TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Jan 30, 2025

West Tennessee Legal Services (WTLS) has named Jackson lawyer and former TBA president Jonathan Steen as its new medical legal partnership director. Medical-legal partnerships focus on collaboration among lawyers, physicians, case managers and social workers to address structural barriers that impact health outcomes. Steen joins the nonprofit after more than 30 years of civil legal experience in both trial and appellate courts, most recently with Spragins, Barnett & Cobb PLC. While he was TBA president, Steen established a Medical-Legal Partnership Working Group as part of the TBA’s Access to Justice Committee. Of his new position, Steen says, “I look forward to serving the community through my new role at WTLS in developing and supporting medical-legal partnerships that integrate legal expertise into health care settings to improve the health of those in our community.” Read more in a release from the organization.