Phil Cramer
Direct (615) 742-4535 Fax (615) 742-4539
Mr. Cramer is a member of the Firm’s Litigation Practice Group, where he represents clients in complex business disputes, including antitrust and competition issues, insurance coverage questions and business torts. Mr. Cramer has represented clients in both federal and state trial and appellate courts as well as in numerous mediations and judicial settlement conferences.
Mr. Cramer’s antitrust experience includes serving as a Trial Attorney in the Antitrust Division, Department of Justice, where he specialized in joint venture law and the entertainment industry and evaluated Hart-Scott-Rodino filings. He represents clients in both defending and prosecuting antitrust and competition-related claims. Mr. Cramer also has extensive expertise representing both policyholders and insurers in insurance coverage disputes. He serves as counsel to the Firm’s business clients with regard to issues of insurance coverage and litigation and also represents the largest medical professional liability insurer in Tennessee on coverage issues throughout the Mid-South.
In addition to antitrust and insurance coverage matters, Mr. Cramer has represented clients in complex, commercial litigation, including cases involving trade secret misappropriation, RICO, product liability, covenants-not-to-compete, breach of contract, business torts, and the Federal False Claims Act. Past decisions include:
· Matthews v. Storgion, 174 Fed. Appx. 980 (6th Cir. 2006) (liability of insurer for alleged torts of defense counsel) · McRedmond v. Estate of Marianelli, 2006 Tenn. App. LEXIS (Tenn. Ct. App. 2006) (attorneys fees in a shareholder derivative case) · United States ex rel. Tomlin v. Royco, No. 3:02-1179 (M.D. Tenn. 2004), aff’d No. 05-5270 (6th Cir. 2006), perm. for cert. denied (U.S.S.C. 2006) (dismissal of qui tam action) · Allen v. Day, 2006 Tenn. App. LEXIS 542 (Tenn. Ct. App. 2006) (applicability of Public Records Act to private entity) · State Volunteer Mutual Insurance Company v. Clark, No. 03-03-0145 (M.D. Tenn. 2003) (dismissal of bad faith claim counterclaim) · Tomlin v. IMRAC Corp., No. 01C1513 (Tenn. Cir. Ct. 2004) (summary judgment in trade secret and breach of contract claims)
Mr. Cramer received a J.D. in 2000 from Vanderbilt University Law School, where he served as Senior Articles Editor for the Law Review and was a John Wade Scholar and Order of the Coif. He received a B.A., summa cum laude, from the University of Richmond in 1997. He is the author of two books (Deep Environmental Politics and Rethinking Environmental Protection) as well as Constructing Alternative Avenues of Jurisdictional Protection: Bypassing Burnham's Roadblock Via 1404(a), published in the Vanderbilt Law Review.
After law school, Mr. Cramer served as law clerk to the Honorable Karen LeCraft Henderson, United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, from 2000 to 2001. Mr. Cramer is active in the community, undertaking various pro bono representations and serving on the board of directors of Grace M. Eaton Daycare and Parent Resource Center as well as the Administrative Board for Belmont United Methodist Church.
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