NEW PROGRAMS TO HELP YOUNG LAWYERS LEARN THE ROPES If you miss the challenges and camaraderie of law school, here are a pair of new programs for you. The TBAâs Young Lawyer Division is launching a new 4L series of courses designed for attorneys in the first year of their practice, and a Skills Enhancement Series for attorneys in the first six years of practice. The 4L Series kicks off Nov. 17 with a program focusing on practice in state court. The Skills Enhancement Series starts Dec. 7 with a program on the new Limited Liability Company Act. If your law school experience included more than just listening to lectures, weâve got that covered, too. Courses will be hosted at popular clubs, including B.B. Kingâs in Nashville, the Downtown Grille and Brewery in Knoxville, St. Johnâs Restaurant in Chattanooga and Swig in Memphis. All will begin at 3 p.m. and end at 5 p.m., with a happy hour to follow. http://www.tba.org/tennbaru    TODAY'S OPINIONS: Friday, October 28, 2005 Following this index are summaries of each case, including its name, first paragraph, author's name, and the names of attorneys for the parties of each opinion. 00 - TN Supreme Court 00 - TN Worker's Comp Appeals 00 - TN Supreme Court - Rules 00 - TN Court of Appeals 01 - TN Court of Criminal Appeals 00 - TN Attorney General Opinions 00 - Judicial Ethics Opinions 00 - Formal Ethics Opinions - BPR TBA members can get the full-text versions of these opinions three ways detailed below. All methods require a TBA username and password. If you have forgotten your password or need to obtain a password, you can look it up on-line at http://www.tba.org/getpassword.mgi Here's how you can obtain full-text version. We recommend you download the Opinions to your computer and then open them from there. Click the URL at end of each Opinion paragraph below. This should give you the option to download the original document. If not, you may need to right-click on the URL to get the option to save the file to your computer. Do a key word search in the Search Link area of TBALink. This option will allow you to view and save a plain-text version of the opinion. Browse the Opinion List area of TBALink. This option will allow you to download the original version of the opinion. Howard H. Vogel Knoxville, Tennessee Editor-in-Chief, TBALink DEVON CRAWFORD v. STATE OF TENNESSEE Court: TCCA Attorneys: Charles W. Gilchrist, Jr., Memphis, Tennessee, for the Appellant, Devon Crawford. Paul G. Summers, Attorney General and Reporter; Brian C. Johnson, Assistant Attorney General; William L. Gibbons, District Attorney General; and P. Thomas Hoover, Assistant District Attorney General, for the Appellee, State of Tennessee. Judge: HAYES The Appellant, Devon Crawford, appeals the judgment of the Shelby County Criminal Court denying post-conviction relief. On appeal, Crawford argues that he was denied his Sixth Amendment right to the effective assistance of counsel. After review, the judgment of the post-conviction court is affirmed. http://www.tba.org/tba_files/TCCA/2005/crawfordd102805.pdf   PLEASE FORWARD THIS E-MAIL! Feel free to forward this Opinion Flash on to anyone you know of with an e-mail address. GET A FULL-TEXT COPY OF AN OPINION! See the instructions at the beginning of this edition of Opinion Flash. JOIN THE TENNESSEE BAR ASSOCIATION! While Opinion Flash is a free service of the Tennessee Bar Association, you must be a member of the Tennessee Bar Association in order to access the full text of the opinions or enjoy the many other features of TBALink. To join the TBA go to: http://www.tba.org/join_bar.mgi SUBSCRIBE TO OPINION FLASH! Would you like to receive the TBALink Opinion Flash free each day by e-mail? Anyone, whether a TBA member or not, is welcome to subscribe ... it's free! Sign up for text or HTML version. Visit the TBALink web site at: http://www.tba.org/op-flash.mgi UNSUBSCRIBE TO OPINION FLASH? ... SURELY NOT! But if you must, visit the TBALink web site at: http://www.tba.org/op-flash.mgi TBALink Home • Contact Us • PageFinder • What's New • Help © Copyright 2005 Tennessee Bar Association