Nashville, TN 37215-0626
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Ben Fordham
Community Health Systems
704 Hamilton Drive
Gallatin,
TN 37066
Phone: 615-465-7371
Email: ben_fordham@chs.net
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Practice Areas |
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Business Dissolution |
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Commercial & Financial |
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Contracts |
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Employment |
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Environmental |
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Health Law & Elder Care |
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Intellectual Property |
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Personal Injury |
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Probate & Estates |
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Professional Liability |
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Real Estate & Construction |
Background
Attorney, AV rated (highest given) by Martindale Hubbell rating service. Chosen to Nashville Business Journal, “Best of the Bar 2007.”
Founding member Tennessee Association of Professional Mediators. Founding member Cameron Worley Fordham, P.C. 2001-present. Shareholder, Harwell Howard Hyne Gabbert & Manner, P.C. 1987-2001. Attorney & Partner, Tune Entrekin & White, 1979-1987. Attorney, Swift, Currie, McGee & Heirs (Atlanta, GA) 1978-1979.
Tried or handled hundreds of jury and non-jury cases in all levels of courts in both state and federal systems. Handled numerous appeals in both state and federal courts. Handled cases before local, state and federal administrative agencies. Worked in a vast array of substantive areas of law, including without limitation, automotive, contract, corporate matters, real estate, construction, employment, discrimination, tort, workers compensation, intellectual property, trusts, malpractice, health care, publishing and music.
Structured and organized numerous large and small business organizations. Advised business entities on a variety of operational matters and problems in a wide range of substantive areas of law, including without limitation: contracts, corporate matters, employment issues, intellectual property, real estate and borrowing.
Represented numerous large and small business organizations in purchases and sales of business entities. Extensive experience in buy/sale via asset and stock transactions of, among other industries: hospitals, medical facilities, automotive and truck dealerships, laundries, law practices and accounting practices. Handled all aspects of transactions, including directing due diligence, drafting all related documentation (including APA’s and SPA’s,) and negotiating deal terms for transactions up to $160,000,000.
Published author in: National Business Institute (The Art of the Deal, A Closer Look at Asset Purchase Agreements; The Art of the Deal, A Closer Look at Stock Purchase Agreements); Tennessee Bar Journal, June 2004 (The Art of the Deal, Sun Tzu and The Art of War,); Nashville Business Journal, August 19-25, 2005 Cover Your Bases When A Non-Compete Enters The Picture, December 23-29, 2005 When Your Holiday Gift Is A Subpoena; Nashville Scene (poetry). Lectured on drafting APA’s and SPA’s, mediation, non-competition agreements and trucking company liability.
Award winning fiction author. Short story Afghanistan, selected as one of only six honored by www.writersonline.us in its international 2003 Last Chance Short Story Contest. Short stories, The Doll and The Money Tree, selected quarter-finalists for 2003 Writer’s Network Fiction Competition. Screenplays, Autumn Soul and Behind the Waterfall, selected quarter-finalists for 2003 Writer’s Network Screenplay Competition. Autumn Soul also selected quarter-finalist 2004 Scriptapalooza Screenplay Competition. Autumn Soul previously optioned by Transcendent Films, Nashville, TN. Studied with Richard Walter, Dean of Screenwriting at U.C.L.A. Featured performing artist, Arts on the Row, March 2004. The Money Tree: A Christmas Miracle, published by booklocker.com and available at www.booklocker.com/books/2170.html and at www.amazon.com, online retailers and by order at bookstores.
Education/Training
Duke University (BA 1975), magna cum laude, attended on football scholarship and completed in three and one-half years - first person in Duke history to be selected to the All-Atlantic Coast Conference All-Academic Team three consecutive years; Vanderbilt University (JD 1978), attended on Patrick Wilson Merit Scholarship.
Rule 31 Listed General Civil Mediator. Mediated as mediator, attorney and participant in a variety of commercial, consumer and employment disputes, often with multiple parties with adverse interests.
Fee Information
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