Roger W. Dickson

Member
Phone: 423-785-8330
Fax: 423-785-8480
Email: rdickson@millermartin.com

Suite 1000
Volunteer Building
832 Georgia Avenue
Chattanooga, TN 37402-2289

• Litigation
• Complex Litigation & Mass Tort
• Product Liability
• White Collar Crime & Corporate Compliance
• Insurance Coverage
• Pharmaceutical & Medical Devices

Roger Dickson concentrates his practice on litigation with an emphasis on complex commercial disputes, white collar crime, personal injury, and products liability. He handles major civil litigation for the world's largest soft drink bottling company and serves as lead national counsel defending a publicly traded consumer products company in hundreds of pharmaceutical product liability cases. See In re: Phenylpropanolamine Products Liability Litigation, MDL No. 1407 (W.D. Wash.)

Mr. Dickson has represented clients in numerous federal grand jury investigations and trials involving antitrust violations, bank fraud, Medicare fraud, tax matters, labor law violations, and FDA matters. He served as trial counsel in the trial of United States v. Tyson Foods which resulted in the acquittal of all defendants and was named as the top defense verdict of the year in the National Law Journal. Mr. Dickson is a Rule 31 listed general civil mediator and serves as a mediator and arbitrator in all types of litigation.

Mr. Dickson is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. He served as United States Magistrate for the Eastern District of Tennessee (1979-1984). Mr. Dickson is listed in Best Lawyers in America for Business Litigation and Bet-The-Company Litigation and has been named one of Tennessee's leading litigation lawyers by Chambers U.S.A..

Mr. Dickson is a member of the Board of Directors of the Chattanooga Boys' and Girls' Club, the University of Chattanooga Foundation, and the Chattanooga Public Education Foundation. He also serves on the Board of the Tennessee Commission for Continuing Legal Education and Specialization. He formerly served on the University of Tennessee Board of Trustees from 1991-2000.

Mr. Dickson earned a B.S. from the University of Chattanooga (1967) and a J.D. from the University of Tennessee College of Law (1971) where he served on the Tennessee Law Review Editorial Board and was elected to Order of the Coif.