Knoxville Chapter May Meeting

Zack R. Gardner was admitted to the Tennessee Bar in 2013. He is a member of the Knoxville Bar Association, Tennessee Bar Association, and the American Bar Association. Gardner’s practice includes, among other transactional matters, business entity law, taxation, technology transfers and commercialization, and general intellectual property. Mr. Gardner assists businesses and corporate clients in a range of business planning and operations services, including establishing, organizing, reorganizing, and maintaining their business entities in both the for-profit and nonprofit sectors as well as assisting them in a number of transactional and regulatory matters on a day-to-day basis.

Mr. Gardner graduated from the University of Tennessee College of Law with a Concentration in Business Transactions from UT's Clayton Center for Entrepreneurial Law in 2013.

Lindy Harris is a member of the firm whose practice is focused primarily on data privacy law and business and commercial litigation. Ms. Harris was born in Appleton, Wisconsin and raised in the Chicago area and Knoxville, Tennessee. She graduated from the University of Tennessee in 2007 with a B.A. in psychology. She obtained her J.D. from the University of Tennessee College of Law in 2010. Ms. Harris was admitted to practice law in 2010 in state and federal courts in Tennessee. She is a member of the Knoxville Bar Association and the Tennessee Bar Association. Ms. Harris was selected by her peers for inclusion in the 2017 Rising Stars of the Mid-South Super Lawyers.

Dean T. Howell is a member of Woolf, McClane, Bright, Allen & Carpenter, PLLC, who primarily practices in the field of construction law. He is a graduate of the University of Tennessee and Washington & Lee University School of Law. In his practice, he represents general contractors and subcontractors in construction disputes in court and arbitrations.

Kate Hutcherson is a member with the law firm of Woolf, McClane, Bright, Allen & Carpenter. Her primary areas of practice include employment and labor law, commercial litigation, and general civil litigation. She represents clients in all types of employment matters in state and federal court and in administrative disputes before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and other state administrative agencies. Ms. Hutcherson attended the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, VA, where she competed on the Women's Golf Team, and obtained her J.D. from William & Mary Law School.

O.E. "Sonny" Schow, IV is a member of the firm Woolf, McClane, Bright, Allen & Carpenter, PLLC, whose primary areas of practice include federal and state taxation, including tax disputes in federal and state court, estate planning, trust administration, probate law and estate administration, business entity formations and governance, mergers and acquisitions, general corporate and transactional law. Mr. Schow assists clients with transactional tax planning, including entity formation, operation and governance, real estate exchanges and transactions, mergers and acquisitions, and the design and implementation of transactions in a tax effective manner. Mr. Schow also assists clients in all aspects of estate planning, including the drafting of various testamentary and trust documents, trust and estate administration and related fiduciary matters, and all aspects of the probate and estate administration process. Mr. Schow also represents clients in disputes with state and federal agencies, including the Tennessee Department of Revenue and Internal Revenue Service and has represented clients in tax disputes before the U.S. Tax Court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, the Tennessee Board of Equalization and local Property Assessors.
Mr. Schow was born and raised in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. He graduated from Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1992 with a B.A. in psychology, where he was a member of the Psi Chi honor society. Mr. Schow received his J.D. from The University of Tennessee in 1996 and was a member of the first class to graduate with a concentration in business transactions from the Center for Entrepreneurial Law. Following his graduation from law school, Mr. Schow served from 1996 to 1997 as the Law Clerk to the Honorable R. Vann Owens and the Honorable Howell N. Peoples, Chancellors, Hamilton County, Tennessee. Mr. Schow was admitted to practice law in 1996. Mr. Schow is a member of the Knoxville, Tennessee, and American Bar Associations and is a member of the Taxation Section of the American Bar Association and the Knoxville Estate Planning Council. Mr. Schow was named one of Knoxville's Top Probate Attorneys by Cityview Magazine.