Salvador M. Hernandez

Sal Hernandez has extensive experience in representing and counseling clients through complex civil litigation in state and federal courts and in arbitration.  Mr. Hernandez has represented a variety of corporate and individual clients with business disputes arising from contracts, restrictive covenants, unfair competition, trade secrets, broker-dealer sales practices, employment and other business torts. 

Mr. Hernandez regularly appears as counsel in arbitrations before the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority and the American Arbitration Association on claims surrounding restrictive covenants, breach of contract, interference with contractual relations, unfair competition, raiding, suitability of investments and breach of fiduciary duty.

Mr. Hernandez served as a law clerk for the Honorable Gilbert S. Merritt of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit from 1999 to 2000.  He received his law degree from Vanderbilt University School of Law in 1999 and graduated with an A.B. degree cum laude in politics from Princeton University in 1996.  Mr. Hernandez is on the steering committee for the Nashville Chapter of the Vanderbilt University Alumni Association and is an alumnus of the Harry Phillips American Inn of Court.