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About Patrick Thurman
Patrick Thurman is a Nashville native with nearly 20 years of experience in civil litigation. He received his undergraduate degree in accounting from Tulane University and his J.D. from the University of Tennessee College of Law, where he was a staff member of Transactions: The Tennessee Journal of Business Law. After graduation he clerked for Chancellor Ellen Hobbs Lyle of the Davidson County Chancery Court, then joined a civil litigation defense firm before transitioning to plaintiff work.
For more than a decade he has represented injured individuals and families in car, truck, and motorcycle accident cases, premises liability claims, catastrophic injury matters, and wrongful death litigation. He was named one of Tennessee's Top 100 Trial Lawyers by The National Trial Lawyers, and is recognized in Best Lawyers in America (2026) and Mid-South Super Lawyers (2026). He is a member of the Tennessee Bar Association and Nashville Bar Association, and coaches youth soccer.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Kinnard Clayton & Beveridge
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A Davidson County jury awarded Fox Sports reporter Erin Andrews $55 million after finding that the Nashville Marriott at Vanderbilt negligently disclosed her room location to a stalker who altered a peephole to film her without consent.
A federal jury in Chattanooga awarded $22.2 million to a Franklin County couple after an epidural catheter placed for post-surgical pain control triggered a spinal bleed that left 62-year-old Bette Donathan permanently paralyzed from the waist down.
Part of a surgical retractor was left in Cynthia Yebuah's abdomen during a 2005 kidney removal and stayed there for eight years, looping around her small bowel. A Nashville jury awarded her family $4.5 million. Tennessee's cap on noneconomic damages cut it to $750,000, and the Supreme Court held that the cap is one limit shared by an injured patient and her spouse rather than one each.
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