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James  C.  Gooch

Nashville
P:(615) 742-6247
F:(615) 742-2747

Practices

Education
New York University - LL.M., 1968
Vanderbilt University - L.L.B., 1967
Vanderbilt University - B.A., 1965

Bar Admissions
Tennessee, 1967

Memberships
Nashville Bar Association
Tennessee Bar Association (Chairman, Tax Section, 1983)
American Bar Association (Member, Taxation Section)

Honors & Distinctions
Listed in: The Best Lawyers in America®; Lawdragon 500; Lawdragon 3000 Leading Lawyers in America; Nashville Business Journal's "Best of the Bar"
Southern Federal Tax Institute (Member, Board of Trustees, 1993—Present)
Fellow, American College of Trust and Estate Counsel
Tennessee Federal Tax Institute (Member, Board of Trustees, 1980-1988; President, 1986)
Case Editor, Vanderbilt Law Review , 1966-1967
Phi Beta Kappa
Order of the Coif
Phi Delta Phi



James Gooch has practiced with Bass, Berry & Sims since 1972, following completion of four years of military service in the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General's Corps.  He earned both LL.B. and B.A. degrees from Vanderbilt University and an LL.M. (taxation) from New York University.  Mr. Gooch was named to Phi Beta Kappa, to the Order of the Coif and was case editor of the Vanderbilt Law Review .  Mr. Gooch is a fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, a trustee and former president of the Southern Federal Tax Institute in Atlanta, Georgia, former president of the Tennessee Federal Tax Institute and former chairman of the Tennessee Bar Association Tax Section.  Mr. Gooch has been listed for more than twenty years in The Best Lawyers in America® and as one of the best Trust & Estates lawyers in the state by Business Tennessee magazine since 2004. For the past four years, Mr. Gooch has been listed in Nashville Business Journal's Best of the Bar, a distinction earned exclusively by nominations from other attorneys.  He is also listed in the Lawdragon 500 and Lawdragon 3000 Leading Lawyers in America .