Butler Snow attorneys Brande L. Boyd, Lauren N. Jones and Geoffrey A. Morris have been elected to the 2023 Board of Directors for the Young Lawyers’ Division of the Memphis Bar Association. The Young Lawyers’ Division of the Memphis Bar Association includes all licensed attorneys of Shelby County, Tennessee, who are 36 years of age and younger or are within the first five years of law practice.
Boyd is a member of Butler Snow’s Business Services and Finance, Real Estate and Restructuring groups. She focuses her practice on organizational transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, entity formations, new market tax credit transactions and trademark protection activities. Boyd is a member of the Memphis Bar Association, the Ben F. Jones Chapter of the National Bar Association, and the Tennessee Bar Association. In 2022, Boyd was selected as a 2022-23 fellow for the National Bar Association’s Associate Advancement Academy for Excellence. Before joining Butler Snow, she clerked for the Honorable Felicia Corbin Johnson of the Circuit Court Division 1. Boyd earned her Juris Doctor from the University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law and received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Memphis.
Jones practices with Butler Snow’s Commercial Litigation and Labor and Employment groups. Jones graduated summa cum laude from the University of Tennessee, where she double majored in global studies, concentrating in global politics and economy and political science, concentrated in public administration. She also minored in Americana studies and African studies. She was a member of the Chancellor’s Honors Program and Phi Beta Kappa. Jones graduated from Vanderbilt Law School in May 2021.
Morris is a member of Butler Snow’s Finance, Real Estate and Restructuring Group and handles a variety of real estate development and finance, public finance, and corporate transactions. Morris is a member of the Memphis Bar Association, the National Association of Bond Lawyers, the Tennessee Bar Association and the American Bar Association, as well as the Young Lawyers Division of the ABA. Morris completed both the NEXUS and Embark professional development programs in Memphis. In the community, Morris has served as an Ambassador with Facing History and Ourselves and currently serves on the Board of Directors for Bridges USA. In 2021, Morris was named one of the Memphis Flyer’s 20 < 30 and in 2022 he was selected for the Shelby County Mayor’s Young Professionals Council.
Read more about the Young Lawyers’ Division of the Memphis Bar Association here.
