About Julie Travis
Julie Travis Moss built a career that moves between the courtroom, the law school classroom and private practice. She holds a J.D. from Loyola University Chicago and a B.A. from the University of Michigan. Those classroom years gave her the foundation for a varied legal path that includes litigation, estate work and legal writing instruction.
Her earliest listed position is as a lawyer in 1998 at Willey & Chamberlain. She set out on her own in 2001 as a solo practitioner under Julie Beard Travis PLC. That experience running a small practice exposed her to the everyday demands of client work and the mechanics of practice management. She later served as a litigation associate at Braun & Associates, PLLC in 2010, and worked as an estate and trust administration lawyer for Russ Cook & Associates, PC in 2013. In 2015 she joined The Blair Law Office as of counsel, a role that placed her back in a collaborative firm environment.
Alongside practice, Moss has taught. In 2013 she was an instructor at Vanderbilt University, teaching legal writing. Earlier, in 2009, she worked as a legal writing assistant at Thomas M. Cooley Law School. Those positions show a steady engagement with legal education and an interest in how lawyers communicate in writing. Her classroom roles were concurrent with periods of private practice, a mix that kept her engaged with both theory and practice.
Her court admissions span federal and state jurisdictions. She is admitted in Michigan and Tennessee, and to the Sixth Circuit. She also holds admission in the Western District of Michigan, the Northern District of Illinois, and the United States District Courts for the Middle District of Tennessee. Those credentials reflect a practice that moves across state lines and through federal dockets.
Moss maintains ties to the bar community. She is listed as a current member of the Nashville Bar Association and the State Bar of Michigan. Those affiliations align with the geographic breadth of her admissions and practice history.
Her professional record includes both hands-on client work and teaching roles. She has shifted between solo practice, firm roles and academic instruction. That mix has given her experience handling litigation matters and the administration of estates and trusts, as well as mentoring law students on legal writing. She currently focuses on estate and trust administration, civil litigation, and legal writing and education.
