Stites & Harbison, PLLC

 
      J. Matthew Kroplin               J. Patrick Warfield

NASHVILLE, Tenn.—Stites & Harbison, PLLC., has hired attorney Matthew Kroplin to work with its Business Litigation Service Group and Patrick Warfield to work with its Creditors’ Rights & Bankruptcy Service Group. Both are associates at the law firm’s Nashville office.

Kroplin has three year’s experience as a business litigator. He represents banking institutions, insurance companies, healthcare companies and other business entities and individuals regarding complex disputes and litigation, tort and insurance defense, contract disputes, zoning matters, creditor representation, and general business advice.

Formerly with Frost Brown Todd, LLC, Kroplin also served as a law clerk for Wilkes & McHugh, P.A., and the Office of the Tennessee Attorney General. Prior to that, he was house majority caucus press secretary for the Tennessee General Assembly.

He has a bachelor’s degree from Lipscomb University, a master’s of public administration from Tennessee State University and his law degree from Vanderbilt University. He is an American Cancer Society junior board member and a member of the American, Tennessee and Nashville Bar Associations.

Warfield interned for Senior U.S. District Court Judge Thomas A. Wiseman Jr. and Tennessee Circuit Court Judge and Chancellor James G. Martin III. He also was a clerk for the Office of the Tennessee Attorney General in the environmental and tobacco enforcement divisions.  Prior to pursuing a law degree, he was a sixth-grade science teacher at St. Stephen’s & St. Agnes School in Alexandria, Va., where he also coached varsity track and cross country.

Warfield has a bachelor’s degree from Sewanee: The University of the South, where he was in the Order of the Gownsmen and his law degree from Samford University’s Cumberland School of Law, where he served as articles editor for the American Journal of Trial Advocacy. Warfield is the grandson of Charles Warfield of Farris, Warfield & Kanaday, which combined with Stites & Harbison in 2001.

About Stites & Harbison

Stites & Harbison, PLLC, is a regional business and litigation firm with attorneys in Nashville and Franklin, Tenn.; Alexandria, Va.; Atlanta; Jeffersonville, Ind.; and Louisville, Frankfort and Lexington, Ky.  Tracing its origins to 1832, Stites & Harbison is one of the oldest law practices in the nation and among the largest law firms in the Southeast.  Our attorneys are consistently recognized by their peers in the following leading legal directories: Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory^®, The Best Lawyers in America^®, Chambers USA and Super Lawyers magazine.  Recent firm honors include: among America’s Top Law Firms in First Tier Ratings by U.S. News & World Report and Best Lawyers, one of the Best Employers in Tennessee, two attorneys listed in Best of the Bar (Nashville Business Journal), one of the 50 Best Overall Law Firms in America (Global Research), one of the Leading Law Firms in America (The American Lawyer), a Go-To Law Firm^® (Corporate Counsel), one of the Top 100 Law Firms for Diversity (MultiCultural Law Magazine) and a Top 10 Growth Firm (National Law Journal).     

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