ABOUT DAN

I’m Dan Smith, the founder of DPS Legal Counsel. I am a business and tax attorney for healthcare professionals and business entrepreneurs.

My mission at DPS Legal Counsel is straightforward–I seek to combine my experience across a abroad spectrum of business law niches, including healthcare transactions and regulation, business formation and operation, franchising, intellectual property, contracts, business transactions and disputes, federal and Tennessee tax controversies, and tax planning, with a commonsense and practical philosophy of providing plain-language legal advice and counsel to my clients. Much of the law impacting businesses and healthcare practices is complex, requiring a sensitivity and familiarity with a number of statutes and regulations, ranging from the Internal Revenue Code and federal Treasury Regulations on the one hand to the numerous statutes and regulations applicable to the business of healthcare on the other. But at DPS Legal Counsel, my goal is to simplify the complex for my healthcare and business clients.

I graduated summa cum laude from Vanderbilt University, where I was a member of The Phi Beta Kappa Society. I obtained my law degree from Vanderbilt University’s School of Law, where I was an associate editor of the Vanderbilt Law Review. In addition, I have an LL.M. (Master of Laws) in Taxation from New York University.

I am admitted to practice law in Tennessee. I am also admitted to practice before the United States District Court, Western District of Tennessee, the United States District Court, Middle District of Tennessee, and the United States Tax Court.

I am a member of the Tennessee Bar Association and also a Fellow in the Nashville Bar Foundation. I am a member of the American Health Law Association.

I have received an AV®Preeminent™ peer review rating from Martindale-Hubbell®.