Susan K. Bilbro

Associate

615-850-8673
Susan K. Bilbro

Nashville City Center
511 Union Street
Suite 2700
Nashville, TN 37219

Service Areas

Industry Experience

  • Healthcare
  • Banking and financial services
  • Manufacturing
  • Retail

Susie Bilbro is an associate in Waller Lansden’s Tax and ERISA practice, and focuses on areas of employee benefits and executive compensation. Ms. Bilbro advises both public and private clients on issues related to employee welfare and benefit plans in corporate mergers and acquisitions. She also drafts executive non-qualified deferred compensation and transaction bonus arrangements and counsels clients with respect to the Internal Revenue Code and ERISA aspects of benefit plans and compensation arrangements. Ms. Bilbro designs and assists with the implementation and administration of equity-based compensation. Additionally, her experience includes the preparation of voluntary correction program submissions involving qualified retirement and welfare benefit plans.

Prior to joining Waller Lansden, Ms. Bilbro was an associate with the Atlanta law firms Morris, Manning & Martin, LLP and Freeman, Mathis & Gary, LLP.

Education

  • J.D., Washington and Lee University, 2005
    • Recipient, Herbert S. Larrick Academic Scholarship
    • Case Note Writer, Race and Ethnic Ancestry Law Journal
    • Winner, Best Brief and Runner-up, Best Oralist, John W. Davis Moot Court Competition
    • Winner, Washington and Lee Representation in Mediation Competition
  • B.A., summa cum laude, Business Administration, Transylvania University, 2001

Clerkships and Previous Affiliations

  • Associate, Morris, Manning & Martin, LLP, Atlanta, 2007-2009
  • Associate, Freeman, Mathis & Gary, LLP, Atlanta, 2005-2007

Professional Activities

  • Member, Georgia and Tennessee Bar Associations

Civic and Other Activities

  • Assisted with Georgia Appleseed Center for Law & Justice’s Juvenile Code Rewrite Project
  • Pro bono work with Legal Aid Society of Middle Tennessee and the Cumberlands
  • Nashville Humane Society Volunteer