Meet Jack Tapper, Cleveland Tennessee Attorney
A Powerhouse of Experience
Cleveland Attorney Jack Tapper has counseled diverse clients for over 38 years from farmers’ cooperatives, major farm producers, sole proprietors, small and medium-sized businesses, to Fortune 500 companies and their officers, directors, and other employees.
He’s tried cases on both sides of the aisle where he knows the in’s and out’s of trial tactics and strategies for litigation. His experience includes a full range of civil practice areas including Divorce and Family Law, Estates and Probate, Wills & Trusts, Powers of Attorney, Business and Commercial Law, Real Estate, Employment Law, Personal Injury and all other Civil Litigation.
- His Educational Background Includes:
B.A. Degree, magna cum laude, Rutgers-The State University
Juris Doctorate Degree, Penn Law School (The University of Pennsylvania Law School)
- Licensed to practice law in:
All state and local courts in Tennessee
All state and local courts in New Jersey
U.S. District Court-Western District of Tennessee
U.S. District Court-Eastern District of Tennessee
U.S. District Court-New Jersey
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
U.S. Supreme Court
A Wealth of Experience
- National Professional Speaker on Business Topics
- Author of blockbuster non-fiction book for business people, “Smoking Guns and Paper Trails: How Your Words and Actions in the Workplace BACKFIRE” – What you need to know to protect yourself and your company!
- Private civil practice for 28+ years counseling clients and litigating all areas ranging from divorce and family law, real estate, estates and probate, Wills and Trusts, business and commercial law, employment law, to personal injury and all other civil litigation.
- In-house counsel for 10 years to Fortune 500 companies in the hotel-casino-resort industries heading litigation management and responsible for litigation nationwide for 19 subsidiaries in 10 states and 1000 hotel franchisees and company-owned properties
- Risk Manager and Counsel for leading Atlantic City, NJ hotel-casino with 4000 employees
- Counseled 19 Risk Management Divisions nationwide for Fortune 500 company
- Director of Legal Technology Program in regional college approved as meeting the highest credentials of the American Bar Association, and he was a leading Adjunct Professor of Civil Litigation, Corporate and Partnership Law, Decedents’ Estates and Administration, and Skills and Methods of Civil Litigation; he also wrote the curriculum for these courses
- Fortune 500 Chairman’s Award Finalist out of 28,000 employees for Outstanding Individual Performance as in-house counsel for the company
- General Manager of 2600 seat concert and broadway stage theatre-in-the-round during summers of law school years to work his way through law school
- Appointed by courts to act as Guardian ad litem for minors, and has administered estates as Executor and Administrator
- Past President of Bradley County Bar Association
- Director of Public Legal Forums for Bradley County, TN, Governmental Law Library Commission
Jack Tapper is a prominent Cleveland Tennessee attorney who has the know-how to achieve results, the confidentiality you can depend on, highest quality service, and a compassionate personality. At the Law Offices of Jack W. Tapper, we take pride in keeping our fees reasonable and affordable and providing documents written in plain language.
