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James Weaver

Nashville, TN

(615) 850-8116
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Education

Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law at the University of Memphis, J. D., 1988
Vanderbilt University, B. A., 1984

Professional Experience

James Weaver is a partner at Waller Lansden.  Mr. Weaver assists a broad range of clients in state and local government relations and state and local regulatory matters and is particularly active in the areas of real estate development, environmental, insurance, construction, transportation and economic development areas.  During the start-up of the Tennessee Education Lottery Corporation in 2003-2004, he served as lead outside counsel.

Mr. Weaver serves as General Counsel to Tennessee’s Road Builders Association and as General Counsel to the Tennessee Chamber of Commerce and Industry.  He also is a former Vice Chair for Government Affairs of the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce.

Mr. Weaver has represented numerous clients involved in significant real estate development projects including the Cool Springs commercial development in Franklin, Tennessee, the Turkey Creek commercial development in Knoxville, Tennessee and downtown Nashville’s Viridian, ICON, Encore, Westin, Velocity and Signature Towers.  He has extensive experience with the use of Tax Increment Financing (TIF). Mr. Weaver also has worked with numerous public/private partnerships including negotiating significant government incentive packages for various clients.

Mr. Weaver is recognized in The Best Lawyers in America (Woodward White, Inc.) for his work in government relations law.  He also has been recognized for several years in the Nashville Business Journal’s “Best of the Bar,” the Nashville Post’s “Best Lawyers in Nashville” and Business Tennessee’s “Top 150 Lawyers in Tennessee.”

He also has been involved in a number of significant regulatory cases and matters, including the representation of responsible parties at over 40 Superfund sites and serving as lead counsel in permitting projects for power plants, mining facilities, pipelines and large commercial/industrial development projects.  He also has represented numerous regulated entities in matters before the state’s Department of Commerce and Insurance.  Mr. Weaver is considered a leading authority on Tennessee’s Aquatic Resource Alteration Permit (ARAP) program, as well as other federal and state natural resource impact permitting programs; federal and state voluntary clean up and brownfields programs; the National Environmental Policy Act and Tennessee’s regulation of energy facility siting.

Mr. Weaver frequently speaks on regulatory, energy, brownfields, environmental and government affairs issues, and he has been a seminar presenter for the American Corporate Counsel Association, CLE, Inc., the Tennessee Bar Association, the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation, the Air and Waste Management Association, the National Brownfields Association, National Business Institute (NBI), Government Institutes, Inc., the Tennessee Valley Corridor Summit, the Tennessee Road Builders Association, and the Tennessee Chamber of Commerce and Industry.