Brian R. Iverson (JD '08) Joins Mercer University School of Law as Assistant Professor of Law

Brian R. Iverson (JD '08) has joined Mercer University School of Law as an assistant professor of law.  Before joining the Mercer Law School faculty, Iverson was an equity partner at Bass, Berry & Sims in Washington, DC and Nashville, Tennessee, where he spent 17 years handling complex civil litigation.

Iverson's research and teaching interests center around procedural and ethical issues in civil dispute resolution.  He will be teaching Jurisdiction & Judgments, Civil Lawsuits, Remedies, and E-Discovery.  His recent article, Give Me A Break: Regulating Communications Between Attorneys and Their Witness-Clients During Deposition Recesses, was published in the Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics and won a Law360 Distinguished Legal Writing Award from the Burton Awards.  Iverson has also co-authored books on patent litigation and financial institution regulation, and he has published dozens of shorter pieces in The ACC Docket, The New York Law Journal, Law 360, and other media.

Iverson is a court-appointed mediator for the DC Superior Court, a senior academic fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America, a member of the William A. Bootle American Inn of Court, and a member of the Belmont University College of Law American Inn of Court.