
Contact Information:
phone: 615.255.4849
fax: 615.255.4855
email: dhuff@smythepuryear.com
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Practice Areas
Creditors’ rights
General commercial/business
litigation
Serious personal injury and
other torts
Commercial collections
Landlord and tenant
State court appeals
Education
B.B.A., cum laude, Abilene Christian University, 1981
J.D. Texas Tech University, 1984
Admitted
Tennessee, 1984
U.S. District Court, Middle District
of Tennessee, 1985
U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit,
1985 Professional Activities, Associations &
Community Interests
Nashville Bar Association
- Editor: The Docket, Nashville Bar
Association’s Newsletter
(1989)
- Chair: Small Office Practice
Committee (1996)
- Chair: General Sessions Court
Committee (2002)
Tennessee Bar Association
President, Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA, Inc.),
1996-1997
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David O. Huff
A Nashville native, David Huff is a
seasoned civil trial litigator whose areas of practice include
creditors’ rights, general commercial and business disputes,
construction law, serious personal injury and other tort
actions. Mr. Huff has represented clients in dozens of jury and
bench trials in numerous courts throughout Middle Tennessee.
Mr. Huff was awarded his B.B.A. in
Business Management, cum laude, from Abilene Christian
University in 1981, and earned his J.D. from Texas Tech
University in 1984, where he was an Editing Director of the
Texas Tech Legal Research Board. In 1986, Mr. Huff earned a
diploma from the National Institute for Trial Advocacy.
Elected as a Fellow of the Nashville Bar
Foundation in 2006, Mr. Huff also frequently serves upon
request as a Special Judge in the Davidson County General
Sessions Court.
Reported/Public Opinions
Phoenix Ins. Co. v. Estate of Ganier, 212 S.W.3d 270 (Tenn.
App. 2006); Laboratory Corporation of America v. Lacy and
Associates, 2004 WL 193078 (Tenn. App.); Corporate Catering,
Inc. v. Corporate Catering, LLC, 2001 WL 266041 (Tenn. App.);
Shelbourne v. Shelbourne, 2000 WL 1183698 (Tenn. App.);
Thompson v. Department of Codes Admin., Metropolitan
Government of Nashville and Davidson County, 20 S.W.2d 654
(Tenn. App. 1999); Bryant v. Wright, 1999 WL 5080 (Tenn.
App.); In Matter of Estate of Whitehurst v. I.V. Services of
America, Inc., 1995 WL 571850 (Tenn. App.); Shipes v. West,
1995 WL 527979 (Tenn. App.); Stracener v. Swindle, 1995 WL
414873 (Tenn. App.); In re Osborne, 170 B.R. 367 (Bankr. M.D.
Tenn. 1994); Smith v. Clayton Homes, Inc., 1993 WL 532587
(Tenn. App.); Guyton v. Guyton, 1990 WL 198936 (Tenn. App.);
Reasonover v. Aetna Cas. & Sur. Co., 1990 WL 192718 (Tenn.
App.); Armstrong v. Hickman County Highway Dept., 743 S.W.2d
189 (Tenn. App. 1987)
Publications/Presentations
Lecturer, “Managing Client Funds and
Other Property—and Accounting for Them,” Nashville Bar
Association, 1993
Contributing Author, “Successful Judgment Collections in
Tennessee: How to Get Your Money,” National Business
Institute, Inc., 1993
Certifications
of Specialization are available to Tennessee lawyers in all
areas of practice relating to or included in the areas of
Civil Trial, Criminal Trial, Business Bankruptcy, Consumer
Bankruptcy, Creditor’s Rights, Medical Malpractice, Legal
Malpractice, Accounting Malpractice, Elder Law, and Estate
Planning.
Listing of related or included practice areas herein
does not constitute or imply a representation of Certification
of Specialization.
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