October 13^th, Burr & Forman LLP announces Nashville Partner Brian Neal has joined the Nashville School of Law's faculty, teaching Conflicts of Law to 4L students. Neal replaces longtime Conflicts professor Patrick McHale as he steps down to focus on health issues.

At Burr, Brian practices in the firm's Labor & Employment and Torts, Insurance, and Product Liability sections where he concentrates on labor and employment disputes, complex commercial disputes, and trial work in bad-faith insurance defense and workers' compensation cases.

Brian has served as counsel to publicly-traded companies in numerous contractual disputes involving the successful defense of claims concerning procurement of breach, violations of non-competition agreements, and the unauthorized use of trade secrets. Brian has also successfully defended major medical device manufacturers in product liability actions, and insurance companies in actions alleging bad faith, in addition to claims concerning complex third-party coverage issues.

 

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