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Education
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Vanderbilt University Law School
J.D. 1983
Cheatham Scholar; Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, Managing Editor
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University of Virginia
B.A. 1978
English
Zeta Psi, Beta Chapter
Admissions
Tennessee
U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee
U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit
Service Areas
- Financial Institutions Litigation and Subprime Litigation
- Loan Servicing (Master & Primary)
- Loan Servicing (Special)
- Business Litigation
- Commercial Disputes - Contracts and Business Torts
- Lending & Commercial Finance
- Creditors' Rights & Bankruptcy
- Creditors' Rights, Out-of-Court Workouts & Commercial Litigation
- Bankruptcy
- Banking
Industry Experience
- Banking / Financial Services
- Financing
- Consumer Products / Food / Beverage
- Health Care
- Real Estate / Real Estate Development
Memberships
- American Bar Association
- American Bankruptcy Institute
- Nashville Bar Association Pro Bono Program
- Nashville Bar Association
- Tennessee Bar Association
Community Involvement
- Friends of Radnor Lake
- Second Presbyterian Church
- Tennesseans for Alternatives to the Death Penalty, board member
"... master of complex transactions."
- Business Tennessee
"... applauded for his representation ..."
- ChambersUSA 2008
"... decades of experience representing creditors..."
- ChambersUSA 2010
For more then 25 years, Bob Goodrich has represented creditors, creditors' committees, landlords, and other interested parties in bankruptcy and insolvency related matters in state and federal courts. In 1994, Mr. Goodrich was designated by the American Bankruptcy Board of Certification and the State of Tennessee as a specialist in business bankruptcy. Mr. Goodrich has been listed in Best Lawyers in America® (1995-2012) for Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights Law, was listed among the Nashville Business Journal's Best of the Bar in 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2011, was named in the Mid-South Super Lawyers magazine (2006-2011) and was named in that magazine's Top 100 Lawyers in Tennessee for 2008, 2010 and 2011, was recognized by ChambersUSA, "America's Leading Lawyers for Business" (2008-2011) and was listed as one of the 150 Best Lawyers in Tennessee by Business Tennessee magazine (2007, 2008 and 2010).
Mr. Goodrich assists in the formation of complex financial transactions with a view toward the consequences of insolvency.
Mr. Goodrich speaks at seminars in the areas of bankruptcy, collection, and foreclosure law. One recent engagement was a Chapter 11 update panel at the 2011 Mid-South Commercial Law Institute. Mr. Goodrich has served as a Director of the Mid-South Commercial Law Institute and as the chairperson of the local rules subcommittee for the bankruptcy section of the Nashville Bar Association, during which time he participated in a substantial revision of the Local Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure in the Middle District of Tennessee.
Mr. Goodrich's recent publications include "Money in the Till," (co-author with Madison L. Martin) concerning cram-down interest rates in bankruptcy, published in the Norton Bankruptcy Law Adviser, Issue No. 10, October 2004; "Emptying the 'Till,' The Sixth Circuit Sequel(1)," co-author with Madison L. Martin, Norton Bankruptcy Law Adviser, June 2006; "Deadly Double Discounting," co-author with Madison L. Martin, Norton Bankruptcy Law Adviser, Issue No. 8, August 2006; "Unsafe at any Speed: The Perils of Acceleration," Norton Bankruptcy Law Adviser, Issue No. 10, October 2007; "Performance Anxiety: The Nondebtor's Dilemma Under § 365," Norton Bankruptcy Law Adviser, Issue No. 5, May 2009; and "TOUSAworld: Everything You Know About Fraudulent Conveyance Law Is Wrong (Maybe)," published in the Norton Bankruptcy Law Adviser, Issue No. 6, June 2011.
Outside the firm, Mr. Goodrich stays active in the community as a member of the Friends of Radnor Lake and Second Presbyterian Church in Nashville and as a board member of Tennesseans for Alternatives to the Death Penalty.