Teresa Rider Bult

Practice Areas

-Labor and Employment

-Class/Collective Actions

-Employment Litigation Prevention & Defense

-Wage and Hour Compliance & Litigation

Career

Teresa is both a mediator, a relationship partner for her corporate clients in the employment defense space, and for either role, a very practical "problem solver."​ She is constantly trying to figure out how to connect her clients to resources that can make their job easier, help them navigate through tricky employment litigation and HR issues, as well as connecting them to the excellent attorneys at Constangy throughout the U.S. In her 25+ years of practice as a defense-side employment litigation attorney (all years at Constangy), she has litigated cases and counseled clients on almost every conceivable employment-related issue. She’s learned employment law creates a strange world, and partly because of that, she can't imagine doing anything else.

Because every good attorney’s bio has to list their experience, for the record, Teresa has handled a zillion employment litigation cases, including class/ collective actions, has taken a gazillion depositions, has taken multiple cases to trial, and has argued in front of the appellate courts, too. Oh, and she loves mediating, public speaking, mentoring, and making employment law training fun.

Teresa also serves as Administrative Partner and General Counsel at Constangy, was the founding chair of Constangy’s Women's Network, and has received numerous awards and nominations such as Super Lawyers, Best Lawyers in America, Martindale Hubbell, Chambers USA, and the Nashville Business Journal (Women of Influence). Teresa is also former co-chair of the ABA Litigation Section's Employment and Labor Relations Law Committee.

No matter the trials won or the accolades on paper, the thing Teresa loves most about her work is working closely with and learning about her clients. She feels honored to call so many clients friends.

Professional Memberships

-Former Co-chair, Employment and Labor Relations Law Committee, ABA Litigation Section

-4Word Nashville Leadership Team

-Nashville CEO Roundtable Member

-Former Editorial Board member, ABA Litigation News Magazine

-Nashville Bar Association

-Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce

Publications

"Attorney Teresa Rider Buld on law firm diversity," Nashville Post, 2023

Awards

Expert in these Jurisdictions

-Tennessee

-Virginia

-District of Columbia

-Arkansas

-Tennessee Supreme Court

-Supreme Court of Virginia

-U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

-U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

-U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

-U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit

-U.S. District Court for the Western District of Arkansas

-U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas

-U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

-U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee

-U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee

-U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee

-U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

-U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia

Education