Amy J. Everhart founded her law firm in 2009 to counsel individuals and organizations in the creative industries, entrepreneurs, inventors, business owners, and others with legal needs in the areas of trademark, copyright, entertainment, and technology. From 1998 to 2009, Everhart practiced with Nashville law firm Riley Warnock & Jacobson, PLC, where she was named a member in 2008.
Everhart has represented recording artists, songwriters, major and independent record companies, music publishers, managers, agents, book publishers, authors, athletes, screenwriters, film producers, web developers, app developers, graphic and visual artists, photographers, entrepreneurs, fashion and jewelry designers, non-profit organizations and other corporate and individual clients in the creative industries and beyond. Everhart played a significant role in coordinating the joint defense of hundreds of rap-sampling copyright-infringement lawsuits brought simultaneously against major record companies and music publishers in the landmark Bridgeport Music, Inc. litigation in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee.
Everhart was named one of Nashville Post’s Law Leaders Rising in 2012 and has been named a Super Lawyers Rising Star from 2009 to 2012. She is a founding member of the Belmont University College of Law American Inn of Court and former chair of the Tennessee Bar Association Entertainment & Sports Law Section. She is a member of and founded newsletters for the Tennessee Bar Association Intellectual Property Section and the Tennessee Lawyers' Association for Women, where she is a member of the executive board and the technology committee chair. Ms. Everhart was a co-drafter of the Tennessee Protection of Minor Performers' Act. She is an alumni of the Tennessee Bar Association Leadership Law Class of 2008, the Harry Phillips American Inn of Court, and the Women's Music Business Association. She is a contributor to the newsletters of the Lawyers' Association for Women, Marion Griffin Chapter, and the American Bar Association Women's Advocacy Committee and the Tennessee Bar Journal. She is a founding member of the Nashville Bar Association Solo and Small-Practice Committee and a member of the Country Music Association. Ms. Everhart volunteers her time with the Volunteer Lawyers and Professionals for the Arts.
Ms. Everhart is a graduate of Vanderbilt University School of Law and the University of North Dakota.
