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Lee L. Piovarcy
Memphis, Tennessee
Director and Shareholder

Phone (901) 522-9000
Fax (901) 527-3746
 lpiovarcy@martintate.com

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Lee L. Piovarcy is a member of Martin, Tate, Morrow & Marston, P.C. where he engages in a private practice involving transportation law, products liability and commercial litigation. He is certified as a Civil Trial Advocate by the National Board of Trial Advocacy and is a Certified Trial Specialist in civil law in Tennessee. He is certified by the Supreme Court of Tennessee as a civil law mediator.

Lee was graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 1963 and Vanderbilt Law School in 1966. Thereafter, he was in the Army for eight years during the Vietnam War serving as a Captain on active duty from 1966-68. He joined Martin Tate in March 1969 as an associate and is now Chairman of the Firm’s Executive Committee.

Throughout his career, Lee has litigated in the practice areas of transportation, products liability and commercial litigation throughout the country, most notably in Tennessee, Mississippi, Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, Alabama, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Illinois. While continuing his practice, he served as outside General Counsel for M.S. Carriers, Inc., a publicly held trucking company that was acquired by Swift Transportation in 2001, had 5,000 tractors and 15,000 trailers and was in the top five of truckload carriers in the United States.

Lee established new law in Tennessee in the area of conflicts of law (Hataway v. McKinley) and in products liability (Davis v. Komatsu).

Lee is active in products liability defense groups and is on the Board of Directors of the Trucking Industry Defense Association.

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  • Certified Mediator, American Arbitration Association
  • Certified Rule 31 Mediator, Tennessee Supreme Court
  • Certified Arbitrator, American Arbitration Association
  • Civil Trial Specialist, National Board of Trial Advocacy
  • Certified Civil Trial Specialist, Tennessee Commission on Continuing Legal Education and Specialization

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