R. Dale Grimes
Tennessee
Bass, Berry & Sims PLC
150 Third Avenue South
Suite 2800, Nashville, TN 37201
Tel: (615) 742-6244
Email:
dgrimes@bassberry.com
Web:
www.bassberry.com
Dale Grimes is co-chair of Bass, Berry & Sims’ Antitrust & Trade Practices Group. He has more than 30 years of experience handling civil litigation matters in both state and federal trial and appellate courts and administrative agencies throughout Tennessee with a special focus on antitrust, consumer fraud, complex litigation, class actions, telecommunications, energy and water. He currently serves as counsel for a major auto manufacturer in a complex auto parts antitrust investigation.
Dale’s practice also focuses on antitrust counseling to clients on a variety of merger, pre-merger notification, competition conduct and compliance issues, as well as government and internal antitrust investigations, in a broad spectrum of industries including automotive, healthcare, pharmaceutical, distribution and retail, communications, consumer products, medical technology, and wood products. He has spoken on healthcare and antitrust issues to business and trade organizations, healthcare provider groups and various clients including the American Bar Association Section of Antitrust Law, the American Health Lawyers Association, and the Tennessee Bar Association.
In the telecommunications and utilities field, Dale represents telecommunications, natural gas and water distribution clients before the Tennessee Regulatory Authority as well as in state and federal courts.
Dale served as editor of the 4th and 5th editions of the Tennessee chapter of the State Antitrust Practice and Statutes and editor of the Federal chapter of the Price Discrimination Handbook, both published by the American Bar Association. He was chair of the Civil Justice Reform Act Advisory Group for the Middle District of Tennessee, in which he co-authored the Cost and Delay Reduction Plan and local rule on case management practices currently in force in that federal court. Dale has been listed in Best Lawyers® since 1999, and named as one of the best litigation lawyers in Tennessee by Chambers USA. He is also listed in the Lawdragon 500 and Lawdragon 3000 Leading Lawyers in America. He has lectured on healthcare and antitrust law in the Executive Seminars Program at the Owen Graduate School of Management of Vanderbilt University.
A native of Nashville, Dale received a B.A. from the University of the South in 1975 and graduated from the University of Tennessee College of Law in 1978, where he served as an editor of the Tennessee Law Review. Following law school, he served a two-year judicial clerkship with the Honorable L. Clure Morton, Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee. He joined Bass, Berry & Sims in 1980. He attended the Harvard Law School Program of Instruction for Lawyers in 1985, where he studied Antitrust Law with Professor Philip Areeda, Federal Civil Procedure and Economics.
Bass, Berry & Sims’ Antitrust Practice Group provides sophisticated, efficient, business-oriented, client-focused advice and advocacy related to compliance with and enforcement of antitrust laws. We understand and help clients navigate the antitrust risks associated with mergers, acquisitions, and formation of joint ventures, and guide those transactions through review by federal antitrust agencies. Clients depend on us to analyze the antitrust risks of proposed transactions and find solutions for avoiding or minimizing those risks.
In addition, we guide clients on complying with antitrust laws in day-to-day business activities such as contracting, distribution, pricing, and involvement in trade associations, as well as designing and implementing effective antitrust compliance programs.
We strive to help our clients prevent the expense and disruption of lawsuits and investigations, but if unavoidable, we critically evaluate the risks and rewards of possible litigation outcomes and vigorously advocate on behalf of our client’s interests with the goal of attaining a beneficial resolution as expeditiously as possible. Our attorneys are recognized leaders in the field, are regularly listed in Best Lawyers in America®, and serve in leadership positions in antitrust sections of the American Bar Association, the American Health Law Association and Lex Mundi Global Network.
Bass, Berry & Sims is a Tennessee-based law firm with more than 280 attorneys representing and advising Fortune 500 companies as well as regional and local businesses, including acting as the principal corporate counsel for approximately 35 public companies. Our attorneys have been involved in some of the largest and most significant litigation matters, investigations and business transactions in the country.
While our practice offerings are diverse and our experience runs deep and wide, Bass, Berry & Sims stands united around a client-centered commitment. Every client team is skillfully assembled to provide tailored legal knowledge and solutions to companies, management, boards of directors and individuals.
Our counsel is informed by collective experience and optimized with an integrated approach. And we aim to deliver perspective, sound judgment, efficiency and responsiveness to every matter.
Dedicated to superior client service, the firm is recognized for providing unsurpassed legal representation, counseling, guidance and support for its clients throughout the country. The firm’s affiliation with four legal networks includes the distinction of being a founding member of both Lex Mundi and SCG Legal, as well as a member of the Network of Trial Law Firms.
Bass, Berry & Sims strives to deliver on a promise to represent our clients’ interests with a keen focus on their unique goals – to deliver sophisticated work. Value. Results.