Team
McClellan, Powers, Ehmling, Rogers, & Payne, P.C.
Practice Areas
- Insurance defense
- Corporate law
- Estate litigation
- Probate litigation
- Personal injury
Bar Admissions
- Tennessee, 1978
- U.S. District Court Middle District of Tennessee, 1978
- U.S. Court of Appeals 6th Circuit
Education
University of Memphis School of Law, Memphis, Tennessee
J.D. - 1978
Honors: Wall Street Journal Student Achievement Award, 1975
Honors: Business Student of the Year, 1975
Trevecca Nazarene College
B.S. - 1975
Volunteer State Community College
A.S. - 1973
Classes/Seminars
- Instructor, Business Law and Negotiable Instruments, Volunteer State Community College, 1979 to Present
Honors and Awards
- AV Peer Review Rating, Martindale-Hubbell
Professional Associations and Memberships
- Sumner County Bar Association, Member
- Tennessee Bar Association, Member
- American Bar Association, Member
Dennis Wade Powers
Practice Areas
- Insurance defense
- Criminal defense
- Creditor bankruptcy
- Family law
- Juvenile law
Bar Admissions
- Tennessee, 1981
- U.S. District Court Middle District of Tennessee, 1991
Education
University of Tennessee College of Law, Knoxville, Tennessee
- J.D., Doctor of Jurisprudence - 1981
University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee
- B.A. - 1978
- Honors: cum laude
- Honors: Order of Gownsman
- Honors: Psychology Lab Assistant
- Major: Psychology
Representative Clients
- Aetna Casualty & Surety Co.
- Auto Owners Insurance Co.
- Nations Bank
- Tennessee Farmers Insurance Co.
Classes/Seminars
- Adjunct Faculty, Family Law, Civil Trial, Appellate Procedure and Torts, Volunteer State Community College, 1993 to Present
Honors and Awards
- BV Peer Review Rating, Martindale-Hubbell
Professional Associations and Memberships
- Sumner County Bar Association, Secretary, 1984 to Present
- Sumner County Bar Association, Treasurer, 1985 to Present
- Sumner County Bar Association, Vice-President, 1986 to Present
- Sumner County Bar Association, President, 1987 to Present
- Rutherford-Cannon County Bar Association, Member
- Tennessee Bar Association, Member
- American Bar Association, Member
- Tennessee Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Member
- Tennessee Defense Lawyers Association, Member
Pro Bono Activities
- Rotary Club, Member, 1985 to Present
- Sumner County Election Committee, Secretary, 1987 to Present
- Defense Research Institute, Member
Fraternities/Sororities
- Beta Theta Pi
M. Allen Ehmling
Practice Areas
- Insurance defense
- Workers compensation defense
- Personal injury
- Domestic relations
- Child custody
- Family law
- Juvenile law
Bar Admissions
- Texas, 1991
- Tennessee, 1992
- U.S. Court of Appeals 6th Circuit, 1994
- U.S. District Court Middle District of Tennessee, 1996
- U.S. District Court Western District of Tennessee, 1999
- U.S. District Court Eastern District of Tennessee, 2007
Education
Tulane Law School, New Orleans, Louisiana
J.D. - 1990
Lipscomb University
B.A. - 1987
Honors: cum laude
Honors and Awards
- BV Peer Review Rating, Martindale-Hubbell
Professional Associations and Memberships
- Sumner County Bar Association, Member
- Tennessee Bar Association, Member
- Tennessee Defense Lawyers Association, Member
- National Lawyers Association, Member
Pro Bono Activities
- Defense Research Institute, Member
Past Employment Positions
- City of Westmoreland, Tennessee, Judge, 1995 to Present
Jade Rogers Willis
Practice Areas
- Insurance defense
- Criminal defense
- General civil litigation
Bar Admissions
- Tennessee, 2017
Education
Ohio Northern University Pettit College of Law, Ada, Ohio
- Juris Doctor - 05/2017
Middle Tennessee State University
- Bachelor of Arts - 05/2013
- Major: English
Published Works
- “What A Contract Has Joined Together Let No Court Cast Asunder: Abolishing Separability and Codifying the Scope of the Provisions of Arbitration Agreements”, West Virginia Law Review, Vol. 120, 2017
- "Now Is The Winter of Ginsburg’s Dissent: Unifying the Circuit Split As To Preliminary Injunctions and Establishing A Sliding Scale Test", Tennessee Journal of Law and Policy, Vol. 12, Issue 2, 2018
- “Not Completely Useless: Complete Auto Transit and State Taxation”, Western Michigan University Cooley Law School, May, 2018
Professional Associations and Memberships
- Rutherford-Cannon County Bar Association, Member
- Tennessee Bar Association, Member
- Tennessee Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Member
- Tennessee Defense Lawyers Association, Member
Pro Bono Activities
- Murfreesboro Breakfast Rotary Club, Member
- Defense Research Institute, Member
Taylor D. Payne
Practice Areas
- Insurance defense
- Domestic relations
- Child custody
- Family law
- Juvenile law
- Criminal defense
Bar Admissions
- Tennessee, 2020
- U.S. District Court Middle District of Tennessee, 2022
Education
Nashville School of Law
J.D., Doctor of Jurisprudence - 2020
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
B.A. - 2015
Major - Sociology with a concentration in criminology and criminal justice
Professional Associations and Memberships
- Sumner County Bar Association, Member
- Tennessee Bar Association, Member
- Tennessee Defense Lawyers Association, Member
Pro Bono Activities
- Appointed to serve as a member of the Ad Hoc Committee to Protect Children through the County Commission of Sumner County
