Academy Member Inducted 2010
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Gail Vaughn Ashworth
511 Union Street, Suite 800
Nashville, TN 37219
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- Practice Commenced2002
- # of MEDS (as of 21/11/24)700
- # of ARBS (as of 21/11/24)20
Current Practice
Online / In-Person
Biographical
Gail has been mediating cases for over 25 years involving all manner of litigated disputes and pre-suit matters, settling more than 1,000 cases to date.
Case Experience
- ADA Disability
- Appellate
- Automotive
- Business Dissolution
- Civil Rights
- Class Actions
- Commercial/Business
- Construction
- Consumer Fraud
- Contract Disputes
- Debt Collections
- Discrimination
- Education
- EEOC
- Elder Abuse
- Employment
- Engineering
- Entertainment Sector
- Family Businesses
- Franchise
- Health Care
- Insurance
- Land Use/Planning
- Landlord/Tenant
- Legal Malpractice
- Lemon Law
- Libel & Slander
- Local Govt./Municipalities
- Media & Communications
- Medical Devices
- Medical Malpractice
- Non-profit Organizations
- Nursing Homes
- Partnerships
- Pensions
- Personal Injury
- Pharmaceuticals
- Police
- Premises Liability
- Probate
- Product Liability
- Professional Fees
- Professional Liability
- Professional Malpractice
- Professional Negligence
- Property Damage
- Public Policy
- Railroad & Trucking
- Real Estate
- Religious Institutions
- Sexual Harassment
- Shareholder Disputes
- Sports
- Title Disputes
- Torts
- Transportation
- Trusts / Estates
- Unfair Competition
- Utilities
- Wage & Hour/FMLA
- Workers' Compensation
- Wrongful Death
Education
Gail Vaughn Ashworth is a 1983 graduate of Vanderbilt Law School and holds B.S., summa cum laude, (1977) and M.A. (1979) degrees in Music Education and Special Education from Tennessee Technological University.
Memberships & Affiliations
She is a past President of the Tennessee Bar Association (2009) and served as General Counsel of the TBA from 1999-2006. She Co-Chaired the Tennessee Supreme Court Jury Reform Commission (1997-1999), served on the Steering Committee of the TBA Leadership Law Program (2004-2007, 2012-2016) which she Co-Chaired the inaugural year, and currently serves on the ABA TIPS Leadership Academy Steering Committee (inaugural year 2006-current) and is an elected member of the ABA TIPS Council. Gail chaired the TBA Evolving Legal Markets Special Committee 2015- 2018 and is an elected TBA Delegate in the ABA House of Delegates (2016-current).
She is a former President of the Nashville Bar Association (1997) and served as the elected NBA delegate in the ABA House of Delegates from 2000-2006. She is a member of the Marion Griffin chapter of LAW and of TLAW. She is a fellow of the American, Tennessee and Nashville Bar Foundations (Trustee 2005-current, General Counsel 2013-2015, President 2016- 2018), served as Co-Chair of the NBF Leadership Forum, is a fellow of the ABA/YLD, the TBA/YLD, the NBA/YLD and is also an ABA/TIPS Fellow. She is a former member of the State of Tennessee Registry of Election Finance (Chair, 1996), a past member of the Board of Directors of Tennessee Justice Center, Inc. (Chair, 2006-2008), serves on the Board of Directors of Sister Cities Nashville, Inc. (Vice President, 2005-2009, President 2014- 2016) and is a member of the Medical Ethics Committee at Centennial Medical Center in Nashville. She is a Rule 31 Certified Mediator, has practiced civil litigation in Nashville, Tennessee since 1983 and is listed in Best Lawyers in America (1995-current).
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