THE CHATTANOOGA TRIAL
THAT BROUGHT DOWN AN ICON
Saturday, September 12, 2026
The Bailey Suites, 1089 Bailey Ave, Chattanooga, TN 37404.
In-person and Zoom Seminar Registration
10:00 - 12:00 EDT
.2 CEUs approved
In 1975, former Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa disappeared from a parking lot in Detroit, Michigan, and, presumably assassinated, was never seen again. The sequence of events that culminated in Hoffa’s disappearance was set into motion a decade earlier in the small southern city of Chattanooga, Tennessee. Hoffa in Tennessee: the Chattanooga Trial That Brought Down an Icon tells the little-known story of a bitterly fought 1964 trial that toppled one of the most powerful men in the United States. This seminar will be a powerful look into an interesting event in history.
Speaker Maury Nicely is a member of the law firm of Evans Harrison Hackett PLLC in Chattanooga, Tennessee, where he concentrates his practice in the areas of employment litigation, labor law, and general business litigation. He has addressed issues pertaining to all areas of labor and employment law in order to assist clients in preparing and maintaining employee records, making proactive decisions to prevent workplace issues from arising, and addressing formal complaints when they arise. Mr. Nicely is a member of the American, Tennessee, Chattanooga, and Federal bar associations, as well as the State Bar of Georgia. He is admitted to practice in Georgia and Tennessee State and Federal courts. Mr. Nicely earned his B.A. degree, magna cum laude, from Vanderbilt University, and his J.D. degree, cum laude, from the University of Georgia School of Law.
Maury is also an avid historian. He is the author of the Chattanooga Walking Tour & Historic Guide (2002), the East Tennessee Walking Tour & Historic Guide (2011), and Hoffa in Tennessee: the Chattanooga Trial That Brought Down an Icon (2019), which discusses the 1964 trial of Jimmy Hoffa in Chattanooga. His most recent book, Forging a New South: The Biography of Civil War General John T. Wilder, was just released by the UT Press in 2023. He is currently at work on a book detailing a Cherokee murder case that set the stage for the Trail of Tears and the removal of the Cherokee west of the Mississippi.
