Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
2010 Fellowship Breakfast
On Monday, January 18, 2010, Bone McAllester Norton will host its ninth annual Fellowship Breakfast to celebrate the memory and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The celebration will be held at Sambuca restaurant in Nashville beginning at 8:00 a.m.
This is an especially important event for our law firm. We founded Bone McAllester Norton in 2002 as a new firm, to put into practice a set of core principles and values to which we are unfailingly committed. We adopted the phrase “Law – Life – Passion” as a shorthand way of expressing those principles. One value about which the firm is passionate is diversity, and we have created a law firm that reflects the diversity of our clients – people of different idealistic, socioeconomic, educational, ethnic, racial and religious backgrounds. Rather than simply closing our offices on the MLK holiday, we decided to honor Dr. King’s memory by inviting a few family members, friends and clients to join us for breakfast. We spend this time together to reflect upon Dr. King, his legacy, and the contributions he made to our world and to each of us personally.
As our law firm has grown, so has our Fellowship Breakfast. This year our Breakfast will be held at Sambuca restaurant. We are honored to have E. Rip Patton as our featured speaker. In the early 1960’s, while a student at Tennessee A&I State University in Nashville (now TSU), Dr. Patton played a vital role in the civil rights movement throughout the United States, including participation as a Freedom Rider in May of 1961.
Following our featured speaker, we will, as always, open the floor and encourage comments by anyone who wishes to talk about Dr. King’s legacy.
On this page, you will find several links: to E. Rip Patton’s biography, to photographs of previous MLK Fellowship Breakfasts, and to a video slideshow recalling the life of Dr. King. You will also see a link that allows you to RSVP online. We know that some of you have already contacted us with your RSVP. If so, we look forward to seeing you on the 18th and wanted to share this additional information with you. Also see the link to a map and directions to Sambuca, which is located at 601 12th Avenue South in Nashville. Parking is available in several lots surrounding the restaurant, and valet parking will also be offered.
