Mozianio S. Reliford, III (“Trey”) is a trial attorney and shareholder at Polsinelli PC, where he specializes in securities litigation, mergers and acquisitions litigation and sports and entertainment law.  Originally from Strawberry Plains, Tennessee – the jewel of East Tennessee – Trey is the son of two life-long educators who instilled in him a passion for education and life-long learning.

Trey attended Sewanee: The University of the South and graduated in 2010 Magna Cum Laude with a degree in History and Political Science.  While at Sewanee, Trey was a co-captain of Sewanee’s football team, a Sewanee Merit Scholar, an Edward King Prize for History Award Winner, and the lead singer of a campus band called, “Oedipus and the Mamas Boys.”  He thought it was clever at the time.  Following his time at Sewanee, Trey taught elementary and middle school English in Japan for two years with the Japanese Exchange Teaching Program (“JET”).

After Japan, Trey attended Stanford Law School and earned his J.D. with pro bono distinction in 2015.  He began his legal career in 2015 in New York at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton and Garrison LLP, and had the honor of serving as a law clerk for Chief Justice Jeffrey S. Bivins of the Tennessee Supreme Court from 2016–2017.  Trey returned to New York following his clerkship, working at Paul, Weiss from 2017 – 2019, until he moved to Nashville with his family in 2019, working first with the firm, Neal & Harwell PLC (2019 –2022), and subsequently with his current firm, Polsinelli PC.

Trey currently serves and has served his community in a number of ways.  He is the Chairman and President of the Buffalo PAC, a Board member of The 100 Black Men of Middle Tennessee, the Chairman of the Board of the Equity Alliance, an Adjunct Professor of Law at Vanderbilt Law School, a former Commissioner on Nashville’s Transportation Licensing Commission, a former Assistant Examiner to the Tennessee Board of Law Examiners, and the former Vice-President of Conexión Américas.