Communication skills serve Caraway well in law

Law Talk profile for The Memphis Daily News

Nov. 22, 2012

“I went to law school so I could hear myself talk,” jokes Kirk Caraway, a partner with Allen, Summers, Simpson, Lillie & Gresham PLLC.

He’s laughing, but there is some truth behind such a statement in that litigators must possess a certain confidence in their expertise and their experience, especially when arguing in front of the United States Court of Appeals or the Tennessee Supreme Court, as Caraway recently did.

He’s been amassing his communicative skills since his days at White Station High School when his interest in journalism led him to the school newspaper and a statewide competition for writing as a junior. As a senior, he was editor of the sports section.

This interest spilled over into the University of Memphis where as a student he had designs on becoming a sports writer.

“The graduates that were getting out of college were then taking jobs in little bitty small towns and having to write about the local T-ball game or whatever the case may be, and I’m just not a small-town kind of guy so I didn’t want to go that route,” he said … (read more)