McAfee & Taft is pleased to announce the election of nine new shareholders and the addition of 24 attorneys to our team over the past year. We also say our final goodbyes to three cherished colleagues we lost in 2024.
Elected as new shareholders are business and real estate attorney Simon W. Bright, tax attorney Matthew B. Hickey, trial lawyer Justin T. Hiersche, tax attorney Tony Mastin, employee benefits/ERISA attorney T. Lake Moore V, real estate attorney Eric G. Odom, trial lawyer Timothy L. Spencer, business and real estate attorney R. H. “Trey” Tipton, and aviation attorney Emma L. Wilson.
Attorneys joining the firm in the last year are veteran banking attorney Kevin Blaney, trial lawyer Justin R. Cajindos, trial lawyer Matthew Cecconi, aviation attorney Tyler Crook, labor and employment lawyer Grace A. DeJohn, trial lawyer Kelsey Lauerman Ellis, business and real estate attorney Elizabeth G. Fudge, healthcare attorney T. Grace Hall, trial lawyer Miranda L. Harrison, business and real estate attorney Kody Hicks, trial lawyer J. Scott Henderson, bankruptcy attorney G. Rudy Hiersche, Jr., trial lawyer Samuel C. Holzschuh, trial lawyer R. Baxter Lewallen, healthcare attorney Cori H. Loomis, trial lawyer Sean W. McCalip, banking attorney Keith McIlhaney, aviation attorney M. Nathan Moore, registered patent attorney L. Allison Niemiec, trial lawyer Tessa N. O’Donnell, trial lawyer Nicholas E. Rupert, banking attorney Russell B. Taylor, family law attorney Meredith A. Tipton, and energy and natural resources attorney Jonna Vanderslice.
We also pay tribute to the lives and legacies of John N. Hermes, Joe C. Lewallen, Jr., and N. Martin Stringer.