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About W. Lyon Chadwick
Lyon Chadwick graduated from the University of Mississippi in 2005, where he attended the Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College and earned a B.A. in Psychology. He then studied at the University of Mississippi School of Law, working with the Mississippi Innocence Project under Director Tucker Carrington. After law school he passed both the Mississippi and Tennessee Bar Exams and began his career as an attorney for the State of Tennessee. He entered private practice in 2012, spending the next decade on complex personal injury cases with a focus on medical malpractice, wrongful death, and civil rights. His practice now covers all Tennessee state and federal courts.
He has been recognized as a Super Lawyers Mid-South honoree since 2024 and as a Rising Star from 2019 to 2023, and was named to America's Top 100 Personal Injury Attorneys. He is listed in Best Lawyers in America (2026). He is active in the Nashville Bar Association, Tennessee Bar Association, and Tennessee Trial Lawyers Association. Outside the law he is a classically trained violinist and former working musician.
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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