 Prince C. Chambliss, Jr.
Shareholder
Contact
phone: 901.521.4590
fax: 901.374.7486
email: pchambliss@evanspetree.com
Practice Group(s)
- Litigation
- Labor and Employment
Education
Harvard Law School (J.D., 1974)
University of Alabama (B.A., 1971)
Wesleyan University (1966-68)
Admitted to Practice
Alabama, 1974
Tennessee, 1976
Prince Chambliss has more than three decades of litigation experience and has participated as lead counsel in more than 20 jury trials to verdict. Mr. Chambliss has handled matters involving commercial and contractual disputes, products liability, medical malpractice, personal injury and property damage, insurance issues and coverage disputes, labor, EEO, securities, Uniform Commercial Code, Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act, disability and workers' compensation, hazardous substances, fraud, class action, Consumer Protection Act, bad faith insurance, sexual harassment, civil rights, 42 U.S.C. Section 1983, wage and hour and wrongful discharge.
Mr. Chambliss is a certified Rule 31 Mediator by the Tennessee Supreme Court and a certified member of the Mediation Panel of the U.S. District Court, Western District of Tennessee. He is past president of the Tennessee Board of Law Examiners and was a board member and former president of the Memphis Bar Association.
Following law school, Mr. Chambliss was appointed law clerk to the Honorable Sam C. Pointer, Jr., Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama.
Mr. Chambliss is a Fellow in the American College of Civil Trial Mediators, the American Bar Foundation, the Tennessee Bar Foundation and the Memphis Bar Foundation. He is a member of the Federal, American, National, Tennessee and Memphis Bar Associations, the Alabama State Bar and the Association of Attorney-Mediators. He was named to "America's Top Black Lawyers" in the November 2003 issue of Black Enterprise magazine. His published articles include "Legal Ethics for Trial Lawyers" and "Inconsistent Verdicts: How to Recognize and Cope With," both published in The Litigator. He is a former member of the Hearing Panel of the Board of Professional Responsibility of the Tennessee Supreme Court.
Active in the Memphis community, Mr. Chambliss has served on the board of the Girls Club of Memphis, as a trustee for the Miles College School of Law and as a founding board member of The Grant Center, for which he handled all of the legal work in connection with that organization's incorporation and attainment of its 501(c)(3) status. He is on the board of the Memphis Chapter of the American Red Cross and was on the board of trustees for LeMoyne-Owen College for more than 12 years.
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