Commerce Center, Suite 1000
211 Commerce Street
Nashville , TN 37201
(615) 726-5767
| Experience | Years |
|---|---|
| Shareholder, Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC | Current |
| School | Focus | Degree | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Washington and Lee University School of Law - Washington and Lee University | J.D. | 1991 | |
| The Citadel | Business Administration | B.S. | 1988 |
| Location | Year Admitted |
|---|---|
| West Virginia | 1991 |
| Virginia (Inactive) | 1992 |
| Tennessee | 1995 |
| Activity | Organization | Start Year | End Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Board Chairman | Project Reflect, Inc. | 1999 | |
| Details: Founded in 2002, Project Reflect is a non-profit, non-denominational Christian organization... A community of partners – staff, volunteers, donors, and supporting agencies – collaborating on behalf of children of poverty. Project Reflect was chartered in 1992 by Sister Sandra Smithson, a Roman Catholic Franciscan nun. Our two divisions are: Education Reform and Children’s Programs. Through 2002, we sponsored a summer school, after-school program, pre-school program, and teen scholars program – all for children at high risk of failing school (“at-risk” students). In 2003, we opened Smithson Craighead Academy, Middle Tennessee’s first charter (public) school for at-risk students in kindergarten through grade four. | |||
| Board Chairman | Nashville Business Incubation Center | 1998 | |
| Details: The Nashville Business Incubation Center opened its doors in June 1986, making it one of the earliest incubation centers established by the Tennessee Valley Authority that are still in existence. It continues to be one of the most viable in the nation. An outreach effort of Tennessee State University, the day-to-day operations of the Center is managed by the College of Business and is located on the TSU downtown campus. The policy making body for the NBIC is Growth Enterprises Nashville, Inc. To date the NBIC boasts 78 successful business graduates. After leaving the incubation center, these graduates have become a major source of employment and economic development in Tennessee. In the general population a new business has an 80 percent chance for surviving five years. Businesses that begin in the NBIC have a 90 percent success rate. | |||
| Member, Board of Directors | Legal Aid Society of Middle Tennessee and the Cumberlands | 2007 | |
| Details: For 40 years, the Legal Aid Society has been a place for low-income families to find a helping hand with legal issues involving money, family, housing, health care and domestic violence. Donations of both dollars and time make it possible for the Legal Aid Society to provide services in 48 counties through eight offices located in Clarksville, Cookeville, Columbia, Gallatin, Murfreesboro, Nashville, Oak Ridge and Tullahoma. In 2007 Legal Aid Society staff attorneys helped more than 6,010 people and their families. Volunteer attorneys, working through the Nashville Pro Bono Program and other local pro bono programs, worked on an additional 1,154 cases. | |||
| Award | Organization | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Tennessee State Conference President's Award | NAACP | 2006 |
| Recognized for work streamlining process for returning voting rights to former felons deemed to be rebuilding their lives. | ||
| Harris Gilbert Pro Bono Attorney of the Year Award | Tennessee Bar Association | 2009 |
| Grant received the Harris Gilbert Pro Bono Volunteer of the Year Award for his work on issues of disenfranchisement and restoration of voter rights. In 1996, Grant took on a case from the Nashville Pro Bono program to help a convicted felon who had served his time win back the right to vote. Inspired by that experience, Grant worked with a coalition of bar groups, radio stations and the Davidson County Election Commission to raise public awareness of voting rights restoration and identify those who might be eligible for reinstatement. Through that process Grant became one of the state’s foremost experts on the topic. He also discovered that state laws governing restoration of rights were out-of-date and inconsistent. Grant then worked with the Tennessee Bar Association to introduce and pass legislation to improve and streamline the process for restoring voting rights. He also was instrumental in planning town hall meetings around the state to explain the new law and help others pursue their rights. For his tireless advocacy on behalf of those seeking to redeem past wrongs, the association was pleased to present the award to Grant. The Harris Gilbert Pro Bono Volunteer of the Year Award is given annually to a private sector attorney who has demonstrated dedication to the development and delivery of legal services to the poor, and has performed significant pro bono work. The award is named for Harris A. Gilbert, who served as president of the TBA from 1994 to 1995 and whose dedication to legal services for the poor set a high standard for all Tennessee attorneys. | ||
| Pro Bono Attorney of the Year | Baker Donelson | 2008 |
| Pro Bono Volunteer of the Year | Nashville Bar Association | 2004 |
| President's Award | Tennessee Bar Association | 2006 |
| Leadership of TBA's Diversity Summit. | ||
| "Best of the Bar" | Nashville Business Journal | 2008 |
| Recognized as among the best in the area of employment litigation defense. | ||
| Position | Years |
|---|---|
| Member , National Employment Law Council | 2003-Current |
| Member, Advisory Commission on Rules of Practice and Procedure, Tennessee Supreme Court | 2006-Current |
| Fellow , Tennessee Bar Foundation | 2004-Current |
| Barrister , Harry Phillips American Inns of Court | 1997-Current |
| Fellow , Nashville Bar Foundation | 2000-Current |
| Member, Employment Law , Tennessee Bar Association | 1998-Current |
| Title | Publisher | Published |
|---|---|---|
| Tennessee Civil Jury Instructions | LexisNexis | July, 2007 |
| Co-author of practice considerations in "Tennessee Civil Jury Instructions," published by Lexis-Nexis (Pattern jury instructions drafted by the Committee on Pattern Jury Instructions (Civil) of the Tennessee Judicial Conference) (July 2007) | ||
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