Mike Faulk has been listed among an elite group of attorneys called “Super Lawyers” in the prestigious and selective Mid-South Super Lawyers 2007 magazine from the publishers of Law and Politics.

Law & Politics invited more than 24,000 attorneys in Tennessee, Arkansas & Mississippi to participate in the nomination process. Candidates are evaluated by a panel of peers in their primary area of practice. All candidates are evaluated on 12 indicators of peer recognition and professional achievement.

No lawyer pays to be listed in Super Lawyers. Selection is based exclusively on a rigorous methodology.

Faulk authored the cover story for the May 2007 edition of the Tennessee Bar Journal, the statewide legal magazine published by the Tennessee Bar Association. In his article, “One Too Many”, Faulk detailed the complex myriad of Tennessee laws and court decisions concerning liability for improper sales and service of alcoholic beverages.

Mike Faulk has been called "the preeminent authority on alcohol-related injury cases in the State of Tennessee.”

Mike Faulk is one of only a handful of northeast Tennessee attorneys known as a civil trial specialist certified by both the National Board of Trial Advocacy and the Tennessee Commission on Continuing Legal Education and Specialization who tries catastrophic injury and wrongful death cases. Practicing as a solo attorney since August 1996, Faulk maintains a Martindale-Hubbell rating of AV - indicating very high to pre-eminent legal ability and very high ethical standards as established by confidential opinions from members of the Bar.

Mike Faulk was first elected to Who’s Who in American Law in 1987-1988. In 1993 he was chosen as one of America’s Leading Lawyers and was listed as one of the Outstanding Lawyers of America in both 2002 & 2003.

Tennessee Governor Lamar Alexander appointed Faulk to the Tennessee Human Rights Commission in 1985 where he served a six-year term. From 1989 to 1991, Faulk was the Vice-Chairman of the State Commission.

The Juvenile Court Judge for Hawkins County, Tennessee, the Honorable G. Reese Gibson, appointed Faulk to serve as Juvenile Court Referee in 1986 who conducted Court in that post until 1989.

He is a past-President of the Hawkins County, Tennessee Bar Association and served a term on the Board of Directors of Legal Services of Upper East Tennessee, Inc.

Mike Faulk graduated from the Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law at Memphis State University in December 1979, when he received the school’s Kirby Bowling Labor Law award as the outstanding labor law student for 1979. While attending law school, Faulk worked as a Deputy Clerk & Master of the Chancery Court of Shelby County, Tennessee in Memphis serving as the Courtroom Clerk of Chancellor Robert A. Hoffmann.

Faulk is admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of the United States of America in Washington, DC, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals headquartered in Cincinnati, and all three of the United States District Courts in Tennessee. He is licensed to practice in all courts of the State of Tennessee.


He obtained a Masters of Public Administration degree from Memphis State University in 1978 and a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration as an economics major from the University of Tennessee at Martin in 1975.