Hugh Francis

Hugh Francis is a member of Rainey, Kizer, Reviere & Bell PLC in Memphis, Tennessee, whose practice focuses on health care law and civil defense litigation. Francis represents health care providers in medical malpractice matters and also defends other professionals accused of civil liability. His practice includes insurance defense, professional liability, and tort litigation, with work centered on helping physicians and other providers address serious claims through careful case preparation, motion practice, and trial advocacy.

Francis earned his J.D. from the University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law in 2013 and a B.A. from Furman University in 2010. During law school, he served as executive director of the Student Bar Association and received the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Legal Writing. His education and advocacy training support a practice involving detailed medical records, expert evidence, procedural issues, and complex questions of professional responsibility and liability.

Francis has worked to obtain defense verdicts in numerous health care liability jury trials and has handled published appellate matters involving hospitals, physicians, and other medical defendants. His representative results include summary judgments for physicians, a dentist, a nurse practitioner, and other health care providers, as well as a directed verdict in a treatment-related claim. His work also includes cases involving alleged civil rights violations connected to medical treatment and other professional liability disputes.

Hugh Francis is a Fellow of the Memphis Bar Foundation and a member of the Leo Bearman, Sr. American Inns of Court. He has served as secretary, vice chairman, and chairman of the Memphis Bar Association Health Law Section and has spoken on health care liability and civil litigation. Best Lawyers has recognized him in Ones to Watch in America for Medical Malpractice Law – Defendants since 2021, and his profile also notes Super Lawyers Rising Stars recognition for professional liability defense from 2020 through 2023.

Law Office Affiliations

• Attorney, Rainey • Kizer • Reviere & Bell PLC
• Member, Arkansas Bar Association
• Member, Tennessee Bar Association
• Member, The Mississippi Bar
• Fellow, Memphis Bar Foundation
• Secretary, Memphis Bar Association, Health Law Section
• Executive Director, Student Bar Association

Licensed State

• Arkansas
• Tennessee
• Mississippi

Education

• University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law
  Juris Doctor (JD)
• Furman University
  Bachelor of Arts

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