Robert D. Meyers has been reappointed as chairman of the government liability committee for Defense Research Institute, an international organization of attorneys who specialize in defending civil litigation. The reappointment marks the beginning of Meyers’ second consecutive year as chairman of the committee.  Mr. Meyers is also the committee chair for DRI’s Civil Rights Seminar in January 2010.

Tanja L. Thompson is the Employer co-chair of the Retention Sub-Committee of the ABA’s Labor and Employment Law Section’s Membership Development Committee.

Tanja L. Thompson is an Associate Editor for The Developing Labor Law 2009 Cumulative Supplement.

Members and Associates at Kiesewetter Wise currently serve or have served as Directors and Officers of the following organizations, amongst others:

• United Way of the Mid-South (past Board of Directors)
• Margolin Hebrew Academy (Board of Directors)
• Tennessee State Chapter of March of Dimes (Board of Directors)
• Memphis Division of March of Dimes (Board of Directors)
• Memphis Recovery Centers, Inc. (Board of Directors)
• St. Gregory the Great Catholic Church (Chair, Pastoral Council; Coordinator of Religious Education; past-Chair, Parish Finance Council)
• Atlantic Union College (Board of Trustees)
• University of Richmond Young Graduates Association (Board of Directors)
• University of Memphis Law School Alumni Board (Secretary/Treasurer)
• Vice-Chancellor for the Episcopal Diocese of West Tennessee 
• Atlantic Union College (Board of Trustees)
• Mid South Reads, Inc. (Board of Directors)