E. Todd Presnell

E. Todd Presnell


Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Recognized since 2008

Nashville, Tennessee

Practice Areas

Commercial Litigation

Litigation - Banking and Finance

Litigation - Intellectual Property

Litigation - Labor and Employment

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Lawyer of the Year Badge - 2022 - Litigation - Banking and Finance Lawyer of the Year Badge - 2018 - Litigation - Labor and Employment
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Todd Presnell is a trial lawyer licensed in Georgia and Tennessee who represents major corporations, small businesses, governmental entities, tax-exempt organizations, and individuals in their litigation-related needs. Mr. Presnell has served as lead counsel in federal and state courts across the country, including Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Illinois, Minnesota, New Mexico, Tennessee, and Texas. He has handled numerous bench and jury trials, argued before the Sixth, Seventh, and Tenth Circuit Courts of Appeals, the Tennessee Court of Appeals, and briefed cases before the United States Supreme Court and the Tennessee Supreme Court.

Mr. Presnell's experience includes product liability cases in the automotive, equipment-manufacturing, food-product, and manufactured housing industries, employment-discrimination cases for small, privately held companies to multinational corporations, disputes over non-compete and non-solicitation agreements, litigation over trade-secrets violations, contract and other disputes involving health-care companies, fiduciary-duty disputes involving corporate directors and officers, trust-related litigation, and business tort claims.

In addition to his trial and appellate work, Mr. Presnell is a recognized expert in the area of evidentiary privileges, including serving as Editor-in-Chief of Evidentiary Privileges for Corporate Counsel (DRI 2008), and provides audit-related and training services to in-house legal departments in establishing and maintaining the corporate attorney-client privilege. He also works with in-house legal departments in creating and implementing document-retention policies and procedures.

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Location
  • 1221 Broadway, Suite 2400
    Nashville, TN 37203
Education
  • The University of Memphis, J.D., graduated 1995
  • The University of Tennessee, B.S., graduated 1991
Bar Admissions
  • Tennessee, Tennessee Bar Association
Affiliations
  • American Bar Association - Member
  • Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) for Children, Nashville - Board of Directors Member
  • Defense Research Institute - Member
  • International Association of Defense Counsel - Member
  • Memphis Bar Association - Member
  • Memphis Law Alumni Association - Board Member
  • Nashville Bar Association - Member
  • Tennessee Bar Association - Member
  • The Corporate Counselor - Editorial Board Member

Lawyer of the Year Badge - 2022 - Litigation - Banking and Finance Lawyer of the Year Badge - 2018 - Litigation - Labor and Employment
Named "Lawyer of the Year" by Best Lawyers® for:
  • Litigation - Banking and Finance, Nashville (2022)
  • Litigation - Labor and Employment, Nashville (2018)
Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America® 2025 for work in:
  • Commercial Litigation
  • Litigation - Banking and Finance
  • Litigation - Intellectual Property
  • Litigation - Labor and Employment
Awards:
  • Listed in Nashville Business Journal, "Best of the Bar," 2013
  • Tennessee Bar Association, Leadership Law Program, 2007
  • Nashville Bar Foundation, Fellow
  • Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce, Finalist, Emerging Leaders Award-Legal Services Category, 2009
  • Listed by The Nashville Post, "Top 100 Lawyers in Tennessee"
  • Listed in Mid-South Super Lawyers, Business Litigation, 2010-2013
  • Listed in Benchmark Litigation
Additional Areas of Practice:
  • Litigation - Mergers and Acquisitions

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