Background
SHELTON, MAX was born on August 28, 1939 in Calhoun, Tennessee, United States.
SHELTON, MAX was born on August 28, 1939 in Calhoun, Tennessee, United States.
University of Tennessee (Bachelor of Science, 1961. Juris Doctor, 1963). Member, Board of Editors, Tennessee Law Review, 1963.
Worked at Harris, Shelton, Dunlap and Cobb, L.L.P.C. (Memphis, Tennessee) specializing in Civil and Criminal Practice in all Courts. Corporations, Business Organizations, Hospital and Health Care, Banking, Real Estate, Insurance, Professional Liability, Bankruptcy, Securities, Admiralty, Antitrust, Construction, Probate, Environmental, Estate Planning and Taxation. Admitted to the bar, 1964, Tennessee.
Member: Memphis (President, 1995), Tennessee and American Bar Associations.
American Academy of Hospital Attorneys. National Health Lawyers Association.
Tennessee Society of Hospital Attorneys. The firm was founded in 1956 by the late Walter Chandler who served as Mayor of Memphis and as a member of the United States.
House of Representatives.
Mr. Chandler was the author of the Chandler Bankruptcy Acting while in Congress, and he was later counsel for the prevailing party in Baker v. Carr. In addition to an active trial practice, particularly in defending professional negligence claims, the firm is engaged in all aspects of the hospital and health care industry and the solid waste disposal industry (including environmental litigation).
The firm is general counsel to a multi-state hospital organization, state and local counsel to a multi-national solid waste disposal company and local counsel to a multi-state bank.
Memphis, Tennessee and American Bar Associations. American Academy of Hospital Attorneys. National Health Lawyers Association.
Southern Health Law Institute.
Tennessee Society of Hospital Attorneys.