Personal Injury Attorneys

Top 8 Personal Injury Attorneys in Nashville, TN (2025)

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After an injury, three questions decide which lawyer to call first: how the firm is paid, whether it names your kind of injury, and where its offices are. Among eight Nashville personal injury firms, the answer to the second question varies most. Car crashes appear on all eight lists, while medical malpractice, product liability, and birth injuries each appear on one or two.

Every firm’s Nashville office address was taken from its website in September 2026.

How the Firms Say They Are Paid

In each firm’s words:

  • Selvidge Injury Law: “There is no fee unless we recover money on your behalf.” The firm also publishes its range: “Our compensation ranges from 33.3% to 40%, depending on numerous factors in your case.”
  • Raybin & Weissman: “Our firm works with injury victims for a contingency fee.”
  • Rocky McElhaney Law Firm: “we offer free consultations and represent clients on a contingency basis, which means we only recover if we win.”
  • Bart Durham Injury Law: “All accident cases are handled on a contingency-fee basis,” and “we only charge a set percentage of that amount as our fee.”
  • Matt Hardin Law: “We work on a contingency fee basis, so you won’t pay legal fees unless we recover compensation for you.”
  • The Law Offices of John Day: handles “personal injury and wrongful death cases on a contingency basis” and notes, “Only personal injury and wrongful death cases are handled on a contingency.”
  • Jeff Roberts & Associates: “We offer free, no-obligation consultations and contingent fees, meaning you don’t pay unless/until we secure compensation for you.”
  • Kinnard Law invites you to request a free consultation.

Two money questions belong in every first meeting: what percentage the firm takes, and how case expenses are handled. John Day’s website treats “fees and expenses” as separate subjects, and the same distinction is worth asking any firm to explain in writing.

Which Firms Name Your Kind of Injury

Each firm is listed under an injury only where its own website names that injury.

Injury Firms that name it
Car crashes Selvidge, Raybin & Weissman, Rocky McElhaney, Bart Durham, Matt Hardin, Kinnard, John Day, Jeff Roberts
Truck and motorcycle crashes Selvidge, Rocky McElhaney, Bart Durham, Matt Hardin, Kinnard, John Day, Jeff Roberts
Medical malpractice Kinnard, John Day
Product liability Kinnard
Birth injuries Kinnard, Rocky McElhaney
Wrongful death Selvidge, Rocky McElhaney, Matt Hardin, Kinnard, John Day, Jeff Roberts
Construction accidents Rocky McElhaney, Kinnard
Premises liability, slip and fall Selvidge, Rocky McElhaney, Matt Hardin, Jeff Roberts
Rideshare accidents Matt Hardin
Dog bites Selvidge, Rocky McElhaney, John Day, Jeff Roberts
Pedestrian accidents Bart Durham, John Day, Jeff Roberts
Bicycle accidents John Day, Jeff Roberts
Boating accidents John Day
Workers' compensation Rocky McElhaney
Uninsured motorist and denied insurance claims Jeff Roberts

Trial Readiness, in the Firms’ Own Words

Several firms describe how they prepare for court. Selvidge Injury Law says its team works “for a fair settlement while always being ready to take the case to trial.” Bart Durham Injury Law says, “we prepare every case as if it will go to trial.” Rocky McElhaney Law Firm says its lawyers “are known for using computer animation and accident reconstruction to present visually compelling arguments for juries and judges at trial.” Raybin & Weissman says, “We have more than 100 years of combined trial experience.”

These are each firm’s descriptions of itself. The useful follow-up question is narrower: how many cases has the lawyer who would handle yours taken to a verdict?

How Long a Case Can Take

Rocky McElhaney Law Firm tells clients, “Your case could settle in a matter of months or take years to resolve in court.” Ask any firm you call how it will keep you informed across that time, and who your day-to-day contact will be.

Offices Outside Nashville, and Spanish

If you live outside Davidson County or the injury happened elsewhere, the office map matters.

  • Matt Hardin Law lists locations in Nashville, Clarksville, Cookeville, Murfreesboro, Lebanon, Bowling Green, and Memphis. Its website also offers a Spanish-language link, “Haga Clic Aquí.”
  • The Law Offices of John Day has offices in Nashville, Brentwood, and Murfreesboro.
  • Rocky McElhaney Law Firm has two Nashville offices and one in Clarksville.
  • Bart Durham Injury Law describes itself as “Injury Lawyers Serving Tennessee & Kentucky,” and its website says, “Se habla Español.”
  • Kinnard Law lists a Louisville, Kentucky office in addition to its Nashville office.

A Referral for an Injury Case

The Nashville Bar Association’s referral service covers personal injury and medical malpractice. For those matters it says, “There is no referral fee,” and it notes that “Most attorneys do not work on a contingency basis (where fees are paid only if you win), except in certain personal injury or medical malpractice cases.” To ask for a referral, use the association’s online form at NashvilleBar.org/LRISReferralForm or call 615-242-9272.

Questions for the First Meeting

  1. What percentage does the firm take, and does it change if the case goes to trial?
  2. How are case expenses handled, and who pays them if nothing is recovered?
  3. Which lawyer will handle the case, and who is the day-to-day contact?
  4. Has that lawyer handled cases like yours, including your type of injury?
  5. How often will you hear about the case, and by phone, email, or text?

Get the fee terms in writing before you sign.

Downtown and Midtown Offices

Raybin & Weissman, P.C.

Raybin & Weissman says it has been “helping clients resolve their legal issues since 1976” and works with injury victims on a contingency fee. The firm also has a criminal defense section, which it says David Raybin heads.

Jeff Roberts & Associates

The firm says it has spent “more than 25 years” helping people “across Middle Tennessee recover after serious car accidents, commercial truck accidents and motorcycle collisions caused by negligence.” It describes Jeff Roberts’s office as “in the heart of downtown Nashville in the ‘Fifth Avenue of the Arts District,’ the same place he has been since 2002.”

Bart Durham Injury Law

Bart Durham Injury Law handles accident cases on a contingency fee and says it prepares “every case as if it will go to trial.” Its website notes, “Se habla Español.”

Matt Hardin Law, PLLC

Matt Hardin Law says it was “[f]ounded by second-generation attorney Matt Hardin.” It lists car, truck, rideshare, and motorcycle accidents, premises liability, and wrongful death among its practice areas, with offices across Tennessee and in Bowling Green, Kentucky.

Rocky McElhaney Law Firm

  • Address: 1102 17th Avenue South, Suite 301, Nashville, TN 37212, and 615 Main St., B21, Nashville, TN 37206
  • Phone: 615-425-2500
  • Website: rockylawfirm.com

Rocky McElhaney Law Firm lists auto, truck, and motorcycle accidents, wrongful death, premises liability, slip and fall, workers’ compensation, birth injuries, and construction accidents among the cases it handles. It also lists a Clarksville office.

Offices Elsewhere in Nashville

Selvidge Injury Law

The firm says Adam Selvidge “has practiced law since 2015 and has helped hundreds of injury victims throughout Middle Tennessee secure fair compensation.”

Kinnard Law

Kinnard Law describes itself as a “Nashville personal injury, medical malpractice, and wrongful death law firm” that has served clients “[f]or over 40 years.” It lists birth injury, product liability, construction, and trucking cases among its practice areas and has a second office in Louisville, Kentucky.

The Law Offices of John Day, P.C.

  • Nashville office: 810 Dominican Dr, Suite 315, Nashville, TN 37228, 615-669-3993
  • Brentwood office: 5141 Virginia Way, Suite 270, Brentwood, TN 37027, 615-742-4880
  • Murfreesboro office: 1639 Medical Center Pkwy, Suite 105, Murfreesboro, TN 37129, 615-867-9900
  • Website: johndaylegal.com

John Day’s firm says it represents clients in “tort cases which involve personal injury and wrongful death” and in “business litigation.” Its practice areas include medical malpractice, pedestrian, bicycle, boating, and dog bite cases, and it advertises a “Free Consultation Available 24/7.”

Quick Answers

Does Kinnard Law handle medical malpractice?

Yes. Kinnard Law describes itself as a “Nashville personal injury, medical malpractice, and wrongful death law firm.” The Law Offices of John Day also lists medical malpractice among its practice areas.

Does Bart Durham Injury Law’s website offer Spanish?

Yes. Its website says, “Se habla Español.” Matt Hardin Law’s website also has a Spanish-language link.

Does the Nashville Bar Association charge a referral fee for injury cases?

No. The association says there is no referral fee for personal injury or medical malpractice matters.

Choosing Between Two Firms

Start with your injury, then call two firms that name it. Ask each the same questions about the percentage, the expenses, and who will handle your case, and ask for the answers in writing. Sign with the firm whose written terms you understand.

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