Laurenn Disspayne received her B.A. degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1989, and obtained her J.D. from the University of Tennessee College of Law in 1992. While attending the University of Tennessee College of Law, Ms. Disspayne was a member of the Tennessee Law Review. 

Ms. Disspayne served as Judicial Clerk to the Honorable Robert S. Brandt, the Honorable C. Allen High, and the Honorable Irvin H. Kilcrease, Jr., Davidson County Chancery Court, 1992-1994. In 1995, she joined the firm of Manier & Herod, and has practiced exclusively in the area of workers’ compensation since that time. 

Ms. Disspayne focuses exclusively on workers’ compensation litigation, both trial and appellate work, and she represents employers, self-insured employers, and workers’ compensation insurance carriers throughout the State of Tennessee. She is a veteran of the courtroom and has argued before the Tennessee Supreme Court, Special Workers’ Compensation Panel. She has additionally served as a speaker at seminars involving workers’ compensation issues and has been involved in the Mid-South Workers’ Compensation Association. 

Ms. Disspayne was a contributor to the Third Edition of TENNESSEE WORKERS’ COMPENSATION, A PRACTICAL GUIDE. Ms. Disspayne was also commissioned as a Kentucky Colonel in 1992 by the Commonwealth of Kentucky.






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