About
Watkins & McNeilly, PLLC is a Nashville, Tennessee law firm with origins dating to 1910. The firm’s six attorneys practice in two primary areas: litigation and business law. The litigation practice focuses on healthcare, administrative, environmental, and insurance defense matters, including professional negligence, products liability, construction, and personal injury. The business law practice handles corporate matters, federal and state taxation, mergers and acquisitions, estate planning and probate, real estate, intellectual property, and employment law.
The firm emphasizes lean staffing and low overhead to control costs and provide direct attorney-to-client communication. Among its attorneys, W. Warner McNeilly, III concentrates on corporate law, real estate, estate planning, probate, and taxation. He holds an undergraduate degree from Duke University, worked as a certified public accountant at Ernst & Young in Washington, D.C., and earned his Juris Doctor from Vanderbilt University School of Law in 1986. He is a member of the Middle Tennessee Estate Planning Council, the Tennessee Bar Association, the Nashville Bar Association, and the Estate Planning and Probate Committees of the Nashville Bar Association.