Mark W. Peters
Partner
Overview
Mark Peters represents employers in litigation and day-to-day advice and counseling. He combines a focus on results with a client-centric approach. Through his extensive work with providers in acute care, behavioral health, long term care, home health and dialysis, healthcare employers rely upon his experience to solve their employment issues and disputes with non-clinical and clinical staff - including physicians - creatively, efficiently and effectively.
Mr. Peters works with employers to help manage their workforces and resolve disputes through the most appropriate and cost-efficient means - either through negotiation, litigation, or alternative dispute resolution. He has significant jury trial and arbitration success in employment discrimination, retaliatory discharge and harassment cases. He also advocates for employers in matters involving wage and hour collective and class actions, the FMLA, Section 806 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, trade secrets and restrictive covenants, ERISA claims, unfair labor practices and union negotiations. Additionally, Mr. Peters is experienced in successfully developing and implementing mandatory alternative dispute resolution programs.
Mr. Peters has authored numerous articles in national publications and regularly speaks on employment issues throughout the country. He is active in the American Health Law Association, previously serving for six years as a vice chair of the Labor and Employment practice group.
Credentials
- University of Florida Levin College of Law, J.D., with honors
- Sewanee: The University of the South, B.A.
- Tennessee
- All State Courts in Tennessee
- All U.S. District Courts in Arkansas
- All U.S. District Courts in Colorado
- All U.S. District Courts in Oklahoma
- All U.S. District Courts in Tennessee
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio
- U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas
- U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana
- U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas
- U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan
- U.S. Supreme Court
- Nashville Bar Association
- Tennessee Bar Association
- American Bar Associations
- American Health Law Association, Labor and Employment Group, Past Vice Chair
- Society for Human Resource Management, Middle Tennessee, Past Board Member, Legislative and Legal Chair
- Harry Phillips American Inn of Court, Alumnus
- Society for Human Resource Management, National and Nashville Chapters
- Frist Foundation Young Leader's Council, Alumnus
- Urban League of Middle Tennessee, Former Board Member and Secretary
- Glendale Spanish Immersion Elementary School, Former PTO Co-President
- Nashville Young Leaders Council, Alumnus
- Chambers USA – America's Leading Business Lawyers guide, Labor & Employment, 2013-2024
- The Best Lawyers in America guide, Health Care Law, 2020-2023, 2025; Litigation - Labor and Employment, 2020-2025
- Martindale-Hubbell AV Preeminent Peer Review Rated