Christy Tosh Crider, shareholder in the Nashville office, heads the Firm's Long Term Care Industry group and concentrates her practice in long-term care litigation, managing the litigation of numerous long-term care facilities around the country, medical malpractice litigation and many areas of tort and commercial litigation. She works with health care companies on quality assurance and litigation avoidance.
- Consulting attorney, post-trial and appeal issues, long term care punitive damages case with eight figure verdict.
- Presented oral argument before the Tennessee Supreme Court, on an issue of first impression for health care providers: whether the existence of a Durable Power of Attorney lifts the tolling of the statute of limitations for an incompetent resident.
- Presented oral argument before the Tennessee Court of Appeals and won an issue of first impression for long term care providers: whether the Tennessee Adult Protection Act applies to negligent care lawsuits filed against long term care providers which should fall within the scope of the Medical Malpractice Act.
- Presented oral argument before the Tennessee Court of Appeals on an issue of first Impression for long-term care providers: the authority of a relative of a long-term care resident to enter into an Arbitration Agreement on the resident's behalf.
- Presented oral argument before the Tennessee Court of Appeals on an issue of first impression for long term care providers: whether a mandatory arbitration agreement with 30 day revocation clause is a contract of adhesion and whether a provision allowing the nursing home to sue in court for collection actions makes the arbitration agreement unconscionable.
- Tried to a successful jury verdict the first long term care wrongful death case to go to verdict in more than a decade for one of the largest privately owned nursing home chains in the country.
- Arbitrated the second long term care medical malpractice case ever to go to arbitration in Tennessee with a full defense verdict.
- Arbitrated the fourth long term care medical malpractice case ever to go to arbitration in Tennessee with a successful settlement reached during the defendant's proof.
- Successfully compelled to Arbitration and dismissed from Court several long term care wrongful death cases.
- Won Summary Judgment on an apartment fire case.
- Obtained dismissal of all counts against long term care providers except Medical Malpractice in many wrongful death cases.
- Successfully defended a wrongful death Dram Shop Act Case.
- Drafted Arbitration Agreements for dozens of long term care facilities and trained the facilities how to use them.
- American Bar Association Women Rainmakers Conference, "Implementing Your Career Plan," October 2008
- "Arbitration For Nursing Home Residents: Is It All It’s Cracked Up To Be?" Making a Difference: Baker Donelson Long Term Care Newsletter, Volume 2008, Issue 2, June 2008
- "At the Top: Career Success and Life Fulfillment by Using Time Wisely," Professional Education for Attorney Knowledge, January 2008, webinar speaker; Washington & Lee Law School, April 2008
- "What will surveyors be looking for on their next visit to your nursing home? What you need to know," Making a Difference: Baker Donelson Long Term Care Newsletter, Volume 2008, Issue 1, January 2008
- "So your nursing home got sued, now what?," Tennessee Health Care Association Annual Meeting seminar speaker and author, August 2007
- Tennessee Health Care Association Medical-Legal Summit, Featured Speaker, July 2006
- "Preventing A Big Jury Verdict" Tennessee Health Care Association Legislative Conference, March 2006, author and seminar speaker
- "Setting Realistic Expectations with Families on Admission to Long Term Care Facilities," author and seminar speaker, Nashville, July 2005; Knoxville, October 2006"The Legalities of Charting - Charting Gone Bad," Tennessee Health Care Association, Annual Convention 2005, author and seminar speaker
- "How Do Jurors in Nursing Home Cases Really Decide?," Baker Donelson Litigation News, Spring 2004; American Bar Association Journal, Spring 2005; American Health Lawyers Association, LTC Advisor, Winter 2005
- Select Portions of "The Anatomy of a Lawsuit," Tennessee Health Care Association, Annual Convention 2004 and seminar speaker
- Select Portions of NBI Handbook: "Litigation Long-Term Care Cases in Tennessee" and seminar speaker
- Select Portions of "Litigation 101," Tennessee Health Care Association, Legislative Conference 2003 and seminar speaker
- Listed in Mid-South Rising Stars, 2008 and 2009
- AV® Preeminent™ Peer Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell
- Voted "Best of the Bar," Nashville Business Journal, 2004
- Named "Health Care 100" in Middle Tennessee, Nashville Business Journal (2004 – 2006)
- Member – Nashville, Tennessee, Arkansas and American Bar Associations
- Member – American Health Lawyers Association, Long-Term Care Section
- Best Oralist – Vanderbilt National First Amendment Moot Court Competition
- Best Oralist – University of Arkansas Fall and Spring Moot Court Competition
- Chair – University of Arkansas Trial Advocacy Team
- Outstanding Graduate in Appellate Advocacy – University of Arkansas
- Tennessee Health Care Association – Associate Member
- Marketing Chair – Baker Donelson's Women's Initiative
- Chair – Nashville Charitable Contributions Committee
- Tennessee, 1997
- Arkansas, 1996
- University of Arkansas, J.D., 1996, with honors
- Ouachita Baptist University, B.A., 1993, cum laude