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Professional Liability Law

At Jones Hawkins & Farmer, our Nashville, Tennessee practice has included representing both plaintiffs and defendants in disputes concerning the businesses and conduct of various professionals, as illustrated by the following examples of some of our cases:

Attorneys

  Legal malpractice actions
  (Defense of lawyers, and occasionally for plaintiffs in selected cases)
  Actions to recover unpaid attorneys’ fees
  Actions to recover attorneys’ fees as part of litigation damages
  Sanctions proceedings
  Attorney billing audit disputes
  Defense of attorneys in actions by the Board of Professional Responsibility of the Tennessee
    Supreme Court

Stock Brokers

Representation of NASD Registered Representatives in the following matters:

  Noncompetition agreement cases
  Negotiation of severance terms
  Defamatory or unfavorable disclosures of reasons for termination on NASD Forms U-5
  NASD and State of Tennessee regulatory investigations
  Employee forgivable loan disputes

Physicians

  Noncompetition agreement issues
  Other employment contract issues
  Partnership issues
  Termination and severance issues
  Credentialing and peer review issues
  Sale of practice disputes
  Hospital-subsidized physician recruiting contract disputes

NOTE: Our practice has not included representation of plaintiffs or defendants in medical malpractice cases.

This is only a representative sample of the types of cases we handle at Jones Hawkins & Farmer. If you have a question about a case related to an industry not listed here, please contact us today to see if we can help.


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