Since 2016, Memphis Business Journal has honored the area’s many fine legal professionals — attorneys and associates in private practice, in-house counsel, judges, and advocates of all kinds — through the Best of the Bar awards program. The 2022 class was chosen by an MBJ editorial board. To see the entire group of Best of the Bar 2022 honorees, click the slideshow at the bottom of the page. This profile has been edited for clarity and length.
Law school: South Texas College of Law Houston
Areas of practice: Labor & employment
Angie Davis seems to have that work-life balance thing figured out. She’s literally won awards for it, receiving Baker Donelson’s Work Life Warrior award for demonstrating ongoing commitment to excellence in maintaining and advocating for healthy work-life balance. The chair of Baker Donelson’s Labor and Employment Group — and the firm’s general counsel — Davis also won the 2021 Susan E. Rich Award for excellence in promotion and commitment to women in the legal profession.
Professional activities: Member, College of Labor and Employment Lawyers; co-chair, Program Planning Committee, American Bar Association Equal Employment Opportunity Committee; presented on COVID workplace topics to the Greater Memphis Chamber’s Small Business Council, and on inclusion and diversity, public health, and legislation to the Tennessee SHRM Conference
Civic/volunteer engagement: Past board...
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