Memberships
Professional
•Media Law Resource Center (Facilitator/Publication Torts session for 2014 bi-annual conference
Presenter/Newsgathering/2012
Immediate Past Chair, Trial Committee)
•Served on ABA Litigation Section Subcommittee that drafted Model Trademark Jury Instructions published by ABA in 2008
•Member, Defense Research Institute (Commercial Litigation, IP, Electronic Discovery committees)
•Past Chair, Media Law Committee and Member of the Federal Courts and Intellectual Property Committees of the Nashville Bar Association
•Member, American Bar Association (Forum on Franchising
Forum on Communications Law
Litigation and IP Sections)
•Member, ABA First Amendment and Media Litigation Committee of the Section of Litigation
•Member, Tennessee Bar Association (Intellectual Property and Litigation Sections)
•fellow, Nashville Bar Foundation
•Past Member, Harry Phillips American Inn of Court
•Contributor toThe Encyclopedia of the First AmendmentandThe Encyclopedia of the Fourth Amendment,CQ Press
•Contributor to Media Guide to Tennessee's Legal System, Tennessee Supreme Court and First Amendment Center
•Voting Member, Country Music Association
•Member, National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences
•Member, American Health Lawyers AssociationPrior Affiliations
•Law clerk to the Honorable Thomas A. Wiseman, Jr., then Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee, 1985-1986
•Associate and partner, Farris Warfield & Kanaday, Nashville Tennessee, 1986-1994
•Founding member, Yopp & Sweeney, PLC, Nashville, Tennessee, 1994-2000
Community
•Tennessee Advisory Committee on Open Government, appointed by the State's Comptroller
•Vanderbilt University Bill Wilkerson Hearing and Speech Center, Advisory Board Member
•Boy Scouts of America, Middle Tennessee Council Executive Committee and Chair of the Membership Standards Committee
•Tennessee Coalition for Open Government, Inc., Organizing Member and Board Member
•Center for Youth Ministry Training, Inc. (nonprofit in partnership with Princeton Theological Seminary, Duke Divinity School, Martin Methodist College and Vanderbilt Divinity School), organizer and former board member
•Former Elder and Deacon, Chair of Personnel Committee and Child Protection Task Force, First Presbyterian Church
•Downtown Rotary Club, Member
•Recipient of the Paragon Award for Community Service, 2008, presented by the Junior League of Nashville