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Tony Seaton

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Of Counsel at Garza Law Firm, PLLC
Knoxville, TN

About Tony Seaton

Tony Seaton is a trial attorney from Johnson City, TN. He graduated from ETSU and the University of Memphis School of Law. He has been primarily focused on personal injury practice for the past 43 years. Tony currently serves as the Administrator of the Keenan Trial Institute, a trial training program for some of the top trial attorneys in the country.

He formerly served on the Access to Justice Committee appointed by the Tennessee Supreme Court for eight years. During that time Tony traveled throughout the State of Tennessee encouraging lawyers to start free legal advice clinics in all of the judicial districts of the state. Last year Tony presided as the President of the Tennessee Trial Lawyers Association. He is currently married to Elizabeth Patterson and they share five children.

Proven verdicts and settlements

$6 millionVerdict

Nathan Ling was handcuffed in the intake room of the Campbell County jail when officers beat him, breaking bones in his face and an arm, collapsing a lung and causing permanent brain damage. He was left on a concrete floor for about seven hours without treatment. A federal jury found the county liable for failing to train its jailers to intervene.

U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Tennessee (Knoxville) · 2024Civil RightsRead the full story →
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Education

University of Memphis School of Law
J.D.

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Tennessee

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