Bio

PAUL KENT BRAMLETT is the owner of Bramlett Law Offices, with offices in Nashville and Winchester, Tennessee. He has practiced law for forty-eight years, maintaining offices in Mississippi from 1969-80, and in Tennessee from 1980 to the present time. During the past thirty-seven years, he has actively maintained his license in both Mississippi and Tennessee and has continued to actively handle litigation in both states. In the past several years, he has handled litigation in Alabama, Arkansas, California, Delaware, Kentucky, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, New York, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia. Several of these cases involved significant verdicts which were upheld at the highest appellate levels in Mississippi, Tennessee and Alabama. He has the highest rating granted by Martindale-Hubbell, an AV pre-eminent rating, which he has held for over 35 years.

His office is comprised of himself, his son, Robert Preston Bramlett, and his daughter-in-law, Ashley Nicole Bramlett, all of whom are licensed in Tennessee.

He graduated with honors from David Lipscomb University, Nashville, Tennessee in 1966, and was named to the Dean’s List and Who’s Who. He then did graduate work at George Peabody College (now Vanderbilt University), Nashville, Tennessee, and graduated from the University of Mississippi School of Law in 1969 with a J.D. degree.

Court and Bar Admissions:

Mississippi (all state Courts)

Tennessee (all state Courts)

United States District Court, Northern and Southern Districts of Mississippi

United States District Court, Middle, Eastern and Western Districts of Tennessee

(Fed. Ct. Committee, MDTN; CM/ECF Committee, MDTN)

Federal Appeals Courts-5th, 6th and 11th Circuits

United States Supreme Court

Martindale-Hubbell Rating:

AV Pre-eminent-highest rating awarded

Bar Memberships:

Mississippi Bar Association (Public Information Comm. 1979-80)

Tennessee Bar Association

Nashville Bar Association (Federal Ct. Comm., 1980-81 & 2005-08)

Mississippi Trial Lawyers Association (Board of Governors, 1976-79)

Honors:

Mid-South Super Lawyers

Million Dollar Advocates Forum

Who’s Who in America

Who’s Who in American Law

Who’s Who in the World

Who’s Who in the South and Southwest

Who’s Who in Finance and Industry

Who’s Who in Executives and Professionals

Five Hundred Leaders of Influence

Business Directory of Entertainment & Sports Attorneys

Directory of Litigation Attorneys

2000 Outstanding People of the 20th Century

National Directory of Who's Who in Executives and Professionals

International Who’s Who in Music

International Who’s Who in Popular Music

Strathmore’s Who’s Who

Fellow, Nashville Bar Foundation

Pro Bono Award, Tennessee Supreme Court, 2015 and 2016

Litigation Experience:

Mr. Bramlett devotes his practice to civil litigation, with an emphasis on securities class actions, consumer class actions, antitrust litigation, RICO and ERISA litigation. In recent years, he has served as co-liaison counsel to the Plaintiffs in the CCA/Prison Realty litigation in Nashville, a case which settled before the United States District Court, Middle District of Tennessee at Nashville, for approximately $130 million. He served on the Executive Committee handling the Columbia/HCA Shareholder Litigation in the United States District Court, Middle District of Tennessee at Nashville, a case which settled for approximately $50 million. He was involved in the Dollar General securities and derivative litigation in Nashville, Tennessee as local counsel for a number of law firms, which cases settled for more than $160 million. He was involved in the SCB Shareholder Litigation and Thomas & Betts Shareholder Litigation in Memphis, Tennessee, in which cases he served as local counsel to a number of nationally-prominent class-action law firms. He was involved in the Microsoft Multi-District Litigation; and he previously served as co-counsel to the Plaintiff shareholders in the Rencorp Shareholder Litigation, a case which settled for the benefit of the shareholders for the approximate sum of $18 million. He was appointed and served as Liaison Counsel to the shareholders in the Concord EFS Litigation shareholder litigation in Memphis, Tennessee, a case which was settled in 2005 for $13.5 million. He served as local counsel for four firms in the King Pharmaceutical securities litigation in Greeneville, Tennessee, U. S. District Court, Eastern District of Tennessee, and as local counsel for four firms in the UNUM Provident securities and derivative litigation in United States District Court, Eastern Section at Chattanooga, which combined cases settled for approximately $40 million. He served as local counsel in the UNUM Provident ERISA litigation, a case which was settled with payment of attorneys’ fees approved for over $2 million. He served as local counsel in Chancery Court at Nashville in the Toshiba consumer class-action litigation, which cases were ultimately settled in California and Tennessee in 2005 for approximately $36 million. He served as Liaison Counsel for the Lead Plaintiffs and Lead Counsel in the Central Parking securities litigation in United States District Court, Middle Section at Nashville, a case which was settled in 2005 for approximately $4.5 million. He was local counsel for the Plaintiffs in the SAKS derivative litigation in Chancery Court, Nashville, Tennessee. He served as local counsel for several Plaintiffs in the Accredo litigation in United States District Court, Western District of Tennessee at Memphis. He served as local counsel for several firms in the Caremark litigation in Nashville, Tennessee, a breach of duty/merger case which was settled. He has also served as local counsel in the Dollar General II litigation in Nashville, Tennessee and the HCA II litigation in Chancery and Federal courts of Nashville, which cases settled for $20 million with fees set at $3.9 million. He served as Co-liaison counsel in the Copper Industry antitrust litigation in the United States District Court, Western Section at Memphis and in the United States District Court, Southern District of New York, a series of cases involving the copper industry and its effect on the U.S. market relating to a price-fixing conspiracy. He served as Local counsel in the HCA ERISA litigation in United States District Court, Middle District of Tennessee at Nashville, a case which settled for approximately $2.9 million. He served as Local counsel in the Performance Food Group shareholder litigation in United States District Court, Middle District of Tennessee at Nashville and as Local counsel in the ServiceMaster shareholder litigation in Circuit Court in Memphis, Tennessee. He served as Local counsel in the America Service Group, Inc. shareholder litigation in United States District Court, Middle District at Nashville and as Local counsel in the Equity Inns litigation in United States District Court, Western District of Tennessee at Memphis. He served as Co-counsel for the Plaintiff in the UBS litigation in the United States District Court, Southern District of New York. He served as Liaison counsel in the Healthways ERISA litigation in United States District Court, Middle District of Tennessee, in Nashville, a case recently favorably settled after being once dismissed. He served as Local counsel in the Psychiatric Solutions class actions in the United States District Court, Middle District of Tennessee, and in Williamson County Circuit Court, Tennessee, a case which ultimately settled in Delaware with payment of attorneys’ fees of $1 million. He served as Liaison Counsel in the National Health Investors litigation in the United States District Court, Middle District of Tennessee. He served as Local counsel in the HealthSpring litigation in the Circuit Court of Williamson County, Tennessee. He served as Local counsel in the O’Charley’s takeover litigation in the Chancery Court of Nashville, Tennessee. He served as local counsel in the Nortel ERISA litigation in United States District Court, Middle District of Tennessee at Nashville, a case which settled for $21.5 million. He served as Liaison counsel in the Green Bankshares litigation in the United States District Court, Eastern District of Tennessee which resulted in a settlement of $1.75 million. He recently concluded his representation as Liaison Counsel in the derivative lawsuit involving Morgan-Keegan/Regions Bank which resulted in a settlement of $6 million. He just concluded the merger/takeover litigation involving the takeover of J. Alexander’s which litigation was settled with attorneys’ fees awarded of $437,500 in the Chancery Court of Davidson County, Nashville, Tennessee. He served as local counsel in four shareholder class actions pending in Miller Energy litigation pending in the United States District Court, Eastern District of Tennessee and as local counsel in the Fushi shareholder litigation pending in the United States District Court, Middle District of Tennessee. Appointed Liaison counsel in the Biomimetics shareholder litigation in the United States District Court, Middle District to Tennessee. Appointed as Co-Liaison counsel in the Agfeed litigation in the United States District Court, Middle District of Tennessee. Appointed as Liaison counsel in the Agfeed derivative litigation in the United States District Court, Middle District of Tennessee. Local counsel in the HCA merger litigation in the United States District Court, Middle District of Tennessee. Local counsel in the HCA derivative litigation in the United States District Court, Middle District of Tennessee. Local counsel in the CBL litigation pending in United States District Court, Eastern District of Tennessee. Local counsel in the LeBonheur litigation pending in the United States District Court, Western District of Tennessee. Local counsel in the Pinnacle Bank/Avenue Bank merger litigation pending in Davidson County Chancery Court, Nashville, Tennessee. Confirmatory discovery is being done toward final settlement. Liaison counsel in the Provectus derivative litigation in the United States District Court, Eastern District of Tennessee at Knoxville, which is set for final settlement hearing in August.

Additional Litigation Experience:

In addition to his class-action, ERISA, merger/takeover, derivative and price-fixing litigation over the past 47 years, Mr. Bramlett has represented a number of major corporations in their civil litigation, including such companies as the Coca-Cola Bottlers’ Association. Mr. Bramlett has also represented Ford Motor Credit Corporation and other Ford subsidiaries in civil litigation, and was involved as local counsel in the defense of one of the major manufacturers in the asbestos litigation. Mr. Bramlett also regularly handles plaintiff’s catastrophic injury, wrongful death and construction litigation. He obtained for a Plaintiff what is thought to be the largest wrongful death settlement in the history of Clarksville, Montgomery County, Tennessee, and has obtained a number of other large personal injury and wrongful death settlements in Tennessee and Mississippi. He has served for a number of years as trial counsel in Tennessee for an association of general contractors based in Kentucky and Tennessee, and has litigated a number of cases as lead trial counsel in Tennessee and Mississippi involving wrongful death and other catastrophic injuries. He also serves as defense counsel to several major trucking companies and their insurers in their liability litigation in Tennessee and Mississippi, and has handled litigation for over 100 trucking companies in his career. He regularly litigates more than ten trucking cases per year in State and Federal courts. He is presently defending several contract, RICO and other shareholder disputes in Federal courts in Tennessee and New York. He presently has litigation pending in all the United States District Courts of Tennessee. For more than thirty years, Mr. Bramlett has represented major figures in the entertainment industry in royalty disputes, contract work and other litigation matters, including representing songwriters of number one hits.

Service as local and liaison counsel:

Mr. Bramlett regularly serves as local or liaison counsel to several of the major class action law firms in America, and has served as counsel to more than forty firms which have filed securities, derivative, price-fixing, ERISA, merger/takeover and consumer class actions in Tennessee in the past thirty -five years.

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