Bruce D. Fox

Bruce Fox is a partner and co-founder of Fox & Farley. His personal injury practice focuses on automobile accidents, workers' compensation, products liability, hospital and nursing home injuries, and trucking litigation. In addition, Bruce has significant multi-state lead counsel class action litigation experience against a variety of defendants. Bruce is co-founder of the Energy Workers' Legal Resource Center in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, a law firm dedicated to helping local energy workers sick with serious lung diseases, cancers and hearing loss as a result of their work for various Department of Energy contractors.

Bruce has practiced law for over thirty-one years, and has a long track record of successful client representation at every trial and appellate court level of the Tennessee state judicial system. Bruce has tried over 125 state and federal jury trials to completion, and has tried over 400 nonjury cases as well. Most of his current clients are referrals from past clients and other attorneys, and many of Bruce's clients have sought his counsel and representation on a repeated basis over the years and decades.

Bruce grew up in Clinton, Tennessee. At home in the hills of rural East Tennessee, Bruce's physical surroundings were humble, but he was rich in the love of his parents and family. From them, he learned the value of hard work, integrity, and fairness. With little formal education or training, Bruce's father and family built several successful businesses on the basic principle of dedicated and ethical service to customers, a value that guides Bruce's practice of law every day.

Bruce attended college and law school at the University of Tennessee. In his sophomore year of college, Bruce began six years of service to his country as a member of the United States Air Force National Guard. Upon graduation from the University of Tennessee College of Law, a professor invited Bruce to study in England, at Cambridge University. Bruce completed an advanced law degree at Cambridge, and holds a LLB in International Law.

Bruce has been honored by many legal organizations and publications. He is a Founding Member (and current Master of the Bench) of the Hamilton Burnett American Inn of Court in Knoxville. He is one of approximately 100 Tennessee lawyers selected for membership by the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA).

For 25 years, Bruce has been re-elected annually by his peers to the Board of the Tennessee Association of Justice. In 2007, 2008, and 2009 he was named to the Mid-South Super Lawyers. In 2008 and 2009 Knoxville's Cityview Magazine named Bruce one of the area's best workers' compensation, hospital litigation, auto accident and wrongful death lawyers.

Bruce is a frequent speaker and lecturer to attorneys and judges at seminars and legal education forums throughout the Southeast and Midwest. He has taught on topics ranging from underinsured and uninsured motorist coverage to Tennessee Workers' Compensation Law to automobile and truck accident law.

In early 2008, Tennessee Governor Phil Bredesen appointed Bruce to serve as a member of Tennessee's Workers' Compensation Advisory Council, and Bruce works in this capacity to shape legislative policy and law applicable to the rights of injured workers in Tennessee.

Bruce believes strongly in the rights of children, particularly injured or special needs children. For the past seven years, he has worked with the East Tennessee Chapter of the Autism Society of America in its efforts to raise funds and promote awareness of autism and autism related issues. Bruce has contributed many hours towards the goal of increasing autism awareness through public and private fundraising to benefit the East Tennessee Chapter of the Autism Society of America.

Bruce is married to Mary Jane Fox and lives in Knoxville, Tennessee. He has six grown children and three grandchildren. Away from work, Bruce spends time with his family, enjoys traveling, and has traveled extensively throughout Europe and South America. He is an avid snow skier, hunter, and golfer.