M. Alex Carver

Alex represents businesses, individuals, and state and local governments in high-stakes litigation. The cases he handles span many subject areas, including business disputes, real estate disputes, antitrust law, constitutional law, and statutory interpretation. Alex focuses on appeals and critical motions presenting novel questions of state and federal law. He has represented clients in the U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, and all of Tennessee’s appellate courts.

Alex previously worked in the Tennessee Solicitor General’s Office, where he practiced appellate litigation at all levels of the federal and state appellate courts. Among other wins, he persuaded the U.S. Supreme Court to summarily reverse a Sixth Circuit decision and convinced the Sixth Circuit to grant a rare initial hearing en banc in which his clients prevailed. In addition to writing briefs and presenting oral arguments, Alex advised state officials on significant legal matters.

Alex was a law clerk for Chief Judge William H. Pryor Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit and Judge R. David Proctor of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama. He graduated Order of the Coif from Vanderbilt University Law School, where he was Editor in Chief of the Vanderbilt Law Review. He is a summa cum laude graduate of Carson-Newman University, where he majored in biochemistry, religion, and philosophy.