About Jana
Jana Lamanna graduated from the University of Mississippi with a B.A. in English in 1997. She went on to earn an M.B.A. in marketing from Christian Brothers University in 1999 and completed her J.D. at Mississippi College School of Law in 2004. Those degrees shaped a career that moves between legal questions and practical business concerns.
She began practicing soon after law school. In 2005 she worked at Bailey Law Office PLLC. A year later she became a shareholder at Black McLaren Jones Ryland & Griffee, P.C., where she has maintained a leadership role. She is licensed to practice in Tennessee and Missouri, and her work reflects regional as well as specialized subject matter expertise.
Her professional memberships map closely to her practice areas. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Adoption and Assisted Reproductive Technology Law and a member of the American Society of Reproductive Medicine and the Society for Ethics in Egg Donation and Surrogacy (SEEDS). She also lists RESOLVE and the American Bar Association among her affiliations. Locally, she belongs to the Memphis Bar Association and the Memphis Bar Foundation, and she serves as a barrister in the Leo Bearman Chapter of the American Inn of Court. She participated in the New Memphis Leadership Academy as a fellow and holds membership in Wealth Counsel.
Those associations inform the work she does with families, clinics and legal peers. She handles adoption matters and cases that involve assisted reproductive technology, including legal issues that arise around donor gametes, surrogacy, and parental rights. Estate planning and related transactional work are part of the practice as well; Wealth Counsel membership indicates involvement with trusts and estate tools commonly used by clients building or protecting family assets. She regularly drafts agreements, prepares parental documentation, and consults on the intersection of reproductive services and family law.
Colleagues describe her practice as careful and procedural. She often works across medical and legal teams, translating clinical processes into enforceable legal documents. She also appears before state agencies and collaborates with national organizations that set ethical standards in reproductive services. Her role at Black McLaren has combined client work with firm responsibilities since 2006.
She continues to practice at Black McLaren Jones Ryland & Griffee, P.C., where her work centers on adoption, assisted reproductive technology and estate planning matters.
