When Justin Furrow finished his first internship at a Chattanooga law office, he could tell the firm was where he wanted to spend his work life.
The partners at local law firm Chambliss, Bahner & Stophel didn’t push their work on the new guy, but helped develop him into a lawyer who could one day become a partner, he said.
“I remember telling my parents, ‘If this place will make me an offer, I can see myself spending my career here,'” he said.
That work environment has helped the firm, which represents the Chattanooga Times Free Press, through 125 years in the Scenic City. Through the years, its attorneys have taken on important national cases, combating federal government regulations that could have killed Coca-Cola and helping a client negotiate the purchase of The New York Times newspaper.
Max Bahner, a senior member of the firm and former president of the Tennessee Bar Association, attributed that success to one thing.