Wayne A. Kline

Wayne A. Kline received his undergraduate degree with honors from the University of Tennessee. He obtained a Master of Science degree in Administration from the University of Tennessee and was employed as an Associate Professor in the Department of Audiology and Speech Pathology at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville for several years before entering law school. Following a clerkship with the firm and after receiving his law degree from the University of Tennessee in 1988, Mr. Kline joined Hodges, Doughty & Carson that same year. He holds memberships in the Tennessee Defense Lawyers Association, Defense Research Institute, and American Inns of Court. He has been a member of the Board of Governors of the Knoxville Bar Association. He received the Knoxville Bar Association’s President’s Award in December of 2005 and again in 2012 for his outstanding performance and dedication to the KBA. He currently chairs the Knoxville Bar Association’s Senior Lawyers Section. In 2006, he was appointed by the Tennessee Supreme Court to the Disciplinary Hearing Committee for District II. He is the current Chairman of the Board of Directors of The Free Medical Clinic of America, is legal counsel for the Board of Directors of The Knoxville Center of the Deaf. He has also served on the Board of Directors of the Blount Hearing & Speech Foundation. Mr. Kline has extensive experience and emphasis in the defense of long-term nursing and rehabilitation litigation, medical, hospital and dental malpractice litigation, as well as trial practice in employment, discrimination, human resources, and personal injury law. Mr. Kline has extensive experience representing homeowners in zoning and land management disputes and more than twenty eight years experience in general liability, trial practice and litigation, including mass tort litigation. Mr. Kline provides litigation, legal support services for employment related and human resources issues for businesses, medical practices and corporations. Mr. Kline has also represented licensed and certified professionals before their various boards for claims and licensure issues.