John

Brady is a member of Butler Snow’s Pharmaceutical, Medical Device and Healthcare Practice Group.  Brady assists his clients with their most complex and high stakes legal problems and has been involved in multiple mass tort trials defending pharmaceutical companies against personal injury claims. Brady has experience serving diverse and global clients, and representing multinational pharmaceutical companies in product liability and mass tort litigation, doctors and hospital systems in healthcare liability, companies and individuals in personal injury cases, and healthcare facilities in Certificate of Need litigation. Brady assists clients in virtually all stages of litigation by drafting briefs, conducting discovery, preparing company witnesses for depositions, and researching legal questions.

• Mass Torts
• Drug & Device Litigation
• Toxic Torts, Asbestos & Silica Litigation
• Health Care Litigation
• Health Law
• Commercial Litigation

Pharmaceutical, Medical Device and Healthcare

As a member of Butler Snow’s Pharmaceutical, Medical Device and Healthcare group, Brady has played a key role in defending global pharmaceutical companies in complex product liability and mass tort cases, and has represented hospitals, physicians, and healthcare systems in medical liability disputes. His practice also includes advocating for clients in personal injury claims and representing leading healthcare institutions across Tennessee with their regulatory and Certificate of Need matters. Brady supports clients through every phase of litigation, from legal research and discovery to drafting persuasive briefs and developing case strategy.

He received his J.D., cum laude, from The University of Tennessee College of Law and his B.A. from Rhodes College, where he also played four years of varsity baseball.

• National wave discovery coordinating counsel for a multinational manufacturing company in the largest mass tort MDL in history concerning sale of allegedly defective earplugs to the military.
• Provided on-site trial support to lead trial counsel in talcum powder product liability trials, including assisting with development of strategy, coordinating deposition designations of company and case specific witnesses, arguing objections to deposition designations and motions in limine, preparing company and expert witnesses, and assisting with preparations of cross examinations of plaintiffs’ case specific and general causation experts.
  • Perry v. Johnson & Johnson, Richland County, South Carolina, 2024, two-week jury trial
  • Salcedo v. Johnson & Johnson, Cook County, Illinois, 2024, five-week jury trial
  • Spinks v. Johnson & Johnson, Ramsey County, Minnesota, 2023

• Tennessee, 2022
• U.S. District Courts
  • Tennessee: Eastern, Middle, Western
• U.S. Court of Appeals
  • 6th Circuit

• University of Tennessee College of Law, J.D., cum laude, 2022
  • The Order of Barristers
  • Tennessee Law Review (Articles Editor)
  • Tennessee Journal of Race, Gender, & Social Justice (Research Editor)
  • C.A.L.I. Awards: Civil Procedure II, Trial Practice, Healthcare Fraud & Abuse, Commercial Leasing
  • 2022 Tulane Professional Football Negotiation Competition – Quarterfinalist
  • Latino Law Student Association
  • Sports & Entertainment Law Society
  • Law Women Association
  • Student Bar Association Mentorship Program
• Rhodes College, B.A., Political Science, 2019
  • Ralph C. Hon Scholarship
  • Pi Sigma Alpha Honor Society (Political Science)
  • Sigma Delta Pi Honor Society (Spanish)
  • Varsity Baseball, 4-year Varsity Letterman
  • 2019 SAA All-Conference Honoree
  • 2017 and 2018 SAA Baseball Tournament Champions

• Defense Research Institute (DRI)
  • Young Lawyers Committee
• Nashville Bar Association
  • Young Lawyers Division

• Presenter, "Safeguarding Against Spoliation - Duties and Practices for Success," Butler Snow and Enstar CLE Program, September 12, 2024.
• Co-Author, "How “Disappearing Apps” Entwine the Legal and Business World," Pro Te: Solutio, Vol. 16, No. 2, June 2023.