Scott D. Carey

• Successfully defended KLLM Transport Services, Inc. in a jury trial in state court, DRI™ The Voice.

• Represented a U.S. subsidiary of a South Korean multinational electronics company in an investment to construct a new 829,000-square-foot home appliance manufacturing facility near Clarksville, Tennessee.

• Successfully defended a multinational retail corporation in a wrongful death case involving a traffic accident. The client avoided paying tens of millions in damages, left to pay only medical costs that it had already agreed upon paying.

• Represented a medical device manufacturer in a defective hip replacement litigation.

• Represented various food producers in contamination cases.

• Represented a natural gas company in fire/explosion cases.

• Represented a large funeral and cemetery company in products liability cases involving burial containers.

• Investigated and represented various clients in fire-related litigation, including fires in cars, buses, trucks, warehouses, homes, and businesses.

• AV^® Preeminent™ Peer Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell
• General counsel for the Tennessee Republican Party
• Tennessee Supreme Court Rule 31 Mediator
• Listed in The Best Lawyers in America^® for Commercial Litigation and Transportation Law since 2007; Personal Injury Litigation - Defendants since 2011
• Named the Best Lawyers^® 2018 Transportation Law "Lawyer of the Year" in Nashville
• Named the Best Lawyers^® 2017 Personal Injury Litigation - Defendants "Lawyer of the Year" in Nashville
• Listed in Mid-South Super Lawyers since 2007
• Listed as among the top 50 Nashville attorneys and the top 100 Mid-South attorneys by Mid-South Super Lawyers (2014 – 2018)
• "Most Admired CEOs" honoree by the Nashville Business Journal (2015)
• "The Best of the Bar" honoree by the Nashville Business Journal (2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2023)
• Member – Disciplinary Hearing Committee, Tennessee Supreme Court, District V
• Member – Tennessee Business Court Rules Advisory Committee
• Member – American Bar Association (House of Delegates, 2001 – 2004)
• Member – Tennessee Bar Association (Board of Governors, 1999 – 2001; Chair-Judiciary Committee; Governmental Affairs Committee; Racial and Ethnic Diversity Committee; various positions in the Young Lawyers Division, including president)
• Member – Nashville Bar Association (Board of Directors, 2001 – 2004; various positions in the Young Lawyers Division, including president) 
• Fellow – The Nashville Bar Foundation
• Fellow – The American Bar Foundation 
• Member – Tennessee Economic Development Council
• Advisory Group – Davidson County Business Court Pilot Project
• Member – Baker Donelson's 24-Hour Transportation Emergency Response Team

Transportation Organizations 

• Member – Truckload Carriers Association
• Member – Transportation Intermediaries Association
• Member – Transportation Lawyers' Association
• Member – Tennessee Trucking Association
• Member – Association of Transportation Law Professionals
• Member – DRI (Trucking Law committee)
• Member – Southeastern Warehouse Association
• Member – Trucking Industry Defense Association

Political Organizations 

• Member – Republican National Lawyers Association
• Alternate delegate – 2008 and 2012 Republican National Convention

Solar Organizations

• Board member – Tennessee Solar Energy Industries Association (TenneSEIA)
• Member – Solar Electric Power Association
• Member – American Solar Energy Society

Other Professional Organizations

• Member – International Association of Defense Counsel

Community Involvement

• Leadership Nashville, Class of 2017-18
• Board member and general counsel – Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce
• Downtown Rotary Club
• Board member – Boys and Girls Club of Middle Tennessee
• Member – Pi Kappa Alpha Alumni Board (Sigma Chapter)
• Elder – Westminster Presbyterian Church

• "Defense Production Act is Invoked by President Trump" (March 19, 2020)
• "What Nashville Leaders Learned From Denver's Growth," The Tennessean (August 2017)

• "Avoiding Nuclear Verdicts in Catastrophic Accident Cases," NPTC National Safety 2021 Conference (September 2021)
• Panel Moderator – "Accident Response Strategies that Mitigate Your Accident Liability," National Private Truck Council's 2014 National Safety Conference, Washington, D.C. (September 2012)
• Panel Moderator – "Ethics: Are Lawyers Vanishing?," 2014 TLA Annual Conference (May 2014)
• Panel – "The Vanishing Lawyer: What Might have Been," Tennessee Judicial Conference, Nashville, Tennessee (June 2013)
• "Mediation and Settlement Negotiations," 2013 TLA Annual Conference and CTLA Mid-Year (May 2013)
• Program Chair – Transportation Lawyers' Association's Transportation Law Institute, Nashville, Tennessee (November 2012)
• "Target Defendants: Protecting Trucking Companies," webinar (October 2012)
• "Mitigating Liability Exposure: What Take-Away Lessons Fleets Can Learn from the Courtroom," National Private Truck Council's 2012 National Safety Conference, Washington, D.C. (September 2012)
• "Transportation Insurance Case Law Update," TLA Annual Conference (2012)
• Panelist – "Defense Litigation Strategies for Handling Claims Based on Safety Regulations, Including CSA and Hours of Service," The 44th Transportation Law Institute, Washington, D.C. (November 2011)

• Baker Donelson Attorneys Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America^® 2024 Listing (August 17, 2023)
• 55 Baker Donelson Attorneys Named to 2022 Mid-South Super Lawyers; 30 Named to Mid-South Rising Stars (November 29, 2022)
• Baker Donelson Attorneys Earn Recognition in The Best Lawyers in America® 2023 Listing (August 18, 2022)
• 61 Baker Donelson Attorneys Named to 2021 Mid-South Super Lawyers; 34 Named to Mid-South Rising Stars (November 30, 2021)
• Baker Donelson Attorneys Earn Recognition in The Best Lawyers in America® 2022 Listing (August 19, 2021)
• 69 Baker Donelson Attorneys Named to 2020 Mid-South Super Lawyers; 38 Named to Mid-South Rising Stars (November 30, 2020)
• Baker Donelson Top-Listed in the Nation in Six Practice Areas in The Best Lawyers in America^® 2021 Listing (August 20, 2020)
• 77 Baker Donelson Attorneys Named to 2019 Mid-South Super Lawyers; 45 Named to Mid-South Rising Stars (November 6, 2019)
• Scott D. Carey Named Chair of Baker Donelson's Transportation Group (June 27, 2019)

• Scott Carey Comments in Law360 on U.S. Supreme Court Declining to Hear California Trucking Association Case on Heightened Standard for Classifying Workers as Independent Contractors (July 8, 2022)
• Scott Carey Discusses Federal Preemption of State Laws in the Transportation Industry in Law360 (October 3, 2019)
• Scott Carey Quoted in Law360 on Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's Proposed Revisions to Hours-of-Service Regulations (August 15, 2019)
• Scott Carey Comments on Autonomous Vehicle Regulations in Law360 (July 12, 2019)
• Nashville Post Highlights Transportation Group Leader Scott Carey (June 28, 2019)