Baker Donelson has named Clinton Sanko managing shareholder of its Chattanooga office.
While serving as office managing shareholder, Sanko will maintain his legal practice as a litigation trial lawyer who focuses on bet-the-company cases, with a special emphasis on eDiscovery advocacy.
Sanko assumes the role from Russell Gray, who’s served as managing shareholder in Chattanooga since 2012. Gray will continue to focus on his practice, which includes labor and employment and commercial litigation matters.
Sanko, Baker Donelson’s eDiscovery officer, has a national practice that focuses on bet-the-company matters, including antitrust issues (mergers, wage fixing, no-poaching agreements), trade secrets, construction disputes and other complex commercial cases.
He’s been appointed as a special master to resolve a complex eDiscovery dispute in a trade secret matter and serves on the Eastern District of Tennessee Court Technology Advisory Committee.
Sanko has over 20 years of practice dedicated to ensuring the eDiscovery processes employed across Baker Donelson meet clients’ needs. To that end, he has direct oversight responsibility for the firm’s eDiscovery, Document Review and Investigations Team, which is a group of lawyers responsible for supporting the firm’s trial lawyers on discovery processes.
Sanko is a graduate of the Pennsylvania State University Dickinson School of Law and is an AV Preeminent Peer Review Rated attorney by Martindale-Hubbell.
With more than 70 employees, including nearly 40 attorneys, Baker Donelson’s Chattanooga office has a range of nationally recognized lawyers that form teams focused on a variety of industries and client needs.
In addition to a team of labor and employment lawyers led by Gray, the office is home to a national practice dedicated to the needs of stakeholders in skilled nursing and seniors housing, a nationally recognized team representing lenders and borrowers in HUD-insured commercial loans for health care and multifamily housing facilities, a national litigation team that represents telecommunications providers and Class I railroad carriers, an immigration team that provides counsel to clients around the world on business, employment, and family immigration matters, trial lawyers focused on representing investor-owned water utilities in condemnation actions and other regulatory matters, tax and economic development lawyers supporting local and national clients, a trusts and estates team focused on planning, administration, tax and litigation, and a bankruptcy and creditor’s rights team that represents local, regional, and national financial institutions on a range of issues.