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John T. Blankenship is the founder of and Senior Member in the law firm of Blankenship & Blankenship, PLLC, in Murfreesboro, Tennessee where he practices in the areas of commercial law including construction and real estate litigation, arbitration and mediation. He is admitted to the Tennessee Supreme Court, the U.S. District Court for Middle Tennessee, United States Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the United States Supreme Court. Mr. Blankenship is a member of the Rutherford/Cannon County and Tennessee Bar Associations. In the Tennessee Bar Association, he is a member of the Alternative Dispute Resolution Section; member and past chairman of the Access to Justice Committee; and a member of the TBA Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility (he was also a member of the predecessor TBA Committee for the Study of Standards of Professional Conduct, serving through the release of its 1997 Preliminary Draft of the Proposed Rules of Professional Conduct). Mr. Blankenship has been a member of the American Arbitration Association’s mediation and arbitration panels since 1987 and is an approved mediator under Rule 31 of the Tennessee Supreme Court. He has served as mediator or arbitrator in numerous commercial and construction cases, including multi-party/multi-issue complex construction disputes in several different states. Mr. Blankenship is a frequent seminar speaker on the topics of: construction law, mechanics lien law, alternative dispute resolution, and ethics. He received his J.D. from the University of Tennessee George C. Taylor College of Law in 1977, and furthered his education by obtaining an L.L.M. in Dispute Resolution from the University of Missouri School of Law Center for Alternative Dispute Resoloution in 2008.
Member of AAA mediator and arbitrator panels since 1987. As mediator served on numerous AAA and private mediations (e.g. over 100 private mediations). Multi state experience in arbitration/mediation includes cases in Tennessee, Kentucky, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, Alabama, Arkansas, Texas, Ohio, Massachusetts, California and New Jersey. Construction Cases Overview: Construction disputes have involved convention centers, schools, corrections and judicial facilities, manufacturing plants, nursing homes, assisted living facilities, health care facilities, churches, hotels, multi-family and residential homes. The various disputes include contract terms and conditions, change orders/additional work/backcharge claims, delays (CPM and electronic scheduling analysis, etc.) inefficiency, impact and disruption claims, design/construction defects, contract accounting, misrepresentation/fraud/concealment, latent defects, etc. for various types of work including, design, grading, sewer/utilities, framing, roofing, paving, electrical, mechanical, flooring, finish, windows/openings/flashing, synthetic exteriors, drainage, water/moisture infiltration and wetlands. Commercial Cases Overview: Commercial disputes include contract terms and conditions, breach of contract, misrepresentation, business valuations, corporate stock valuations, financing agreements, mergers, purchase and sale of business, representations and warranties, legal and professional fees, executive employment compensation/separation, dissolution of professional practice, over the road truck lease purchase agreements, cattle feeding/nutrition programs, interstate livestock sales, financial consulting agreements/industrial revenue bond and conventional financing, consumer financing/lending/insurance, technical training institution curriculum disputes, non-compete agreements, physician/managed care organization provider agreements.
It is my belief that the alternative dispute resolution process as a whole should be fashioned to fit the needs of each individual dispute, its issues, and the parties to that dispute. It is my practice to adapt the mediation process to best fit the perceived needs of the parties and the intricacies of the dispute to achieve the best result possible.
Areas of particular experience as a mediator include: Construction General Commercial International Commercial Real Estate/Property
$300.00 per hour for all hearing and study time, plus expenses.
Tennessee Bar Association (Section on Alternative Dispute Resolution; Professional Standards of Conduct Study Committee Standing Committee on Ethics and Professionalism; Chairman, Access to Justice Committee Past President of Rutherford/Cannon County Bar Association Hearing Officer, Tennessee Board of Professional Responsibility (1993-1997) Christian Legal Society; President Andrew Jackson American Inn of Court Tennessee Association of Construction Counsel American Arbitration Association Tennessee Association of Professional Mediators Fellow of the Tennessee Bar Foundation American Bar Association College of Commercial Arbitrators
David Ratterman, dratterman@stites.com, (502) 681-0539 John Dean Marshall, dean.marshall@sablaw.com, (404) 853-8153 R. Loy Waldrop, lwaldrop@lewisking.com; (865) 546-4646 Philip Fleenor, phil.fleenor@husch.com, (423) 757-5911 Thomas Williams, tom.williams@leitnerfirm.com, (423) 265-0214
L.L.M. degree in Dispute Resolution earned in December 2008; Mediation – A Valuable Tool for Litigators Seminar, November 2006; Dealing With Delay Tactics In Arbitration, 12/05; Attended AAA Neutrals Conference, Atlanta, 10/04; ACE001 – Arbitration Awards: Safeguarding, Deciding & Writing Awards, Atlanta, 10/04; Arbitrator Update 2004, Atlanta, 10/04; Annual Arbitrator Update 2002; AAA Construction Industry Arbitrator II Training, Nashville, 4/01; attended AAA Mediator Retreat, Denver, 3/00; ADR Applications, Inc., Civil/Commercial Mediation Training, Nashville, 4/97; AAA Construction Industry Arbitrator Training, Nashville, 3/97; AAA Advanced Arbitrator Training, Nashville, 10/93; faculty, Advanced Arbitration Training Program on Application of the Uniform Arbitration Act, Nashville, 10/93; AAA Mediation Training, Nashville, 10/92; various other ADR training.
Mr. Blankenship is a frequent seminar speaker on the topics of: construction law, mechanics lien law, alternative dispute resolution, and ethics.
Med-Arb, a template for adaptive ADR Tennessee Bar Journal, November 2006, at 28.
AAA/ABA/ACR Model Standards of Conduct for Mediators, Tennesse Rules of Professional Conduct, Tennessee Supreme Court Rule 31, IMI Code of Professional Conduct
IMI Professional Conduct Assessment Process
Professional liability insurance coverage provided by Professionals Direct, serviced by Insurance Planning and Service Company, Inc., 1089 Bailey Avenue, Chattanooga, TN. 37401-1109, phone: 1-800-347-1109. Maximum limit: $5,000,000.00.