Bradley Partner Brooks Smith Elected Fellow of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers

Bradley is pleased to announce that Nashville partner Brooks R. Smith has been elected a Fellow of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers (ACREL).

Founded in 1978, the ACREL is a national association of preeminent commercial real estate lawyers focused on service to clients, colleagues, and the profession. Admission is by invitation only after a rigorous screening process that demonstrates the member’s outstanding legal ability, experience and high standards of professional and ethical conduct in the practice of real estate law. The new class of Fellows will be inducted at the 2025 ACREL Annual Meeting held in Washington, D.C. in September.

Mr. Smith focuses his practice on all aspects of real estate transactions, including borrower-side financings, joint ventures, and development projects on a national basis. He regularly works with developers and real estate professionals to structure transactions, draft entity formation documents, draft and negotiate contracts for purchase and sale, perform due diligence review, draft leases, review and address title and survey issues, and finalize closings. He is well known in the real estate industry and has authored numerous articles on commercial real estate topics, and in 2024 he authored the first volume of Tennessee Real Property Law and Practice, published by LexisNexis.

Mr. Smith is a Fellow of the American College of Mortgage Attorneys, the American Bar Foundation, and the Nashville Bar Association. He is a past chair of the Tennessee Bar Association’s Real Estate Section and has served as an adjunct professor of law at Belmont Law School. Mr. Smith has been recognized in Chambers USA in the Tennessee Real Estate section since 2016 and listed in The Best Lawyers in America since 2009 in the area of Real Estate Law.