Butler Snow LLP is pleased to announce that Jin Yoshikawa has been named to the Nashville Bar Foundation’s 2026 Leadership Forum Class. Yoshikawa was named alongside 23 other attorneys practicing in the Nashville area.
“We are proud to see Jin recognized by the Nashville Bar Foundation,” said Christopher R. Maddux, chair of Butler Snow. “This recognition is further evidence of his dedication to our clients and local community in Nashville.”
Since 2014, the Nashville Bar Foundation has selected a group of young attorneys with three to eight years of experience to represent the NBF Leadership Forum. Candidates are selected to participate in monthly workshops to assist them in supporting the legal profession and their local community.
Jin Yoshikawa
Yoshikawa is a member of Butler Snow’s Pharmaceutical, Medical Device & Healthcare Litigation practice group. He handles a diverse range of matters including nationwide multidistrict product liability litigation, healthcare liability actions, and pro bono matters. He wears many hats, drafting and arguing motions, managing complex e-discovery, analyzing complex medical records and engineering documents, taking and defending depositions, and coordinating litigation teams. Yoshikawa uses his background in computer science, artificial intelligence, and machine learning, to collaborate with clients, practitioners, and academics to advance the development of technology law. He also has experience litigating trademark and copyright disputes in federal and state courts and the USPTO. As a first-generation American and Japanese native speaker, he is heavily involved in activities advancing U.S.-Japan economic and cultural exchange, the Asian-Pacific Islander community, and diversity and inclusion.
Yoshikawa is a member of the U.S.-Japan Council, the Japan-America Society of Tennessee, the Tennessee Asian Pacific American Bar Association and the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association. He is also a member of the American, Nashville and Tennessee Bar Associations.
He earned his bachelor’s degree from Columbia University and his Juris Doctor from the Vanderbilt University Law School, where he served as editor-in-chief of the Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law.
