Attorney Bios

About Kevin

Kevin practices with the firm’s Insurance Group. His experience concentrates on insurance regulatory law, with particular emphasis on captives, risk retention groups, self-insurance funds, and other alternative insurance vehicles. Kevin also practice entertainment law and represents recording artists, publishers, songwriters, and music-related companies in connection with all types of music industry agreements and transactions. Kevin is admitted to practice in Tennessee (1999), Georgia (1990) and New York (1986). He is a member of the Tennessee Bar Association, the Nashville Bar Association and the State Bar of Georgia.

Kevin is listed in Best Lawyers in America and has been recognized numerous times as one of the Nashville Business Journal’s “Best of the Bar”, both for his work in Insurance Regulation. He also serves as Chair of the Middle Tennessee Better Business Bureau. Kevin also was recently listed again in the “In Charge” edition of Music Row magazine as a “Decision Maker” in the music industry.

Kevin is an avid lecturer on Insurance Law. His most recent lectures include: “Fronting by and for Risk Retention Groups,” National Risk Retention Association Annual Conference (September 2007, Washington, DC); “Choosing the Right Form of Organization for Your Captive,” Executive Education Seminar (May 2007, Las Vegas, NV); “Worker’s Compensation Market Trends,” AGC/SIF Information Exchange (February 2007, San Francisco, CA); “The New NAIC Audit Rules: Some New SOX for the Little Guy,” Executive Education Seminar (May 2006, Las Vegas, NV); “Full Financial Disclosure in Insurance Transactions,” Self-Insurance Institute of America National Conference (October 2005, Charlotte, NC); “Compensation Agreements: The Spitzer Investigations and the Potential Impact on Captives, ” SC Captive Insurance Association Mid-Year Executive Forum (June 2005, Greenville, SC); “Insurance Regulation: Background and Issues Affecting Banks,” University of Kentucky College of Law CLE Conference (April 2005, Lexington, KY); “Risk Retention Act 101: The Basics,” Self-Insurance Institute of America Excess Insurers Executive Forum (March 2005, Nashville, TN); “Policy Forms for Risk Retention Groups,” Captive Insurance Companies Association Annual Conference (March 2005, Carlsbad, CA).

Kevin earned his J.D. in 1985 from Vanderbilt University where he was a Patrick Wilson Scholar and served on the editorial board of the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law. He received his A.B. in 1982 from Princeton University, where he served as President of the Student Body from 1981-1982.