About John
John Griffith began his formal education at the University of Tennessee, where he earned a Bachelor of Science in 1984. He later attended Nashville School of Law and completed his J.D. program in 1998. In 2012 he pursued additional training at the Gerry Spence Trial Lawyers College, an experience that informed his approach to courtroom work.
Griffith's career in Tennessee law spans practice, firm building and trade association leadership. He was a founding member of Griffith & Roberts, PLLC in 2002. Fourteen years later he established GriffithLaw, where he serves as the founding lawyer. Over more than two decades he has balanced private practice responsibilities with active participation in state and national trial organizations.
His involvement in professional groups has been steady. He has held membership in the American Association for Justice since 2005. Within the Tennessee Trial Lawyers Association he served on the board and executive committee in 2017 and 2018, was vice president for the Middle Tennessee region from 2018 to 2019, and served as the association's president for the 2020–2021 term. Earlier, from 2013 to 2015, he took on the role of legislative chair for the Tennessee Association for Justice. Those positions placed him in the middle of discussions about trial practice, statutory reform and courtroom procedure in the state.
Colleagues describe Griffith as a lawyer who values courtroom preparedness and steady advocacy. He has invested time in trial skills instruction, including his studies at the Gerry Spence program, and in mentoring younger lawyers through association activities. He combines that hands-on courtroom orientation with the administrative work of running a small firm. The result is a practice shaped by case management, client contact and regular courthouse appearances.
Griffith is licensed to practice in Tennessee and has concentrated his work in state courts. He continues to participate in the professional groups that have been part of his career for years. His current practice centers on civil trial work and representing plaintiffs in Tennessee courts.
