Rocky McElhaney
Founder and Principal Shareholder | Rocky McElhaney Law Firm
Rocky McElhaney is a personal injury, workers' compensation and truck accidents trial lawyer and founder and principal shareholder of Rocky McElhaney Law Firm in Hendersonville, Tennessee. Admitted in Tennessee; J.D., Nashville School of Law (1999).
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Hendersonville, Tennessee 37075
Rocky McElhaney is the founder and principal shareholder of Rocky McElhaney Law Firm, a Tennessee personal injury and workers’ compensation practice with offices in Nashville, Hendersonville, Murfreesboro and Clarksville. He handles serious auto, truck and motorcycle crash cases, brain and spinal cord injuries, wrongful death, workers’ compensation and Social Security disability claims for clients across Tennessee and the Southeast.
McElhaney grew up in Morristown, Tennessee. He decided to become a lawyer as a teenager after watching his father, a millwright, struggle for years to get an insurer to pay a workers’ compensation claim for a back injury. He earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville in 1995 and a law degree from the Nashville School of Law in 1999. He is admitted in Tennessee state courts, the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
His 2010 representation of Timothy Cook against General Motors produced a verdict that let many injured Tennessee workers reopen closed claims. He received the Paladin Award from the Tennessee Trial Lawyers Association and the AFL-CIO’s Presidential Award, and he is a member of The National Trial Lawyers Top 100. He and his wife, Penny, support Gallatin CARES, a Sumner County food pantry.
Experience and Expertise
Qualifications
Timeline
- J.D., Nashville School of Law, 1999
- B.A., University of Tennessee at Knoxville, 1995
- Admitted to Tennessee state courts, 1999
- Admitted to the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee, 1999
- Admitted to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, 2006
Practice Areas
- Top 100 Trial Lawyers, The National Trial Lawyers
- Paladin Award, Tennessee Trial Lawyers Association
- Presidential Award, AFL-CIO
- AV Preeminent, Martindale-Hubbell
- Best of the Bar, Nashville Business Journal
- Top 50 in Tennessee, Super Lawyers
- Best Personal Injury Attorney in Nashville, Nashville Scene Readers' Poll (12 years running)
- InCharge Leader Inductee, Nashville Post (2017-2025)
- Multi-Million Dollar Advocate, Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum
- Seal of Experience, Trial Masters
- Landmark Verdict: Represented Timothy Cook against General Motors in 2010; the verdict set Tennessee precedent allowing injured workers to reopen closed cases.
- Foreclosure Resolved: In 2011, took on 78-year-old Helen Bailey's foreclosure fight with Chase Bank; the bank conceded and allowed her to remain in her home for life.
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