Terry L. Hill
Retired- Location:
- Nashville, Tennessee
- Phone:
- 615-742-9310
- Fax:
- 629-500-1137
- Email:
- THill@ManierHerod.com
Terry L. Hill is a retired former partner at Manier & Herod. Mr. Hill received his undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Tennessee, and was Associate Editor of the Tennessee Law Review. He was admitted to the Bar in 1977.
Mr. Hill drafted a substantial part of the Tennessee Workers’ Compensation Reform Act of 1992 and many significant workers’ compensation statutes since that time. In his position as Executive Director of the Tennessee Self-Insurers’ Association from 2006 to 2013, Mr. Hill spearheaded the reform effort for Tennessee workers’ compensation law. He was Editor-in-Chief of Tennessee Workers’ Compensation: The Essential Guide, first, second, third and fourth editions. Mr. Hill was named 2015 “Lawyer of the Year” by The Best Lawyers in America in the category of Workers’ Compensation Defense Attorneys. He was also selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America each year since 1995 in the category of Workers’ Compensation Defense Attorneys. Mr. Hill was selected as one of the Mid-South Super Lawyers in the area of workers’ compensation, and was named as an AV Preeminent Lawyer by Martindale Hubbell for seventeen consecutive years. He has held seats on the Workers’ Compensation Advisory Committee and the Comparative Fault Advisory Committee of the Tennessee State Legislature. Mr. Hill was a member of the Tennessee Defense Lawyers Association, where he served as President, Vice President and Secretary-Treasurer, and also served on the Board of Directors. He was a member of the Nashville Bar Association and served as chairman of their Medico-Legal Committee, and was a Fellow in the Nashville Bar Foundation.
Mr. Hill has several published articles, including an article in the Insurance Law Review. He was also a member of the Tennessee Bar Association and was a member of the Defense Research Institute, in addition to having served for three years as Chairman of the Workers’ Compensation Section of the Federation of Defense & Corporate Counsel. He was a member of the Southern Association of Workers’ Compensation Administrators, and was also a member of the Mid-South Workers’ Compensation Association where he served as Vice-President. His law practice was in workers’ compensation and insurance litigation.
Education
- University of Tennessee College of Law
- J.D., 1977
- University of Tennessee, Knoxville
- B.A., 1974
Honors & Awards
- The Best Lawyers in America©, 1995 – Present
- Super Lawyers, 2008 – 2010, 2015 – Present
- Best Lawyers® 2015 Workers’ Compensation – Employers “Lawyer of the Year” in Nashville, Tennessee
Published Works
- Editor-in-Chief and Principal Author, Tennessee Workers’ Compensations (4th ed., 2012)
- Editor-in-Chief and Principal Author, Tennessee Workers’ Compensations (3rd ed., 2007)
- Editor-in-Chief and Principal Author, Tennessee Workers’ Compensations (2nd ed., 2003)
- Editor-in-Chief and Principal Author, Tennessee Workers’ Compensations (1st ed., 1994)
Classes/Seminars
- Speaker, Tennessee Self-Insurers Association Conference, 2013 – Present
- Speaker, Workers’ Compensation Institute’s Workers’ Compensation Educational Conference, 2010 – 2013
- Speaker, 70th Annual Workers’ Compensation Educational Conference, 2015 – Present
Professional Associations & Memberships
- Workers’ Compensation Advisory Committee to Tennessee Legislature, 1984
- Comparative Fault Advisory Committee to Tennessee State Legislature, 1985-86
- Nashville Bar Association
- Tennessee Bar Association
- American Bar Association
- Tennessee Defense Lawyers Association, Board of Directors, 1984-87
- Tennessee Defense Lawyers Association, Middle Tennessee Vice-President, 1988
- Tennessee Defense Lawyers Association, Secretary-Treasurer, 1989, President-Elect, 1990, President, 1991
- Tennessee Defense Lawyers Association, President, 1971 – Present
- Tennessee Self-Insurers’ Association, Executive Director, 2006-2013
- Southern Association of Workers’ Compensation Administrators
- Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel, Workers’ Compensation Section