Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani continues its national expansion with the opening of an office in Nashville, Tennessee in August 2018. The Nashville office, the firm's 52nd nationwide, complements its eight existing offices in the southern portion of the United States, including Atlanta, Birmingham, Charleston, Louisville, Miami, New Orleans, Raleigh and Tampa.
"Opening our office in Nashville allows the firm to broaden the geographic reach of our service offerings to clients with needs in the south,” said Dion Cominos, Firmwide Managing Partner. "We will now have an office in almost every southern state in the country, further solidifying the national platform which has been built out during the past few years."
Heather Gwinn Pabon and Thomas Quinn lead the office as Office Co-Managing Partners and are joined by Partner Phillip Robert Brinson and Senior Counsel Robert Blanchfield. The office will offer a range of legal expertise including commercial litigation, employment, drug & medical device, entertainment & recreation, health care, intellectual property, professional liability defense, retail & hospitality, trucking & transportation and tort & product liability. In addition, the Nashville team is backed with the legal expertise of more than 850 attorneys nationwide that provide full service representation to public and private companies ranging from Fortune 500 to start-ups.
The Nashville office was the fifth office Gordon & Rees has opened in 2018 and follows the opening of offices in New Orleans, Missoula, Detroit and Louisville. In 2017, the firm opened nine new offices: Cincinnati and Columbus, Ohio; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Salt Lake City, Utah; Lincoln and Omaha, Nebraska; Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Providence, Rhode Island; and Wilmington, Delaware. In less than 20 years, Gordon & Rees has grown from a three office west coast only firm, to more than 50 offices through the United States located strategically in 36 states.
Gordon & Rees is a national litigation and business transactions firm. Founded in 1974, Gordon & Rees is recognized among the fastest growing and largest law firms in the country. Additionally, in 2018 Law360 ranked the firm among the top 40 largest U.S. firms and The American Lawyer ranked the firm among the top 45 on its Diversity Scorecard.