Attorney to the Stars Shannon Nash Is Atlanta Tribune's October Featured Lawyer

Attorney Shannon King Nash, a CPA, tax attorney, non-profit manager & founder, celebrity representative, owner of Nash Management Group, LLC, and co-owner of The Green Room, is the featured lawyer in the Attorney’s Corner column of Atlanta Tribune magazine's October 2011 edition.

The feature of Attorney Nash, who recently relocated to Atlanta after a distinguished career in Los Angeles, is titled “Shannon King Nash, Esq. - Jill Of All Trades."  Attorney Nash is interviewed in Q&A format by Atlanta Tribune – The Magazine’s attorney-columnist Brian D. Poe, Esq.

A great deal of the interview focuses on Attorney Nash's recent launch of The Green Room with her client, friend & partner actress Terri J. Vaughn, along with their partners film producer Roger Bobb and former NBA player Adonal Foyle.

A former partner with the Washington DC based law firm Guydon Love, LLP, and former adjunct Non-Profit Law professor at California Lutheran University, Attorney Nash has served as Secretary of the American Bar Association (ABA) Tax Section and as chair of the National Bar Association's Tax Committee.

While based in Los Angeles, Attorney Nash became a regular expert commentator on KJLH FM Radio in Los Angeles and various local and national television programs, and was a weekly columnist for Lee Bailey's Electronic Urban Report (www.eurweb.com).  She has been featured in publications such as: The Chronicle of Philanthropy, Global Finance Magazine, Jet Magazine, ABC News Online and The Washington Times.  She, her husband William, and their three children appeared on the cover of Black Enterprises magazine in April of 2009.

Her primary business is Nash Management Group Inc., a business and entertainment management company that provides COO and CFO type services to its clients. The company specializes in helping clients with accounting and bookkeeping, taxes, contracting, overall business management, and business due diligence audits.  Nash Management Group also offers nonprofit consulting services, such as: setup, training, and operational support.

Her current clients include:  actor Doc Shaw (Disney’s “Pair of Kings” and Tyler Perry’s “House of Payne”), actresses Terri J. Vaughn (“The Steve Harvey Show” and Tyler Perry’s “Meet The Browns”) and Jasmine Guy (“A Different World”), R&B singer Kenny Lattimore, film producer Roger Bobb (Bobbcat Films, former executive vice president of Tyler Perry Studios), and nonprofits, including foundations started by NBA star Carmelo Anthony and R&B legend Chaka Khan.

Attorney Nash received her BS in Accounting from the University of Virginia McIntire School of Commerce and her JD from the University of Virginia School of Law. She is an active member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. and Jack and Jill of America, Inc.  She is a member of The Commerce Club in Atlanta.

Attorney Nash is co-founder of Colored My Mind, a non-profit whose mission is to improve the lives of children and adults with, and educate people about, autism and related neurological disorders, particularly in the black and Latino communities. Her Colored My Mind co-founders are:  actress Tisha Campbell-Martin, music manager Tammy McCrary, educator Donna Hunter, and LaDonna Hughley (wife of DL Hughley).

Attorney Brian Poe, who is Managing Partner of Brian Poe & Associates, Attorneys, PC and Founder of the national legal recruiting firm Esquire Connect LLC, stated that Attorney Nash is his most "diverse" feature yet in the Atlanta Tribune – The Magazine’s Attorney's Corner column.  “Her move to Atlanta epitomizes what is taking place here on a larger level, along with Tyler Perry, Rainforest Films, Terri J. Vaughn and others who see Atlanta as the new city of opportunity for business, film and entertainment.”

Attorney Nash, along with Atlanta Tribune - The Magazine's Publisher Pat Lottier, D. Jean Brannan, President & COO of the Southwest Atlanta-based Sickle Cell Foundation of Georgia, Inc., and 7 other women, was recently named "Woman of Influence" by the Women's Economic Development Agency ("WEDA") at the Thalia N. Carlos Community Center in Atlanta.  They will be honored at WEDA's Inaugural Fall Tea on November 5th.  For more information or tickets to attend this event, see:  www.weda-atlanta.org.

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