TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Julia Wilburn on Nov 10, 2023

Longtime Lawrenceburg attorney Paul Alan Bates died Nov. 8 at age 75. He served in the U.S. Navy from 1967–1971. He attended law school at the University of Memphis and practiced law in Lawrenceburg from 1976 until he retired in 2010. Bates was also a substitute Lawrenceburg city judge for 15 years, a past president of the Lawrence County Bar Association, and a past member of the TBA, ABA, Tennessee Trial Lawyers Association and The Association of Trial Lawyers of America. A funeral service will be held on Nov. 13 at 1 p.m. CST at Heritage Funeral Home in Columbia with visitation beginning at 11 a.m. Following the service, Bates will be interred in Maury Memorial Gardens with military honors.