Practice Expertise

  • Complex Business Litigation
  • Antitrust and Competition
  • Class Actions
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Areas of Practice

  • Antitrust and Competition
  • Class Actions
  • Complex Business Litigation
  • Construction
  • Emerging Growth Companies
  • False Claims Act and Qui Tam Defense
  • Healthcare
  • Healthcare Litigation
  • Intellectual Property
  • Life Sciences
  • Litigation
  • Managed Care Litigation
  • Product Liability
  • Real Estate Litigation
  • Second Amendment and Firearms Manufacturing ...
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Profile

Russ Morgan is a business trial lawyer who has handled a variety of litigation for corporate clients, including intellectual property, trade secret, non-competition, partnership and closely held corporate disputes, fraud, misappropriation, securities fraud and franchise and dealer disputes. He has extensive experience representing healthcare providers in all aspects of their business, including payor disputes, compliance issues, internal investigations, technology disputes and qui tam litigation. He also represents insurance brokers in negligence claims, national general contractors in construction disputes and one of the world’s largest live event promoters on various litigation matters. Russ serves as outside general counsel or legal advisor for several companies. He has been recognized in several publications, including The Best Lawyers in America® for Commercial Litigation and Construction, Chambers USA and Super Lawyers, in which he was recognized as a Top 50 Lawyer in Nashville and a Top 100 Lawyer in Tennessee. Russ serves on the prestigious Board of Visitors of the University of Kentucky College of Law.

Russ is licensed in Tennessee and Kentucky and regularly practices in both states. He frequently speaks on issues of concern for corporate counsel, such as crisis management, internal investigations, data retention policies, and attorney-client privilege.

Bar Admissions

  • Kentucky, 1994
  • Tennessee, 1999

Court Admissions
  • Supreme Court of Kentucky
  • Tennessee Supreme Court
  • United States Court of Appeals, 3rd Circuit
  • United States Court of Appeals, 6th Circuit
  • United States Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit
  • United States District Court, Eastern District of Kentucky
  • United States District Court, Western District of Kentucky
  • United States District Court, Middle District of Tennessee
  • United States District Court, Eastern District of Tennessee

Education

  • University of Kentucky College of Law, J.D., 1994, Order of the Coif
  • Western Kentucky University, B.A., 1990

Areas of Practice

  • Antitrust and Competition
  • Class Actions
  • Complex Business Litigation
  • Construction
  • Emerging Growth Companies
  • False Claims Act and Qui Tam Defense
  • Healthcare
  • Healthcare Litigation
  • Intellectual Property
  • Life Sciences
  • Litigation
  • Managed Care Litigation
  • Product Liability
  • Real Estate Litigation
  • Second Amendment and Firearms Manufacturing Industry

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