Chuck Young has represented individual and corporate clients in complex litigation involving commercial, employment, technology, privacy, aviation, First Amendment, intellectual property, and products liability issues. His practice has included trial and appellate work as well as mediation and arbitration. Raised in Knoxville, Mr. Young received his B.A., cum laude, in English from Dartmouth College and his J.D., summa cum laude, from the University of Tennessee College of Law. Before attending law school, Mr. Young was a sports reporter for the Concord Monitor daily newspaper in Concord, New Hampshire, and he twice received national writing awards from the Associated Press Sports Editors. While at Tennessee, he was the Student Materials Editor of the Tennessee Law Review. In addition, he earned the Best Oralist Award while winning the school’s mock trial competition and he was a member of the Order of the Coif.

After graduating from law school, Mr. Young served as a law clerk to the Honorable Bailey Brown of the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in Memphis, Tennessee, and he practiced with the Atlanta law firm Alston & Bird LLP, where he was chosen for the interdisciplinary team of lawyers representing the court-appointed independent examiner in the Enron Corporation bankruptcy. He has written articles on civil procedure, evidence, aviation and technology law and has spoken at numerous seminars on those issues.

 

Recent Presentations

2007

 

“Protecting Your Organization and Yourself from Liability Risks: Preventing Manager Missteps and Identifying Individual Exposure," Council on Education in Management Family & Medical Leave Act Seminar, Knoxville

 

"The Corporate Lawyer's E-Discovery Survival Kit," Knoxville Bar Association Corporate Counsel Section CLE

 

"Litigation Goes Electronic," Innovation Valley Technology Council

 

"Internet and Technology Law," Smoky Mountain Paralegal Association

 

"Security Issues for E-Mail and Electronic Communications," Knoxville Bar Association and Knoxville Association of Legal Administrators CLE

 

"Required Electronic Recordkeeping and Discovery Issues Under the Newly Amended Federal Rules," Kramer Rayson Employment Law Seminar

 

2006

 

“Identity Theft,” Knoxville Bar Association Community Law School and Chattanooga Bar Association Legal Tech Expo

 

“Practicing Safe Computing: How to Avoid Committing Malpractice with Your Computer,” Knoxville Bar Association Legal Tech Expo CLE and Chattanooga Bar Association Legal Tech Expo

 

“Employee Electronic Privacy Perils," Kramer Rayson Employment Law Seminar, Knoxville

 

 

"OK Computer: Avoiding Malpractice, Conducting Discovery, and Assessing Privacy in a Wired World," Sobieski Messer & Chapman Firm Retreat

 

 

"An Early Holiday Present: Electronic Discovery Amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure," Knoxville Bar Association CLE

 

2005

 

“The New Department Of Labor Wage & Hour Regulations,” Knoxville Bar Association CLE

“Electronic Communications with Clients: Some Less Obvious Traps,” Knoxville Bar Association CLE

"Identity Theft," Knoxville Bar Association Community Law School

"Employment Information Management - The First Line of Defense," Kramer Rayson Employment Law Seminar, Knoxville

"The Metadata Menace: Ethical and Practical Issues," Knoxville Bar Association CLE and Eastern District of Tennessee Federal Government Attorneys' CLE

 

2004

 

“Trade Dress Basics: IP’s Tertium Quid,” TennBarU Intellectual Property Forum, Nashville

“Employment Contracts: Addressing Competition, Confidentiality, Intellectual Property, and Other Concerns,” Kramer Rayson Employment Law Seminar, Knoxville

 

2003

 

“On-Line Contract and Business Issues,” Knoxville Bar Association CLE

“Causes of Action Arising From Computer Transactions,” Knoxville Bar Association CLE