Paul E. Tennison

Paul Tennison has a diverse military, leadership, and legal background that affords him unique insight into many issues confronting CLG clients. Paul represents clients in a broad range of complex legal matters. He has vast knowledge and experience working in cases involving defamation, intellectual property, military law, healthcare law, wrongful death, contested divorces, business disputes, property law, HOA disputes, and personal injury cases.

Paul’s clients will benefit from his extensive military experience, including challenging training exercises overseas in Korea, Germany, and Poland. Succeeding in highly stressful training environments as a Field Artillery officer and providing accurate lethal fires on the battlefield are difficult missions that require precision, attention to detail, and problem solving skills. Paul brings these same capabilities and attributes which he honed in the Army to his work with clients. He continues to serve our country as an officer in the Tennessee Army National Guard and is currently in command of a Field Artillery Battery of 105 soldiers headquartered in Covington, Tennessee.

Paul takes great pride in mastering each challenging goal he sets for himself as evidenced by his successful completion of West Point, distinguished service in the US Army, success at Vanderbilt Law School, continuing to learn more about the world and how to serve his clients. Paul enjoys challenging physical activity and has completed a 100KM bike ride, Olympic distance triathlon, marathon, and is currently a bodybuilder and member of the 1,000 lb club. Paul brings the same tenacity to the court room in pursuit of vigorous representation of each of his clients.

Defamation, intellectual property, military law, healthcare law, wrongful death, cryptocurrency, employment discrimination, contested divorce, appeals, business disputes, zoning, property law, first amendment, second amendment, and personal injury cases.

Business Litigation, Press, Counseling & Strategic Advice, Healthcare, Employment, Intellectual Property and Technology, Property, Trademarks, Start Ups, Family Law

Paul enjoys challenging physical activity including bodybuilding and endurance sports. He was a three sport athlete in high school playing football, basketball, and baseball. At West Point, Paul participated in intramural sports. As a freshman, Paul was a member of the B2 Sandhurst team. Sandhurst is an annual military obstacle course competition at West Point. Paul has completed multiple 100KM bike rides, an Olympic distance triathlon, a marathon, and is currently a bodybuilder and member of the 1,000 lb club. At Vanderbilt Law School Paul participated in the Law Students for Veterans Affairs Ragnar Trail run team. The team finished 5th overall out of over 120 teams at the Kentuckiana Ragnar Trail run in 2017. Paul continues to focus on his physical fitness by earning perfect scores on the U.S. Army's Physical Fitness Test.

When not in the office, Paul enjoys spending time with his seven-year-old son, Asher.