Best Nashville Personal Injury Attorneys

Minner Vines Injury Lawyers is a trial firm that represents accident victims across Tennessee and Kentucky. Its attorneys bring over a century of combined experience. Together, they have won more than $1 billion for clients.

The team handles car, truck, and motorcycle crashes, nursing home abuse, and unsafe property cases. Notable results include:

• $40.25 million wrongful death verdict
• $37.5 million liquor liability verdict
• $26 million product liability settlement

Best Lawyers, Super Lawyers, and Benchmark Litigation have all recognized the firm. Besides its Nashville office, it has offices in Lexington and Bowling Green.

Rocky McElhaney chose law as a teenager. His father broke his back at work and was denied benefits. The family lost their home while paying the medical bills.

Today, his Nashville firm has recovered over $300 million for injured Tennesseans. The Nashville Scene named him Best Attorney in Nashville for 10 consecutive years.

The team takes auto and truck wrecks, traumatic brain injury, and sexual assault claims. To show juries how a crash happened, its lawyers use computer animation and accident reconstruction. Offices in Nashville, Hendersonville, Murfreesboro, and Clarksville serve Middle Tennessee.

Meyers Personal Injury Law is a selective practice where clients work directly with attorney Chadwick D.G. Meyers. No one gets handed off to a case manager. Clients can call or text their lawyer with questions.

Its results include a $4 million negligent security case and a $1 million trucking crash. It also takes unusual claims, such as funeral home negligence. Under its fair-fee guarantee, clients never take home less than the firm.

Its main office sits in Nashville's Germantown neighborhood, with a second location in Brentwood.

Jim Higgins leads a team of Nashville personal injury attorneys, with a second office in Chattanooga. The firm is the official injury lawyer of Nashville, SC, and serves clients statewide.

A separate division focuses on nursing home neglect. The team has won $575,000 and $450,000 in assisted living negligence cases. Other results include a $1.7 million defective product settlement and $1.1 million for a trucking crash. The firm is also highly reviewed on Google.

Christopher Eads is a personal injury and employment lawyer in Mt. Juliet, east of Nashville. He once worked as an insurance defense lawyer at large downtown Nashville firms. Now clients communicate only with him, not with staff.

He takes crash cases in Mt. Juliet, Lebanon, Murfreesboro, and Gallatin, including wrecks on I-40. On the employment side, he handles harassment, discrimination, and wrongful termination claims.

Grissim & Waterman is a personal injury law firm in downtown Nashville, formerly Grissim & Associates. Jesse Waterman became managing partner after more than a decade with the practice. The firm has served Middle Tennessee for over 20 years.

Car wrecks make up much of its work, along with truck, motorcycle, and slip-and-fall claims. Founder Mitch Grissim also handles on-the-job injury claims. Clients can expect same-day call returns.

Jeff Roberts worked as an insurance claims adjuster before becoming a personal injury lawyer in Nashville. He knows how insurers try to deny or devalue claims. His downtown office has been in the same spot since 2002.

Results include a $4 million tractor-trailer settlement. A cyclist hit by a dump truck received $1.25 million. Roberts also introduces the Grand Ole Opry on WSM radio. If clients can't reach the office, the team comes to them.

Bill Easterly has represented injured Tennesseans since 1992. He and partner William Lipsey handle car and truck crashes, boating accidents, and workers' compensation claims.

The firm has recovered more than $3.5 million in one auto accident case. A work injury claim brought $1.4 million. The firm serves Antioch, Bellevue, Hendersonville, Franklin, and other Middle Tennessee communities.

John Day is a Nashville trial lawyer and board-certified medical malpractice specialist. Best Lawyers has named him one of the country's top lawyers since 1993. He has also written books on Tennessee civil trials and wrongful death law.

Its results include $13 million in an injury case and $10 million after a truck wreck. It advances all case costs, so clients never pay expenses out of pocket. Offices are in Nashville, Brentwood, and Murfreesboro.

Eric Beasley grew up in Goodlettsville and still keeps an office there, plus one in South Nashville. For more than two decades, he has handled nothing but injury cases in Tennessee. Other lawyers, and even insurance companies, refer clients to him.

His results include a $3.5 million settlement after a fatal construction vehicle crash. He has also won $850,000 after a deadly drunk driving crash.

DRS Law is a multi-generational family firm in Nashville run by the Smith family. Since 1993, it has recovered over $500 million for clients. Its results include an $18 million federal jury verdict and a $10.7 million medical negligence settlement. The firm also takes civil rights and catastrophic injury cases in Tennessee, Kentucky, and Georgia.

Aaron Woodard calls his practice "America's Smallest Injury Firm." New callers reach a lawyer on the first call, and that lawyer stays their only contact. With rare exceptions, the firm takes only car accident cases and has handled thousands. Attorneys even drive to clients for meetings.

Keith Williams Law Group is a Lebanon practice that represents seriously injured people across Tennessee. Founder Keith Williams is a board-certified civil trial specialist. Super Lawyers has recognized him for personal injury, aviation, and product cases.

Phillip S. Georges runs The Wolf Pack from Nashville and has offices in Milwaukee, Norfolk, and Phoenix. Locally, the firm handles car, truck, and motorcycle crashes. Nationally, it pursues claims over dangerous drugs, hernia mesh, and mesothelioma. Georges sits on the Civil Plaintiff Executive Committee of the National Trial Lawyers.

Matt Hardin is a second-generation attorney who previously represented insurance companies. His firm keeps the same contingency fee even if a case goes to trial. It handles car wrecks and Uber or Lyft crashes. Offices include Nashville, Clarksville, Cookeville, Murfreesboro, and Memphis. Attorneys can also meet clients by Zoom or in the hospital.

Tim L. Bowden is an accident and injury lawyer in Goodlettsville, north of Nashville. He sold construction equipment by day while attending law school at night. His practice centers on working people hurt on the job or on the road.

Phillip Miller keeps his caseload small on purpose, with the motto "fewer clients = better results." He is a board-certified civil trial specialist with more than three decades in injury law. His office is in East Nashville.