Our Attorneys
Eric L. Buchanan
Eric Buchanan represents disabled people and other policyholders across the United States in both ERISA and non-ERISA disputes, focusing primarily in the areas of disability, life, and health insurance. He also represents disabled people before the Social Security Administration, having represented approximately 1,150 people in Social Security hearings.
In 2007, Eric Buchanan was certified as a specialist in Social Security Disability Law by the Tennessee Commission on Continuing Legal Education and Specialization. In 2008, he was selected by the National Board of Legal Specialty Certification to be an examiner for the National Board of Social Security Disability Certification Exam. Eric has also been peer-review rated “AV” by Martindale-Hubbell for 2007, 2008, and 2009. He has also represented hundreds of people in federal court lawsuits involving Social Security and ERISA disputes.
Eric Buchanan regularly chairs conferences and speaks to both national and local audiences on disability insurance, ERISA, insurance law, and Social Security disability. He has been the program chair and speaker for the 2008 AAJ Social Security Section National CLE in Las Vegas, has twice been program chair and speaker at the AAJ (formerly ATLA) Annual Convention’s Disability Law program, has twice been program chair and a speaker for the Tennessee Bar Association’s Disability law conference, has been program chair and speaker for several Tennessee Association for Justice CLE’s on Social Security disability and on ERISA litigation.
Eric graduated from the Washington and Lee University School of Law Magna Cum Laude in the top 10% of his class. Eric is also a graduate of the Virginia Military Institute and served as an officer in the U.S. Navy from 1989 to 1994 where he served as a naval aviator (pilot), plane commander, and mission commander of P-3C Orion aircraft.
R. Scott Wilson
Scott Wilson's practice since 1998 has been principally dedicated to disability benefits law, including both Social Security disability claims and ERISA-governed long term disability insurance claims.
Scott is a 1998 graduate of Washington and Lee University Law School. He graduated cum laude and was a member of the Law Review. He previously received a bachelor's degree from the University of California at Davis.
Scott has extensive experience representing claimants at all levels of the Social Security appeals process. He has represented claimants at over 1300 hearings. He has written numerous briefs to Social Security's Appeals Council, and been the principal brief-writer on over a hundred Social Security cases appealed into the federal courts. Since 2008, Scott has been certified as a specialist in Social Security Disability Law by the Tennessee Commission on Continuing Legal Education and Specialization.
Scott also regularly represents claimants seeking long term disability insurance benefits, including both pre-litigation appeals to insurers and lawsuits in federal court. Scott was the lead brief-writer in Cooper v. Life Ins. Co. of North America, 486 F.3d 157 (6th Cir. 2007), as well as a number of un-published cases successfully challenging denials and terminations of ERISA-governed long term disability insurance benefits. Scott is licensed in Tennessee, and admitted to the United States District Courts for the Eastern, Middle and Western Districts of Tennessee, as well as the Sixth and Eleventh Circuit Courts of Appeal.
Scott has spoken at both national and local continuing legal education programs on Social Security disability and ERISA long term disability insurance cases. Scott is the current president of the Chattanooga Trial Lawyers' Association, and is chair-elect of the Social Security section of the American Association for Justice (formerly American Trial Lawyers' Association).
D. Seth Holliday
Seth Holliday is dedicated to representing the seriously injured or impaired in disability litigation. He has built his legal career on the principle of aggressively pursuing full and complete compensation for all his clients. Seth is certified as a Social Security Disability Specialist by the Tennessee Commission on Continuing Legal Education and Specialization.
Seth is a 1996 graduate of Washington University School of Law and he initially practiced in Chicago, Illinois. There, in the personal injury context, he had a principal role in obtaining three awards which were confirmed by the local jury verdict reporter as being the highest on record in the State of Illinois in their respective category.
Seth is an experienced litigator who practices before federal, state and administrative courts at their trial and appellate levels. He has also taught trial advocacy at DePaul University College of Law in Chicago, Illinois, as well as business law at Chattanooga State Technical Community College, as an adjunct professor. Seth has lectured on the topic of personal injury and regularly lectures on disability issues to such organizations as the Tennessee Bar Association, the Tennessee Association for Justice, the National Business Institute, and the Chattanooga Trial Lawyers Association. Seth is past-President of the Chattanooga Trial Lawyers Association, which is an association of trial lawyers who advocate on behalf of injured individuals.
Seth is currently licensed in both Tennessee and Illinois and is a member of the American Association for Justice, the Tennessee Association for Justice, the Tennessee Bar Association (and is a member of its Access to Justice Committee), and the Chattanooga Trial Lawyers Association. At the law firm of Eric Buchanan & Associates he primarily litigates long-term disability cases (both ERISA and state breach of contract claims) as well as Social Security disability claims and has represented over 1,000 claimants at Social Security administrative hearings and has submitted numerous briefs to the Appeals Council and the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee.
Each week, Seth provides several hours of free legal services to a variety of charitable organizations in Chattanooga, including Chattanooga Cares, the Community Kitchen, and Legal Aid of East Tennessee (where he serves on the Pro Bono Committee). Seth is also a member of the Board of Directors for Hospice of Chattanooga.
Jeremy L. Bordelon
Jeremy Bordelon has worked for Eric Buchanan & Associates since 2004, first as the firm’s litigation paralegal while earning his Legal Assistant Studies degree from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, and continuing part-time while enrolled in law school. Jeremy graduated from the University of Tennessee College of Law in 2009, magna cum laude, where he earned an Academic Excellence award in the field of Administrative Law and was granted the three-year William M. Leech, Jr. Memorial Scholarship. In addition to Social Security disability hearings, his duties over the years have included research and writing on many other aspects of the firm’s practice, including Social Security EAJA fees, ERISA discovery, ERISA motions for judgment, and bad faith insurance claims. Jeremy has attended national CLEs on Social Security and disability insurance. Jeremy spent eight years in the U.S. Navy before law school as an enlisted Cryptologic Technician, achieving the rank of Petty Officer First Class.
