Our firm has a strong commitment to handling your transactions smoothly, competently and professionally.

Strategies to meet your needs and goals

We focus on each client's needs and goals and regularly communicate with you on the steps and strategies to meet those needs and goals. We are guided by a tradition and goal of treating our clients and associates in a manner that we would hope to be treated if we were in the others’ situation. Our office has a tradition of being one that can be counted on to do the right and proper thing in business dealings. We utilize state-of the-art technology and cost-effective methods to provide services in a timely, client-oriented manner, and we demonstrate the strictest personal and professional ethics.

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Our Team

John T. Cook

John graduated from the University of Georgia in 1982 with an A.B. degree in History. He continued his studies at the University of Georgia School of Law, graduating in 1985.
John began his professional career in Savannah, Georgia with Oliver, Maner & Gray, as an insurance defense litigation attorney. Upon relocating to Middle Tennessee in 1989, he joined Denney, Lackey & Chernau, which later became Chernau, Milam & Weiss. While with the prior firm, John handled all aspects of real estate transactions, including sales, financing, leasing, development. He also worked in entity formation and administration, and bankruptcy and limited litigation matters.

In 1994, John founded John T. Cook, P.C., and its sister company, Attorneys Title Company, Inc., now with a combined workforce of attorneys and staff numbering 11.

Member of the Nashville Bar Association, Tennessee Bar Association , American Bar Association, and State Bar of Georgia.

Admitted to practice law in Georgia in 1985 and Tennessee in 1989. Areas of practice are Corporate Law and Real Estate Law.

Mike Boyd

Mike grew up in New Orleans, and he earned both his undergraduate degree (2010) and his law degree (2016) from Loyola University New Orleans. Between his undergraduate studies and law school, Mike was a high school teacher and basketball coach.

Mike worked in litigation for five years in New Orleans. He has experience working on a variety of litigation matters, including lawsuits involving contract disputes, inheritance rights, man-made environmental disasters, and professional liability.

Mike moved to Nashville at the beginning of 2022 with his wife, who is a Nashville native. Since joining Attorneys Title Co. in March of 2022, Mike has gained experience guiding real estate transactions from contract preparation to closing; creating horizontal property regimes (HPRs) and condominiums; and preparing a variety of instruments and agreements, including purchase and sale agreements, deeds, leases, easements, restrictions, and escrow agreements.

In his free time, Mike likes to cook for (and eat with) his wife and two sons.

Mike is licensed to practice law in Louisiana and Tennessee.