About

Larry Giordano engages in a statewide practice based in Lewis Thomason's Knoxville office. He is a member and co-chair of both the firm's Education Law Practice Group and its Health Care Practice Group.  He concentrates the balance of his practice in the areas of business law  and complex litigation. With over thirty-five years of practice his diverse experience includes an unusually wide range of legal issues, both in litigation and transactional. He has significant criminal defense experience and has defended multiple cases with simultaneous civil and criminal proceedings. In addition, Mr. Giordano has substantial appellate experience and has argued before the Tennessee Supreme Court, Tennessee Court of Appeals, Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals and the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Giordano is listed in The Best Lawyers in America ®, Mid-South Super Lawyers ® and Knoxville's City-View Magazine as a Knoxville "Top Attorney".  He is a Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America and the Knoxville Bar Foundation. He is a member of the American, Tennessee, and Knoxville Bar Associations and served on the Board of Governors of the Knoxville Bar Association for many years. He was selected for membership in the Hamilton S. Burnett American Inn of Court in 1991, and was elected President of that organization in 1994.  He is the current President of the Tennessee Council of School Board Attorneys. He is a Professor of Law (adjunct) at the University Of Tennessee College of Law where he has taught advocacy courses in Advanced Trial Practice, Trial Practice and Pretrial Procedures since 1994.  He is also on the faculty for the Kessler-Eidson Program for Trial Techniques at Emory University's School of Law in Atlanta, Georgia and was a former Administrative Law Judge for the State of Tennessee Department of Education. 

Practices Areas

Business

Litigation

Education Law

Language

English

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