Stites & Harbison, PLLC, announced today that Attorney Brian Neal of Nashville, Tenn., has been elected to membership in the law firm, effective Jan. 1, 2014. Brian Neal is a litigator in the Business Litigation and the Torts & Insurance Practice Service Groups. He concentrates his practice on trial work in connection with complex commercial disputes, bad-faith insurance defense, products liability and general litigation. He has served as first-chair litigator in a wide range of matters, and he has experience litigating matters on appeal before the highest courts in Tennessee. He is a graduate of the Tennessee Bar Association’s Leadership Law Class of 2011 and the Young Leaders’ Council, Class 50. Neal is admitted to practice in Tennessee.

Mr. Neal grew up in Fairview, Ala., and graduated from Fairview High School in 1994, from Birmingham-Southern College in 1998 (B.A., History, summa cum laude), from University of Edinburgh (M.Sc., History) in 1999, and lastly from University of Michigan Law School in 2002 (J.D.).