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Bob Mendes joins Sherrard Roe Voigt & Harbison




Bob Mendes

Bob Mendes

Bob Mendes will join Sherrard Roe Voigt & Harbison as a member. 

Mendes concentrates his practice in the areas of commercial litigation, business bankruptcy and transactions. He also acts as outside general counsel for a number of companies. He counsels clients in how to form and operate businesses and participates in client management teams to formulate policy and strategy, and he provides guidance to help clients avoid and resolve disputes and navigate through change management challenges. 

“Many of our attorneys have known and worked with Bob for years, and we are thrilled to welcome him to our team,” said Tom Sherrard, founding member of the firm. “Bob is a thoughtful and effective advocate in the courtroom and an invaluable mentor to young attorneys. We look forward to working with him.” 

Mendes will join the firm Dec. 31.

Mendes is currently a member at Waypoint Law. He is admitted to practice in Illinois, Tennessee and before the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and a number of U.S. district courts. He earned his law degree at the University of Chicago Law School and his bachelor’s degree at the University of Illinois.

 

 

He is a member of the Nashville Bar Association, Nashville Bar Foundation, American Bar Association, American Bar Foundation and American Bankruptcy Institute. He was listed in Mid-South Super Lawyers since 2008 and in the Best Lawyers in America since 2007. In 2019, he was recognized by the Nashville Business Journal as one of the “Best of the Bar.”

Mendes was recently elected to a second term as a Metro-Nashville councilmember at large. In addition to his service as councilmember, he has served in a number of community leadership positions. Mendes was a Tennessee Board of Professional Responsibility hearing panelist from 2013 until 2019. He is on the board of directors of the Park Center and New Level Community Development Corp. He is on the board of trustees at Father Ryan High School, where he served as the finance committee chair from 2013-2015. 

Sherrard Roe Voigt & Harbison, founded in 1981, provides legal services to businesses and individual clients in a wide variety of litigation and corporate practices. The firm is home to 37 attorneys and is in the Pinnacle Building in downtown Nashville. For more information, visit srvhlaw.com

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