About Lipscomb
Professors & Guest Lecturers
Dr. Charla Long
Dr. John Lowry is assistant dean of the Lipscomb University College of Business and founder of the School of Executive Education. In addition, he serves as assistant professor of Management and regularly teaches negotiation and dispute resolution courses at Lipscomb and Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas.
Lowry also serves as vice president for the Strategic Resolutions Group, LLC (SRG). At SRG, he provides negotiation, mediation, and conflict management training for major insurance companies, healthcare organizations, and legal services providers. Throughout Lowry’s career he has trained thousands of professionals around the country.
Prior to moving to Nashville, Lowry practiced law with Strasburger & Price, LLP in Dallas, Texas. As an attorney, he represented hospitals and healthcare providers in professional liability and commercial disputes. He also advised healthcare entities on operational issues, contract negotiations, and risk management. In addition, he has served as a California State Assembly Fellow and worked in the Law Department of Tenet Healthcare Corporation.
Lowry earned his bachelor’s degree in speech communications from Pepperdine University and master’s degree in religion from Abilene Christian University. He received his juris doctorate degree from Southern Methodist University’s Dedman School of Law. He has also completed graduate work in dispute resolution at the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution at Pepperdine University School of Law and in public policy at California State University, Sacramento.
Clayton is an entrepreneur at heart and started and ran a technology company, TurnItUp Media, which synergized the Music, Advertising, and IT Industries. He has also gained substantial experience in Staff Development and Leadership Consulting while interning with the Human Capital Group and now as the Technical Designer at Correct Care Solutions (Healthcare). In addition to Clayton’s professional pursuits, he finds time to be actively involved in his faith as a youth pastor for young men ages 14-16. One of Clayton’s greatest accomplishments was completing a 2-year full-time LDS mission trip where he ministered to the people of inner-city Kansas City, MO. Educationally, Clayton earned a bachelor’s in Business Administration from Cal Poly University where he also was awarded a full-ride basketball scholarship. He also obtained a Master of Conflict Resolution from Lipscomb University. Clayton currently serves on the board and as the Treasurer for the Tennessee Association of Professional Mediators (TAPM) and actively volunteers as a civil and victim offender mediator with the Nashville Conflict Resolution Center (NCRC). Also, he boasts that his training in Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) has made him a better husband! Clayton is married to his beautiful Wife Kaillee Osborn.
Randy Spivey
Randy Spivey currently serves as Disciplinary Counsel in the Litigation Section of the Board of Professional Responsibility of the Tennessee Supreme Court. Prior to joining the Board, he spent a year as a judicial law clerk to Judge David H. Welles of the Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals followed by six years of private practice in the areas of civil and commercial litigation. Randy received his B.A. from Lipscomb University and his Juris Doctorate from the University of Alabama.
Attorney Bryan Stephenson is a skillful lawyer, professor, business owner, and family man. He represents clients in Nashville and all counties in Middle Tennessee. He has conducted hundreds of court proceedings, including hearings, trials (both jury and bench), and various motions. He is very familiar with "the system", and is knowledgeable of Tennessee law. His legal skills and knowledge are also put to use in his position as adjunct professor for Lipscomb University's Law, Justice, and Society program.
Prior to opening his own law practice, Attorney Stephenson worked "on the other side" as an Assistant District Attorney for Davidson County for over three years. While a prosecutor, he was in court nearly every day, and dealt with most every type of crime that exists under Tennessee law--everything from Felony Murder, Aggravated Robbery, all levels of felony Drug Offenses, Theft, DUI, Forgery, Burglary, Assault, Sexual Assault, down to Simple Possession of Drugs, Driving on a Suspended License, Public Intoxication, Disorderly Conduct, and many other types of cases. He was a supervisor for the Wiretap Room during investigations by the Drug Task Force. He worked in close connection with the United States Attorney's Office to transfer State gun and drug cases to the Federal government, and primarily handled high-felony level drug prosecutions. Attorney Stephenson also represented the State in Restoration of Citizenship Rights petitions filed by convicted felons in Circuit Court. As a prosecutor, he learned the "ins" and "outs" of how the government prosecutes crimes, and how the overall system works (and in many ways, how it doesn't work).
Prior to becoming a prosecutor, Attorney Stephenson worked as a law clerk in the Antitrust, Financial, and Special Litigation divisions of the Nashville office of the Tennessee Attorney General. He also spent a summer working as a law clerk for The Lovelace Law Firm, an Elder Law practice in Dripping Springs, Texas.
Attorney Stephenson graduated with his law degree, Order of the Barristers, from Pepperdine University School of Law in Malibu, California. While in law school he was selected to serve on the Pepperdine Law Review and was the school's delegate to numerous national moot court competitions across the country. His article was selected for publication in the Law Review ("I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry, But Could I Sue: Whether 'Interacting With Others' Is a Major Life Activity under the ADA", 31 Pepp. L. Rev. 773 (2004)). He was the recipient of several awards and scholarships, including the Gunnar Nicholson Endowed Scholarship, Odell McConnell Scholarship, Howard A. White Scholarship, Associated Women for Pepperdine Scholarship, and was the only Pepperdine student selected one semester to receive an award from the Southern California Defense Counsel. Even as a student, he had the heart of a teacher, and worked as a Teaching Assistant, instructing new law students on Legal Research and Writing. He deeply values his time spent at Pepperdine and frequently misses the weather of southern California, but knew that he would return to his native and lovely Tennessee to practice law.
Attorney Stephenson graduated with a degree in Mathematics from Lipscomb University in Nashville, Tennessee. He gained the honor of being named an AP Exam Scholar, earning an entire year of college credit upon entry to Lipscomb. He grew up in Oak Ridge, Tennessee and resides in Nashville with his wife and child.
Law office based in downtown Nashville, TN and serving all counties in Middle Tennessee.
