For over 25 years, our firm has represented various transportation and logistics companies. In this role, the firm has dealt with the following matters:
- negotiation of business and commercial contracts;
- environmental and land use issues;
- real estate purchase and sale;
- state and federal employment law compliance;
- trademark and intellectual property issues;
- municipal financing and bonding issues;
- creation of interlocal agreements with other governments;
- federal, state, and local regulatory compliance;
- litigation of business and commercial disputes, employment disputes, and personal injury cases involving the Governmental Tort Liability Act;
- providing advice on matters pertaining to governance of the organization, including the scope and extent of its authority under state law and its organic documents;
- providing frequent advice on application of the Tennessee Open Records Act and the Tennessee Open Meeting Act
Advised a full-service transportation and third-party logistics firm in connection with a $20 million asset-based revolving line of credit
Successfully handled the defense of a trucking company and the driver in a catastrophic injury claim arising from a tractor-trailer/motor vehicle collision
Successfully handled the defense of a trucking company in a wrongful death claim pending in federal court in Chattanooga arising from a crash between a logging truck and a passenger car
Represented a trucking company in various products liability lawsuits brought against equipment vendors