Faculty Profile: Jeremy Pyper

Jeremy graduated from Cornell University in 1997 and from Harvard Law School in 2000. 

He was an associate at Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis from 2000 to 2004, where his practice focused on secured transactions and mergers & acquisitions.  In 2004, he joined the Office of the Tennessee Attorney General as an Assistant Attorney General in the Antitrust Division.  While in the Antitrust Division, he handled nonprofit regulatory matters, technology antitrust issues, and cases under the Tennessee Medicaid False Claims Act and the Tennessee False Claims Act.  Since 2005, he has also represented the State of Tennessee in a multibillion dollar dispute between the states and the tobacco companies over certain payment provisions of the 1997 Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement.  In 2009, Jeremy joined the newly-formed Public Interest Division, which has responsibility for overseeing all nonprofit and charitable related matters for the Office, as well as the sale of governmental and nonprofit hospital assets. Jeremy is also a member of the Tennessee Bar Association Nonprofit Act Revision Committee which is reviewing the Model Nonprofit Corporation Act - Third Edition for applicability to the Tennessee Nonprofit Corporation Act.  In 2010, Jeremy was named Senior Counsel.