Lew Conner has served as a mediator since 1997.  He has mediated and arbitrated numerous high-level cases. He is presently one of sixteen on the AAA list of mediators and arbitrators in Tennessee where he chaired the Tennessee Large Complex Case Panel.   In 2004 he mediated 31 cases involving the tragic National HealthCare nursing home fire in Nashville.  He settled 29 of 31 cases, with the remaining two settling in late 2006.  He has mediated issues ranging from disputes over tax revenues, to sales of motels and large parcels of land, large and small construction disputes, products liability disputes, security disputes, inter-familial business, discrimination, employment, insurance coverage disputes, contract fraud disputes as well as high asset family and custody disputes. He has attended numerous training courses taught by the AAA in mediation and arbitration.  He is  a Tennessee Supreme Court Rule 31 listed mediator ,  a member of the American College of Civil Trial Mediators and on the U.S. District Court  Panel of Mediators.  

He is presently a member of Waller-Landsden, Dortch & Davis in Nashville.  He served four years as a  Tennessee Court of Appeals Judge and a Special Supreme Court Judge.  He was previously a  partner at Stokes Bartholomew Evans & Petree, Boult, Cummings, Conners & Berry,and  Founding Partner, of Dearborn & Ewing.  He  represents both plaintiffs and defendants in commercial, contract and tort litigation as well as  construction, employment , government relations matters and family  disputes.  He has been listed with The Best Lawyers in America since 1987.

Following his graduation from Vanderbilt Law School in 1960, where he attained the honor of Order of the Coif and Managing Editor of the Law Review,  he served in the Judge Advocate General Corps, U.S. Army, for four years. 

He has always been on the cutting edge of developments in the law.  He was a prominent member of the Futures Commission of the Supreme Court.  Out of that report came broad support for Alternative Dispute Resolution in 1996 as well as the Tennessee Corrections Overcrowding Commission.   

His passions have been his family, law, golf, politics, the Boys & Girls' Club, Vanderbilt athletics and its law school  He has served on many boards, including the Boys & Girls Club, Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce, Nashville Sports Council, Pencil Foundation, Nashville Symphony, Tennessee Business Round Table and Martha O'Bryan as well as the Multiple Sclerosis Society.  He was honored by the Mid South Chapter for his strong community Leadership and Commitment to Community Service in 2006.

Somehow he finds time not only to support the Vanderbilt golf team (men's and women's) but also to play golf himself.  He has won or been runner-up in seven Tennessee state championships, has won seven National Senior Golf Association Championships and qualified for and competed in the 1996 United States Senior Open. In 2002 he placed second in the Tennessee Don Malarkey Senior Open with the score of 69 and 74. 

He is married to the lovely Ashley Whitsett Conner.  They have two children, Holly and Forrest.  Lew spends a lot of time doting  on his three spunky grandchildren, Sydney, Walker and Elizabeth.  Likely they'll soon be champion golfers in the Junior Division.    

 

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