Practice Groups    
 
Professional Negligence / Medical Malpractice
Ms. Burnette zealously represents the firm's health care clients by efficiently and effectively resolving claims in litigation, devising risk management strategies, and working to shape the body of law to better serve the health care industry.
 
Heath Care
In working with health care clients to develop bylaws and policies for HIPAA compliance and credentialing, peer review, and corrective action processes, Ms. Burnette's goals are to serve the clients' immediate needs, as well as anticipate the "hot button" issues of today and tomorrow. When representing hospitals and physicians in peer review and corrective action proceedings, she strives to ensure each party is afforded due process and to concurrently promote quality and safe health care for all patients. Ms. Burnette guides health care providers involved in professional negligence litigation through the myriad of credentialing, licensure, peer review, reporting, and disciplinary issues that often accompany such civil suits.

Biography
Brandy Burnette represents the firm's corporate and individual clients in health care litigation matters, including medical malpractice, dental malpractice and other professional negligence actions. Ms. Burnette has experience defending physicians, hospitals, and other health care providers throughout Middle and East Tennessee in civil litigation, disciplinary proceedings, and administrative matters. Ms. Burnette has developed expertise and a particular interest in HIPAA-related issues arising in litigation and in peer review matters, including efforts to uphold the peer review privilege and representation of physicians and hospitals in fair hearings, appellate reviews, and other disciplinary proceedings.

Ms. Burnette has also represented commercial and business entities in a variety of business litigation matters.

Before joining Hall, Booth, Smith & Slover, Ms. Burnette practiced with Gideon & Wiseman, a Nashville firm. Ms. Burnette served as Law Clerk to the Honorable William M. Acker, Jr. in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama, upon graduation from Cumberland School of Law.

While attending Cumberland School of Law, Ms. Burnette served as a Member and Articles Editor of the Cumberland Law Review and as a Cordell Hull Teaching Fellow for Legal Research and Writing. She focused her extracurricular activities on serving as Justice of Phi Alpha Delta, Cordell Hull Chapter, and developing trial advocacy skills through mock trial competitions and clerkships. Upon graduation, Ms. Burnette was inducted into Phi Kappa Phi and the Law School's own honor society, Curia Honoris.