National Trial Lawyers Top 100 Trial Lawyers
Gail Vaughn Ashworth was selected by The National Trial Lawyers Top 100 Trial Lawyers for 2015.
Posted on: 13 Mar, 2015
Gail Vaughn Ashworth was selected by The National Trial Lawyers Top 100 Trial Lawyers for 2015.
Posted on: 13 Mar, 2015
Thomas Wiseman was named to the list of Top 100 Lawyers in the State of Tennessee by the 2014 Mid-South Super Lawyers.
Posted on: 13 Mar, 2015
Gail Vaughn Ashworth was named to the list of Top 50 Women Lawyers in the Mid-South by the 2014 Mid-South Super Lawyers.
Posted on: 13 Mar, 2015
Wiseman Ashworth Trauger Attorneys Listed in The Best Lawyers in America© 2024
Wiseman recognized as “Lawyer of the Year” in Personal Injury Litigation-Defendants in Nashville
Nashville, TN – Wiseman Ashworth Trauger founding member Thomas A. Wiseman, III, has been recognized as the 2024 “Lawyer of the Year” in Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants in Nashville, in the 30th edition of The Best Lawyers in America®. He is also listed for his work in Medical Malpractice Law – Defendants. “Lawyer of the Year” honors are awarded annually to only one lawyer per practice area in each region with extremely high overall feedback from their peers, making it an exceptional distinction.
In addition, founding member Gail Vaughn Ashworth is listed in the areas of Mediation, Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs, Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants, and Product Liability Litigation – Defendants. Member Margaret Moore is recognized for her “exceptional” work in Medical Malpractice Law – Defendants and Anthony Bills is listed for his Litigation – Health Care practice.
Wiseman, founding member at the firm, has been recognized by Best Lawyers® since 1999. He has tried more than 150 jury trials to verdict in Tennessee State and Federal trial courts and in other states. Wiseman is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and the Tennessee and Nashville Bar Foundations. Committed to building professionalism in law, he has taught Trial Advocacy as an Adjunct Professor at Vanderbilt Law School for twenty years.
Ashworth has been listed in Best Lawyers® since 1995. Ashworth has extensive experience at the civil and administrative trial and appellate levels as both defense and plaintiff’s counsel. She is also a Tennessee Rule 31 Listed General Civil Mediator and Family Mediator. She is past president of the Nashville and Tennessee Bar Associations, serves as a trustee of the Nashville Bar Foundation and serves in the ABA House of Delegates.
Moore’s extensive experience representing hospitals and her meticulous nature make her one of the profession’s most thorough and prepared attorneys. She has represented hospitals and medical centers throughout Middle, East and West Tennessee at the trial court and appellate levels. Moore’s trial experience includes cases involving medical/hospital negligence, EMTALA, wrongful death, premises liability and the representation of physicians and hospitals in cases of professional liability. She is a member of the Tennessee Bar Association, a Fellow of the Nashville Bar Foundation and a former Secretary of the Nashville Bar Association.
Bills has spent his professional career handling a variety of matters in all phases of litigation, but his greatest interest and professional pursuit is effective trial advocacy. He has a diverse practice with experience in personal injury, products liability, nursing home litigation, health care law, mental health law, premises liability and fidelity and surety law. He is a member of the American Bar Association, Tennessee Bar Association, and Nashville Bar Association.
Since it was first published in 1983, Best Lawyers® has become universally regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence. Best Lawyers recognitions are compiled based on an exhaustive Purely Peer Review® evaluation. More than 123,000 industry leading lawyers are eligible to vote (from around the world), and we have received more than 20 million evaluations on the legal abilities of other lawyers based on their specific practice areas around the world. For the 2024 edition of The Best Lawyers in America®, more than 13.7 million votes were analyzed, which resulted in more than 76,000 leading lawyers included in the milestone 30th edition. Lawyers are not required nor allowed to pay a fee to be listed; therefore, inclusion in Best Lawyers is considered a singular honor.
Wiseman Ashworth Trauger focuses on all areas of healthcare liability, including the defense of physicians, hospitals and long-term care facilities in all aspects of litigation in state, federal and administrative courts. The firm also handles healthcare regulation, personal injury and products liability cases, as well as insurance coverage, medical ethics, probate, commercial litigation and employment matters. Wiseman Ashworth Trauger was founded by partners Gail Vaughn Ashworth and Tom Wiseman in 2010. Byron Trauger joined the firm in early 2022. For more information, visit www.watlawgroup.com
Posted on: 19 Sep, 2023
Wiseman Ashworth Trauger Attorneys Listed in The Best Lawyers in America© 2024
Wiseman recognized as “Lawyer of the Year” in Personal Injury Litigation-Defendants in Nashville
Nashville, TN – Wiseman Ashworth Trauger founding member Thomas A. Wiseman, III, has been recognized as the 2024 “Lawyer of the Year” in Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants in Nashville, in the 30th edition of The Best Lawyers in America®. He is also listed for his work in Medical Malpractice Law – Defendants. “Lawyer of the Year” honors are awarded annually to only one lawyer per practice area in each region with extremely high overall feedback from their peers, making it an exceptional distinction.
In addition, founding member Gail Vaughn Ashworth is listed in the areas of Mediation, Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs, Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants, and Product Liability Litigation – Defendants. Member Margaret Moore is recognized for her “exceptional” work in Medical Malpractice Law – Defendants and Anthony Bills is listed for his Litigation – Health Care practice.
Wiseman, founding member at the firm, has been recognized by Best Lawyers® since 1999. He has tried more than 150 jury trials to verdict in Tennessee State and Federal trial courts and in other states. Wiseman is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and the Tennessee and Nashville Bar Foundations. Committed to building professionalism in law, he has taught Trial Advocacy as an Adjunct Professor at Vanderbilt Law School for twenty years.
Ashworth has been listed in Best Lawyers® since 1995. Ashworth has extensive experience at the civil and administrative trial and appellate levels as both defense and plaintiff’s counsel. She is also a Tennessee Rule 31 Listed General Civil Mediator and Family Mediator. She is past president of the Nashville and Tennessee Bar Associations, serves as a trustee of the Nashville Bar Foundation and serves in the ABA House of Delegates.
Moore’s extensive experience representing hospitals and her meticulous nature make her one of the profession’s most thorough and prepared attorneys. She has represented hospitals and medical centers throughout Middle, East and West Tennessee at the trial court and appellate levels. Moore’s trial experience includes cases involving medical/hospital negligence, EMTALA, wrongful death, premises liability and the representation of physicians and hospitals in cases of professional liability. She is a member of the Tennessee Bar Association, a Fellow of the Nashville Bar Foundation and a former Secretary of the Nashville Bar Association.
Bills has spent his professional career handling a variety of matters in all phases of litigation, but his greatest interest and professional pursuit is effective trial advocacy. He has a diverse practice with experience in personal injury, products liability, nursing home litigation, health care law, mental health law, premises liability and fidelity and surety law. He is a member of the American Bar Association, Tennessee Bar Association, and Nashville Bar Association.
Since it was first published in 1983, Best Lawyers® has become universally regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence. Best Lawyers recognitions are compiled based on an exhaustive Purely Peer Review® evaluation. More than 123,000 industry leading lawyers are eligible to vote (from around the world), and we have received more than 20 million evaluations on the legal abilities of other lawyers based on their specific practice areas around the world. For the 2024 edition of The Best Lawyers in America®, more than 13.7 million votes were analyzed, which resulted in more than 76,000 leading lawyers included in the milestone 30th edition. Lawyers are not required nor allowed to pay a fee to be listed; therefore, inclusion in Best Lawyers is considered a singular honor.
Wiseman Ashworth Trauger focuses on all areas of healthcare liability, including the defense of physicians, hospitals and long-term care facilities in all aspects of litigation in state, federal and administrative courts. The firm also handles healthcare regulation, personal injury and products liability cases, as well as insurance coverage, medical ethics, probate, commercial litigation and employment matters. Wiseman Ashworth Trauger was founded by partners Gail Vaughn Ashworth and Tom Wiseman in 2010. Byron Trauger joined the firm in early 2022. For more information, visit www.watlawgroup.com
Posted on: 19 Sep, 2023
Tom Wiseman recognized by peers as Best Lawyers 2024 “Lawyer of the Year” in Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants in Nashville.
Posted on: 21 Aug, 2023
Gail Ashworth recognized by peers in the milestone 30th edition of The Best Lawyers in America® for her exceptional work in Mediation, Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs, Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants, and Product Liability Litigation – Defendants.
Posted on: 21 Aug, 2023
Johnson Laney is now certified as a Healthcare Ethics Consultant by the HCEC Certification Commission. Certification recognizes experience and specialized knowledge in Health Law, Moral Reasoning, Healthcare Systems, and applying these ideas to the clinical context. The HCEC Certification Commission is a body created and funded by the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities.
Healthcare Ethics Consultant Certification is a national standard that highlights a commitment to ethical patient care practices and sends a clear message that these complex issues are handled by dependable professionals.
Posted on: 11 Jan, 2023
Kaitlin Parham was selected to the 2023 Nashville Bar Foundation (NBF) Leadership Forum Class. The NBF Leadership Forum is a local leadership program for lawyers with three to eight years of experience and was designed to bring together emerging leaders who participate in monthly workshops for nine months to help them realize their potential and to benefit the legal profession and our local community.
Posted on: 9 Sep, 2022
Powerhouse firm has a collective 180+ years of experience
concentrated in health care matters and civil litigation
Nashville, TN – Respected Nashville attorney and founding partner of Trauger & Tuke, Byron Trauger, announces the joining of his practice with Wiseman Ashworth Trauger. The firm will rebrand as Wiseman Ashworth Trauger Trauger, effective March 1.
“Gail [Ashworth], Tom [Wiseman], and Byron are among Tennessee’s most creative, effective, and efficient lawyers,” said William “Bill” C. Koch, Jr. former Tennessee Supreme Court Justice and Dean of the Nashville School of Law. “Gail is a skilled litigator and mediator with a local, state, and national reputation. Tom is widely recognized as one of the state’s best healthcare liability lawyers. Byron’s strong healthcare regulatory practice and strategic problem-solving skills keep him in high demand in both the public and private sectors. Their synergy will result in high-quality legal services that will have a great impact on their clients’ needs.”
Trauger’s practice is concentrated in health care, complex civil litigation, general business matters, and regulatory agency work. He also has significant business experience, having chaired the board of a $500-million publicly-traded managed care company, and having served on the boards of directors of privately held health care and technology companies. A significant portion of Trauger’s practice involves advising health care entities on strategic issues and representing them before state regulatory agencies. He also represents other business entities in areas in which law and public policy or regulations intersect. Having been a federal prosecutor early in his career, Trauger is comfortable in the courtroom and frequently represents clients in complex business litigation.
He has chaired a Tennessee gubernatorial campaign and two Nashville mayoral campaigns. He led the negotiating team that brought the Tennessee Titans (then the Houston Oilers) to Nashville.
For nearly a decade, Trauger chaired the Board of Trustees of Martin Methodist College (now UT Southern) and now serves on the executive committee of the Nashville Public Education Foundation. He has also served on the boards of the PENCIL Foundation, Nashville Public Radio, You Have the Power, the Tennessee State Museum Foundation, Nashville Rotary Club, the Nashville Public Library Foundation, The Land Trust for Tennessee, Historic Nashville, Nashville Children’s Theatre, PEACE, and the Tennessee Repertory Theater. He is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, the Tennessee Bar Foundation, and the Nashville Bar Foundation and has chaired the Campaign for the Legal Aid Society of Middle Tennessee. He is an active Rotarian and United Methodist.
Trauger is a Rhodes Scholar who received his B.A. magna cum laude from Duke University and studied in Lima, Peru as a Rotary Foundation Undergraduate Scholar. He graduated from Yale Law School in 1977 where he was Associate Editor of the Yale Review of Law and Social Action. He began his legal career as a judicial clerk to the late Hon. Frank W. Wilson, United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Tennessee. He served as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Tennessee after which he practiced for two years with the Boston, Massachusetts firm of Bingham, Dana & Gould. In 1983 he returned to Tennessee to form the firm that became Trauger & Tuke.
Trauger’s longtime law partner, Bob Tuke, commented about his friend, “I am pleased Byron has joined Wiseman Ashworth Trauger. This has its own important significance. Wiseman Ashworth Trauger is a wonderful law firm; relatively small in terms of attorneys, but what they do for their clients is done extremely well. Tom and Gail value Byron and Byron values them.”
Tuke will finalize a few client projects and then begin enjoying retirement to spend more time with his family and friends. But even in retirement he will continue providing volunteer support to his choice nonprofits involved in veterans’ issues, land conservation and adoption laws.
“Tom and I are thrilled and honored that Byron is joining the firm as a named partner,” said Ashworth. “He has a depth of experience and an excellent reputation in the Bar, with his clients, and in the community as a highly respected counsellor, advocate and public servant. We could not be more pleased that he is joining us.”
Ashworth is a recent recipient of the American Bar Association Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section’s Edmund S. Muskie Pro Bono Service Award for her commitment to access to justice and dedication to pro bono service. Ashworth, a Tennessee Rule 31 Listed General Civil Mediator and Family Mediator, has extensive experience at the civil and administrative trial and appellate levels as both defense and plaintiff’s counsel and a strong dispute resolution practice. She is past president of the Nashville and Tennessee Bar Associations, serves as a trustee of the Nashville Bar Foundation, and is an elected member of the ABA House of Delegates and the ABA/TIPS Council. She is a co-founder of national, state and local lawyer leadership programs and has served as a professor of trial techniques at the TIPS/ABOTA National Trial Academy. She is a past Chair of the Tennessee Supreme Court Access to Justice Commission and a founding member of the Tennessee Academy of Mediators and Arbitrators.
Wiseman has practiced law for 39 years, concentrating on medical and hospital malpractice litigation, civil litigation and professional liability. A Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and the Tennessee and Nashville Bar Foundations, he has tried more than 100 jury trials to verdict in Tennessee State and Federal trial courts and in other states. He is AV®Preeminent™ rated – the highest peer-review rating possible. Committed to building professionalism in law, he has taught Trial Advocacy as an Adjunct Professor at Vanderbilt Law School for 15 years and is a past president of the Nashville Bar Association.
Wiseman Ashworth Trauger Trauger focuses on all areas of healthcare liability, including the defense of physicians, hospitals and long-term care facilities in all aspects of litigation in state, federal and
administrative courts. The firm also handles healthcare regulation, personal injury and products liability cases, as well as insurance coverage, medical ethics, probate, commercial litigation and employment matters. Wiseman Ashworth Trauger Trauger was founded by partners Gail Vaughn Ashworth and Tom Wiseman in 2010. Margaret Moore, Kimberly G. Silvus, Michele T. Marsicano, Anthony C. Bills and Bradley M. Dowd are also partners in the firm. For more information, visit www.watlawgroup.com. The new website link will be available soon.
Posted on: 3 Mar, 2022
Wiseman Ashworth Trauger founding members Thomas A. Wiseman, III, Gail Vaughn Ashworth, and member Margaret Moore have been selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America© 2022.
Posted on: 20 Aug, 2021
Nashville Business Journal names Gail Vaughn Ashworth Best of the Bar Lifetime Achievement winner. View the article here.
Posted on: 7 Jul, 2021
Wiseman Ashworth Trauger, PLC is included in the U.S. News – Best Lawyers® in Nashville for the ninth year in a row, receiving Tier 1 ranking for Medical Malpractice Law- Defendants and Personal Injury Litigation- Defendants.
The Best Lawyers® “Best Law Firms” rankings are based on a rigorous evaluation process that includes client and lawyer evaluations, peer review from leading attorneys in their field, and review of additional information provided by law firms as part of the formal submission process. To be listed as a “Best Law Firm,” a firm must have at least one attorney listed in Best Lawyers in America, which recognizes the top 4 percent of practicing attorneys in the U.S. The 2021 “Best Law Firms” rankings are available at: bestlawfirms.usnews.com.
Posted on: 13 May, 2021
Kimberly Silvus was announced as the newest board member of Cornerstone Financial Credit Union
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Posted on: 7 Jan, 2021
Two attorneys at Wiseman Ashworth Trauger have been named to Mid-South Super Lawyers, and one attorney was recognized as a Rising Star. Each year, no more than five percent of the lawyers in the state are selected by the research team at Super Lawyers to the Super Lawyers list, and no more than 2.5 percent of the lawyers in the state are selected for the Rising Stars list.
Founding member Gail Vaughn Ashworth was selected as a Top 50 Women Mid-South Super Lawyer, a Top 50 in Nashville, and a Top 100 Super Lawyer in Tennessee. Founding member Tom Wiseman was selected for inclusion in the Mid-South Super Lawyers list. Anthony Bills was named a Mid-South Rising Star.
Super Lawyers, a Thomson Reuters business, is a rating service of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. The annual selections are made using a patented multiphase process that includes a statewide survey of lawyers, an independent research evaluation of candidates and peer reviews by practice area. The result is a credible, comprehensive and diverse listing of exceptional attorneys.
The Super Lawyers lists are published nationwide in Super Lawyers Magazines and in leading city and regional magazines and newspapers across the country. Super Lawyers Magazines also feature editorial profiles of attorneys who embody excellence in the practice of law. For more information about Super Lawyers, visit SuperLawyers.com.
Posted on: 21 Jan, 2020
November 1, 2019 – Wiseman Ashworth Trauger, PLC is included in the U.S. News – Best Lawyers® in Nashville for the eighth year in a row, receiving Tier 1 ranking for Medical Malpractice Law- Defendants and Personal Injury Litigation- Defendants.
The Best Lawyers® “Best Law Firms” rankings are based on a rigorous evaluation process that includes client and lawyer evaluations, peer review from leading attorneys in their field, and review of additional information provided by law firms as part of the formal submission process. To be listed as a “Best Law Firm,” a firm must have at least one attorney listed in Best Lawyers in America, which recognizes the top 4 percent of practicing attorneys in the U.S. The 2020“Best Law Firms” rankings are available at: bestlawfirms.usnews.com.
Posted on: 1 Nov, 2019
Wiseman Ashworth Trauger sponsors NBA Collegiality Coffee at the Historic Courthouse Friday, October 11, 2019. View photos of the event here.
Posted on: 18 Oct, 2019
Nashville, TN – Wiseman Ashworth Trauger founding members Thomas A. Wiseman, III, and Gail Vaughn Ashworth have been selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® 2020.
Wiseman, founding member at the firm, is listed in the practice areas of Medical Malpractice Law – Defendants and Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants. He has been recognized by Best Lawyers® since 1999. He has tried more than 75 jury trials to verdict in Tennessee State and Federal trial courts and in other states. Wiseman is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and the Tennessee and Nashville Bar Foundations.
Ashworth, also founding member of Wiseman Ashworth Trauger, is listed for her work in Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants. She has been listed in Best Lawyers® since 1995. Ashworth has extensive experience at the civil and administrative trial and appellate levels as both defense and plaintiff’s counsel. She also is a Tennessee Rule 31 Listed General Civil Mediator. She is past president of the Nashville and Tennessee Bar Associations and serves as a trustee of the Nashville Bar Foundation.
Since it was first published in 1983, Best Lawyers® has become universally regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence. Best Lawyers lists are compiled based on an exhaustive peer-review evaluation. Almost 94,000 industry leading lawyers are eligible to vote (from around the world), and we have received over 11 million evaluations on the legal abilities of other lawyers based on their specific practice areas around the world. For the 2020 Edition of The Best Lawyers in America©, 8.3 million votes were analyzed, which resulted in more than 62,000 leading lawyers being included in the new edition. Lawyers are not required or allowed to pay a fee to be listed; therefore, inclusion in Best Lawyers is considered a singular honor. Corporate Counsel magazine has called Best Lawyers “the most respected referral list of attorneys in practice.”
Posted on: 7 Oct, 2019
Kimberly Silvus presented “Opioid Prescribing in Tennessee: Rules and Repercussions” to the Department of Surgery Grand Rounds at Erlanger Hospital on September 25, 2019.
Posted on: 7 Oct, 2019
Michele Marsicano and Anne Frazier presented to the American Case Management Association at their 13th Annual Case Management and Transitions of Care Meeting September 20, 2019 in Murfreesboro, TN.
“Complex Transitions: Legal Tips and Tools 2.0”
Posted on: 1 Oct, 2019
November 8, 2018 – Two attorneys at Wiseman Ashworth Trauger have been named to Mid-South Super Lawyers, and two attorneys were recognized as Rising Stars.
Founding partner Gail Vaughn Ashworth was selected as a Top 50 Female Mid-South Super Lawyer, a Top 50 in Nashville and a Top 100 Super Lawyer in Tennessee. Founding partner Tom Wiseman was named a Top 50 in Nashville and Top 100 in Tennessee in Mid-South Super Lawyers.
Partner Kimberly Silvus, and Anthony Bills were named as Mid-South Rising Stars.
Super Lawyers, a Thomson Reuters business, is a rating service of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. The annual selections are made using a patented multiphase process that includes a statewide survey of lawyers, an independent research evaluation of candidates and peer reviews by practice area. The result is a credible, comprehensive and diverse listing of exceptional attorneys.
The Super Lawyers lists are published nationwide in Super Lawyers Magazines and in leading city and regional magazines and newspapers across the country. Super Lawyers Magazines also feature editorial profiles of attorneys who embody excellence in the practice of law. For more information about Super Lawyers, visit SuperLawyers.com.
Posted on: 14 Mar, 2019
November 1, 2018 – Wiseman Ashworth Trauger, PLC is included in the U.S. News – Best Lawyers® in Nashville for the seventh year in a row, receiving Tier 1 ranking for Medical Malpractice Law- Defendants and Personal Injury Litigation- Defendants.
“We are honored to again be listed in Best Law Firms, particularly since this first tier ranking reflects client feedback in addition to information provided by other lawyers and law firms,” said Gail Vaughn Ashworth, founding member of Wiseman Ashworth Trauger.
The Best Lawyers® “Best Law Firms” rankings are based on a rigorous evaluation process that includes client and lawyer evaluations, peer review from leading attorneys in their field, and review of additional information provided by law firms as part of the formal submission process. To be listed as a “Best Law Firm,” a firm must have at least one attorney listed in Best Lawyers in America, which recognizes the top 4 percent of practicing attorneys in the U.S. The 2019 “Best Law Firms” rankings are available at: bestlawfirms.usnews.com.
Posted on: 14 Mar, 2019
September 12, 2018 – Wiseman Ashworth Trauger founding members Thomas A. Wiseman III and Gail Vaughn Ashworth have been selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® 2019.
Wiseman, founding member at the law firm, is listed in the practice areas of Medical Malpractice Law – Defendants and Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants. Additionally, Wiseman was named “Lawyer of the Year” in Personal Injury Litigation-Defendants in Nashville for 2019. He has been recognized by Best Lawyers since 1999. He is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and the Tennessee and Nashville Bar Foundations.
Ashworth, also founding member of Wiseman Ashworth Trauger, is listed for her work in Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants. She has been listed in Best Lawyers since 1995. She is past president of the Nashville and Tennessee Bar Associations and serves as president of the Nashville Bar Foundation.
Since it was first published in 1983, Best Lawyers® has become universally regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence. Best Lawyers lists are compiled based on an exhaustive peer-review evaluation. Corporate Counsel magazine has called Best Lawyers “the most respected referral list of attorneys in practice.”
Posted on: 14 Mar, 2019
June 2018 – Tom Wiseman, founding member at Wiseman Ashworth Trauger PLC is ranked in the 2018 edition of Chambers USA for his practice in the area of medical malpractice defense.
Wiseman is “highly regarded for his expertise in handling complex disputes at both state and federal court level,” according to Chambers.
Wiseman has practiced law for more than 30 years, concentrating on medical and hospital malpractice litigation, civil litigation and professional liability. A Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and the Tennessee and Nashville Bar Foundations, he has tried more than 75 jury trials to verdict in Tennessee State and Federal trial courts and in other states.
Chambers USA ranks the leading firms and lawyers in an extensive range of practice areas throughout America. The research is in-depth and client focused and the guide is read by industry-leading companies and organizations throughout the US and worldwide. The guide determines its prestigious rankings through an extensive information gathering process that includes independent research and in-depth interviews with clients and attorneys.
Posted on: 14 Mar, 2019
April 2018 – Wiseman Ashworth Trauger founding member Gail Vaughn Ashworth has been appointed by the Tennessee Supreme Court as Chair of the Access to Justice Commission. Ashworth will serve a two-year term. The Access to Justice Commission was created by the Supreme Court of Tennessee to develop a strategic plan for improving access to justice in Tennessee to include education of the public, identification of priorities to meet the need of improved access to justice, and recommendations to the Supreme Court of projects and programs the Commission determines to be necessary and appropriate for enhancing access to justice in Tennessee.
Ashworth has extensive experience at the civil and administrative trial and appellate levels as both defense and plaintiff’s counsel. Her diverse trial practice spans nearly three decades and ranges from personal injury to insurance coverage, employment law and medical ethics. She also is a Tennessee Rule 31 Listed General Civil Mediator with over fifteen years’ experience as a mediator. She has a strong mediation and arbitration practice and is known for her fairness and experience in health care, personal injury, product liability, insurance law, administrative and employment law.
Also widely known and respected for her leadership roles in the legal profession and the community, she is a past president of the Nashville and Tennessee Bar Associations, and the current President of the Nashville Bar Foundation. Ashworth is involved in creating local, state and national organizations that teach leadership to lawyers—TBA Leadership Law, the ABA/TIPS Leadership Academy and the NBF Leadership Forum. In addition to serving as president of her state and local bar associations, Gail is particularly proud of having chaired the Tennessee Justice Center, Inc. Board of Directors from 2006-2008, the Tennessee Legal Community Foundation in 2010 and the Legal Aid Society/Nashville Pro Bono Annual Campaign for Justice in 2011.
Posted on: 14 Mar, 2019
Tom Wiseman has been recognized by his peers as a 2019 “Lawyer of the Year” in the practice area of “Personal Injury Litigation- Defendants in Nashville” as well as again being listed in the 25th edition of Best Lawyers in Medical Malpractice Law- Defendants and Personal Injury Litigation- Defendants.
Posted on: 4 Sep, 2018
Wiseman Ashworth Trauger co-sponsors Danielle Ofri, M.D. “What Patients Say; What Doctors Hear” on March 4, 2018.
Posted on: 6 Feb, 2018
Michele Marsicano has been selected for the Nashville Bar Foundation Leadership Forum program, a nine-month professional development group.
Posted on: 16 Aug, 2017
R. Kent Francis has been selected to be an Associate in the Leo Bearman, Sr. American Inn of Court.
Posted on: 14 Jul, 2017
Tom Wiseman recognized as “Lawyer of the Year” in The Best Lawyers in America 2017 Edition in his practice area and metropolitan region.
Posted on: 2 Jun, 2017
Gail Vaughn Ashworth included in The Best Lawyers in America 2017 Edition in the practice area of Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants.
Posted on: 2 Jun, 2017
Wiseman Ashworth Trauger was named in 2017 Best Law Firms In Tennessee First-Tier Rankings by U.S. News & World Report.
Posted on: 2 Jun, 2017
Minton Mayer is speaking at the Inaugural Long Term Care Insurance ExecuSummit taking place June 27 & 28, 2017 in Uncasville, CT.
Posted on: 2 Jun, 2017
Tennessee Supreme Court Access To Justice Commissioner Gail Vaughn Ashworth appears with Chief Justice Jeff Bivins at the Downtown Public Library to announce the #Help4TNDay kickoff set for Saturday April 1, 2017 across the State.
Posted on: 29 Mar, 2017
Minton Mayer is speaking on Best Practices for Preventing Violence in the Post-Acute Workplace from Internal and External Sources at the AHLA Long Term Care and the Law Conference on Friday, February 24, 2017. The Long Term Care and the Law Conference is February 22-24, 2017 at the Manchester Grand Hyatt in San Diego, CA.
Posted on: 3 Feb, 2017
Michele Marsicano is co-presenting a webinar on “Conservatorship: Urgency or Emergency” Thursday 2/2 from noon – 1 for the TBA. You can sign up and attend at the following link: https://cle.tba.org/catalog/course/4045
Posted on: 31 Jan, 2017
Tom Wiseman was selected to the 2016 Mid-South Super Lawyers list.
Posted on: 9 Nov, 2016
Howard Hayden recently co-authored and successfully lobbied for passage of important amendments to Tennessee law that ensure that defense counsel in health care liability actions have full access to non-party health care providers for private interviews to investigate and evaluate claims.
Posted on: 14 Sep, 2016
Tom Wiseman has been recognized as “Lawyer of the Year” in the practice area of Medical Malpractice Law – Defendants in Nashville. He will be highlighted in the 23rd Edition of The Best Lawyers in America.
Posted on: 14 Sep, 2016
Minton Mayer was Vice Chair of the DRI Nursing Home Assisted Living Conference in Scottsdale, AZ and author of the Seminar materials regarding handling a Crisis in Real Time.
Posted on: 14 Sep, 2016
Howard Hayden recently spoke at the DRI Nursing Home Assisted Living Conference in Scottsdale, AZ on legislative initiatives by state defense bars.
Posted on: 14 Sep, 2016
Wiseman Ashworth Trauger made Nashville Business Journal’s Top Health Care Law Firms List.
Posted on: 5 Aug, 2016
Minton Mayer is am speaking at LeadingAge TN Annual Conference in Franklin, TN on August 9, 2016 with John DiMaggio with Blue Orange Compliance. His topic is “HIPAA/HITECH Privacy and Security Compliance in a LTPAC Environment – What you need to know”.
Posted on: 1 Jul, 2016
Minton Mayer is speaking at Memphis Bar Association – 40th Annual Bench Bar Conference on Friday, September 2 in Sandestin, FL.
His topic is “Strategies to Overcome the Stereotypes of Mediation” Stereotypical obstacles, patterns and attitudes can make it difficult to resolve your case at mediation. Laugh at the video examples and learn how to identify typical mediation issues and create strategies to control the agenda, maximize your leverage and utilize information to overcome ethical issues, foreseeable mediation tactics and barriers to settlement.
Posted on: 1 Jul, 2016
Minton Mayer is presenting at the 2016 Tennessee Health Care Association Annual Conference on August 28 in Knoxville, TN. His topic is “Collections: Best Practices for a Successful and Compliant Nursing Home Operation”.
Posted on: 27 Jun, 2016
Howard Hayden will be speaking at the DRI Nursing/Assisted Living Conference in Scottsdale, Arizona on September 8th, 2016.
Posted on: 5 May, 2016
Margaret Moore was named a Fellow of the Nashville Bar Association.
Posted on: 4 May, 2016
Tom Wiseman is speaking at DRI’s Medical Liability and Health Care Law Seminar March 10, 2016 in New Orleans, Louisiana. He will present Through the RetroSpectoScope: Dealing with Hindsight Bias in Discovery and at Trial.
Posted on: 19 Feb, 2016
Gail Vaughn Ashworth was elected to the American Bar Association House of Delegates for the Tennessee Bar Association.
Posted on: 19 Feb, 2016
Minton Mayer has been added to the National Academy of Distinguished Neutrals – Tennessee Chapter.
Posted on: 19 Feb, 2016
Kimberly Silvus was selected for TBA Leadership Law Class of 2016.
Posted on: 19 Feb, 2016
