J. Lewis Wardlaw

Lew Wardlaw practices primarily in the state and federal courts of Tennessee. He is admitted to the Supreme Court of the United States of America, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, and the United States District Courts for all three Tennessee divisions. He has extensive appellate court experience. He concentrates on general civil litigation with emphases on commercial transportation defense, land use and zoning law, administrative law, premises liability, and employment issues. In addition to litigation, Lew appears regularly before local and regional legislative and administrative bodies. Lew is an active on-call member of the firm’s transportation defense practice group and part of its 24/7 Rapid Response Team. He is available to quickly respond to his transportation clients’ needs with respect to serious trucking injuries, fatalities, and catastrophic losses. Lew has served as chairperson of the American Bar Association Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section Commercial Transportation Litigation Committee and continues his service to the transportation community as a past chair and current vice-chair of the Commercial Transportation and Litigation General Committee.