"The most powerful person in the world is the storyteller. The storyteller sets the vision, values, and agenda." Steve Jobs
Everyone loves a good story. Every advocate needs to tell a great story to be successful. The Bard Room is a new vision for a creative meeting space located in the heart of Nashville’s Fifth Avenue of the Arts District. Opening in Spring 2025, The Bard Room is a space for storytellers, songwriters, performers, lawyers and other professionals, all to collaborate, foster, and support the craft of storytelling.
"Success is born not from toil, but from play." Francis Ford Coppola, American Film-maker
Entertainment
In addition to providing Storytelling Programs for professionals, The Bard Room is also proud to support its Creative Director, Singer/Songwriter Max T. Barnes, as he and his band, the Bloody Turnips, provide entertainment for private events. Contact us to book your next event!
Storytelling Programs for Professionals
Upcoming Events
As we complete our renovation , please follow us on this website, Facebook and LInkedIn to keep abreast of our activities:
MAY 4-7, 2024:
Partnering with Florida Attorney John Romano’s Connectionology: Brain Injury and Pain/Suffering/Anguish Causation and Damages Institute. Our own Creative Director Max T. Barnes will open the program for attendees with a performance at the Country Music Hall of Fame.
JULY 21, 2024:
Singer-songwriter and The Bard Room Creative Director, Max T. Barnes, will pair up with singer Marty Haggard for an invite-only concert at 3rd & Lindsley during the American Association for Justice annual meeting, sponsored by Jeff Roberts & Associates and Tom Metier, founder of Metwork.
October, 2025:
Max and The Bloody Turnips in Illinois
May 16-19, 2025:
The Bard Room debut CLE program in our new space in the 5th Avenue of the Arts District will feature Florida Attorney John Romano and his special guests of excellent lawyers, songwriters and storytellers. Learn from the masters how to tell the story of your client’s case in a way that will compel your juries to deliver justice. One-on-one workshops following presentations in the mornings and afternoons. Evenings will be reserved to enjoy Nashville’s music scene. Dates and more detailed information pending.
Other events in 2025 pending. Watch this site for more details as they unfold!
Come Play With Us!- The Bard Room
Max T. Barnes
Nashville singer/songwriter
Max T. Barnes has written the hits you’ve loved for years. He and his father, Max D. Barnes, have sold over 70 million records, scoring 33 #1s and hits for names like Cash, Haggard, Gill, Jones, and Nelson. Songs like “Love, Me”, “Who’s Gonna Fill Their Shoes”, And “Look At Us”. In 1993, Max and his father were both nominated in the same year for the songwriter’s highest award: CMA Song of the Year. Max now brings his songwriting skills to the legal community with a fresh take on a storyteller’s standpoint focusing on tempo, brevity, and awakening all of the senses.
Tom Metier
Founder of the Metier Law Firm and Metwork, Ft. Collins, CO
“I am greatly honored to co-create with Jesse Wilson, Vicki Slater, Mel Orchard, and Nashville singer-song- writer Max T. Barnes at a new kind of trial skills workshop at “The Bard Room”, the dynamic, new, creative space in the heart of the Nashville music scene. We will combine The Metier Trial Skill Methods, Tell the Winning Story, and #1 hit songwriting skills in a one-of-a-kind, multi-day creative experience for trial lawyers. Explore your inner artist, develop new trial skills, and learn a new trial paradigm from voir dire to damages. Join us and learn to maximize your verdicts. Let’s create together in the heart of Nashville.” – Tom Metier
Vicki Slater
Attorney at Law
Founder of the Vicki R. Slater Law Firm, Jackson, Mississippi, Vicki has won a wide range of verdicts and settlements for her clients. Vicki is a teacher at the Trial Lawyers College and the AAJ Ultimate Trial Skills College. She has received many awards from the Mississippi Association for Justice including its Fannie Lou Hamer Award (2022), Advocate of the Year (2016), Lifetime Achievement Award (2014), Woman Advocate of the Year (2009) and Consumer Advocate of the Year (2008).
Jesse Wilson
Author, Founder and Trial Consulant, Tell the Winning Story
“In the courtroom, mastering the art of persuasion is crucial. Incorporating the arts into trial skills cultivates a powerful ability to captivate, connect, and compel – turning a dreary case into a gripping narrative that resonates with judge and jury alike.
I’ll go to my grave saying that the arts are trial skills – more than you can ever imagine. I can’t wait to combine The Tell the Winning Story approach with the Metier Methods and the rest of this creative crew who deeply understand what it looks like when you embrace “performance” – a very dangerous and misunderstood word for many trial lawyers. The Bard Room is the place to put new trial skills into action and become the best storyteller (and courtroom director) that you can possibly be.”
