Business & contract disputes
Commercial transactions, contract disputes, fraud, collections, and debtor/creditor matters.
Serving Tennessee · Greater Memphis & surrounding communities
Clear counsel.
Focused advocacy.
Your interests first.
Legal counsel for businesses and individuals navigating disputes, protecting their work, and making consequential decisions.
Dispute resolutionBusiness & civil litigation
Practical guidanceContracts & corporate counsel
Rights & reputationEmployment, media & technology
The practice
Sound judgment.
In and out of court.
Darrell represents businesses, professionals, employees, contractors, property owners, and homeowner associations in litigation and negotiations. His work spans complex commercial disputes, workplace matters, and claims involving technology and reputation.
Employment & labor
Counsel for private employers and representation of employees in workplace disputes.
HOAs & property matters
Representation of homeowner associations, property owners, and contractors, including construction and lien disputes.
Media & free speech
Defamation, shield law, free speech, and freedom-of-information matters, informed by a background in broadcast journalism.
Technology & internet law
Software-development disputes, digital licensing, online defamation, and other technology-related claims.
Advertising & consumer protection
False-advertising and Consumer Protection Act matters, including experience negotiating resolutions with the FTC.
Additional practice areas include personal injury and appellate practice.
About Darrell
A litigator’s focus.
A journalist’s perspective.
Darrell N. Phillips litigates high-value cases and advises clients in contract, employment, tort, advertising, and media law. He has secured multi-million dollar judgments for clients and has a record of success across his practice areas.
His practice encompasses complex business and civil disputes involving contracts, employment relationships, commercial transactions, technology, and reputation-based claims. He represents businesses, professionals, employees, contractors, property owners, and homeowner associations in litigation and negotiations. His experience includes software-development disputes, online defamation, digital licensing, and false-advertising matters, including negotiating resolutions with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). In employment matters, he counsels private employers and vigorously represents employees in workplace disputes.
Darrell graduated from Brandeis University with honors and earned an M.S. in journalism from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism shortly thereafter.
He attended the University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law, where he was awarded the Dean’s Award for Excellence (Best Oral Advocate) and the CALI Excellence for the Future Awards in Trial Advocacy and ADR/Mediation. He received both the Claude T. Coffman and Herbert Herff memorial scholarships and served as research assistant to the Dean. He also served as a member of the Senior Staff of the University of Memphis Law Review.
Prior to earning his law degree, Darrell spent ten years working as a broadcast journalist and has worked for television stations in New York, Georgia and Tennessee. In his practice, he has represented reporters, television news anchors, news managers and bloggers in various matters ranging from employment disputes to defamation claims. He also regularly contributes updates and articles to his blog covering developments in Media Law at NewsroomLegal.com.
A native of New York, Darrell has lived in the greater Memphis area since 2001.
Articles & perspectives
Practical legal questions.
Thoughtful perspectives.
Topics from Darrell’s writing on business, contracts, online speech, and everyday legal issues.
- 01A Business Owner’s Guide to Handling Negative Online Reviews in Tennessee
- 02Six “Gotchas” To Watch For In Any Contract
- 03Five Reasons Not To Copy Someone Else’s Online “Terms of Use”
- 04Four Residential Lease Terms You Shouldn’t Live Without
- 05Three Reasons Nasty Facebook Posts Are Usually Not Defamatory
Get in touch
Start with a conversation.
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Darrell N. Phillips, esq.
Mailing address2095 Exeter Rd., Suite 80
Germantown, TN 38138(901) 609-3476
legal@memphiscounsel.com
Fax: (901) 328-1512