It does not seem as though a year has gone by already. Service as president of the Tennessee Bar Association has increased my deep appreciation for lawyers and judges, for our elected representatives and their importance in our society. This role has been a phenomenal learning experience and provided an excellent civic lesson for someone who has been...

Chief Justice William M. Barker will retire Sept. 1 after a judicial career spanning 25 years. Barker, 66, is a native of Chattanooga. He earned his bachelor's degree from the University of Chattanooga and his law degree from the University of Cincinnati School of Law. In a letter to Gov. Phil Bredesen, Barker said he has "seen countless...

Every lawyer needs a mentor. I had a fabulous one. He was Judge William Frank Crawford, better known to his many friends and admirers as "Judge Billy Frank."

A generation ago, Bob Woodward and Carl Armstrong shined an unaccustomed light onto the Supreme Court in The Brethren (1979). Now, 30 years later, New Yorker journalist and CNN analyst Jeffrey Toobin has written a new exposé that purports to take the reader "inside the secret world of the Supreme Court." Whether the book lives up to its tantalizing...