Attorney Bios

About Kevin

Kevin practices with and serves as head of the firm’s Insurance Group. His experience concentrates on insurance regulatory law, with particular emphasis on captives, risk retention groups, self-insurance funds, and other alternative insurance vehicles. Kevin also practices entertainment law and represents recording artists, publishers, songwriters, and music-related companies in connection with all types of music industry agreements and transactions. Kevin is admitted to practice in Tennessee (1999), Georgia (1990) and New York (1986). He is a member of the Tennessee Bar Association, the Nashville Bar Association, and the State Bar of Georgia.

Kevin helped to rewrite the captive insurance law in Tennessee in 2011, and he currently serves as Chairman and President of the Tennessee Captive Insurance Association, Inc. (TCIA). He is listed in Best Lawyers in America and has been recognized numerous times as one of the Nashville Business Journal ‘s “Best of the Bar,” both for his work in Insurance Regulation. Kevin also was recently listed again in the “In Charge” edition of Music Row magazine as a “Decision Maker” in the music industry. He is a the past Chair of the Better Business Bureau of Middle Tennessee, and he serves on numerous charitable Boards in Nashville.

Kevin is an avid lecturer on Insurance and Entertainment Law. His most recent insurance lectures include: “The Revised Tennessee Captive Insurance Act: A New Beginning,” Tennessee Bar Association Webinar (January 2012, Nashville, TN); Moderator for the Inaugural TCIA Educational Conference (December 2011, Nashville, TN); “Captive Managers Talk Marketplace Innovation,” Self-Insurance Institute of America (SIIA) National Educational Conference and Expo (October 2011, Phoenix, AZ); “Health Care Reform: A Legal Update,” Insurance Benefits Associates (IBA) Seminar (September 2011, Franklin, TN); “Captives in Tennessee,” Marsh Webinar (September 2011, Nashville, TN); “The New Tennessee Captive Insurance Law: An Informal Discussion,” Willis Seminar (August 2011, Nashville, TN); “NAIC Captive Regulatory Update,” Montana Captive Insurance Association (MCIA) Annual Conference (July 2011, Whitefish, MT); “State and Federal Legislative Developments,” Executive Education Conference (May 2011, Charlotte, NC); “Health Care Reform: A Timeline and the Role of the NAIC,” SIIA Legislative Conference (March 2011, Washington, DC); “Captives, Congress, and the NAIC,” CIC-DC Annual Conference (October 2010, Washington, DC); “The NAIC Regulatory Agenda and the ART Industry,” SIIA Annual Conference (October 2010, Chicago, IL); “Health Care Reform and How It Will Affect Your Business,” TN Chamber of Commerce Seminar (October 2010, Nashville, TN); “Health Care Reform and How It Will Affect Your Business,” IBA Seminar (September 2010, Nashville, TN); “Best Practices for Corporate Governance,” Vermont Captive Insurance Association (VCIA) Annual Conference (August 2010, Burlington, VT); “Captive Governance: The Model Audit Rules and Other Corporate Regulatory Hurdles for Captives and RRGs,” MCIA Annual Conference (July 2010, Whitefish, MT); and “Reinsurance Collateral Agreements,” AON Seminar Series (May 2010, Atlanta, GA).

His most recent entertainment lectures include: “Entertainment Case Law Update: YouTube, Google and Related Copyright Issues,” 22nd Annual Entertainment and Sports Law CLE Conference (November 2010, Costa Rica); “Your Client Is Broke, So Now What? IP Custody and Other Sad Issues,” 21st Annual Entertainment and Sports Law CLE Conference (November 2009, Dominican Republic); and “The Copyright Infringement Case Against YouTube and Google,” Tennessee Bar Association Annual CLE Seminar (November 2007, Nashville, TN).

Kevin earned his J.D. in 1985 from Vanderbilt University where he was a Patrick Wilson Scholar and served on the editorial board of the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law. He received his A.B. in 1982 from Princeton University, where he served as President of the Student Body from 1981-1982.