Mr. Jarvis has spoken at seminars on the topics of toxic torts, trial practice and ethics. He is co-author of the articles "Trace Benzene Cases in the Real World: Is a Trace Benzene Case Really a Benzene Case?", Litigation Watch: Benzene, June 2005; and "Mechanism or Causation? The New Battle Over Benzene Metabolites," Litigation Watch: Benzene, May 2006. Mr. Jarvis earned his B.A. degree from the University of Tennessee and his J.D. degree from the University of Tennessee College of Law.
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