TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Kate Prince on Dec 15, 2022

Nashville lawyer Robert Lee Ballow died yesterday. He was 91. Ballow, an east Nashville native, graduated from the Nashville School of Law at the top of his class in 1963. He opened King & Ballow with Frank S. King in 1969, growing it into a national law firm that represented newspapers and other media companies in every state. Ballow was a member of the Media Law Reporter Advisory Board and was previously a guest lecturer for the American Press Institute and Vanderbilt University. He is past president of the Southern Circulation Managers Association and twice served as chair of the Southern Newspaper Publishers Executive Clinic. A memorial service will be held at a later date.