Bar Information
Admitted to practice in Tennessee, 1998; U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, 1999; U.S. District Court, Middle District of Tennessee, 1999; U.S.D.C., Western District of Tennessee, 2001; U.S. District Court, Northern District of Florida, 2006.

Education
Emory University School of Law (J.D., 1998); Dean's List; Award for Highest Grade, Admiralty Law; Research Editor, Emory International Law Review; Phi Delta Phi Legal Fraternity; Vanderbilt University (B.A., 1995).

Honors & Awards
“Best of the Bar,” Nashville Business Journal, 2008; “Top 40 Under 40,” The Tennessean, 2004; "Rising Star," Law & Politics, 2008.

Publications, Presentations & Appointments
“Successfully Suing Foreign Manufacturers,” TRIAL Magazine, November 2008; "Washington bureaucrats taking over American justice system," Tennessean.com, December 2007; "The End of Meaningful Punitive Damages," Nashville Bar Journal, November 2001; "Is Civility Dead?" Nashville Bar Journal, October 2003; “The FCC: The Constitution, Censorship, and a Celebrity Breast,” Nashville Bar Journal, April 2005.

Member
American Bar Association; Association of Trial Lawyers of America; Tennessee Bar Association; Board of Directors, Tennessee Trial Lawyers Association; Nashville Bar Association; Past-Chair, ABA YLD Criminal & Juvenile Justice Committee; American Bar Association Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section Professionalism Committee YLD liaison; Board of Directors, Nashville Bar Association YLD; Chair, Nashville Bar Association YLD Continuing Legal Education and Professional Development Director; Tennessee Association for Justice (Board of Governors, 2008-2009; Board of Directors; Legislative Committee); Nashville Bar Journal, Editorial Board; Member, Harry Phillips American Inn of Court (2002-2004); Grant Review Panelist, Metropolitan Nashville Arts Commission; Founding Member, Young Professionals Program, Frist Center for the Visual Arts; President, Kappa Chapter of Kappa Sigma Fraternity Alumni Association.

About Lieff Cabraser
Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP is a fifty-plus attorney law firm that has represented plaintiffs nationwide since 1972. We have offices in San Francisco, New York and Nashville. We represent plaintiffs in class and group actions and in individual lawsuits in cases involving substantial losses. For the last six years, the National Law Journal has selected Lieff Cabraser as one of the top plaintiffs' law firms in the nation.