Nashville, Tenn. - Burr & Forman LLP announces that Nashville-based associate, J. Patrick Warfield, has been selected to the 2015-2016 Nashville Bar Foundation Leadership Forum. Each year only twenty-five lawyers with three to eight years' experience and who practice in Davidson County are chosen to participate in the Leadership Forum.

The Nashville Bar Foundation Leadership Forum "offers an innovative opportunity to learn, collaborate, network and serve the local community and the legal profession." Through the forum, the selected attorneys will have the opportunity to attend activities and workshops allowing them to hone in on their leadership skills and focus on both civic and legal issues.

At Burr, Warfield is a member of the Creditors' Rights & Bankruptcy practice group where he focuses on complex commercial litigation, bankruptcy, out-of-court workouts, creditors' rights matters, and other related insolvency issues.

Warfield earned his undergraduate degree from Sewanee: The University of the South and his law degree from Cumberland School of Law at Samford University.

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