Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business released its 2025 rankings of firms and attorneys on June 5. In the 2025 edition, Bass, Berry & Sims received 16 practice rankings and had 51 attorneys ranked. This annual guide provides insight and analysis on the country’s legal profession.
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Chambers USA 2025 Ranked Practices
This year, three of the firm’s practices were ranked in Nationwide categories:
- Government Contracts: Highly Regarded – Band 1
- Healthcare: The Elite – Band 3
- International Trade: Export Controls & Economic Sanctions – Band 2
In the state jurisdictions, Bass, Berry & Sims earned the top Band 1 ranking in 16 practices in Tennessee. The firm was top ranked in two new Tennessee practice categories this year – Insurance and Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations. Additionally, the firm maintained a ranking in Healthcare in the District of Columbia.
The full list of practice rankings in Tennessee and the District of Columbia for Bass, Berry & Sims in the 2025 guide is below:
- Banking & Finance – Band 1 (Tennessee)
- Bankruptcy/Restructuring – Band 1 (Tennessee)
- Construction – Band 1 (Tennessee)
- Corporate/M&A – Band 1 (Tennessee)
- Environment – Band 1 (Tennessee)
- Healthcare – Band 1 (Tennessee)
- Healthcare – Band 4 (District of Columbia)
- Insurance – Band 1 (Tennessee)
- Intellectual Property – Band 1 (Tennessee)
- Labor & Employment – Band 1 (Tennessee)
- Litigation: General Commercial – Band 1 (Tennessee)
- Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations – Band 1 (Tennessee)
- Real Estate – Band 1 (Tennessee)
Chambers USA 2025 Ranked Attorneys
In the 2025 Chambers USA guide, the firm had a total of 51 attorneys ranked among the Nationwide, Tennessee, and District of Columbia jurisdictions. This includes 10 attorneys that were newly ranked, elevated in band ranking in 2025, or received dual practice rankings (*) in 2025.
The following three firm attorneys were ranked in the Nationwide jurisdiction:
- Richard Arnholt – Government Contracts
- Thaddeus R. McBride – International Trade: Export Controls & Economic Sanctions
- Todd Overman – Government Contracts; Government Contracts: M&A (newly ranked in Government Contracts: M&A in 2025) *
The following 46 firm attorneys were ranked in the following practice areas in Tennessee:
- Robert L. Brewer – Intellectual Property
- Matthew M. Curley – Healthcare: Government Investigations & Fraud
- J. Page Davidson – Corporate/M&A
- John Dawson – Environment
- Brian Dobbs – Construction
- Felix R. Dowsley III – Banking & Finance
- Leslie Ford – Banking & Finance (newly ranked in 2025)
- Craig V. Gabbert, Jr. – Bankruptcy/Restructuring (Senior Statesperson)
- Tim K. Garrett – Labor & Employment
- B. Riney Green – Corporate/M&A
- Anna M. Grizzle – Healthcare: Regulatory
- Michael R. Hess – Healthcare
- Michael R. Hill – Healthcare
- Scott Holley – Banking & Finance: Regulatory
- Bob Horton – Labor & Employment
- Angela Humphreys – Healthcare
- J. James Jenkins Jr. – Healthcare
- Paul G. Jennings – Bankruptcy/Restructuring
- Howard H. Lamar III – Corporate/M&A
- Britt K. Latham – Litigation: General Commercial
- Travis Lloyd – Healthcare: Regulatory
- Mark Manner – Corporate/M&A (Senior Statesperson)
- Paige W. Mills – Intellectual Property
- J. Allen Overby – Corporate/M&A
- Tatjana Paterno – Corporate/M&A
- W. Brantley Phillips, Jr. – Litigation: General Commercial
- Mary Leigh Pirtle – Labor & Employment
- Cynthia Y. Reisz – Healthcare; Healthcare: Regulatory *
- Lisa S. Rivera – Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations; Litigation: Government Investigations & Fraud (newly ranked in Healthcare: Government Investigations & Fraud in 2025) *
- Brian D. Roark – Healthcare: Government Investigations & Fraud
- Todd J. Rolapp – Corporate/M&A (Eminent Practitioner)
- Glenn B. Rose – Bankruptcy/Restructuring
- Cynthia N. Sellers – Banking & Finance
- D. Mark Sheets – Real Estate
- Richard R. Spore III – Real Estate
- Michael A. Stewart – Real Estate
- Steve Taylor – Insurance (newly ranked in 2025)
- G. Scott Thomas – Environment
- Ryan Thomas – Corporate/M&A
- Shelley Thomas – Intellectual Property
- Overton Thompson III – Litigation: General Commercial
- T. Gaillard Uhlhorn – Real Estate
- F. Mitchell Walker Jr. – Corporate/M&A
- Leigh Walton – Healthcare (Senior Statesperson)
- Elizabeth Warren – Healthcare: Regulatory
- Jessalyn H. Zeigler – Environment; Litigation: General Commercial *
The firm had two attorneys ranked in the District of Columbia:
- Jeffrey Davis – Healthcare
- Jennifer Michael – Healthcare (newly ranked in 2025)
Three firm attorneys received the recognition of Senior Statesman – a designation given to an attorney who no longer works hands-on with the same intensity but who, by virtue of close links with major clients, remains pivotal to the firm’s success.
- Craig V. Gabbert, Jr.
- Mark Manner
- Leigh Walton
Additionally, the firm’s managing partner, Todd Rolapp, was recognized as an Eminent Practitioner – the designation given to practitioners who are highly influential attorneys in a particular practice area that, due to managerial or client relationship commitments, are less active in day-to-day work but remain key players in the team.
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