Ryan N. Stringfellow

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Education:

- B.S., University of Florida, 2006
- MBA, Samford University Brock School
  of Business, 2010
- J.D., Samford University Cumberland
  School of Law, 2010

Bar Admissions:

- Tennessee Supreme Court
- U.S. District Court for the Middle
  District of Tennessee

Ryan N. Stringfellow, a native of Clermont, Florida, joined Smith Cashion & Orr in 2011 as an Associate. He devotes his practice to construction law, commercial litigation, land use, and zoning issues.

Mr. Stringfellow received a Bachelor of Science in Building Construction, cum laude, from the M. E. Rinker, Sr., School of Building Construction, University of Florida, in 2006. While at the University of Florida, he served as a Student Ambassador, Vice President of his College Council, and was inducted into Sigma Lambda Chi, the International Construction Honor Society.

Having worked for subcontractors of various trades, and as a commercial project manager and superintendent, Mr. Stringfellow acquired valuable construction experience before practicing law.

In 2010, Mr. Stringfellow received his Master of Business Administration from the Brock School of Business, Samford University, where he served on the Dean’s Graduate Student Advisory Board and earned the distinction of Beta Gamma Sigma, the highest recognition awarded to a student in an AACSB - accredited business program.

Mr. Stringfellow received his Juris Doctor from Cumberland School of Law, Samford University, in 2010, where he served as Articles Editor for the American Journal of Trial Advocacy, Chair of the Cordell Hull Speaker’s Forum and was awarded the Judge Abraham Caruthers Teaching Fellowship. Mr. Stringfellow was a member of the Senior Trial Board, competed on the National Mediation Team, and was a four-time Scholar of Merit.

He currently serves on the M. E. Rinker, Sr., School of Building Construction Advisory Board and is a member of the American Bar Association, the Tennessee Bar Association, the Nashville Bar Association, and the Tennessee Association of Construction Counsel.

Seminars or guest lectures presented by Mr. Stringellow include Liability in the Performance of Building Inspection Duties (with Joshua K. Chesser) and Practical Considerations from a Contractor Turned Attorney.

Publications:

• Comment, Sporck v. Peil: A Necessary Limitation on Discovery Grounded in the Principles of the Adversarial System, 33 AM. J. TRIAL ADVOC. 627 (2010).

• Recent Development, Miller v. California Speedway Corp.: Can a Court Interpret a Regulation More Strictly than the Federal Agency that Promulgated the Guideline?, 32 AM. J. TRIAL ADVOC. 421 (2009).

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