Howard E. Jarvis

Howard E. Jarvis is a member of the firm whose primary areas of practice include toxic tort, environmental, product liability and insurance defense litigation. In his practice, he has served as either lead counsel or lead co-counsel in toxic tort and environmental litigation in Tennessee, Kentucky, Louisiana, Texas, Alabama, California, Georgia, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, New York and Florida. Mr.  Jarvis is listed in The Best Lawyers in America® in the area of product liability litigation.

On behalf of several petrochemical companies he has handled multiplaintiff toxic tort cases in various jurisdictions. These cases have involved both personal injury and property damage claims as a result of alleged chemical exposure. He has argued cases in the Tennessee Supreme Court and Tennessee Court of Appeals, the Georgia Supreme Court and the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Mr.  Jarvis, a native of Chattanooga, Tennessee, graduated from the University of Tennessee in 1976, with a B.A. in history. He obtained his J.D. from the University of Tennessee College of Law in 1979.

He is a member of the Knoxville Bar Association, the Tennessee Bar Association and the American Bar Association. He is a member of the Section of Litigation and the Section of Corporate Counsel of the American Bar Association. He is also a member of the Defense Research Institute. He has served as the chairman of the Fee Dispute Committee of the Knoxville Bar Association and was awarded the President’s Award in 1997 for his service to the Bar.

Over the last several years, Mr.  Jarvis has spoken at seminars on the topics of toxic torts, trial practice, and ethics. He is co-author of the articles Trace Benzene Cases in the Real World: Is a Trace Benzene Case Really a Benzene Case? Litigation Watch: Benzene June 2005 and Mechanism or Causation? The New Battle Over Benzene Metabolites. Litigation Watch: Benzene May 2006.

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