Dennis R. McClane

Dennis R. McClane is a member of the firm and serves as its Chief Manager. He is the chairman of its Business Practice Section. His primary areas of practice include corporations, partnerships and limited liability companies, health care, real estate, mergers and acquisitions, and commercial transactions. Mr. McClane is listed in The Best Lawyers in America® in Corporate Law, Mergers and Acquisitions, and Real Estate Law and was named the Knoxville Best Lawyers® Corporate Lawyer of the Year for 2009.

Mr. McClane graduated from the University of Tennessee in 1973, receiving a B.A. in business administration. He obtained his law degree from the University of Tennessee College of Law in 1976. He practiced in the Knoxville office of a large regional law firm from 1976 until 1994, when he became one of the founding members of Woolf McClane.

Mr. McClane is active in local bar association activities. He served on the Board of Governors of the Knoxville Bar Association from 1989 through 1996 and was President of the Association in 1995. He served on the Board of Directors of Knoxville Legal Aid Society from 1993 through 2001 and served as its Treasurer. He is a member of the American Health Lawyers Association, the Health Care Sections of the American and Tennessee Bar Associations, the Business Law Section of the American Bar Association and the Corporation and Business Law Section of the Tennessee Bar Association. He is presently on the executive committee of the TBA Business Section. He has served as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Tennessee College of Law.

Mr. McClane is on the Dean's Circle of the University of Tennessee College of Law; he previously served on the Alumni Advisory Council of the College. He has been a member of the University of Tennessee Knoxville Chancellor's Associates, serving as its chairman for the 1997-1998 academic year. Mr. McClane was a member of the Leadership Knoxville Class of 2000. He has been a member of the Rotary Club of Knoxville for several years