Randall Kinnard

Randall L. Kinnard is a personal injury trial lawyer at Kinnard Law in Nashville, Tennessee. His practice includes medical malpractice and product liability, and he has more than 40 years of experience.

Kinnard’s firm biography lists a $55 million verdict for sportscaster Erin Andrews against a hotel for negligence and invasion of privacy and a $22 million jury verdict it describes as the largest in Tennessee for a single person in a personal injury case. Other results include a $2 million verdict involving a lost biopsy sample at Vanderbilt and a $1.75 million verdict in a breast cancer misdiagnosis case.

He is board certified in Civil Trial Law (since 1995) and Civil Practice Advocacy (since 2012) by the National Board of Trial Advocacy, and holds a Medical Malpractice Specialist certification from the American Board of Professional Liability Attorneys. He is admitted in Tennessee and Kentucky, is a past president of the Tennessee Trial Lawyers Association and is a fellow of the International Academy of Trial Lawyers and the American College of Trial Lawyers. Best Lawyers in America named him its 2025 Personal Injury and Product Liability Lawyer of the Year in Nashville.

Kinnard attended the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and served in Vietnam with the 173rd Airborne Brigade, where he received the Bronze Star for Valor, the Purple Heart and the Air Medal, among other decorations. He later earned his law degree at Memphis State University School of Law, where he was a member of the law review.