MURFREESBORO — MTSU alumnus Michael Dagley will discuss his legal career and answer
questions from students and the public Thursday, April 9, at the annual Dr. Frank
Essex Practitioners Roundtable.
Set from 1 to 2 p.m. April 9 in
Room 106, the Simmons Amphitheatre, of the Paul W. Martin Sr. Honors Building,
the yearly event brings MTSU alumni and other members of the legal community to
campus to speak on pre-law career opportunities as well as their own education
and experience in the field.
The roundtable discussion is
presented by the MTSU Department of Political Science and is open to students
in all majors as well as the rest of the campus community. A searchable campus
map with parking details is available at http://tinyurl.com/MTSUParking14-15.
Dagley, who
is a partner in the Nashville law firm of Bass, Berry & Sims, graduated
magna cum laude from MTSU in 1978 with a Bachelor of Arts in history and earned
his law degree from Vanderbilt University in 1981. During his time at MTSU, he
was president of the university Honors Council as well as a member of the MTSU
Debate Hall of Fame.
During
his 33-year legal career, Dagley has specialized in representing clients in
securities litigation, class actions, shareholder derivative actions and merger
and acquisitions. He’s most recently worked on behalf of hospital and
healthcare systems with software failures and has defended numerous Nashville
healthcare companies on contractual disputes as well as advising on healthcare
fraud, False Claims Act matters and government investigations.
Dagley
has been included in the Nashville Business Journal’s “Best of the Bar” list and
has been named among the “Best Lawyers in America” and “Best Lawyers in
Tennessee” by the Best Lawyers peer-review publication. In the last five years
alone, he’s won eight multimillion-dollar contingency cases, including one of
more than $100 million.
The Frank Essex Practitioners
Roundtable honors Dr. Frank W. Essex, professor emeritus in political science
at the university. He taught at MTSU for 27 years and retired in 1993, serving
during his career and continuing to serve as a mentor to many in political
office as well as attorneys and judges in Tennessee and elsewhere.
For more information about the
annual Frank Essex Practitioners Roundtable, contact the MTSU Department of
Political Science at 615-898-2708.
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