Robertson Overbey Wilson & Beeler

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Welcome to Robertson, Overbey, Wilson & Beeler.
Our law firm offers a wide variety of legal services ranging from major civil litigation involving complex antitrust and commercial issues and defending physicians and other health care providers in professional negligence cases to serving as bond counsel, issuer's counsel, and underwriter's counsel in more than $7.7 billion dollars worth of tax-exempt financings. Our firm also serves various clients, including a continuing care retirement community, professional engineering firm, utility districts and a municipality as general counsel. We have completed transactions ranging from the acquisition and merger of major area hospitals to the start-up of an environmental research company, a construction company, and the sale of a multi- physician family practice to a major health system.
At the same time, we have represented various commercial enterprises and individuals in federal antitrust grand jury and Department of Justice investigations, handled child custody disputes and family law matters, and given counsel to persons setting out with their first corporate and partnership endeavors.
The firm has a long history. It was founded in 1982 by Claude K. Robertson, J. Edward Ingram, Norman H. Williams, Shannon D. Faulkner, III, and J. Douglas Overbey. Doug Overbey is the current senior and managing partner. He is a resident of Maryville and represents the 20th District in the Tennessee General Assembly. His legal experience ranges across the gamut from antitrust and commercial litigation to major transactional endeavors. He is the former Chancellor of the Diocese of East Tennessee, and serves as general counsel to a number of corporations in the area as well as City Attorney for the City of Alcoa.
Richard Beeler was Law Director for Knox County for ten years and currently is bond counsel to Knox County. Most of his practice is committed to dealing with multimillion dollar tax exempt financings for various cities, counties, utility districts, and other tax-exempt issuers. He also maintains a litigation practice in defending individual police officers, cities, and counties in civil rights actions, and serves as general counsel to the West Knox Utility District, the Knox County Retirement and Pension Board, and the Utilities Management Federation of Knox County, Tennessee.
Shelly Wilson moved to Tennessee from Florida in 1999. She worked in Florida for more than eleven years practicing primarily criminal defense, and has worked over the last ten years for clients who need help with antitrust and general corporate law issues including corporate formation and employment law, contract negotiation, land development issues, estate settlement issues, family law, and criminal prosecution.
David Waite counsels physicians and defends medical malpractice, nursing home and class action cases. He is also experienced in products liability and toxic torts.
John Owings was Chief Deputy Law Director and Law Director for Knox County for a combined total of eighteen years. Prior to his experience with Knox County, John was the first pro se law clerk and staff attorney for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee and, while in law school, he worked as an investigator for the Tennessee Human Rights Commission. John has also been a certified federal and state court mediator since 1995. Having practiced law in Knoxville for over 20 years, Johns concentrations are in business, corporate, employment, labor, personal injury, products liability, municipal, governmental and public utilities law, mediation and civil litigation, including defending individual police officers, officials, cities and counties in civil rights actions.
Stephanie Burchfield is the newest associate to the firm. Thus far she has gained experience working on a wide variety of civil cases including products liability and civil rights defense. She also does contracts, powers of attorney, and other drafting work.
The firm is also proud to have the Of-Counsel association of: Frederick Fields, who served as Vice President and General Counsel of St. Mary's Health System, and Randall A. Huffman, an experienced lawyer in the area of tax-exempt financings and securities, who is licensed to practice in Connecticut and New York.
The firm carries an AV rating from Martindale-Hubbell. We would welcome the opportunity