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Posted by: Suzanne Craig Robertson on Aug 30, 2021

Jim Cheek III, one of the country’s top corporate and securities lawyers and a Bass Berry & Sims mainstay for more than five decades, died Friday. He was 78. Cheek, a Nashville native who earned his law degree from Vanderbilt University after graduating from Duke University, joined Bass in 1970. The firm is collecting condolences and tributes for the Cheek family via tributes@bassberry.com. Details about visitation and services have not yet been finalized. Read more about his career from the Nashville Post.