Painting ... (is) a form of magic designed as a mediator between this strange, hostile world and us, a way of seizing the power by giving form to our terrors as well as our desires.
--Pablo Picasso

The best lawyers are very much like painters. Oratory, briefs, and agreements are the canvas, palette, and brush they use to make the things we fear less frightening and the things we aspire to more attainable.
--C. Dewees Berry, IV

About Dewees Berry


Mr. Berry regularly litigates such real estate conflicts as eminent domain matters, mechanic's lien and construction suits, quiet title actions, and contract disputes.  He also advises clients concerning zoning, planning, lease disputes, boundary, easement, restrictive covenant and land use issues.

Mr. Berry also has extensive transactional experience. His practice has included purchases and sales, financings, leasing, and all other aspects of commercial real estate.

  • Vanderbilt University, B.A., 1973
  • Vanderbilt University, J.D., 1976
  • Vanderbilt Law Review , Associate Editor
  • Judicial Clerk to Chief Judge Frank Gray, U.S. District Court, Middle District of Tennessee
Professional Activities
  • Rule 31 Listed General Civil Mediator
  • Former member of Executive Committee of Bass, Berry & Sims PLC
  • Editor of the Tennessee Real Estate Law Letter - 1983 to Present (a monthly newsletter concerning Tennessee real estate law developments published by M. Lee Smith Publishers)
  • Past President, Nashville Bar Association
  • Fellow, Nashville Bar Foundation and Tennessee Bar Foundation
  • Listed in The Best Lawyers in America®
  • One of the Nashville Post's Best Lawyers, Jan. 2003
  • Listed in Best of the Bar in Nashville Business Journal for 2006
  • Named one of Tennessee's leading real estate lawyers since 2003 by Chambers USA
  • Named one of Middle Tennessee's Top 100 in Real Estate by Nashville Post magazine, Nov. 2002
  • Instructor in Real Property Law, Nashville School of Law
  • Frequent speaker at seminars regarding Real Estate Law
Articles
(Reprinted Copies Available Upon Request)
  • "Priority Conflicts Between Fixture Secured Creditors and Real Estate Claimants,"Memphis State Law Review
  • "Avoiding Lease Drafting Pitfalls,"Tennessee Bar Journal
  • "Litigating About the Road Taken: A Thumbnail Sketch of Tennessee Roadway Law"Nashville Bar Journal
Education
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