Mr. Branson is a member of the Firm's Litigation and Intellectual Property Groups and is of counsel based in the Firm's Downtown Memphis office; he also operates from the Firm's East Memphis office as needed.
Mr. Branson enjoys handling disputes in a wide variety of substantive areas, rather than specializing in a narrow area of substantive law. He has extensive experience with litigation, arbitration and mediation in a variety of areas, including:
- Complex family law matters
- Class actions
- Commercial and business litigation
- Medical and legal malpractice defense
- Copyright, trademark, patent, and trade secret cases
- Bankruptcy adversary proceedings
- Corporate governance and stockholder disputes
- Banking
- Securities
- Health care
- Construction
- Fraud and RICO matters
- Personal injury cases for both plaintiffs and defendants
- Libel/slander
- Will contests, trust litigation, conservatorships and other probate litigation
- Investigations of public corruption
- SEC investigations of public companies
Mr. Branson has tried numerous jury and non-jury cases, including acting as lead counsel in a class-action jury trial that lasted for about a month. He was co-lead counsel for a plaintiff, resulting in a settlement of $5.91 million. He also has participated in many arbitrations before the AAA, NASD and MSRB, and numerous judicial and non-judicial mediations, and has handled over a dozen appeals in the Tennessee Court of Appeals, the Supreme Court of Tennessee, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Mr. Branson is not certified as a mediator, but he has acted as a mediator in a number of cases, and once even served on a jury himself. He is licensed to practice law in Tennessee and Mississippi.