Faculty Profile: Amy Farrar

Amy FarrarPinnacle Financial Partners
Previous Courses Taught (15)
  • Tennessee Court of Appeals Boot Camp 2019
  • Brief Writing in the Tennessee Supreme Court
  • Tennessee Court of Appeals Academy [Memphis]
  • Managing Yourself and Your Support Staff
  • Tennessee Supreme Court Academy
  • The Business of Lawyering: Professional Development for Today’s Attorneys [Nashville]
  • Drafting Dispositive Motions and Responses
  • How to Craft a Persuasive and Legally Sound Complaint
  • Effective Legal Research
  • Effective Legal Writing
  • Tennessee Court of Appeals Boot Camp
  • Legal Writing Never Gets Erased: Best Practices for Complaints, Answers, Motions, Responses, and Appellate Briefs
  • Supreme Court Bootcamp 2012
  • Court Square Series 2012 - Manchester
  • Tennessee Supreme Court One-Day Bootcamp
Biography

Wake Forest University, cum laude, 2000

University of Mississippi School of Law, cum laude, 2005

American Banker's Association, Certified Trust and Financial Advisor, 2023

 

Farrar began her legal career as a law clerk for Tennessee Supreme Court Justice Cornelia A. Clark and then spent six years at an esteemed Nashville law firm before founding her own law firm in 2012. She joined Pinnacle Financial Partners in 2022, to lead the Trust & Wealth Management team in Rutherford and Bedford Counties.

Farrar is a respected leader in the legal field. She regularly presents Estate Planning, Trust and Elder Law seminars to attorneys across Tennessee, and she serves on the Board of Directors of the Estate Planning Council of Middle Tennessee and the Murfreesboro Estate Planning Council. Farrar has been named a Mid-South SuperLawyers “Rising Star” in the legal field for six consecutive years, and she has served as an adjunct professor of business law at Middle Tennessee State University.

Farrar is actively involved in her community, founding the Middle Tennessee Lawyer’s Association for Women and serving as a Ruling Elder at First Presbyterian Church of Murfreesboro, on the Executive Board of Directors for the Discovery Center at Murfree Spring, and as a past Board Member of the Murfreesboro Noon Rotary Club. Farrar also currently serves as the Third Vice President of the Charity Circle of Murfreesboro and as a Trustee of First Presbyterian Church. Farrar serves as Treasurer-Elect for the Tennessee Lawyers’ Association for Women and as the Treasurer for the Middle Tennessee Lawyers’ Association for Women.