David W. Noblit

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Mr. Noblit has spent his entire professional career with the firm beginning in 1979; becoming a member in 1985, and Of Counsel in 2019. He has concentrated his practice in assisting clients who are forced into litigation to resolve a wide spectrum of legal disputes. Clients have included many of the nations largest corporations both by direct assignment and through insurance defense referral. He has served as lead counsel in state and federal Courts in Tennessee and Georgia and over the course of the first thirty years of practice has tried approximately one hundred cases to verdict or judgment. His active trial practice caused him to embrace the alternative dispute resolution process early in the development of mediation as a more practical way of resolving disputes. After successful participation in mediation in a case in 1985, he actively served as a mediation advocate in well over one hundred cases and after adding a mediation practice to his areas of concentration he became listed by the Supreme Court of Tennessee as a Rule 31 Mediator in 2000. He has conducted well over 850 mediations in a wide variety of legal disputes.

His present practice includes mediation, family law disputes, and defense of cases for his corporate clients in liability cases, workers' compensation cases.

Professionally, he is a member of the Chattanooga and Tennessee Bar Associations and the State Bar of Georgia. He was recently invited to membership in the Tennessee Association of Professional Mediators. Additionally, he was invited to become a member of the Brock Cooper American Inn of Court as a Master and was asked to serve on the Executive Committee in 2008-2009, and was President in 2011-12.

Born in Chattanooga, Tennessee in 1953, he is a product of the local schools, was a scholarship athlete and student leader at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga where he earned a B.S. degree in 1975. A member of the Law Review at Memphis State University while in Law School, he earned his J.D. degree after having been elected into Omicron Delta Kappa. He also served as Graduate Assistant to University Counsel in 1978-79.

He is the father to five adult children and four grandchildren.

Honors and Awards

Best Lawyers, Mediation (2014-2022), Insurance Law (2021-2022), Personal Injury Litigation - Defendants (2021-2022)

Best Lawyers "Lawyer of the Year" in Mediation (2015, 2020)

Best Lawyers "Lawyer of the Year" in Personal Injury Litigation - Defendants (2021)

Vice-President (1975) /President (1976) of Blue Key National Honor Fraternity

Omicron Delta Kappa

Phi Delta Phi

Editor of the Memphis State University Law Review

Graduate Assistant to Legal Counsel at MSU from 1978-79

Publications & Lectures

Mr. Noblit has lectured to private clients on issues of workers' compensation and public liability

He is an original member of the Multi-state Law Committee of the Florida Workers' Compensation Institute

He has lectured on Tennessee Workers' Compensation at The Florida Educational Conference

He was a presenter at the Tennessee Department of Labor Educational Conference in 2008 speaking on the subject of how to gain and maintain client satisfaction

After being chosen to the Professional Liability Insurance Committee of the Tennessee Bar Association in the 1990's he was a frequent panelist on the subject of preventing legal malpractice claims to the Tennessee Bar Association

Served as Adjunct Professor Dispute Resolutions, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

The Perils of Electronic Surveillance in the Age of Spyware, LWDN Quick Flash newsletter, co-author

Community Involvement

• University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Alumni President 2001 - 2002

• University of Tennessee National Alumni President 2002 - 2003

• University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Alumni President 2003 - 2004

• Adjunct Professor Dispute Resolutions, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Tennessee, 2007

• Brock Cooper American Inn of Court since 2007, Executive Committee, 2008-2009; President 2011-12

Professional Affiliations

• Charter Member of the Tennessee Bar Association's Lawyers Professional Liability Insurance committee

• Chattanooga and Tennessee Bar Associations

• State Bar of Georgia

• Tennessee Association of Professional Mediators

• Tennessee Academy of Mediators and Arbitrators

• National Academy of Distinguished Neutrals