Best's Insurance Professional Resources
Client-Recommended Attorneys, Adjusters and Experts
Best's Insurance Professional Resources
Client-Recommended Attorneys, Adjusters and Experts


Brewer, Krause, Brooks & Chastain, PLLC

Best's Recommended Insurance Attorneys - General Defense

545 Mainstream Drive, Suite 101, Nashville, Tennessee 37228

Practice Areas

  • Insurance Defense
  • Automobile
  • Product Liability
  • Arson
  • Fraud
  • Property and Casualty
  • Professional Liability
  • Medical Malpractice
  • Environmental Law
  • Workers' Compensation
  • Labor and Employment

Client Information

Insurance Clients

Non-Insurance Clients

  • Alexsis Risk Management Services, Inc.
  • American Specialty Insurance Services, Inc.
  • ARA Services, Inc.
  • B.F. Nashville, Inc.
  • Chesebrough-Ponds, Inc.
  • Claims Management Services, Inc.
  • Crawford & Company
  • Deep South of Tennessee, Inc.
  • Elliston, Inc.
  • FedEx Express
  • GAB Robins North America, Inc.
  • General Motors Corporation
  • Hamilton Resources Corporation
  • HFIC Management Company, Inc.
  • Ingram Industries, Inc.
  • Laidlaw Transit Services, Inc.
  • Nashville Electric Service
  • Office Depot, Inc.
  • Olan Mills, Inc.
  • Randstad North America
  • Republic Financial Services, Inc.
  • Risk Management Claim Services, Inc.
  • Sedgwick Claims Management Services, Inc.
  • Synergy Coverage Solutions, LLC
  • Tennessee Insurance Guaranty Association
  • Tennessee Risk Management Trust
  • Transam Trucking, Inc.

Self-Insured Clients

  • Dollar General Corporation
  • GM Motors National Benefit & Service Center
  • Toys "R" Us, Inc.
  • Vulcan Materials Company

Third Party Administrators

  • Broadspire
  • Gallagher Bassett Services, Inc.
  • York Risk Services Group, Inc.

Personnel Information

Of Counsel


Kent E. Krause

Nashville, TN

Admitted
  • Tennessee, 1978
  • Georgia
  • U.S. District Court, Middle District of Tennessee, 1978
  • U.S. Supreme Court, 1984
  • U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit
  • U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Tennessee, 1986
Memberships:
  • American, Tennessee and Nashville Bar Associations
  • State Bar of Georgia
Education:
  • Vanderbilt University, B.A., 1974
  • Emory University, J.D., 1978

Born: 1952

Firm Members


W. Bryan Brooks

Nashville, TN

Admitted
  • Tennessee, 1980
  • U.S. District Court, Middle District of Tennessee, 1980
  • U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit, 1984
Memberships:
  • Tennessee and Nashville Bar Associations
Education:
  • Western Kentucky University, B.A. (magna cum laude), 1977
  • Washington University in St. Louis, J.D., 1980
Honors:
Order of Barristers

Born: 1955

Parks T. Chastain

Nashville, TN

Admitted
  • Tennessee, 1989
  • U.S. District Court, Middle District of Tennessee, 1989
Memberships:
  • American and Nashville Bar Associations
Education:
  • University of Louisville, B.S., 1986
  • University of Louisville, J.D., 1989
Fraternity Information:
Delta Theta Phi

Born: 1965

Glen L. Krause

Nashville, TN

Admitted
  • Tennessee, 1987
  • Alabama, 1989
  • U.S. District Court, Middle District of Tennessee, 1989
Memberships:
  • Tennessee and Nashville Bar Associations
Education:
  • Florida State University, B.A., 1983
  • Cumberland College, J.D., 1987

Born: 1961

Dianne M. Schwartz

Nashville, TN

Admitted
  • Florida, 1992
  • Tennessee, 1998
  • U.S. District Court, Middle and Western Districts of Tennessee, 2000
Memberships:
  • Tennessee and Nashville Bar Associations
Education:
  • Vanderbilt University, B.A. (cum laude), 1988
  • Nova University, J.D. (summa cum laude), 1992

Born: 1965

Steven J. Meisner

Nashville, TN

Admitted
  • Tennessee, 2004
  • U.S. District Court, Middle District of Tennessee, 2006
Memberships:
  • Tennessee and Nashville Bar Associations
Education:
  • Middle Tennessee State University, B.S. (cum laude), 2001
  • University of Memphis Law School, J.D., 2004
Honors:
National Moot Court; National Award for Legal Writing
Military:
U.S. Marine Corps, 1993-1997

Born: 1973

E. Jason Ferrell

Nashville, TN

Admitted
  • Tennessee, 2005
  • U.S. District Court, Middle and Western Districts of Tennessee, 2010
Memberships:
  • Tennessee and Nashville Bar Associations
Education:
  • Middle Tennessee State University, B.S., 1996
  • Nashville School of Law, J.D., 2005

Born: 1972

Associate Attorneys


Cory R. Miller

Nashville, TN

Admitted
  • Tennessee, 2016
  • U.S. District Court, Middle District of Tennessee, 2017
Memberships:
  • Tennessee Bar Association
Education:
  • Middle Tennessee State University, B.S. Business Admin., 2008
  • Bethel College, M.B.A., 2013
  • Arizona Summit Law School, J.D., 2015

Born: 1984

Hannah J. Leifel

Nashville, TN

Admitted
  • Tennessee, 2020
Education:
  • John Carroll University, B.S. (Dean's List), 2016
  • Belmont University College of Law, J.D., 2020

Born: 1995

Angelica M. Santiago

Nashville, TN

Admitted
  • Tennessee, 2021
Memberships:
  • Tennessee Bar Association
  • Nashville Bar Association
Education:
  • University of Massachusetts Amherst, B.A., 2017
  • Belmont University College of Law, J.D., 2021

Born: 1994

Jordan D. Tidwell

Nashville, TN

Admitted
  • Tennessee, 2023
Memberships:
  • Tennessee and Nashville Bar Associations
Education:
  • The University of Tennessee Knoxville, B.A., 2019
  • Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, J.D., 2023

Born: 1997

Sarah K. Gerkins

Nashville, TN

Admitted
  • Tennessee, 2023
Memberships:
  • Tennessee and Nashville Bar Associations
Education:
  • College of Charleston, B.S. (cum laude), 2018
  • The University of Tennessee College of Law, J.D., 2022

Born: 1996

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