Attorneys
Chad D. Emerson
150 South Perry Street (36104)
Post Office Box 2069 (36102)
Montgomery, Alabama
(334) 241-8000 direct phone
(334) 323-8888 direct fax
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(334) 241-8022 direct phone
(334) 241-8222 direct fax
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Chad Emerson joined the faculty at Faulkner University's Jones School of Law in June 2003 as an Assistant Professor of Law after practicing for over five years with the Knoxville, Tennessee law firm of Woolf, McClane, Bright, Allen & Carpenter, PLLC. He was promoted to Associate Professor of Law in 2004. Chad is a graduate of David Lipscomb University and the University of Tennessee College of Law and was admitted to practice law in all state and federal courts of Tennessee. Chad began consulting with Capell & Howard on a contractual basis in 2005, and currently serves as Affiliated Counsel.
Chad is a frequent lecturer and published author in the areas of land planning law, intellectual property law, and amusement & leisure law. He currently teaches Land Planning, Property, Administrative Law, and Intellectual Property courses at Jones School of Law.
In addition to his teaching and research projects, Chad is also the administrator of the SmartCode zoning law listserv and is the editor of a weblog covering legal and business issues and related land planning (www.dailysprawl.blogspot.com).
Chad D. Emerson
Areas of Practice
Commercial Real Estate
Intellectual Property
Education
J.D., University of Tennessee College of Law, 1997
B.A., David Lipscomb University, 1994
Bar Admissions
Tennessee, 1998
Alabama, 2008
Publications and Lectures
• Chad D. Emerson, The SmartCode Solution to Sprawl (Environmental Law Institute Publishing 2007)
• Chad D. Emerson, All Sprawled Out: How the Federal Regulatory System Has Driven Unsustainable Growth, __ TENN. L. REV. __ (2007), accepted for publication
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Other Professional Experience
• Faulkner University, Thomas Goode Jones School of Law, Associate Professor of Law, October 2004-Present
• Faulkner University, Thomas Goode Jones School of Law, Assistant Professor of Law, July 2003-October 2004
• Faulkner University, Thomas Goode Jones School of Law, Strategic Planning Committee Chairman
• Faulkner University, Thomas Goode Jones School of Law, Academic Success Committee Chairman, 2005-2006
• Woolf, McClane, Bright, Allen & Carpenter PLLC, Attorney, January 1998-July 2003

