Russell Taber primarily practices in the area of trial and appellate civil litigation on behalf of individual and corporate clients with a focus on resolution of business disputes. His clients’ cases have involved breach of contract, business torts and unfair competition, information privacy and data theft, healthcare, intellectual property and entertainment, shareholder disputes and business separations, commercial and residential real estate, and other subjects. He counsels and advises in-house legal departments on eDiscovery and other issues. Two law schools have used his book Electronic Discovery in Tennessee: Rules, Case Law and Distinctions as a textbook. The U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee largely adopted as Administrative Order No. 174-1 proposed revisions to the Court's Default Standard on eDiscovery prepared by a drafting committee he chaired. Russell has taught Cyber Law at the Belmont University College of Law and eDiscovery at the Nashville School of Law. He also holds a CIPP-US certification, a non-legal certification provided by the IAPP for information privacy professionals. Russell is a member of the Local Rules Committee for the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee. He has co-chaired the Nashville Bar Association Federal Court Committee, is a Fellow of the Nashville Bar Foundation, and has been a member of a Federal Magistrate Judge Merit Selection Panel and of the Tennessee Bar Association Leadership Law program. Earlier in his career, the Nashville Business Journal recognized Russell as one of Nashville’s Top 40 Under 40. He is AV Preeminent® rated by Martindale-Hubbell. Prior to joining Riley & Jacobson, Russell served as a law clerk for the Honorable Gilbert S. Merritt Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. At Vanderbilt Law School, Russell was a member of the Vanderbilt Law Review, the Order of the Coif, and the Moot Court Board. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Georgetown University with a B. A. degree.
