Erin Palmer Polly is a partner and a trusted advisor who provides clients with balanced and practical advice, strategically guiding them through complex matters. A respected trial lawyer, Erin is a member of the firm’s Commercial Disputes practice group and focuses her practice in the areas of business and commercial disputes, including provider-payor disputes. She has tried cases in federal and state courts, as well as before arbitration panels. Erin regularly represents health care providers in commercial disputes, including representation in provider-payor disputes ranging from US$17 million to US$240 million before state and federal courts and arbitration panels, and including in an appeal to the Tennessee Supreme Court.
National
- Recognized by Chambers USA for Litigation: General Commercial in Tennessee, 2024-2025
- Benchmark Litigation, Future Star, 2018, 2022-2023, 2026
- Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America®
- Commercial Litigation, 2018-2026
- Personal Injury Litigation - Defendants, 2018-2026
- Lawdragon 500 Leading Litigators in America, 2022, 2024-2026
- Recognized by The Legal 500 United States as a Recommended Lawyer for General Commercial Disputes, 2023, 2025
- The National Law Journal, Top Verdicts of 2016, $22,200,000
- Super Lawyers®
- Named to Mid-South Super Lawyers list, Civil Litigation: Defense, 2018-2025
- Named to the Mid-South Super Lawyers list, Top 100 Lawyers in Tennessee, 2022-2025
- Named to the Mid-South Super Lawyers list, Top 50 Women Lawyers in the Southeast, 2022-2025
- Named to Mid-South Rising Stars List, Civil Litigation: Defense, 2010-2017
Local
- Best of the Bar, Nashville Business Journal, 2016-2024
- Women of Influence, Nashville Business Journal, 2023
- Top 40 Under 40, Nashville Business Journal, 2017
- Fellow, Tennessee Bar Foundation, 2019
- Fellow, Nashville Bar Foundation, 2015
- President's Award, Nashville Bar Association, 2015, 2024
- Impact Award, Nashville Bar Association Young Lawyers Division, 2025
- President’s Award, Lawyers’ Association for Women, Marion Griffin Chapter, 2024
- Legal Aid Society, Volunteer Lawyers Program Pro Bono Leadership Award, 2014
- Enterprise Award, Nashville Bar Association Young Lawyers Division, 2007
- Maryville College Kin Takahashi Award for Young Alumni, 2006
- Tennessee Bar Association
- Leadership Law Program, Class of 2014
- Nashville Bar Association
- Past President, 2018
- Young Lawyers Division Past President, 2014
- Nashville Bar Foundation
- Past President, 2024
- Legal Aid Society of Middle Tennessee and the Cumberlands
- Board of Directors
- 2019 Campaign for Equal Justice Chair
- Tennessee Lawyer’s Fund for Client Protection
- Past Chair, 2020-2021
- Harry Phillips American Inn of Court
- Belmont University College of Law Dean's Advisory Council
- Lawyers’ Association for Women, Marion Griffin Chapter
- Maryville College Board of Directors
- Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel
- Young Leaders Council, Class 45
- Presenter, “Federal Courts,” Nashville Bar Foundation Leadership Forum, 11 January 2023
- Presenter, “How to Break-Up with Your Worst Client,” Lawyers’ Association for Women, Marion Griffin Chapter, 15 February 2022
- Presenter, “Litigation Alternatives,” International Trademark Association Roundtable, 21 June 2017
- Presenter, “Making the Most of Discovery: What You Don’t Know Can Come Back to Haunt You,” Tennessee Bar Association, 7 April 2016
- Presenter, “Making the Most of Discovery: What You Don’t Know Can Come Back to Haunt You,” Tennessee Bar Association, 2 April 2015
- “The World Trade Organization Slips Up: A Critique of the World Trade Organization’s Dispute Settlement Understanding Through the European Union Banana Dispute,” Tennessee Law Review, Vol. 69, 2002
- A Nashville Business Journal article notes Erin Palmer Polly was recognized among the publication’s 2023 “Women of Influence” winners.
- A Nashville Business Journal (online) article notes Nashville partners Kim Looney and Erin Palmer Polly were recognized among the publication’s 2022 Best of the Bar honorees.
- Mentioned, "In Charge 2022: Legal," Nashville Post, 23 April 2022
- "Announcing the 2021 Best of the Bar honorees," Nashville Business Journal, 21 May 2021
