Lauran Stimac serves as Chair of Evans Petree’s litigation practice group, where she coordinates strategy and support for the firm’s litigators and interfaces with other practice groups to facilitate the provision of a broad scope of client services at the highest level.
In Richmond, Virginia and then Memphis, Ms. Stimac has practiced as a trial attorney since 2007, largely concentrating her practice on the defense of professional liability claims against healthcare providers and lawyers. She has also represented those and other professionals, such as real estate appraisers, in licensure matters in Tennessee and Mississippi, including before the Tennessee Board of Professional Responsibility. Ms. Stimac also represents individuals and business entities in business litigation. Her practice encompasses both trial and appellate levels.
Ms. Stimac serves as the incoming President of the Memphis Bar Association, a 150-year organization that supports and strengthens the Mid-South legal community of attorneys and judges.
Ms. Stimac has lectured and written for legal and healthcare audiences on various issues including communication among healthcare providers, advance medical decision making, avoiding legal malpractice, legal ethics, and professionalism. Ms. Stimac also co-authored Tennessee’s Publication Participation Act: Sometimes It’s OK to SLAPP Back, published in the Memphis Lawyer (Nov. 2024).
She and her father, attorney Richard Glassman, served as technical advisors to the cast and crew of the NBC drama Bluff City Law, which was set and filmed in Memphis.
In addition to her law practice and professional memberships, Lauran Stimac serves as a board member of the Downtown Memphis Commission and Arrow Creative. She also serves as a volunteer and a supporter of the Memphis Area Legal Services Campaign for Equal Justice, the Memphis Child Advocacy Center, Porter Leath, and the Kappa Kappa Gamma Alumnae Association of Memphis. She is a sustainer member of the Junior League of Memphis. She is a past board member of the Children’s Advocacy Centers of Tennessee, Memphis Area Legal Services, the Memphis and Shelby County Sports Authority Board, Carnival Memphis, and the Alumnae Board of St. Mary’s Episcopal School.
