Lawrence C. Maxwell, shareholder in the Firm's Nashville office, concentrates his practice in matters involving engineering and technology, such as construction law, products liability and intellectual property. For more than 30 years, Mr. Maxwell has been extensively involved in corporate risk management, giving advice on contracts and insurance coverage, and in the resolution of disputes through litigation, arbitration, mediation and/or negotiation. He has handled numerous bench and jury trials in a wide array of civil litigation matters. Mr. Maxwell's ability to grasp technical subject matter and explain it simply to judges and juries, in addition to his attention to detail, has resulted in a highly successful track record. He is also a patent attorney, licensed to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
- Successfully negotiated a multi-million dollar construction contract with a municipality for a general contractor.
- Affirmation of dismissal of a professional liability lawsuit against an engineering firm by Sixth Circuit.
- Obtained judgment for an umbrella liability insurance carrier against another carrier for its bad faith failure to settle a lawsuit.
- Assisted in mediation settlement of a multi-million dollar claim against an insurance carrier for a general contractor.
- Speaker – "E-Discovery – Unique Ethical Issues for Lawyers," Tennessee Bar Association webcast (December 20, 2011)
- Speaker/Moderator – "Electronic Discovery Update," TennBarU and TBA's Committee for Racial and Ethnic Diversity CLE program "Workshop For the Minority Lawyer" (August 25, 2010)
- Speaker – "E-Discovery," TennBarU's General Practice Section CLE program "General Practice Summit" (August 19-21, 2010)
- Speaker – "Rules of the Road for Practitioners," TennBarU's Federal Practice Section CLE program "E-Discovery Revisited: A Short Course on Managing Electronic Discovery Effectively, Efficiently, and Ethically" (May 27, 2010)
- Co-author – "Will the Surety Industry Slow the Enactment of a Green Building Code?" Baker Donelson's Construction News (2010, Issue 1)
- Co-author – "Tennessee" chapter, The Design-Build Deskbook Fourth Edition: A Blueprint For Design-Build Procurement Across The United States And Canada, American Bar Association, Forum on the Construction Industry (2010)
- Speaker – "Recent Amendments to the TN Rules of Civil Procedure on Electronic Discovery," CLE Program, Nashville School of Law (November 2009)
- Moderator – "Discovery of Electronically Stored Information," TN Bar Association convention, Memphis, Tennessee (June 2009)
- Author – "New Rules for E-Discovery," Tennessee Bar Journal (June 2009)
- Co-author – "The Sky is Not the Limit: Limitation of Liability Clauses May Be the Solution to Cap Your Contractual Liability," Texas Reporter (May 2007)
- Co-author – "Construction: The Rules Have Changed," Tennessee Chamber Business Insider Newsletter (September 2007)
- "Use of Depositions at Trial," Lorman Ed. Serv. (April 2005)
- "Tennessee Prompt Pay Act of 1991," Lorman Ed. Serv. (November 2005–2007)
- "Payment Bonds," Lorman Ed. Serv. (November 2005–2007)
- "Tennessee Statutes on Construction Law," Tennessee Association of Construction Counsel, lecture and survey (November 2005)
- Member – Nashville, Tennessee, and American Bar Associations (ABA Committees: e-Discovery and Digital Evidence, Intellectual Property Law, Litigation, Science and Technology Law, Construction Industry Forum)
- Listed in The Best Lawyers in America® in Construction Law since 2007; Commercial Litigation (2011)
- Fellow – Nashville Bar Foundation
- Member – Tennessee Association of Construction Counsel
- Member – Defense Research Institute
- Member – American Inns of Court
- Member – Association of General Contractors
- Tennessee, 1976
- U.S. District Court for the Western, Middle, and Eastern Districts of Tennessee
- Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
- Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
- U.S. Supreme Court
- U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
- Vanderbilt University Law School, J.D., 1976
- University of Missouri, B.S., Chemical Engineering, 1973