Hayes Thomas

Honors: College Football Team Captain & Most Valuable Player, 1989 University of Tennessee College Of Law, Knoxville, Tennessee Recipient, American Jurisprudence Award for Contracts, 1990 Recipient, American Jurisprudence Award for Trial Practice, 1991 More than 27 years of legal experience. The fourth lawyer from Nashville and twelfth lawyer from... Tennessee to be named a Fellow in the Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers. Selected as one of the Best Lawyers in America by his peers every year since 2007. Selected to Top 100 Lawyers in Tennessee list every year since 2018 by Super Lawyers. Named a Fellow of the Nashville Bar Foundation in 2014. Appointed by the Tennessee Supreme Court to serve as a member of the Disciplinary Hearing Committee for the Tennessee Board of Professional Responsibility, which oversees discipline of all lawyers in the state. Founding Member of the law firm Hayes Thomas PLC in Nashville, Tennessee. Mr. Hayes is a frequent lecturer and writer on matrimonial and family law topics, and has created a Divorce Guide to provide clients with general information on the divorce process Mr. Hayes has handled many difficult divorce actions including those that involved complex property division issues, such as valuing printing companies, doctors practices, lawyers practices, automobile dealerships, insurance companies, construction companies, real estate partnerships, petroleum distributors, and interstate trucking companies. Mr. Hayes was honored in 2007 as the fourth lawyer from Nashville and the twelfth lawyer from Tennessee to be named a fellow in the esteemed American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, founded in 1962 in Chicago. Members of the Academy are generally recognized by judges and attorneys as preeminent family law practitioners with a high level of knowledge, skill and integrity. Since 2007, Mr. Hayes has been selected by his peers as one of the Best Lawyers in America in the area of Matrimonial and Family Law, and Mr. Hayes has been listed in each edition of that publication since 2007. ...Read More