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James  C.  Gooch
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Nashville
P:(615) 742-6247
F:(615) 742-2747
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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)
Chairman, Nashville Symphony’s Board of Directors

Honors & Distinctions
Listed in: The Best Lawyers in America® (Nashville Trusts and Estates Lawyer of the Year for 2010); Lawdragon 500; Lawdragon 3000 Leading Lawyers in America; Mid-South Super Lawyers; 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 focuses his practice on estate planning and estate administration and helps clients with their business, tax and overall estate planning goals.

Trusts and Estates: James regularly provides advice to clients on a broad range of both tax and non-tax issues, including business succession planning, transfers of family businesses, gifting programs, charitable techniques, life insurance strategies and general tax planning. James and the estate planning team can also provide estate administration services, including assisting personal representatives with administration of estates, preparing state and federal estate and inheritance tax returns and representing estates with respect to tax audits or other controversies.

James 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, he has been listed in Nashville Business Journal's Best of the Bar, a distinction earned exclusively by nominations from other attorneys.

James 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.