Duane Willis is a principal with Manier & Herod practicing in the areas of Black Lung Litigation, Civil Litigation, Governmental Tort Liability Litigation, Insurance Litigation, and Workers Compensation Defense.

Mr. Willis graduated cum laude with an A.A. degree from the University of Maryland at Munich, Germany in 1992, and subsequently graduated cum laude with a B.S. degree from Austin Peay State University in 1995.

He received his J.D. degree in 1998 from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. Mr. Willis is admitted to practice in Tennessee, as well as before the U.S. District Court, Western District of Tennessee. He has conducted a number of seminars in the area of workers compensation for various clientele. Mr. Willis is a member of the American, Tennessee, and Nashville Bar Associations, the Mid-South Worker’s Compensation Association, and the Tennessee Defense Lawyers Association.  He is also a member of the Defense Research Institute, serving on the Lawyers’ Professionalism and Ethics Committee, the Insurance Law Committee, and the Trial Tactics Committee.

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