(Main Office)

Trauger & Tuke is a mid-size law firm that has been serving the needs of the Nashville community since 1983. The firm serves local, national and international clients.

The firm has achieved the highest rating in the Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory and is recognized as preeminent in several fields of law.

Statement of Practice

General Civil and Commercial Practice, Trials and Appeals in all Courts. Business Law, Securities, Corporate Law, Healthcare Law, Intellectual Property, Employment Law, Arbitration and Mediation.

Representative Clients:

American National Lawyers Insurance Reciprocal (Receiver's Counsel)
Better Business Bureau of Middle Tennessee, Inc.
Blue Grass Shows
Counsel of Call
Experian Information Solutions, Inc.
First American Title Co.
HealthSouth Corp.
Hospital Corporation of America
Kroll Background America
The Land Trust for Tennessee, Inc.
Lawyers Title Insurance Co.
Lee Medical, Inc.
Matrapasqua & Associates
Meharry Medical College
Methodist Healthcare
Metropolitan Development and Housing Agency
Miriam's Promise Adoption Agency
NotifyMD, Inc.
Publishing Group of America, Inc.
Quinco Community Mental Health Systems
Sitemason
Southeast Eye Specialists
Tennessee Department of Commerce & Insurance
You Have the Power
Visual Risk Technologies, Inc.

Address

Southern Turf Building
222 Fourth Avenue North
Nashville, TN 37219-2117, (Davidson Co.)

Phone

Phone: 615-256-8585
Fax: 615-256-7444

Website

http://www.tntlaw.net

MEMBERS OF FIRM

Byron R. Trauger (Member) born Oak Ridge, Tennessee, August 20, 1949; admitted to bar, 1977, Tennessee. Education: Duke University (B.A., magna cum laude, 1971); University College, Oxford, England; Yale University (J.D., 1977). Rhodes Scholar. Co-author: "Computer Agreements," Vol. 13, Tennessee Practice Series, 1993-1995. Law Clerk to the late Hon. Frank W. Wilson, U.S. Judge for the Eastern District of Tennessee, 1977-1979. Assistant U.S. Attorney, Eastern District of Tennessee, 1979-1981. Member, Board of Directors, 1989-1995 and Chairman, 1993-1995, Coventry Corporation. Member: Nashville, Tennessee and American Bar Associations. Fellow: American Bar Foundation; Tennessee Bar Foundation; Nashville Bar Foundation. Languages: Spanish. Practice Areas: Litigation; Government Relations; Healthcare Law.Email: Byron R. Trauger

Anne Sumpter Arney (Member) born Alexandria, Virginia, July 23, 1957; admitted to bar, 1982, Tennessee. Education: Vanderbilt University (B.A., cum laude, 1979); Washington and Lee University (J.D., 1982). Member: Nashville, Tennessee and American Bar Associations; National Health Lawyers Association; Tennessee Academy of Hospital Attorneys. Practice Areas: Healthcare Law; Corporate Law; Securities Law.Email: Anne Sumpter Arney

Robert D. Tuke (Member) born Rochester, New York, December 5, 1947; admitted to bar, 1976, Tennessee. Education: University of Virginia (B.A., with distinction, 1969); Vanderbilt University (J.D., 1976). Order of the Coif. Editor-in-Chief, Vanderbilt Law Review, 1975-1976. Patrick Wilson Scholar. Author: "Disclosure by Insurers of Municipal Securities," 29 Vanderbilt Law Review 1017; Ch. 34 "Mergers, Acquisitions and Sales of Assets," Ch. 42 "Adoptions" in MacLean, Tennessee Practice (West Pub. 1992-2003); "Complying With the Proxy Rules," Nuts and Bolts of Securities Law (Practicing Law Institute, 1995-2003). Adjunct Professor, Vanderbilt University School of Law. Listed in Best Lawyers in America (Woodward-White 1995-2003). Listed in Who's Who in American Law (Marquis Publishers, 1995-2003). Member: Nashville, Tennessee (Member, Sections on: Health Care; Corporate; Family Law) and American (Member, Sections on: Business, Health, Communication, International Law) Bar Associations; American Health Lawyers Association; The Tennessee Academy of Hospital Attorneys; National Association of Bond Lawyers; American Academy of Adoption Attorneys (President-Elect). [Lt.- Capt., U.S. Marine Corps, 1969-1973]. Languages: Spanish. Practice Areas: Health Care; Corporate; Securities; Mergers and Acquisitions; Public Finance; Communications Financing; Adoptions.Email: Robert D. Tuke

Kathryn A. Stephenson (Member) born Knoxville, Tennessee, June 17, 1956; admitted to bar, 1988, Tennessee. Education: Kenyon College (B.A., magna cum laude, 1978); University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (M.A., 1980); University of Tennessee at Knoxville (J.D., with highest honors, 1988). Order of the Coif; Phi Kappa Phi. Member, National Moot Court Team. Member, Harry Phillips American Inns of Court, 1994-1996. Member: Nashville, Tennessee and American Bar Associations; Lawyers Association for Women (Past President). Practice Areas: Commercial Litigation; Probate and Trust Litigation; Appellate Practice.Email: Kathryn A. Stephenson

ASSOCIATES

Paul W. Ambrosius (Associate) born December 24, 1971; admitted to bar, 1999, New York; 2000, Tennessee. Education: The University of Chicago (A.B., general and departmental honors, 1993); Columbia University School of Law (J.D., 1997). James Weber Linn Scholar. Managing Editor, Columbia Human Rights Law Review, 1996-1997. Author: "The End of Welfare As We Know It and The Establishment Clause," 28 Colum. Hum. Rts. L. Rev. 135 (1996). Member: Nashville, Tennessee and American Bar Associations; The Association of the Bar of the City of New York. Languages: French. Practice Areas: Civil Litigation.Email: Paul W. Ambrosius

Walter Justin Adams (Associate) born Goshen, Indiana, January 23, 1976; admitted to bar, 2003, Tennessee. Education: University of the South (B.A., 1998); Vanderbilt University (J.D., 2001). Phi Beta Kappa; Phi Delta Phi; Order of the Coif. Member: Nashville and Tennessee Bar Associations; Federalist Society. Practice Areas: Civil Litigation; Business Law.Email: Walter Justin Adams

OF COUNSEL

Robert S. Brandt (Of Counsel) born Norris, Tennessee, May 25, 1941; admitted to bar, 1966, Tennessee. Education: Centre College of Kentucky (B.A., 1963); Vanderbilt University (J.D., 1966). Assistant District Attorney, Nashville, 1966-1970. Delegate, Tennessee Constitutional Convention, 1971. Judge, Chancery Court, State of Tennessee, 1976-1996; Presiding Judge, Nashville, 1982-1983. Member: Tennessee Judicial Council, 1988-1991; Adjunct Faculty, Vanderbilt University School of Law, 1976—. President, Tennessee Judicial Conference, 1991-1992. Member: Nashville and Tennessee (Member, Board of Governors, 1991-1992) Bar Associations. Practice Areas: Alternative Dispute Resolution; Civil Litigation; Governmental Law.Email: Robert S. Brandt