Representative Litigation

Mr. Pulliam has successfully handled numerous complex litigation matters, including trials in state and federal courts.  These matters include cases involving claims in the areas of insurance law, regulatory law, contract law, commercial law, real estate law, corporate and business law, banking law, securities law, franchise law, constitutional law, administrative law, health law, employment law, trust and probate law and property tort law.  He has also successfully handled appeals related to such cases.  Some of his representations include the following:

• Jeanne Bryant, Independent Fiduciary of the International Union of Industrial and Independent Workers Benefit Fund v. Bogdan Rentea, et al., U.S. District Court, Northern District of Georgia Case No. 1:07-CV-2935
• Jeanne Bryant, Independent Fiduciary of the International Union of Industrial and Independent Workers Benefit Fund v. Raymond Palombo, et al., U.S. District Court, Northern District of Florida Case No. 1:05-cv-2052-BBM
• Jeanne Bryant, Independent Fiduciary of the International Union of Industrial and Independent Workers Benefit Fund v. Raymond Palombo, et al., Superior Court of Fulton County, Georgia Case No. 2006-CV-115381
• Chao v. Service and Business Workers of America Local 125 Benefit Fund, U.S. District Court, Southern District of Florida Case No. 02-80945
• Regions Bank v. Heirs of Felix H. Badger, et al., Warren County, Tennessee Chancery Court Case No. 9434
• Terrell v. SBC Internet Services, Inc. and American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc., U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Tennessee Case No. 3:05-cv-295
• Alderwoods (Tennessee), Inc. v. The Alexander Grantor Retained Annuity Trusts, 2006 WL 2135421 (Tenn. Ct. App. July 31, 2006)
• Barnes & Robinson Co., Inc. v. OneSource Facility Services, Inc., 195 S.W.3d 637 (Tenn. Ct. App. 2006)
• Johnson v. Johnson, 2005 WL 711970 (Tenn. Ct. App. Mar. 28, 2005)
• Global Risk Management, Inc. v. Tim Davis & Associates, Inc., U.S. District Court, Middle District of Tennessee Case No. 03-0656 and related case Tim Davis & Associates, Inc. v. Podiatry Insurance Company of America, et al., U.S. District Court, Western District of Kentucky Case No. 3:04-CV-22-H
• Vedder v. North American Mortgage Co., 2004 WL 2731823 (Tenn. Ct. App. Nov. 30, 2004)
• City of Cookeville, Tenn. v. Tennessee Water Quality Control Board, 2004 WL 2607539 (Tenn. Ct. App. Nov. 16, 2004)
• Healthtrust, Inc. v. Usher, et al., 2000 WL 33967149 (M.D. Tenn. Aug. 28, 2000)
• WHS Entertainment Ventures v. United Paperworkers Intern. Union, 997 F. Supp. 946 (M.D. Tenn. 1998)
• Mike v. Po Group, Inc., 937 S.W.2d 790 (Tenn. 1996)

Representative Clients

• Receivership Management, Inc.
• Washington Mutual Bank
• Regions Bank
• Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
• American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc.

Professional Experience

• Officer in the United States Navy, 1984-1989. Qualified as Nuclear Engineer by Office of Naval Reactors. Served on U.S.S. Nimitz and U.S.S. Arkansas.
• Area Manager at DuPont's New Johnsonville, Tennessee, titanium dioxide plant from 1989-1991.

Education

1994 - J.D., with honors, Vanderbilt Law School; Order of the Coif, member of the Vanderbilt Law Review, 1992-1994 and was Senior Managing Editor, 1993-1994

1984 - B.S., with honors, United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland

Seminars

• You've Been Subpoenaed, Now What?, National Business Institute, June 12, 2006
• Keys to Successful Pre-Trial Preparation in Tennessee, National Business Institute, Sept. 22, 2004

Professional Activities and Memberships

• Nashville, Tennessee, and Federal Bar Associations
• Past President of the Nashville Chapter of the Federal Bar Association, during which he organized the swearing in of a number of local attorneys as members admitted to practice in front of the Supreme Court of the United States
• Past Associate Member, American Inns of Court, Harry Phillips Chapter, Nashville, Tennessee

Admissions

• All state and federal courts in Tennessee
• The Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals
• The Supreme Court of the United States

Interests

• Spending time with my wife and two children, reading and Tennessee Titans football