Gary Reed Gober

"Advocate, Teacher, Giant of the Trial Bar"  at presentation of the "Mel" Award from the Melvin M Belli Society 2006.

Gary Gober is recognized as one of the premier trial advocates in Tennessee, the Mid-South and the nation, with an emphasis on traumatic brain and spinal injury cases and cases involving catastrophic injury and wrongful death in truck - car collisions.

Gary has been designated one of the "Top 100 Trial Lawyers in Tennessee" by the National Trial Lawyers Association and as a Mid-State "Super Lawyer".  He has been given an "AV" rating by the Martindale Hubble Legal Rating Service by vote of his peers.  This is the highest professional rating given to a lawyer and has given Gary a place in the bar register of "Pre-eminent" attorney, a national ranking.  This ranking is based upon legal ability and professional ethics.  Gary Gober is Board certified as a civil trial attorney by the National Board of Trial Advocacy.

Gary received the 2013 Life Achievement Award of the Tennessee Association of Justice, the highest professional honor accorded to a trial lawyer in Tennessee

Gary has served on the faculty of the National College of Advocacy on continuing legal education programs for over thirty years.  He has spoken on trial advocacy to thousands of lawyers in virtually every state in the Union, and his addresses have been a challenge and inspiration to the trial bar from coast to coast and in several foreign countries.

Gary has been a leader in several professional organizations:  Association of Trial Lawyers of America (officer and Board member);  Southern Trial Lawyers Association (Past President); Tennessee Association for Justice (Past President);  Nashville Trial Lawyers Association (Past President); Melvin M. Belli Society (Past President);  Traumatic Brain Injury Litigation Group of AAJ (current Board member).

Gary Gober has conducted free public seminars for hundreds of Tennessee citizens on the subjects of workers' legal rights and traumatic brain injury.  He has provided bicycle safety helmets for hundreds of kids in the Nashville public schools in cooperation with the Metro Policed Department.

Gary is a recipient of the Warhorse Award of the Southern Trial Lawyers Association presented to a lawyer who over a career of at least 30 years has exemplified excellence in advocacy in teaching and as a "character of his time".  He has received the Professor W McKinley Smiley Award for excellence in the teaching of trial advocacy, presented by the Southern Trial Lawyers Association.

Gary has contributed articles to legal publications such as the Trial Magazine and is a contributing author to the multi volume "Litigating Tort Cases" published by ATLA Press.

Gary is an honor graduate of Harvard College and the Vanderbilt University School of Law.