J. Ross Pepper
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Phone: (615) 256-4838
Fax: (615) 292-9613
2323 21st Avenue
Suite 502
Nashville, Tennessee 37212
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, Eastern District of Tennessee, 1990
- United States District Court, Middle District of Tennessee, 1993
Representative Clients
- Individuals
- Businesses (corporations, LLCs, partnerships, sole-proprietors)
- Technology companies
- Construction companies
- Manufacturers
- Banks
- Brokers
Area 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