Attorney John McDonald has joined Evans Jones Reynolds, becoming that firm's eighth lawyer.

McDonald practices tax law as well as business and estate planning law. He joins the 25-year-old firm from Stites & Harbison, where he had been an associate since 2005. Before that, he was an associate at Watkins McGugin McNeilly & Rowan.

McDonald joins Allen Reynolds, a former president of the Nashville Estate Planning Council, in working on tax and planning matters. Other Evans Jones Reynolds attorneys are active in civil litigation, domestic law and personal injury cases, among others.