Butler Snow attorney Gadson William Perry has been named to the inaugural class of the Volunteer 40 Under 40 by the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. The Volunteer 40 Under 40 recognizes forty alumni under the age of 40 who have excelled personally and professionally since completing their degree at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Read more about the award here. Perry earned his Juris Doctor from UT in 2011.
At Butler Snow, Perry specializes in complex commercial disputes and appeals, handling high-stakes and sensitive matters that involve federal and state constitutional guarantees, contracts, and real and intellectual property rights. He is a former judicial law clerk for the Honorable Bernice Bouie Donald of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and has extensive litigation, arbitration, trial, and appellate experience.
Perry has earned several professional distinctions, including recognition as a Mid-South Rising Star by Super Lawyers® and as a “Best of the Bar” honoree by the Memphis Business Journal. He serves on the Executive Committee of the Memphis Bar Association and the Executive Councils of the Tennessee Bar Association’s Litigation Law and Federal Law sections.
A former middle school English teacher, Perry holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Wake Forest University. He edits and contributes to Butler Snow’s BizLitNews Blog and has taught legal writing as an adjunct professor at the University of Memphis Law School. Perry also serves on the board of REACH Memphis, which he chairs, and the Memphis Advisory Board of Facing History and Ourselves. He is a graduate of Leadership Memphis and the New Memphis Fellows program.
