Best Lawyers in Tennessee, United States for Personal Injury Litigation - Defendants
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Mr. Godbold is Of Counsel with the firm and represents pharmaceutical companies, medical device manufacturers, and a leading clinical laboratory. He has successfully defended malpractice cases for various professional disciplines including physicians, attorneys, dentists, pharmacists, nurses, and accountants. Mr. Godbold has experience in litigating product liability cases of all types including significant complex matters involving construction equipment, electrical transformers, chemical pr...
Jennifer Harrison is a Partner in our Memphis office and is licensed to practice in Tennessee, Arkansas, and Mississippi. Her experience as a former cardiovascular ICU nurse and occupational health nurse is invaluable in her defense of health care practitioners, which she has done for more than 20 years. Jennifer enjoys integrating medicine and law and utilizing her combined experiences to be a staunch and zealous advocate for her clients. In 2014, Jennifer obtained a Master of Laws in Trial ...
Richard Underwood ’s litigation practice concentrates in the areas of general civil litigation, commercial, employment, and personal injury litigation. He has represented clients throughout the South. Mr. Underwood has tried more than 150 jury trials to verdict and has tried cases in Tennessee, Mississippi, Arkansas, Kentucky, Missouri and Georgia, in both state and federal courts. He has tried all types of cases, including employment (age, race, and sex discrimination), wrongful termin...
Bob Chapski is a shareholder and a Rule 31 Listed General Civil Mediator in the firm’s Nashville office. He is chair of the firm’s Product Liability Practice Group. Mr. Chapski regularly represents businesses and individuals and is experienced in a variety of litigation-related practice fields including product liability, tort, commercial/business litigation and employment law. He often serves as local counsel to global law firms, advising attorneys and national clients in complex...
Ms. Bennett, a shareholder in the Memphis office, focuses her practice primarily in the areas of medical malpractice defense and insurance defense. Before attending law school, Ms. Bennett spent several years working as a medical malpractice paralegal and held a position as an adjunct professor in The University of Memphis Department of Political Science. A 2012 magna cum laude graduate of The University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law, Ms. Bennett earned numerous writing, academi...
Alan Easterly is an Equity Member of Leitner, Williams, Dooley & Napolitan, PLLC. He practices out of the firm's Chattanooga, Tennessee office. His practice concentrates on transportation, product liability (including food liability), complex/ mass torts, insurance, premises liability, auto liability, construction, and general negligence matters. He has managed, tried, or otherwise successfully defended numerous significant product liability, transportation, toxic tort, and complex tort c...
Brian Yoakum's practice includes a wide range of complex commercial litigation in the areas of general and business law, premises liability defense, mass tort defense, contract and transactional disputes and business divorces among owners of all types of business entities. Mr. Yoakum regularly represents property owners and businesses such as restaurants, retail stores, and apartment communities in defense of lawsuits brought pursuant to the Americans with Disabilities Act, Fair Housing Act, ...
Dale Bay is a shareholder in Lewis Thomason's Nashville office, where he previously served as managing shareholder for 20 years and was a founding member of the board of directors and compensation committee. Since joining the firm in 1984, Dale has focused on civil jury trial litigation in state and federal courts across Tennessee and the southeastern United States. Dale’s current litigation work primarily involves medical malpractice (Healthcare Liability), professional malpractice def...
Abigail “Abby” Webb Sala is an attorney in Memphis, Tennessee , with Harris Shelton PLLC whose practice focuses on civil litigation and dispute resolution . Her work includes Insurance Law, Medical Malpractice Law - Defendants, Personal Injury Litigation - Defendants, and Personal Injury Litigation - Plaintiffs. Abby represents businesses, insurers, health care providers, and individuals in a wide range of matters in state and federal courts. Abby regularly handles complex litigat...
C. Douglas Dooley is a litigation attorney with over 25 years of experience handling workers’ compensation, trucking accidents, personal injury law, insurance coverage disputes, premises liability, food-borne illness cases, dram shop liability, and complex litigation. Doug is regularly invited to lecture on workers’ compensation, premises liability, and tort liability to risk managers, human resource administrators, and insurance claims professionals across the country. Doug has b...
Beecher A. Bartlett, Jr. is a highly effective trial lawyer with over 30 years of experience. He focuses his practice in the areas of Litigation, Insurance, Personal Injury and Labor and Employment. He strives to create reasonable expectations for his clients in the resolution of their legal matters, which ultimately helps minimize the stress and anxiety that many clients experience. Mr. Bartlett is committed to providing and honest assessment of each matter by engaging in early dispute inter...
Jerry O. Potter is a Memphis, Tennessee attorney with more than four decades of experience in civil litigation and dispute resolution . At Harris Shelton PLLC , his work has included representing clients in Medical Malpractice Law - Defendants and Personal Injury Litigation - Defendants matters, as well as assisting parties in resolving complex disputes through mediation. His approach to the practice of law centers on preparation, careful attention to detail, and thoughtful evaluation of each...
Born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Mr. Brown has practiced with the firm since 2002 and has been a Equity Member of the firm since 2008. He concentrates his practice in the areas of workers' compensation and general liability defense, primarily premises and auto liability. He also has a background in defense of governmental entities, having formerly served as Assistant City Attorney for the City of Knoxville, Tennessee.
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