Faculty Profile: Tommy Santel Jr.

Tommy Santel Jr.PARKERSON | SANTEL | GARNER PLLC
Previous Courses Taught (38)
  • Dispute Resolution 2023 CLE/CME: Mediation Updates
  • Dispute Resolution 2022: The Future of Technology in the Access to Justice Realm
  • New Attorneys Power Hour
  • Skills for New Lawyers: Keeping Time, Setting Rates, and Billing
  • Ethics for New Lawyers: Keeping Time, Setting Rates, and Billing
  • Mastering the Deposition: Overview and Examination of Medical Proof Depositions in Personal Injury Cases
  • New Attorneys Power Hour
  • Handling Criminal Cases and Client Communication
  • Skills for New Lawyers: Keeping Time, Setting Rates, and Billing
  • Criminal Law: Search & Seizure
  • Law Practice Conference 2016 For New Lawyers [Webcast Version]
  • Handling Criminal Cases and Client Communication
  • Tennessee Criminal Law and DUI Cases
  • Mastering the Deposition: Critical Skills and More 2017 - Nashville
  • The New Lawyer: Keeping Time, Setting Rates, and Billing
  • Criminal Law Forum 2016
  • Law Practice Conference 2016 For New Lawyers
  • Criminal Law Update
  • Law Practice Conference For New Lawyers: I Passed The Bar – Now What?
  • Business of Lawyering: Opening a Law Practice and Getting New Business
  • Business of Lawyering: Interacting With Clients
  • Considerations in Health Care Transactions
  • Choosing a Business Entity
  • Wills and Trusts: A Practical Primer
  • Court Square Series 2014 in Murfreesboro
  • General Practice: Personal Injury Introduction
  • Mastering the Deposition: Critical Skills and More
  • The Business of Lawyering: Professional Development for Today's Attorneys
  • Transactional Practice: Tax Attributes of Different Business Structures
  • Transactional Practice: Buying and Selling A Private Company
  • Transactional Practice: 2012 Corporations Act Amendments
  • Transactional Practice: Overview of Business Entities
  • Transactional Practice in Nashville
  • General Practice Summit 2013 - Nashville
  • Encountering and Avoiding Ethical Traps 2013
  • Encountering and Avoiding Ethical Traps 2013
  • Encountering and Avoiding Ethical Traps 2013
  • The Ins and Outs of Transactional Practice
Biography

The primary focus of Tommy Santel’s practice is civil litigation in the areas of insurance defense, complex civil litigation, personal injury, mediation, and handling claims within the special investigative unit (SIU) for insurance companies. Tommy is listed as a Rule 31 Mediator and is the Executive Committee Chairman of the Dispute Resolution Section of the Tennessee Bar Association.

He is a former government prosecutor and has a background prosecuting and defending misdemeanor and major felony offenses. Mr. Santel also has a background defending governmental entities in tort claims, civil rights claims, employment claims, and property disputes. Tommy handles matters in state and federal courts throughout Tennessee at both the trial court and appellate court levels.