Tanner J. Wadsworth

Associate

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Tanner Wadsworth represents corporations through all stages of complex civil litigation, from trial to appeal. He has significant experience taking and defending depositions. He has briefed complex dispositive motions, taken direct and cross-examination, and given closing arguments in federal court.

Tanner has assisted clients across a range of industries, including construction, health care, solar energy, oil and gas, defense contracting, and credit reporting. His recent representations involve complex negligence, wrongful death, and medical malpractice claims; claims brought under a state analogue to the False Claims Act; and a declaratory action brought under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

Tanner has an active pro bono practice. He is a member of the U.S. State Department's Hague Convention Attorney Network, which facilitates the return of wrongfully removed children to their home countries. He also maintains a commitment to scholarship. His research explores how traditional common law principles can solve contemporary problems in administrative and property law.

Before entering law school, Tanner was a writer at an advertising agency, where his work won a Clio Award and a One Show Pencil.

经验

  • Hospital pursues litigation to secure reimbursement from commercial insurerJones Day represented a hospital system bringing suit against a large health plan, contending that the hospital had provided services to over 2100 patients who were plan members and the plan had wrongfully failed to pay the contracted rates the parties had agreed upon.
  • Exxon Mobil pursues declaratory judgment action against shareholder proposalJones Day is representing Exxon Mobil Corporation in seeking a declaratory judgment that it may exclude from its proxy statement under SEC Rule 14a-8 a shareholder proposal from activist organizations Arjuna Capital and Follow This that calls for targets to reduce Scope 1, 2, and 3 greenhouse gas emissions.