Gearhiser Peters Elliott & Cannon Attorneys Selected for 2025 Best Lawyers ®️

Gearhiser, Peters, Elliott, & Cannon, PLLC

Gearhiser, Peters, Elliott & Cannon, PLLC announced that 5 lawyers have been included in the 2025 edition of The Best Lawyers in America.

Since it was first published in 1983, Best Lawyers has become universally regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence. Best Lawyers has earned the respect of the profession, the media, and the public as the most reliable, unbiased source of legal referrals. Lawyers on The Best Lawyers in America list are divided by geographic region and practice areas. They are reviewed by their peers based on professional expertise and undergo an authentication process to make sure they are in current practice and in good standing.

Congratulations to the following GPEC lawyers named to the 2025 The Best Lawyers in America list:

• Lee Ann Adams: Litigation – Trusts and Estates; Tax Law; Trusts and Estates

• Wade Cannon: Litigation – Real Estate
• Sam D. Elliott: Bet-the-Company Litigation; Commercial Litigation; Litigation – Labor and Employment; Litigation – Land Use and Zoning; Litigation – Municipal; Municipal Law

• Robert L. Lockaby, Jr.: Commercial Litigation
• R. Wayne Peters: Litigation – Trusts and Estates; Litigation and Controversy – Tax; Tax Law; Trusts and Estates

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Legal Aid Of East Tennessee’s 60th Anniversary Honors Gearhiser Peters Elliott & Cannon PLLC As Pro Bono Firm of the Year

October 24, 2025

At Legal Aid of East Tennessee’s 60th Anniversary celebration on October 23, Gearhiser, Peters, Elliott & Cannon, PLLC was honored as the organization’s Pro Bono Firm of the Year. Member Sam Elliott said: "Many lawyers in our firm have supported the efforts of Legal Aid of East Tennessee and other pro bono initiatives through the years, either directly providing pro bono services through LAET, through financial contributions to LAET or other worthy organizations, or through the Chattanooga Bar Association, Tennessee Bar Association, or the Tennessee Bar Foundation. We are humbled to be recognized in such a significant way."

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