Memphis Criminal Defense Lawyer

Criminal Attorney Lorna S. McClusky’s Profile

Lorna graduated from Memphis State University's Cecil Humphrey's School of Law in 1994. While there she served the Law Review journal as comments Editor and a Board Member. She began practicing law solely in the criminal field in 1998, when she began to work with William D. Massey. Within a year, she became a partner.

Lorna is a life member of NACDL and has served on the Judicial, Forensic, Death Penalty, and Discovery Committees of that organization. She is a life member of TACDL and has served on the board CLE committee, Death Penalty committee and is the organization's secretary. She is known by peers for her work in federal courts, capital murder cases and forfeiture proceedings.

Practice Areas:

• State and Federal Criminal Law
• Trial Practice

Admitted:

• 1994, Tennessee
• U.S. Court of Appeals Sixth Circuit
• U.S. District Court, Western, Middle and Eastern Districts of Tennessee
• Tennessee Supreme Court

Education

• Memphis State University, Cecil Humphrey's School of Law, J.D., 1994
• University of Memphis, B.A., magna cum laude, 1991

Member

• Memphis and Tennessee Bar Associations
• Tennessee Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (CLE Chairperson for the Western District; Member, Board of Directors, Secretary)
• National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (Member, Discovery Committee; Co-Chairperson, Judicial Committee; Life Member)
• Tennessee Innocence Project (Former Member, Board of Directors); Inns of Court (Barrister).

Comments Editor and Board Member:

• Memphis State University Law Review

 Recipient:

• Faculty Council Award, Memphis State University
• Lionel R. Barrett, Jr. Award for Outstanding Work in the Death Penalty Arena, 2001
• Outstanding Service Award, 2004 by Tennessee Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers

 Listed:

• Who's Who in American Colleges, 1992-1994
• Who's Who in American Law, 2004
• Who's Who in the World, 2004.

 Co-Presenter:

• "Race in Death Penalty Cases," TACDL, 2001

Presenter:

•  Ethics Seminar, "Who Wants to Be a Good Lawyer?" TACDL, 2002
• "Ethical Issues," TACDL Trial College, 2002-2005
• "Cross My Heart, Hope to Die-False Confession," Trial Techniques and Strategies by the Masters, NACDL, New York, N.Y., 2003

 Past President:

•  St. Thomas More Lawyers Guild

 Faculty:

• Tennessee Criminal Defense College, TACDL, 2002-

 Born:
1954