EXPERIENCED ATTORNEYS IN MEMPHIS, TN
Leslie Gattas
Practice Areas:
- Family Law
- Litigation
- Arbitration
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Mediation -
Collaborative Law -
Juvenile Court -
Domestic Partnership -
Parental Relocation -
Reconciliation Agreement -
Prenuptial Agreement -
Postnuptial Agreement -
Termination of Parental Rights
Admitted to Practice Law:
Tennessee (1991); Arkansas and U.S. District Court, Western District of Tennessee (1992); Mississippi (1993)
Biography:
Leslie Gattas is the senior partner of Leslie Gattas and Associates. She is born and raised in Memphis. After attending college out of state, Leslie Gattas returned to Memphis to attend law school in Memphis, graduating in 1991. With an undergraduate degree in Psychology and a law degree, Leslie Gattas has a unique perspective which has contributed to her success. She has extensive experience litigating cases at the trial court level as well as the appellate level. She frequently lectures on all areas of divorce law.
Leslie served as a law clerk to the Honorable D. J. Alissandratos of the Thirtieth Judicial District at Memphis. She has been a member of the Memphis Bar Association since 1991, serving as a member of the Board of Directors as well as Secretary/Treasurer, Vice-President and President of the Young Lawyers’ Division and Chair of the Public Service Committee. She is a member of the Association of Women Attorneys, having served as recording secretary. She also has served as an Associate and Barrister member in the American Inn of Court.
She is the 1998 recipient of the Midsouth Women in Business Award, the 2004 recipient of “One of the Fifty Women Who Make A Difference” award presented by Women’s Magazine and the 2004 recipient of the Sam A. Myar, Jr. Memorial Award presented by the Memphis Bar Association for outstanding service to the legal profession and the community, and a 2005 recipient of the “Top 40 Under 40” Award presented by the Memphis Business Journal. She is a Fellow of the Memphis Bar Foundation and a member of the prestigious Lawyer’s Journal club. She has been named a Fellow of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, an organization of leading practitioners in the field of family law who are chosen for their high level of knowledge, skill, and integrity. And in 2016 she was admitted into the American College of Trial Lawyers, that is composed of the best of the trial bar in the United States and Canada, Fellowship into the college is extended by invitation only.
In addition to her law practice, she has served on the Board of the Commission on Missing and Exploited Children. She has served on the Board of Trustees of St. Agnes Academy-St. Dominic, Inc., as well as serving as Chairperson of the Board of Trustees for three (3) years.
When she is not practicing law, she enjoys spending time with her children and extensive family.
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Leslie served as a law clerk to the Honorable D. J. Alissandratos of the Thirtieth Judicial District at Memphis. She has been a member of the Memphis Bar Association since 1991, serving as a member of the Board of Directors as well as Secretary/Treasurer, Vice-President and President of the Young Lawyers’ Division and Chair of the Public Service Committee. She is a member of the Association of Women Attorneys, having served as recording secretary. She also has served as an Associate and Barrister member in the American Inn of Court.
She is the 1998 recipient of the Midsouth Women in Business Award, the 2004 recipient of “One of the Fifty Women Who Make A Difference” award presented by Women’s Magazine and the 2004 recipient of the Sam A. Myar, Jr. Memorial Award presented by the Memphis Bar Association for outstanding service to the legal profession and the community, and a 2005 recipient of the “Top 40 Under 40” Award presented by the Memphis Business Journal. She is a Fellow of the Memphis Bar Foundation and a member of the prestigious Lawyer’s Journal club. She has been named a Fellow of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, an organization of leading practitioners in the field of family law who are chosen for their high level of knowledge, skill, and integrity. And in 2016 she was admitted into the American College of Trial Lawyers, that is composed of the best of the trial bar in the United States and Canada, Fellowship into the college is extended by invitation only.
In addition to her law practice, she has served on the Board of the Commission on Missing and Exploited Children. She has served on the Board of Trustees of St. Agnes Academy-St. Dominic, Inc., as well as serving as Chairperson of the Board of Trustees for three (3) years.
When she is not practicing law, she enjoys spending time with her children and extensive family.
Jason R. Ridenour
Practice Areas:
Admitted to Practice Law: Tennessee (2007)
- Family Law
- Litigation
- Mediation
- Divorce
- Modifications
- Probate/ Conservatorship
- Juvenile Court
- Parental Relocation
- Orders of Protection
- Contract Drafting & Litigation
- Contempt Proceedings
Admitted to Practice Law: Tennessee (2007)
Biography:
Jason R. Ridenour is an Associate with Leslie Gattas and Associates focused on representing clients in family law related matters, including divorce, alimony, child custody, child support and orders of protection. Jason has practiced with Leslie Gattas and Associates since February 2010.
Jason has represented clients involving complex and substantial marital estates, contentious child custody disputes, childabuse related
litigation, Hague Convention litigation concerning international child abduction, and contempt litigation.
Prior to focusing his practice in 2010 on advising and representing clients in family law related matters, Jason had a broad scope of practice, including complex construction contracting disputes, business formation and dissolution, contract drafting, conservatorship and guardianship litigation, probate litigation and estate planning.
Jason is admitted to practice in Tennessee, including in the Western District Federal Court. He has been licensed to practice law in Tennessee since 2007. From 2006 to 2007 Jason was the law clerk for two Shelby County Probate Court Judges. Jason graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Memphis Law School in 2007, where he was also an associate editor on the University of Memphis Law Review. He graduated Cum Laude from the University of Tennessee in 2001.
Jason has represented clients involving complex and substantial marital estates, contentious child custody disputes, child
Prior to focusing his practice in 2010 on advising and representing clients in family law related matters, Jason had a broad scope of practice, including complex construction contracting disputes, business formation and dissolution, contract drafting, conservatorship and guardianship litigation, probate litigation and estate planning.
Jason is admitted to practice in Tennessee, including in the Western District Federal Court. He has been licensed to practice law in Tennessee since 2007. From 2006 to 2007 Jason was the law clerk for two Shelby County Probate Court Judges. Jason graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Memphis Law School in 2007, where he was also an associate editor on the University of Memphis Law Review. He graduated Cum Laude from the University of Tennessee in 2001.
Zane S. Heller
Practice Areas:
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- Family Law
- Divorce
- Child Support
- Child Custody
- Juvenile Court
- Litigation
- Post-Divorce Disputes
Law School: Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law, J.D.
Admitted to Practice: Tennessee (2019)
Biography: Zane Heller is a native of southern Illinois. He attended Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington, Illinois, where he earned his B.A. in Philosophy in 2016.
Zane relocated to Memphis to attend law school at the University of Memphis, Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law where he earned his J.D. in 2019. While in law school, Zane served as an Associate Justice for the Moot Court Board. He also earned success as a moot court competitor, earning a Top Five Appellate Brief Award in the 2018 American Bar Association's Appellate Advocacy Competition and becoming a regional champion in the same competition the following year. In his final year of law school, Zane served as a law clerk for the Honorable Valerie L. Smith in Shelby County Circuit Court.
Prior to joining the firm, Zane served as a law clerk for the Honorable Judge J. Ross Dyer at the Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals. He is happy to apply his legal advocacy and writing skills in private practice for clients of Leslie Gattas and Associates.
