Lela M. Hollabaugh

Listed in Chambers USA  Litigation: General Commercial, 2023-2024 Tennessee Supreme Court's Indigent Representation Task Force American Bar Foundation, Fellow Listed in The Best Lawyers in America® Commercial Litigation, 2015-2025 Eminent Domain and Condemnation Law, 2012-2025 Energy Law, 2010-2025 Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions – Defendants, 2016-2025 Product Liability Litigation – Defendants, 2016-2025 "Lawyer of the Year," Energy Law, 2014, 2017, 2019, 2021, 2023, 2025 "Lawyer of the Year," Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions – Defendants, 2022 Listed in Benchmark Litigation "Local Litigation Star," Tennessee, 2019-2021, 2024 "Future Star," Tennessee, 2015-2016, 2018 "Top 250 Women in Litigation," 2018-2023 "National Practice Area Star," Product Liability, 2020, 2023 Listed in Who's Who Legal Products Liability Defense Lawyers, 2012-2020, 2023-2024 Life Sciences, 2018-2021 Thought Leaders: USA, 2025 Listed in Nashville Business Journal "Best of the Bar," 2013-2024 "Women of Influence Awards," 2016 Listed in Mid-South Super Lawyers, Energy & Resources, 2016-2024 Listed in Nashville Post, "In Charge- Legal," 2019-2021 Listed in LMG Life Sciences, "Life Sciences Star," 2019-2020, 2022 Assisting a natural gas transportation company in the development and planned construction of a 400 mile interstate pipeline. Assisting a natural gas transportation company with survey access, eminent domain, and easement issues related to the expansion of existing transportations facilities. Assisting a natural gas transportation company with various environmental issues related to ongoing pipeline operations.  Assisting a natural gas transportation company with its planned conversion of its facilities to transportation of a different product.  Represented a natural gas transportation company in the development and construction of a 50 mile interstate pipeline, including all related eminent domain litigation.  Represented a natural gas transportation company in the development and construction of a 300 mile interstate pipeline, including all related eminent domain litigation. Represented a natural gas transportation company in the development and construction of a 50 mile interstate pipeline, including all related eminent domain litigation.  Represented a natural gas transportation company in various easement issues related to ongoing pipeline operations and expansion.  Defended a natural gas transportation company in litigation arising from a natural gas explosion in a business which received its natural gas from a local distribution company. The primary issues in the litigation involved odorization of the gas by the LDC.