Practice Areas - Personal Injury
- Products Liability
- Medical Malpractice
- Complex Civil Litigation
- Civil Litigation
- Automobile Accidents and Injuries
- Truck Accidents
| - Construction Accidents
- Nursing Home Law
- Obstetric Malpractice
- Spinal Injury
- Wrongful Death
- Brain Injury
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| University | Harvard University, B.A., cum laude, 1975 |
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| Law School | University of Texas at Austin, J.D., with honors, 1978 |
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| Admitted | 1978, Texas; 1985, Tennessee and U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas; 1980, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit, U.S. District Court, Middle District of Tennessee, U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit and U.S. Supreme Court; U.S. Claims Court |
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| Memberships | Nashville, Tennessee and American (Commentator, Law and Medicine Committee, Tort and Insurance Practice Section, 1987) Bar Associations; Civil Justice Reform Act Advisory Committee, U.S. District Court, Middle District of Tennessee; State Bar of Texas; The Association of Trial Lawyers of America (Member, Amicus Curiae Committee, 1992-1993; Consultant, Member, Constitutional Challenge Committee, 1987). |
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| Born | Redding, California, October 23, 1953 |
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| Biography | Order of the Coif. Member, Texas Law Review, 1977-1978. Certified, Medical Malpractice Specialist, American Board of Professional Liability Attorneys. Author: ""Trial Advocacy in Tennessee," (N.B.I., 1994); "Evidence in Trial Practice," (N.B.I., 1994); "Character Evidence, Impeachment and Hearsay, 1991 Evidence Seminar, Wisconsin Judicial Conference and Tennessee Evidence Workshop Handbook (1989) (1990); "Medicine and Law: AIDS, Constitutional Challenges to Tort Reform and Medical Malpractice," 23 Tort and Insurance Law Journal 370 (1988); "Battling a Receding Tort Frontier: Constitutional Attacks on Medical Malpractice law, 38 Oklahoma Law Review 195 (1985), reprinted in 35 Defense Law Journal 359 (1986); "Legal Recognition of Neocortical Death," 71 Cornell Law Review 850 (1986); Baby Doe: Public Judgements or Private Choices? A Jurisdictional Approach, 16 New Perspectives 14 (1984); Physician as Pareto: The Search for Optimality in Health Care," The Spire (1985); "Glory Days: A Celebrity's Right of Publicity," 16 Vanderbilt Lawyer 18 (1986); "Constitutional Attacks on Medical Malpractice Laws, in Legal Liability and Quality Assurance in Newborn Screening, American Bar Foundation (1985). Co-Author (with John Wade): "Fairness: A Comparative Analysis of the Indiana and Uniform Comparative Fault Acts," 17 Indiana Law Review 969 (1984). Assistant Professor, Torts, Evidence and Professional Responsibility, Vanderbilt University School of Law, 1983-1988. Research Scholar, Vanderbilt University Medical Center for Clinical and Research Ethics, 1986-1988. Member, Executive Committee, Vanderbilt University AIDS Project, 1987-1988. Board Certified as a Civil Trial and Medical Malpractice Specialist By the American Board of Professional Liability Attorneys. (Certified Civil Trial and Medical Malpractice Specialist, Tennessee Commission on Continuing Legal Education and Specialization) (Board Certified Civil Trial Advocacy and Medical Malpractice Specialist by the National Board of Trial Advocacy) |
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| Reported Cases | Ashe v. Radiation Oncology Associates, et al., 1999 WL1267733 (Tenn). Jordan v. Baptist Three Rivers Hospital, 984 S.W.2d 593 (Tenn. 1998); Grindstaff v. Green, 133 F.3d 416 (C.A.6 (Tenn) 1998); Warren v. Metro, 955 S.W.2d 618 (Tenn. Ct. App. 1997); Grindstaff v. Green, 946 F.Supp. 540, 555 (E.D. Tenn. 1996); Foley v. St. Thomas Hospital, 906 S.W.2d 448 (Tenn. App. 1995); Jacobs v. E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., 67 F.3d 1219 (C.A.6 (Tenn.) 1995); Williamson County Broadcasting Company, Inc. v. Intermedia Partners, 1993 WL 330984 (Tenn. App. 1993); Gonzales v. Alman Const. Co., 857 S.W.2d 42 (Tenn. App. 1993); Ford v. Turley, 1992 WL120237 (Tenn. App. 1992); Payne v. Caldwell, 796 S.W.2d 142 (Tenn. 1990); Beddingfield v. City of Pulaski, Tenn., 861 F.2d 968 (6th Cir. 1988); Siskind v. Villa Foundation for Educ. Inc., 642 S.W.2d 434 (Tex. 1982); Siskind v. Villa Found. Ed., 624 S.W.2d 803 (Tex. App.-Hous (14 Dist.) 1981). |
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| ISLN | 903629957 |
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