Richard Austin Demonbreun is a senior litigation attorney at McChain Hamm & Associates
with a total of over 36 years of practice experience before the various state and federal courts in the State of Tennessee and the Territory of the United States Virgin Islands, with focus areas including Medical Malpractice, Wrongful Death, Personal Injury, Workers’ Compensation, Products Liability, Bankruptcy, Business Law, Creditors Rights, Commercial Litigation, Maritime/Admiralty Law, Probate and Domestic Relations. Richard Austin Demonbreun graduated from the Daniels School of Business at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1982. He then attended the Winston College of Law at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, to earn his Juris Doctor degree in 1987. While attending law school he was employed half-time as a law clerk for the Senior Attorney of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and following graduation was privileged to serve the federal judiciary as a law clerk for the Honorable Richard S. Stair, Jr. in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee. He was then admitted to the Tennessee bar and practiced with a Knoxville, Tennessee trial law firm before opening a private practice in his hometown of Nashville, Tennessee, on Demonbreun Street in 1995, where he continues to represent clients in addition to the United States Virgin Islands. Richard Austin Demonbreun is admitted and in good standing with the Supreme Court of the United States, the United States Tax Court, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee, the United States District Court of the Middle District of Tennessee, the United States District Court for the United States Virgin Islands, the Tennessee Supreme Court, the Tennessee Court of Appeals and all state and appellate courts of record in the State of Tennessee and United States Virgin Islands. He is also a member of the Virgin Islands Bar Association, Tennessee Bar Association and Nashville Bar Association, the American Association for Justice (formerly ATLA) and the Phi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity. He enjoys living aboard, sailing, and scuba diving in the Caribbean on his catamaran named “Billable Hours” moored at Green Cay Marina,
Christiansted, St. Croix, USVI.