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Tennessee Bar Associaton Access to Justice Award winners were recognized during a Jan. 16 luncheon in Nashville. Former ABA President and keynote speaker Robert Grey (from left) joins Ashley T. Wiltshire Public Service Attorney of the Year Doug Stevick, Law Student Volunteer of the Year Diana Comes, Harris Gilbert Pro Bono Volunteer of the Year Michael Abelow, and TBA President Gail Vaughn Ashworth. See more photos on TBAConnect or watch a video of the program. |
Lucian Pera nominated for ABA treasurer
The American Bar Association announced nominations for key posts at its 2010 Midyear Meeting being held in Orlando, Fla., including Lucian Pera of Memphis to be treasurer.
The ABA House of Delegates will hold elections in August at the 2010 ABA Annual Meeting in San Francisco.
Pera would be elected to serve as treasurer for a three-year term beginning at the conclusion of the 2011 Annual Meeting until the close of the ABA Annual Meeting in August 2014.
Pera is a partner in the litigation practice group of Adams & Reese in Memphis. He has served on the ABA Board of Governors, in the ABA House of Delegates and as a member of the Ethics 2000 Special Committee. He is long active in the field of professional ethics. Pera has represented numerous media clients and has taken on numerous First Amendment and media law issues.
Others nominated are Linda A. Klein of Atlanta, to be chair of the ABA House of Delegates; and Judge Cara Lee Neville of Minneapolis to be secretary.
Find out about more actions taken by the ABA House
Application deadline for commission is tomorrow
Wednesday is the deadline to apply for a vacancy on the Tennessee Judicial Nominating Commission.
The vacancy was created by the resignation of chairman David Bautista.
For more information or to apply, go to tncourts.gov
No one-year limit on TennCare's right to seize
A ruling by the Tennessee Supreme Court means families who inherited property from their loved ones could have that property seized by the government several years later.
The ruling affects people who were in nursing homes paid by TennCare, which has the right to take a patient's homes, farms and even family heirlooms after they died as payment.
Before this ruling, it wasn't completely clear whether TennCare had to file a claim within one year of the person's death. The ruling said there is no one-year limit. WSMV.com reported the news.
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New Light on an Old Subject
The University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law Begins New Life at Historic Downtown Campus
Read about this and more in the February Tennessee Bar Journal.
Free online research for TBA members
Unlimited online legal research is now available free to all TBA members through an agreement with Fastcase, a leading online legal research firm.
TBA offers insurance services
Responding to member needs for health disability, life and professional liability insurance, the TBA now provides TBA Member Insurance Solutions. The program offers TBA members experienced agents and highly rated carriers.
TBA proposes changes to ethics rules
The TBA Board of Governors has authorized a proposed set of refinements to the Rules of Professional Conduct for comment. The proposal is the first thorough examination of the rules since their adoption in March 2003. Read the proposed changes or access the current Tennessee Rules of Professional Conduct.
BPR web site offers resources
The Tennessee Board of Professional Responsibility web site has resources for consumers and attorneys.
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