Richard W. Krieg

Knoxville Office
One Centre Square, Fifth Floor
620 Market Street
Knoxville, Tennessee 37902
Telephone (865) 546-4646
FAax (865) 523-6529

dkrieg@lewisking.com

Martindale-Hubbell® AV Peer Review Rated

Education
University of Tennessee, B.S., 1968; J.D., 1972

Bar Admission
1972 Tennessee

Practice Area
Litigation

Richard W. Krieg is a shareholder in Lewis King and his litigation work includes several hundred trials and jury verdicts in the areas of transportation law, employment law, product liability, insurance defense, automobile cases, workers' compensation, premises liability and general tort defense. Other defense work has been in the area of medical negligence defending physicians, dentists, optometrists, health care institutions and providers of home health care services. Experience in the employment field includes trials involving retaliatory discharge, age discrimination and sexual harassment in both state and federal jurisdictions. Additional jury experience includes defense of personal injury claims involving such activities as amusement rides, snow skiing and ice skating.

Recent trial work has concentrated in the area of transportation law. Many of these cases involve catastrophic injuries with claims for compensatory and punitive damages. Settlements frequently involve complicated structured settlements. While a number of these cases involved day-to-day lead attorney activity, the complexity of the cases required management responsibilities to see that they are handled in an efficient and cost-effective manner. Additionally, in the last three years, he has had lead defense attorney responsibility for six environmental class action cases. This has become a major area of his practice in addition to the transportation and personal injury defense work he does on a regular basis.

Outside his law practice, Mr. Krieg received his undergraduate and law degrees at the University of Tennessee in 1968 and 1972, respectively. While in law school, he was twice elected to the Tennessee House of Representatives where he served two terms before starting his full-time legal career. He has held a variety of national positions with The American Cancer Society including service for a number of years on the national board; is the former Chairman of the Metropolitan Knoxville Airport Authority, a board Krieg served for twenty-one years; and he is a former chairman of the East Tennessee Discovery Center Board of Trustees (Children's Science Museum).

As a member and chairman of the Metropolitan Knoxville Airport Authority for twenty-one years, Mr. Krieg is intimately familiar with issues relating to airport operations, risk exposure, dealing with air carriers and vendors, RFP's, RFQ's and the state and federal grant process.

Mr. Krieg is admitted to the US District Court for East and Middle Tennessee: the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals and the United States Supreme Court as well as all levels of state courts.