Attorney Profile

J. Ross Pepper
Nashville, Tennessee

Trial Attorney
phone	(615) 256-4838
fax	(615) 292-9613
email	Email Me

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE
•Graduated University of Tennessee School of Law, with high honors, 1990 (Member, Tennessee Law Review, Craven Constitutional Law Moot Court Team)
•Judicial Clerk, United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, 1990
•Attorney for large multi-state law firm--- 1990-1993 (handled business, commercial, personal injury, employment, tort cases)
•National Institute of Trial Advocacy, 1993

HONORS, AWARDS, MEMBERSHIPS
•Adjunct Professor of Business Law at Belmont University
•Fellow of the Nashville Bar Association
•Order of the Coif
•Phi Kappa Phi
•Nashville Bar Association
•Tennessee Bar Association
•Tennessee Association for Justice

PUBLICATIONS
•Recovering Lost Profits, Tennessee Bar Journal, August 2008, Vol. 44, No. 8
•Patterson v. McClean Credit Union, The Exclusion of Post-Formation Conduct from the Protection of the Right to Make and Enforce Contracts Clause, Tennessee Law Review, Winter 1991

BAR ADMISSIONS
•Tennessee, 1990
•United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, 1990
•United States District Court, Middle District of Tennessee, 1993
•United States District Court, Eastern District of Tennessee, 1990

REPRESENTATIVE CLIENTS
•Individuals
•Businesses (corporations, LLCs, partnerships, sole-proprietors)
•Technology companies
•Construction companies
•Manufacturers
•Banks
•Brokers

AREAS OF PRACTICE
•Litigation
•Business litigation
•Personal injury and wrongful death
•Commercial litigation
•Appeals
•Insurance law
•Car accidents and motor vehicle accidents
•Breach of contract
•Real estate disputes
•Construction disputes
•Tractor trailer and 18 wheeler accidents
•Reinsurance
•Commercial leases
•Real estate brokerage commissions
•Mortgage brokerage commissions
•Lender liability
•Trade secrets
•Private placement offerings
•Uniform Commercial Code (“UCC”)
•Business torts
•Contract interference
•Unpaid commissions
•Employment contracts
•Stop-loss insurance
•Collection of promissory notes and debts
•Non-compete agreements and covenants not to compete
•Building contracts
•Construction equipment related claims
•Lost profits
•Class actions
•Warranties
•Fraud
•Investment Fraud
•Third party administrator (TPA) contracts
•Life insurance policies
•Lost sales
•Indemnity claims
•Non-disclosure and confidentiality agreements
•Misrepresentations in the sales of goods and services
•Tennessee Consumer Protection Act
•Fraudulent transfers
•Security guard liability
•Premises liability