Tom Potter Email & Phone Number

Greater Nashville Area, Tn

Business Litigation Partner -- I help businesses – especially financial institutions – resolve complex disputes with their customers, counter-parties and regulators. I enjoy helping my clients navigate difficult, multi-faceted problems to successful resolutions that help them preserve the business-assets and reputations they’ve worked so hard to achieve. Some examples: • Helping a regional broker-dealer achieve a walk-away dismissal of court, then arbitration, claims seeking millions in market losses in a bottom-tranche CDO purchased by its institutional customer, a bank. • Defending a small broker-dealer and municipal underwriter against a competitor-induced regulatory enforcement action over municipal-bond-market pay-to-play regulations – at the time “the largest involving G-37 ever brought.” • Defending a broker-dealer and its president against NYAG, SEC, FINRA and multi-district civil class litigation over mutual-fund market-timing and late-trading claims. I also help financial firms with routine regulatory and compliance advice. I enjoy music copyright-infringement litigation and have defended clients against infringement claims involving the reggaeton hit “Gasolina,” several R&B and hip-hop hits including “Back that Ass Up,” and several cuts off the first two albums by Three Doors Down, among others.

Greater New Orleans Area

I started my career at Jones Walker in business litigation, first as a summer law clerk, then through over 21 years of practice. I was a team leader in the General Litigation group. My practice there was essentially the same as it is now.I continue to represent clients in New Orleans and throughout Louisiana in my new position at Burr & Forman.

Jd, Magna Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: Law Review, National Moot Court Team, Curia Honoris, Order of the Barristers

Ba, American Government