Jim Murphy

Partner
Nashville P: 615.252.2303 F: 615.252.6303
Legal Assistant
Brenda Farmer
P: 615.252.3518 bfarmer@bradley.com
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Representative Experience
  • General Experience
      • Assisted Johnson City Development Authority on multiple tax increment financing transactions within Johnson City’s Downtown Redevelopment District.
      • Represented Metropolitan Government in structuring incentives for convention center hotel.
      • Represented medical services provider in obtaining property tax abatement for office facilities.
      • Represented for-profit hospital in obtaining property tax abatement for new hospital
      • Represented wireless telecommunications tower owner to acquire permanent easements or obtain lease extensions for existing wireless telecommunications tower sites.
      • Represented redeveloper of shopping center in structuring tax increment financing for mixed use project.
      • Assisted wireless telecommunications tower in obtaining approval for a tower extension pursuant to the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act on 2012, Pub. L. 112-96 enacted on Feb. 22, 2012 (now codified at 47 U.S.C. § 1455(a)).
      • Steele v. Industrial Development Board of the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County , 950 S.W.2d 345 (Tenn. 1997) - Represented Metropolitan Government in Establishment Clause challenge to industrial development bonds issued on behalf of religiously-affiliated educational institution.
      • KLN Associates v. Metropolitan Development & Housing Agency , 797 S.W.2d 898 (Tenn. Ct. App. 1990) - Defended validity of land use restrictions contained in redevelopment plan.
      • Durrett Investment Co., LP v. The City of Clarksville, Montgomery County (TN) Circuit Court, No. MC CC CV OD11-1105. - Successfully defended City on a regulatory taking claim arising from an 8-month moratorium on development within potential corridor for future connector road governments.
      • Consolidated Waste Systems, LLC v. Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, No. M2002-02582-COA-R3-CV, 2005 WL 1541860 (Tenn. Ct. App., June 30, 2005) - Successfully challenged zoning ordinance adopted to prevent client’s development of a construction and demolition landfill.
      • Custom Land Development, Inc. v. Town of Coopertown , 168 S.W.3d 764 (Tenn. Ct. App. 2004) - Represented landfill developer seeking to resume operation of nonconforming use.
      • Waste Services of Decatur, LLC v. County of Lawrence , No. M2011–01947–COA–R3–CV, 2012 WL 3329621 (Tenn. Ct. App. Aug. 14, 2012) - Represented vendor in successful challenge of award of contract for solid waste management services.
      • French v. Boner , 963 F.2d 890 (6th Cir. 1992) - Defended challenge to 1991 redistricting plan for Metropolitan Council.
      • Jordan v. Knox County , 213 S.W.3d 751 (Tenn. 2007) – Represented Knox County Election Commission in challenge to term limits provision of Knox County Charter.
      • State ex rel. DeSelm v. Jordan , 296 S.W.3d 530, 533 (Tenn.Ct.App.2008) - Represented Knox County Election Commission in action seeking to have county elections involving term-limited officials declared void, the winners ousted, and new elections held.