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Andrea  Taylor  McKellar
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Nashville
P:(615) 742-7829
F:(615) 742-0411
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Education
Vanderbilt University - J.D., 1998
University of Tennessee - B.A., 1994

Bar Admissions
Tennessee, 1998

Memberships
Nashville Bar Association (Chancery and Circuit Court Committee)
Tennessee Bar Association
Lawyers Association for Women
Tennessee Chamber of Commerce

Honors & Distinctions
Phi Delta Phi
Associate managing editor, Vanderbilt Law Review

Publications
"Tennessee Supreme Court to Review Opinion Limiting State’s Authority to Tax,” Tax Analysts (March 2, 2010)
"Tennessee Appeals Court Rules Gain from a Deemed Sale of Assets is Taxable Business Income," Tax Analysts (Dec. 22, 2008)



Andie’s practice focuses on healthcare litigation, mass torts and state and local tax litigation.

Healthcare: Andie serves as litigation counsel in professional liability actions involving catastrophic personal injury and wrongful death claims for a major academic medical center as well as one of the largest single specialty medical groups in the Southeastern United States. In addition, she has experience in representing public corporations in large scale internal investigations.

Mass Torts and Products Liability: Andie specializes in defending complex personal injury litigation. She served as litigation counsel defending a nursing home company in consolidated litigation involving a multi-fatality nursing home fire. Andie also has experience in a variety of products liability actions.

State and Local Tax: Andie’s practice includes state and local tax litigation. She represents clients in all facets of the tax dispute process. Andie assists clients in an effort to avoid litigation by negotiating resolutions with the Department of Revenue before and after tax assessments. If a tax dispute cannot be resolved prior to litigation, Andie uses her general litigation experience in advocating on behalf of clients for relief through the court system. She also has experience requesting letter rulings and obtaining refunds for taxes paid.

Representative Matters include:
  • Represented nursing home in the successful and expedient resolution of 34 cases resulting from a nursing home fire. During that litigation, she assisted with implementing a fast track discovery approach that resulted in the resolution of 30 of 32 cases within one year from the date of the fire and the remaining two cases within 3 years from the fire. 
  • Currently representing a Fortune 500 Company in litigation regarding the state’s classification of business income and constitutional limits on the state’s authority to impose its franchise and excise tax. 
  • Represented a company providing an online real estate service in its obtainment of a refund of approximately $1.7 million dollars from the state for sales and use tax. 
  • Successfully represented a medical group in the Tennessee Court of Appeals in the enforcement of its contracts containing liquidated damages provisions.