Lewis Thomason

President/Managing Shareholder: Lisa Ramsay Cole
Offices: Knoxville, Nashville, Memphis
Lawyers: 111

Firm Overview:
We have served Tennessee and national corporations for over 60 years handling their corporate, real estate, construction, product liability, transportation, general casualty, and employment matters. However, with over 100 attorneys across the state of Tennessee in ten different practice groups, there is no matter we cannot handle. Our experienced litigation team is comprised of lawyers who are licensed in Alabama, Arkansas, California, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, South Carolina, North Carolina, New Jersey, Texas, Washington State, and Tennessee.

Many of the cases that Lewis Thomason attorneys litigate are complex matters.Each litigation area involves issues like health and medical concerns and scientific, engineering, and technical questions.Our firm provides support for the most complex and document-intensive litigation, and we have a large team of talented trial attorneys who can handle multiple complex cases and trials.For example, our lawyers handle hundreds of professional liability claims, lawsuits, and pre-claim assistance files for architects, engineers, lawyers, medical professionals, accountants, and directors and officers in Tennessee and regionally.We also have extensive experience defending all types of employment disputes before administrative agencies and state and federal trial and appellate courts.Our products liability team is recognized throughout the state, region, and country for their strong product liability defense practice.

We regularly represent clients in lawsuits involving major accidents, premises liability, fire or other casualty loss, maintenance defects, construction defects, intellectual property, and product liability.Most of the cases we handle are complex matters, involving catastrophic injury, death, multimillion-dollar property damage claims, and scientific, engineering, and technical issues.Lewis Thomason attorneys have over 60 years of significant experience in litigation ranging from property line disputes between neighbors to major accident, death, bodily injury, and property damage cases.

Attorneys on Lewis Thomason’s data security team have experience in diverse industries, including healthcare, finance, education, and nonprofit.Our attorneys begin assisting our clients at the discovery of a data security incident, provide a legal assessment of the incident, and, if necessary, guide them through the response stages to ensure that they meet legal, regulatory, and contractual obligations.

Our attorneys have counseled companies from Fortune 100 corporations to mom-and-pop small businesses.Given the diversity of experience and skills of our attorneys, we help corporate clients in all phases of existence, beginning with decisions about formation, organizational structure, and governance, establishing employee benefits programs, and training board members.After formation, Lewis Thomason attorneys continue to provide counsel in dispute resolution, whether through litigation, negotiation, mediation, or arbitration; transactional representation, including document preparation, contract drafting and revision, overseeing the purchase and sale of assets; and other strategic business decisions that have far-reaching legal and financial implications, like tax advice and planning for acquisitions and expansions.