Todd Presnell employs his significant experience in studying, analyzing, and applying evidentiary privileges for clients and as a court-appointed Special Master to decide privilege-related disputes. He counsels and advises in-house legal departments on establishing and protecting the corporate attorney-client privilege, consults with trial teams on discovery issues and motion practice regarding privilege-related objections, and leads and advises internal investigations.

Todd is the lead author of the new legal treatise Privileges and Protections: Tennessee and Sixth Circuit Law (Matthew Bender & Co. 2024), a 700+ page examination of each evidentiary privilege recognized under Tennessee law and federal law with a focus on Sixth Circuit decisions. The treatise explores all privilege topics, ranging from the attorney-client privilege to the political-vote privilege to the peer-review privilege to the clergy-communicant privilege. A former Tennessee Supreme Court justice noted that, “With the publication of Privileges and Protections: Tennessee and Sixth Circuit Law, the bench and bar now have a single, authoritative point of entry into the workings of evidentiary privileges.”