MEMBERS AND PARTNERS: Nashville, Tennessee (Main Office) Office
H. Lee Barfield II, Member
AV Rated
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Business Litigation; Health Care Law; Medical Malpractice; Insurance
Richard H. Barry, Member
AV Rated
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Taxation Law; Employee Benefits Law; Corporate Law
E. Warner Bass, Member
AV Rated
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Real Estate Law
Francis M. Bass, Jr., (1904-1959)
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Francis Marion Bass, (1875-1943)
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
James O. Bass, Retired Partner
AV Rated
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Litigation; Banking Law; Public Utility Law
James O. Bass, Jr., Retired Partner
AV Rated
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Banking Law; Antitrust Law; Commercial Litigation
Coburn Dewees Berry, IV, Member
AV Rated
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Real Estate Litigation; Real Estate
Frank Allen Berry, (1885-1965)
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Frank Allen Berry, Jr., (1923-1987)
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
W. W. Berry, (1917-2001)
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Ross I. Booher, Member
BV Rated
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Litigation
Laura Rakow Brothers, Member
BV Rated
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Corporate; Securities
James H. Cheek, III, Member
AV Rated
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Securities Law; Mergers and Acquisitions Law; Corporate Governance Law
E. Steele Clayton, IV, Member
BV Rated
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Business Litigation; Securities Litigation; Commercial Litigation; Contract Litigation
Matthew Michael Curley, Member
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Litigation
Michael L. Dagley, Member
AV Rated
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Commercial Litigation; Securities Litigation
J. Page Davidson, Chair, Corporate & Securities Practice Area
AV Rated
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Corporate Law; Securities Law; Mergers, Acquisitions and Divestitures
Wallace W. Dietz, Member
AV Rated
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Business Litigation; Commercial Litigation
Kevin H. Douglas, Member
BV Rated
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Corporate Law; Securities; Mergers, Acquisitions and Divestitures
Felix R. Dowsley, III, Member
AV Rated
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Commercial Lending Law; Real Estate Law
Karen L.C. Ellis, Member
AV Rated
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Labor Law; Employment Law
R. Todd Ervin, Member
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: State Taxation; Federal Taxation Law
David R. Esquivel, Member
BV Rated
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Litigation
Samuel Lanier Felker, Member
AV Rated
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Litigation; Products Liability Law
Susan W. Foxman, Member
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Commercial Real Estate; Commercial Finance; Commercial Law; Leases and Leasing; Mortgage Law; Conservation Easements
J. Davidson French, Member
BV Rated
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Labor and Employment Law; Employment Litigation; Appellate Practice
Tim K. Garrett, Member
AV Rated
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Labor Law; Employment Law
J. Andrew Goddard, Member
AV Rated
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Environmental Law; Energy Law; Litigation
James C. Gooch, Member
AV Rated
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Federal and State Taxation Law; Estate Planning Law; Probate Law
Frank C. Gorrell, II, (1927-1994)
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
B. Riney Green, Member
AV Rated
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Corporate Law; Securities; Health Care
R. Dale Grimes, Member
AV Rated
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Litigation; Class Actions; Antitrust Law; Telecommunications
Anna Minor Grizzle, Member
BV Rated
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Litigation
D. Scott Holley, Member
BV Rated
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Securities; Corporate
Robert W. Horton, Member
AV Rated
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Labor Law; Employment Law; Civil Rights Law
L. Wearen Hughes, Member
AV Rated
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Business Litigation; Construction Law and Litigation; Environmental Litigation; Arbitration; Mediation; Creditor's Rights Law; Commercial Litigation
Angela Humphreys, Member
AV Rated
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Corporate Law; Securities; Mergers and Acquisitions; Health Care Law
Gene L. Humphreys, Member
AV(T) Rated
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Bankruptcy; Creditors Rights; Commercial Litigation
J. James Jenkins, Jr., Member
AV Rated
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Corporate Law; Securities Law; Health Care Law
Paul G. Jennings, Chair, Bankruptcy and Litigation Practice Areas
AV Rated
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Business Litigation; Bankruptcy Law
Julie N. Jones, Member
AV Rated
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Commercial Lending Law; Equipment Leasing; Arbitration; Mediation; Entertainment Industry Lending; Intellectual Property
David A. King, Member
AV Rated
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Health Care Litigation; Personal Injury Litigation; Products Liability Litigation
Howard H. Lamar, III, Member
AV Rated
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Corporate Law; Securities Law; Mergers and Acquisitions; Venture Capital Financing; Fund Formation; Health Care Services
Britt K. Latham, Member
AV Rated
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Litigation
Robins H. Ledyard, Member
AV Rated
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Corporate Law; Insurance Law
J. Richard Lodge, Jr., Member
AV Rated
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Governmental Relations Law; Administrative Law; Business Litigation
George H. Masterson, Member
AV Rated
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Public Finance Law; Public Utility Law; Corporate Law
Anthony J. McFarland, Member
AV Rated
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Commercial Litigation; Bank Litigation; Products Liability Litigation; Healthcare Litigation
Andrea Taylor McKellar, Member
BV Rated
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Medical Malpractice; Personal Injury; Civil Practice; Contract Litigation
Bryan W. Metcalf, Member
BV Rated
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Taxation
Claire F. Miley, Member
AV Rated
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Health Care Law; Corporate Law
Paige Waldrop Mills, Member
BV Rated
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Intellectual Property; Trademark; Litigation
Lori Bryant Morgan, Member
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Corporate Law; Securities Law; Mergers and Acquisitions
Michael S. Moschel, Member
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Labor; Employment
Karen Scott Neal, Member
AV Rated
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Municipal Law; Municipal Finance
Jennifer Horn Noonan, Member
BV Rated
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Corporate and Securities Law
T. Scott Noonan, Member
BV Rated
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Health Care Law
Jeffrey A. Oldham, Member
BV Rated
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Public Finance
J. Allen Overby, Member
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Corporate; Securities Law
William N. Ozier, Member
AV Rated
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Labor Law; Employment Law; Private Education Law
T. G. Pappas, Retired Partner
AV Rated
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Corporate Law; Litigation; Public Utilities Law
Michael S. Peek, Member
AV Rated
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Commercial Law; Real Estate and Commercial Lending Law; Real Estate Development Law
W. Brantley Phillips, Jr., Member
AV Rated
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Commercial Litigation; Administrative Law; Election, Campaign and Political Law; Products Liability
J. Bradbury Reed, Member
AV Rated
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Business Planning; Mergers and Acquisitions; Owner Disputes; Corporate Law; Securities
Cynthia Y. Reisz, Member
AV Rated
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Health Care Law; Corporate Law; Mergers and Acquisitions
Fritz R. Richter, III, Member
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Employee Benefits; Pension and Profit Sharing Plans; 401(k) Plans; ESOPS; Executive Compensation; ERISA; Taxation
Todd J. Rolapp, Member
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Corporate; Securities Law; Executive Compensation
Cynthia N. Sellers, Member
AV Rated
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Commercial Law; Real Estate
D. Mark Sheets, Member
AV Rated
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Real Estate Law
Keith B. Simmons, Managing Partner
AV Rated
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Public Finance
Wilson Sims, Retired Partner
AV Rated
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: General Business Law; Litigation
Michael D. Sontag, Member
AV Rated
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Tax Law; Local Taxation; State Taxation; Estate Planning
Samuel E. Stumpf, Jr., Member
AV Rated
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Corporate Law; Securities Law; Venture Capital Finance Law
Tara L. Swafford, Member
AV Rated
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Litigation; Intellectual Property
James S. Tate, Jr., Member
AV Rated
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Commercial Law; Secured Transactions; Real Estate Law
T. Stephen C. Taylor, Member
AV Rated
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Financial Institutions Law; Corporate Law; Securities
G. Scott Thomas, Member
AV Rated
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Environmental Law(80%); Intellectual Property Law(20%)
Ryan D. Thomas, Member
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Corporate Law; Securities Law
Bob F. Thompson, Member
AV Rated
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Securities Law; Corporate Law; Banking Law
Overton Thompson III, Member
AV Rated
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Class Action Litigation; Commercial Litigation; Business Torts Litigation
F. Mitchell Walker, Jr., Member
AV Rated
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Securities Law; Mergers and Acquisitions Law; Corporate Law
Leigh Walton, Member
AV Rated
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Corporate Law; Securities Law; Health Care Law
Elizabeth Salisbury Warren, Member
BV Rated
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Health Care
Charles K. Wray, Member
AV Rated
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Public Finance Law; Real Estate Law; Health Care Law
Jessalyn Hershinger Zeigler, Member
BV Rated
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Drug and Medical Device Defense; Diet Drug Litigation; Environmental Law; Environmental Litigation; Civil Litigation; Medical Malpractice Defense
OF COUNSEL: Nashville, Tennessee (Main Office) Office
Henry L. Hipkens, Of Counsel
AV Rated
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Tort and Insurance; Commercial Litigation; Entertainment Litigation; Trademark Litigation; Insurance Litigation
Leslie B. Goff Sanders, Of Counsel
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Labor; Employment; Labor and Employment
ASSOCIATES: Nashville, Tennessee (Main Office) Office
H. Stanford Adams, Jr., Associate
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Health Care
Russell S. Baldwin, Associate
AV Rated
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Commercial Litigation
Kevin A. Ball, Associate
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Corporate Law; Securities
Scott W. Bell, Associate
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Corporate Law
Philip F.S. Berg, Associate
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Health Care; Corporate Law
Robert L. Brewer, Associate
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Intellectual Property; Computers and Software; Technology and Science; Internet Law; Media Law; Corporate Law
Christopher Chi, Associate
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Corporate Law; Securities
Michael M. Collier, Associate
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Corporate Law; Securities
Kelly A. Cunningham, Associate
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Litigation
Robert Dempsey, Associate
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Corporate Law; Securities
Joshua R. Denton, Associate
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Litigation; Commercial Litigation; Bankruptcy; Debtor and Creditor; Land Use; Antitrust Litigation; Real Estate Litigation
Brian Michael Dobbs, Associate
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Business Litigation; Construction Litigation; Real Estate Litigation; Landlord and Tenant Litigation; Construction Contracting
Erin Everitt, Associate
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Litigation
Curtis L. Fisher, Associate
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Taxation; Employee Benefits
Robert Fleu, Associate
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Corporate Law; Securities
Mary Fortugno, Associate
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Health Care
Renard C. François, Associate
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Litigation; Civil Litigation
Valere Fulwider, Associate
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Health Care
Adam Futrell, Associate
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Litigation
Pooneh Ghiassi, Associate
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Health Care
Michael Jason Hale, Associate
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Corporate Law; Securities
Elisa E. Harris, Associate
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Health Care
Wendee M. Hilderbrand, Associate
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Litigation
Stephen C. Hinton, Associate
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Corporate Law; Securities
Brandi L. Holland, Associate
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Corporate Law; Securities
Michael J. Holley, Associate
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Taxation
Kevin M. Howard, Associate
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Corporate; Securities
Daniel P. Hull, Associate
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Litigation
Cara Jackson, Associate
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Intellectual Property; Technology and Science
Clevonne M. Jacobs, Associate
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Healthcare
Stephen J. Jasper, Associate
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Litigation; Taxation
Aaron R. Kaalberg, Associate
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Commercial Transactions; Real Estate
Seth Andrew Killingbeck, Associate
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Health Care
Charles David Killion, Associate
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Litigation
John R. Kirk, Associate
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Taxation; Employee Benefits Law; ERISA
Jason S. Lewallen, Associate
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Commercial Law; Commercial Real Estate
Ashley R. McCall, Associate
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Corporate Law; Securities
Alonda W. McCutcheon, Associate
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Employment Law; Labor Law
Andrew L. McQueen, Associate
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Corporate Law; Securities
Russell A. Miller, Associate
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Commercial Law; Real Estate; Public Finance
Steven T. Morris, Associate
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Corporate Law; Securities
Jody E. O'Brien, Associate
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Litigation
Andrea N. Orr, Associate
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Corporate Law; Securities; Mergers, Acquisitions and Divestitures
Justin A. Page, Associate
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Labor and Employment
Taylor J. Phillips, Associate
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Litigation
Shannon E. Pinkston, Associate
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Health Care
Justin D. Pitt, Associate
BV Rated
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Commercial Litigation; Government; Construction Law
Brian D. Roark, Associate
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Litigation
John S. Seehorn, Associate
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Commercial Law; Real Estate; Commercial Lending; Secured Transactions
R. Slade Sevier, Jr., Associate
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Construction Law and Litigation; Business Litigation; Zoning; Land Use and Environmental Litigation
Mary "Molly" V. Shasteen, Associate
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Commercial Development; Real Estate Investments
Matthew J. Sinback, Associate
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Litigation
Catherine J.B. Sloan, Associate
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Health Care
Danielle M. Sloane, Associate
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Health Care
Blaine Holt Smith, Associate
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Estate Planning; Taxation
David W. Smith, Associate
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Real Estate; Commercial Transactions
Lucas R. Smith, Associate
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Antitrust; Insurance; General Liability; Mass Torts; Litigation
Russell E. Stair, Associate
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Bankruptcy; Commercial Law; Debtor and Creditor Rights; Litigation
Amanda Elliott Stanley, Associate
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Secured Lending; Real Estate; Commercial; Finance
John David H. Thomas, Associate
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Litigation; Antitrust
Matthew D. Thompson, Associate
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Corporate Law; Securities
Meredith Mallard Thompson, Associate
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Litigation
Krista L. Thornton, Associate
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Health Care
Kendrick D. Vaughn, Associate
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Corporate Law; Securities
Erica Bell Vick, Associate
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Litigation
Jamie V. Wade, Associate
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Corporate Law
Julie C. Walker, Associate
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Corporate; Securities
Kathryn Hannen Walker, Associate
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Litigation; Intellectual Property
Wendy M. Warren, Associate
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Litigation(40%); Bankruptcy(60%)
Price Wilson, Associate
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Corporate Securities; Mergers and Acquisitions
Bradley Wood, Associate
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Corporate Law; Securities
Jeffrey P. Yarbro, Associate
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Litigation
Gregory T. Young, Associate
BV Rated
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Environmental; Litigation
Kinika Young, Associate
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Litigation
STAFF ATTORNEYS: Nashville, Tennessee (Main Office) Office
Michael Brien Bligh, Staff Attorney
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Public Finance; Bond Finance; Municipal Law
Linda Barone Howard, Staff Attorney
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Litigation
Joshua V. Lindsey, Staff Attorney
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Corporate Law; Securities
Stephanie S. Maxwell, Staff Attorney
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Litigation(100%)
Matthew W. McInteer, Staff Attorney
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Appellate Practice; Intellectual Property
Carolyn Varga Moore, Staff Attorney
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Commercial Law; Real Estate; Employment Law; Litigation
Brenda N. Phillips, Staff Attorney
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Health Care
Abigail Turner, Staff Attorney
BV Rated
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Litigation
Anna M. Warnock, Staff Attorney
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Labor and Employment
Valerie M. Webb, Staff Attorney
BV Rated
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Commercial; Real Estate
Barry D. Willms, Staff Attorney
Office: Nashville, Tennessee
Practice Areas: Business Litigation(100%)