Madison T. Biggs is a litigator who builds structures for freedom. As an attorney with the Public Defender’s Office of Metropolitan Nashville & Davidson County, he stood between individuals and the full weight of the state. He founded MT Legal to carry that same defense of personal liberty into decentralized assets, where privacy, ownership, and self-custody are the rights at stake, and where the right legal structure is the strongest protection.
His view of the courthouse started from the inside. After earning his B.A. in Political Science from Middle Tennessee State University, he spent two years as a Deputy Court Clerk in the Rutherford County circuit criminal court (2016–2018), seeing how cases move from filing to disposition. At Belmont University College of Law he interned with the Tennessee Justice Center and the Rutherford County District Attorney’s Office, giving him a view of both sides of a prosecution before he chose defense.
At the Nashville Defenders, Madison handled a wide range of misdemeanor and felony cases, secured multiple non-convictions, and connected clients to the housing, treatment, and employment resources that often decide whether a case is the last one. He knows the Davidson County docket from the defense table: how charges are negotiated, when a suppression motion has teeth, and when a case needs to be tried.
Madison also teaches. As an adjunct professor at Fisk University, he teaches Business Law, giving the next generation of Nashville entrepreneurs a working grasp of contracts, entities, and the rules that govern commerce.
He is active in Nashville’s legal community as a graduate and member of the Nashville Bar Foundation Leadership Law Class of 2025 and the Tennessee Bar Association Leadership Law Class of 2026, and as a member of the Napier-Looby Bar Association, where he served on the Judicial and Legislative Committee in 2024.
AI, blockchain & tokenization
Madison’s blockchain work grows out of time inside the community, not just the case law. He is a member of Nashville’s local Bitcoin community, has attended the national Bitcoin conferences and DC Fintech Week, and has been involved with 1inch, the DeFi exchange aggregator, and Groundwork. That first-hand view of how builders, investors, and regulators actually think shapes the advice he gives.
Today Madison’s practice centers on the legal environment taking shape around artificial intelligence and blockchain technology. He advises businesses and creators on AI contracts, ownership of AI-generated work, and voice and likeness rights under Tennessee’s ELVIS Act, and counsels clients on blockchain, cryptocurrency, and digital-asset law: entity structuring for DAOs and token issuers, securities analysis under the Howey test and the Reg D, Reg A+, and Reg CF exemptions, the tokenization of real-world assets, especially Nashville-area real estate, and stablecoins: issuance and payment programs under the federal GENIUS Act, and helping businesses grow by accepting and holding them. He also handles the questions that follow the money: yield from staking and DeFi lending, and how crypto income, gains, and transfers are taxed. He brings the same approach to a token offering that he brings to a criminal case: understand exactly how the system works, then make it work for the client.
The same thinking carries into estate and future-asset planning: wills and trusts built to hold crypto, tokenized real estate, royalties, and digital IP. These are assets most estate plans were never written for.
That combination lets MT Legal serve a founder fractionalizing a rental property, a family planning for assets that didn’t exist a decade ago, and a Nashville resident facing a charge in General Sessions with the same care and the same direct access to their lawyer.
Why he practices
For Madison, criminal defense and decentralization are one and the same. Both start from the idea of personhood: that an individual deserves protection from overreaching power, whether that power is a prosecutor, a corporation, or a platform that controls your data and your money. Defending someone in a courtroom and helping someone hold their own keys are two ways of protecting the same thing: privacy, due process, and fundamental rights.
Madison is committed to the belief that “a person’s worth cannot be measured by their wealth.” He focuses on representing underserved Nashville residents, mentoring law students, and ensuring that access to justice is not determined by financial circumstances.