Court and Bar Admissions...
- Mississippi - all state courts
- Tennessee - all state courts
- United States District Court, Northern and Southern Districts of Mississippi
- United States District Court, Middle, Eastern and Western Districts of Tennessee (Federal Court Committee, MDTN; CM/ECF Committee, MDTN)
- Federal Appeals Courts - 5th, 6th and 11th Circuits
- United States Supreme Court
Martindale-Hubbell Rating...
- AV - Preeminent rating-highest rating awarded
Bar Memberships...
- Mississippi Bar Association (Public Information Committee, 1979-1980)
- Tennessee Bar Association
- Nashville Bar Association (Federal Court Committee, 1980-1981, 2005-2008)
- Mississippi Trial Lawyers Association (Board of Governors, 1976-1979)
- Association of Trial Lawyers of America
- Federal Bar Association
Official Honors...
- Fellow, Nashville Bar Foundation
- Who’s Who in America
- Who’s Who in American Law
- Who’s Who in the World
- Who’s Who in the South and Southwest
- Who’s Who in Finance and Industry
- Who’s Who in Executives and Professionals
- Five Hundred Leaders of Influence
- Business Directory of Entertainment & Sports Attorneys
- Directory of Litigation Attorneys
- 2000 Outstanding People of the 20th Century
- National Directory of Who's Who in Executives and Professionals
- Million Dollar Advocates Forum
- International Who’s Who in Music
- Strathmore’s Who’s Who
Litigation Experience...
Mr. Bramlett devotes a major portion of his practice to civil litigation, with an emphasis on securities class actions, consumer class actions, antitrust litigation and Erisa litigation. In recent years, he has served as co-liaison counsel to the Plaintiffs in the Prison Realty litigation in Nashville, a case which settled before the United States District Court, Middle District of Tennessee at Nashville, for approximately $130 million. He served on the Executive Committee handling the Columbia/HCA Shareholder Litigation in the United States District Court, Middle District of Tennessee at Nashville, a case which settled for approximately $50 million. He was involved in the Dollar General securities and derivative litigation in Nashville, Tennessee as local counsel for a number of law firms, which cases settled for more than $160 million. He was involved in the SCB Shareholder Litigation and Thomas & Betts Shareholder Litigation in Memphis, Tennessee, in which cases he served as local counsel to a number of nationally-prominent class-action law firms. He was involved in the Microsoft Multi-District Litigation; and he previously served as co-counsel to the Plaintiff shareholders in the Rencorp Shareholder Litigation, a case which settled for the benefit of the shareholders for the approximate sum of $18 million. He was appointed and served as Liaison Counsel to the shareholders in the Concord EFS Litigation shareholder litigation in Memphis, Tennessee, a case which was settled in 2005 for $13.5 million, as local counsel for four firms in the King Pharmaceutical securities litigation in Greeneville, Tennessee, U. S. District Court, Eastern District of Tennessee, served as local counsel for four firms in the UNUM Provident securities and derivative litigation in United States District Court, Eastern Section at Chattanooga, which combined cases settled for approximately $40 million. He served as local counsel in the UNUM Provident Erisa litigation, a case which was settled and payment of attorneys’ fees was approved for over $2 million. He served as local counsel in Chancery Court at Nashville in the Toshiba consumer class-action litigation, which cases were ultimately settled in California and Tennessee in 2005 for approximately $36 million. He served as Liaison Counsel for the Lead Plaintiffs and Lead Counsel in the Central Parking securities litigation in United States District Court, Middle Section at Nashville, a case which was settled in 2005 for approximately $4.5 million. He was local counsel for the Plaintiffs in the SAKS derivative litigation in Chancery Court, Nashville, Tennessee. He served as local counsel for several Plaintiffs in the Accredo litigation in United States District Court, Western District of Tennessee at Memphis. He served as local counsel for several firms in the Caremark litigation in Nashville, Tennessee, a breach of duty/merger case which was settled. He has also served as local counsel in the Dollar General II litigation in Nashville, Tennessee and the HCA II litigation in Chancery and Federal courts of Nashville, which cases settled for $20 million with fees set at $3.9 million. He served as Co-liaison counsel in the Copper Industry antitrust litigation in the United States District Court, Western Section at Memphis and in the United States District Court, Southern District of New York, a series of cases involving the copper industry and its effect on the U.S. market relating to a price-fixing conspiracy. He served as Local counsel in the HCA Erisa litigation in United States District Court, Middle District of Tennessee at Nashville, a case which settled for approximately $2.9 million. He served as Local counsel in the Performance Food Group shareholder litigation in United States District Court, Middle District of Tennessee at Nashville and as Local counsel in the ServiceMaster shareholder litigation in Circuit Court in Memphis, Tennessee. He served as Local counsel in the America Service Group, Inc. shareholder litigation in United States District Court, Middle District at Nashville and as Local counsel in the Equity Inns litigation in United States District Court, Western District of Tennessee at Memphis. He served as Co-counsel for the Plaintiff in the UBS litigation in the United States District Court, Southern District of New York. He served as Liaison Counsel for the Plaintiff in the GreenBankshares securities litigation in United States District Court, Eastern District of Tennessee at Chattanooga, a case which settled for $1.75 million. He served as Liaison Counsel for the Plaintiff in the J. Alexander's merger/takeover case in Davidson County Chancery Court in Nashville, a case which settled and was approved with attorneys' fees of $350,000. He served as Liaison Counsel for the Plaintiff in the Morgan-Keegan/Regions Bank litigation in the United States District Court, Memphis, Tennessee, which settled for $6 million. He served as Liaison Counsel in the AgFeed securities litigation in the United States District Court, Nashville, Tennessee, which settled for $7 million.
PENDING CLASS ACTIONS:
He is presently serving as Liaison or Local Counsel in the following securities, shareholder derivative and merger/takeover cases:
HCA shareholder derivative litigation in United States District Court, Nashville, Tennessee.
Provectus BioPharmaceuticals derivitive litigation in United States District Court, Eastern District of Tennessee at Knoxville, and in Knox County Chancery Court.
BancorpSouth securities litigation in the United States District Court, Nashville, Tennessee.
AAS Holdings, Inc. shareholder litigation in United States District Court, Nashville, Tennessee.
In addition to his class-action, Erisa, derivative and price-fixing litigation, Mr. Bramlett, over the past 47 years, has represented a number of major corporations in their civil litigation, including such companies as the Coca-Cola Bottlers’ Association. Mr. Bramlett has also represented Ford Motor Credit Corporation and other Ford subsidiaries in civil litigation, and was involved as local counsel in the defense of one of the major manufacturers in the asbestos litigation. Mr. Bramlett also regularly handles catastrophic injury, wrongful death and construction litigation. He obtained what is thought to be the largest wrongful death settlement in the history of Clarksville, Montgomery County, Tennessee, and has obtained a number of other large personal injury and wrongful death settlements in Tennessee and Mississippi. He has served for a number of years as trial counsel in Tennessee for an association of general contractors based in Kentucky and Tennessee, and presently is litigating cases as lead trial counsel in Tennessee and Mississippi involving wrongful death, quadriplegia and other catastrophic injuries. He also serves as defense counsel to several major trucking companies in their liability litigation in Tennessee and Mississippi, and has handled litigation for over 120 trucking companies and numerous music industry tour bus companies.
Mr. Bramlett has handled cases before the Supreme Courts of Tennessee, Mississippi and Alabama.
Service as local and liaison counsel:
Mr. Bramlett regularly serves as local or liaison counsel to several of the major class action law firms in America, and has served as counsel to more than forty firms which have filed securities, derivative, price-fixing, Erisa and consumer class actions in Tennessee in the past thirty years.
