Charles K. Grant Email & Phone Number

Greater Nashville Area, Tn

Greater Nashville Area, Tn

Greater Nashville Area, Tn

Established in 1831, the NBA is a professional organization serving the legal community of Nashville, Tennessee. It's motto is "Improving the Practice of Law Through Education, Service and Fellowship." The NBA offers 37 service and professional committees. The service committees include the Judicial Candidate Evaluation Committee (conducts pre-election polls of Nashville lawyers regarding Davidson County judges and related officials), the Memorial Service (which honors the memory of those Nashville lawyers and judges who passed away during the preceding 6 month period), and the Minorities Opportunities Committee. The NBA partners with other community organizations such as the Legal Aid Society of Middle Tennessee and the Nashville Pro Bono Program. Its publications include the awarding Nashville Bar Journal.

Greater Nashville Area, Tn

For 40 years, the Legal Aid Society has been a place for low-income families to find a helping hand with legal issues involving money, family, housing, health care and domestic violence. Donations of both dollars and time make it possible for the Legal Aid Society to provide services in 48 counties through eight offices located in Clarksville, Cookeville, Columbia, Gallatin, Murfreesboro, Nashville, Oak Ridge and Tullahoma.In 2007 Legal Aid Society staff attorneys helped more than 6,010 people and their families. Volunteer attorneys, working through the Nashville Pro Bono Program and other local pro bono programs, worked on an additional 1,154 cases.During 2007, the Legal Aid Society's clients received over $4,390,000 in direct financial benefits as a result of our services, including $838,543 in federal tax benefits for low-income taxpayers. Numerous non-monetary, positive outcomes were also achieved, such as:441 victims of domestic violence and their children obtained protection from their batterers; 131 people gained access to needed healthcare services; and239 people received help with life and healthcare planning. The free legal advice and representation clients received from staff attorneys during 2007 had a market value of $5,777,800. The pro bono attorney volunteers provided an additional $929,030 in free legal help.The Legal Aid Society successfully opened the doors of justice in 97% of the cases completed during 2007.

Founded in 2002, Project Reflect is a non-profit, non-denominational Christian organization... A community of partners – staff, volunteers, donors, and supporting agencies – collaborating on behalf of children of poverty. Project Reflect was chartered in 1992 by Sister Sandra Smithson, a Roman Catholic Franciscan nun. Our two divisions are: Education Reform and Children’s Programs. Through 2002, we sponsored a summer school, after-school program, pre-school program, and teen scholars program – all for children at high risk of failing school (“at-risk” students). In 2003, we opened Smithson Craighead Academy, Middle Tennessee’s first charter (public) school for at-risk students in kindergarten through grade four.

Greater Nashville Area, Tn

The Nashville Business Incubation Center opened its doors in June 1986, making it one of the earliest incubation centers established by the Tennessee Valley Authority that are still in existence. It continues to be one of the most viable in the nation. An outreach effort of Tennessee State University, the day-to-day operations of the Center is managed by the College of Business and is located on the TSU downtown campus. The policy making body for the NBIC is Growth Enterprises Nashville, Inc. To date the NBIC boasts 78 successful business graduates. After leaving the incubation center, these graduates have become a major source of employment and economic development in Tennessee. In the general population a new business has an 80 percent chance for surviving five years. Businesses that begin in the NBIC have a 90 percent success rate.

Employment Litigation Defense; Business Litigation

J.D., Law

Activities and Societies: Phi Alpha Delta; Am Jur Award, National Trial Team; President, BLSA.

B.S., Business Administration