Chattanooga and Knoxville Lawyers Honored by State Bar Association.

Vance H. Fry is a sole practitioner in Chattanooga, focusing on estate planning, probate, real estate, and elder law. “When I turned 65,” Vance said, “I started thinking about how I wanted to spend the next 20 years of my life.” He found the answer by creating free legal clinics at various Chattanooga-area social-service agencies. In the three years he has conducted the clinics, Vance has served scores of low-income clients.

“I guess I’m just looking for the best way to spend my time,” he said. “I just love what I’m doing, and I think access to justice is so important. It’s a way to pay back all that’s been given to me. I feel like the Lord has provided so abundantly to me.

David Gall works with low-income clients every day, as an assistant public defender in Knox County; and he spends a lot of his spare time volunteering for LAET. “You don’t do it to gain appreciation,” David notes. “You do it because it’s important that it be done.”

David regularly participates in LAET’s Saturday Bar Clinic, which is held in the Knoxville office two Saturdays per month, often agreeing to provide additional representation to clients whose legal problems cannot be resolved at the Clinic. David’s career reflects a long commitment to public service. He was one of the original attorneys to staff the Public Defender’s Office when it was created in 1990, and he is a member of the Knox County Foster Care Review Board.