CONTENTS
A R T I C L E S
Launch Your Appeal
How to get your case before the state's highest court
By Judge W. Mark Ward
Conservation easements as qualified conservation contributions
By Harwell E. Coale III
N E W S & I N F O R M A T I O N
State Supreme Court majority upholds Tennessee Criminal Sentencing Act
Court adds new nepotism rule, adjusts provision on moral character
Law schools see lots of changes in administrative positions
Law students raise thousands for stipends
Actions from the Board of Professional Responsibility
D E P A R T M E N T S President’s Perspective: Paine on Procedure:
Evidentiary nonsense Book Reviews 40 Years:
The Write Stuff -- The Joe Henry Award for outstanding legal writing But Seriously, Folks! Classified Advertising
Tennessee Bar Journal
Our judicial branch under attack
By Charles Swanson
By Donald F. Paine
Murder in Tombstone by Steven Lubet and Perfectly Legal by Charles Crawford
By Suzanne Craig Robertson
Flying the no-longer-friendly skies
By Bill Haltom
June 2005
Vol. 41, No. 6