McNabb turns past of adjectives to legal world of nouns, verbs

Law Talk profile for The Memphis Daily News

Oct. 11, 2012

If not for a burst of pragmatism, Leland McNabb of McNabb Bragorgos & Burgess PLLC, may have become a successful poet instead of a successful litigator.

As a student at Vanderbilt University, the Kentucky native was on his way to an English degree, taking a class on Restoration Literature when he began asking himself what, exactly, he might one day do with such knowledge.

The editor of the university magazine “Spectrum” at the time, McNabb went to interview a group of law professors for a series of stories and what he found in the law school was “the strangest collection of divergent personalities I’ve ever been around in my life.”

His interest was whetted and McNabb graduated from the Vanderbilt University School of Law in 1968, and came to Memphis to work as a clerk for Justice Larry Creson in one of this city’s most turbulent years.

His time with Creson was invaluable to him as a young lawyer just entering the profession … (read more)