Nashville attorney and former General Sessions Judge William Joseph Faimon passed away on Jan. 23. After graduating from Vanderbilt Law School, Faimon served in the CIA for 12 years. He began his law practice in 1959 and was elected a Nashville General Sessions Judge in 1982, where he served until 2006. Due to pandemic restrictions, a private service will be held by family. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Room in the Inn, P.O. Box 25309, Nashville, TN, 37202, or to the charity of your choice.

Nashville lawyer David Young Parker Sr. passed away on Jan. 23 after contracting the COVID-19 virus. He was 79. After earning his law degree from Vanderbilt Law School in 1966, Parker practiced law for 53 years, working for Provident Life and Accident Insurance Company, the State of Tennessee and GENESCO before entering private practice in 1975. Parker was also an adjunct professor at David Lipscomb College and served as a judge in Vanderbilt's Moot Court. He sat on the board of directors for the Tennessee Supreme Court Historical Society and was chairman emeritus of the Historical Committee and the Memorial Service Committee of the Nashville Bar Association. Donations in his memory can be made to the Second Harvest Food Bank or the Nashville Inner City Ministry. A private memorial service will be held for the family and a celebration of life will be held for the public in the future.

Longtime Vanderbilt Law School professor and Nashville resident Allaire Urban Karzon died Sunday. She was 95. Karzon earned her law degree from Yale Law School before working as an attorney with the Office of Alien Property at the U.S. Department of Justice and in the legal department of RCA Corp. After moving to Nashville, Karzon served as counsel to Performance Systems Inc. and Aladdin Industries and practiced as a partner in Neal Karzon and Harwell. She joined Vanderbilt’s law faculty as a lecturer in 1971 and taught tax law until her retirement in 1995, in the process becoming Vanderbilt’s first tenured female law professor. Contributions in her memory may be made to the Visiting Nursing Association of Western New York Inc., 650 Airborne Parkway, Cheektowaga, N.Y. 14225.

Former general counsel for the Administrative Office of the Courts David William Haines Jr., died on Jan. 16. Haines earned his law degree from Samford University Cumberland School of Law in 1982 and served as the City of Clarksville’s first full-time attorney for 14 years before joining the AOC. Over his eight years as general counsel, Haines provided education and training to trial court, general sessions and juvenile judges through conferences and other educational opportunities. He also worked on several major initiatives, including indigent representation, jury selection processes, judicial elections, the use of guardian ad litem representation in juvenile cases and employment law.

Memphis lawyer Robert Louis Green died Jan. 24. He was 92. Green earned his law degree from Tulane Law School in 1956 and afterward was invited to join the law practice of Charles L. Neely. He was a partner at Neely, Green & Fargarson for many years, focusing primarily on litigation, before ending more than 60 years of legal practice with Allen, Summers, Simpson, Lillie & Gresham. Green was a past president of the Memphis Bar Association and was selected for the Judge Jerome Turner Lawyer's Lawyer award in 2005, and also received the Pillars of Excellence award from the University of Memphis Alumni Chapter in 2011. He served with the Tennessee Board of Law Examiners for 19 years and frequently volunteered with Memphis Area Legal Services. A funeral mass will be held at St. Louis Church, 203 S. White Station Road, on Jan. 28 at 10 a.m. CST, with burial to follow at Memorial Park Cemetery. The funeral mass will be viewable online. In lieu of flowers, the family asks that donations be made in Green's honor to the veteran's organization of your choice.

Nashville lawyer Livingfield More died Jan. 19 at 94. Having started studying at Vanderbilt University when he was 16, his college experience was interrupted when he joined the Army to fight in World War II. After discharge, he worked on an estate outside of London where he learned to be a devoted horseman and animal husbandman. Returning to the states, he attended Vanderbilt University Law School and graduated in 1952. More often credited his grandfather’s service as a lawyer and as president of the Nashville Bar Association as inspiration for his own career choice. Memorial donations may be made to Holy Cross Anglican Church, 4119 Murfreesboro Rd., Franklin TN 37067; the Red Cross, 2201 Charlotte Ave, Nashville, TN 37203, Attn: Leigh Elliot; or Covington County Historical Society, P.O. Box 1582 Andalusia, AL 36420. Services will be held at a later date.

Lawyers in Johnson City are mourning the loss of paralegal Jewel Greene, who died on Jan. 17 at 72. Greene worked as a paralegal for several law firms, most recently for the law offices of Sandy Phillips, Donna Bolton and Rachel Ratliff. She also had a passion for helping people with legal needs. She coordinated the Washington County Free Legal Advice Clinic as a volunteer from 2008 to her death. Until suffering an illness in late 2020, Greene only missed one clinic in its 13-year history, the lawyers said in a statement sent to the TBA.

Former Grundy County General Sessions and Juvenile Judge Ford Nelson Layne died Jan. 18. He was 71. A 1981 graduate of the Nashville School of Law, Layne established a private practice in Tracy City and served there for almost 40 years. In addition to practicing law, he also was a teacher and truancy officer and a juvenile court referee. He served as general sessions judge from 1990 to 1998 and as juvenile court judge from 1998 to 2006. Before attending law school, Layne earned a degree in education and a master of education, both from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Funeral services will be held tomorrow at 1 p.m. CST at Foster & Lay Chapel with burial immediately following at Hobbs Hill Cemetery, both in Tracy City. The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. tonight at the funeral home.

Johnson City lawyer T. Craig Smith died Jan. 8 at 54. A 2003 graduate of the Nashville School of Law, Smith practiced as a criminal law attorney in Nashville and Johnson City. He also served in the Tennessee National Guard with the 176th Maintenance Battalion and served with his unit during Operation Desert Storm. A committal service with military honors was held last week at Tetrick Funeral Services in Johnson City. Memories and condolences may be shared at www.tetrickfuneralhome.com.

Charles “Chuck” Edward Racine of Gallatin died Dec. 28 at 83. Originally from Chicago, Racine earned his law degree from the University of Toledo Law School in 1967 and started his career with the former First National Bank of Toledo. He and his family later moved to Gallatin where he opened a private practice. A private family interment was conducted in Toledo. A celebration of life service will be held Jan. 28 at 11 a.m. CST at the First Baptist Church of Hendersonville, 106 Bluegrass Commons Blvd., Hendersonville, TN 37075. Masks and social distancing will be required.