By all accounts, this new year will be a tough one. The latest published national unemployment rate was 6.5 percent. Tennessee's rate was 7.2 percent. Tennessee's per capita bankruptcy rate leads the nation. Lake County and Hancock County are on the list of the 100 poorest counties in the United States. On Dec. 2, The Tennessean reported that...

Nashville lawyer Pele I. Houk has joined the law firm of Cornelius & Collins LLP as an associate. Prior to joining the firm, Houk worked in private practice as a civil litigator and then with the Tennessee Department of Labor & Workforce Development as a supervising attorney and workers' compensation specialist. Houk is a Supreme...

I am a big fan of Bruce Pearl, head coach of the University of Tennessee Gentlemen Vols basketball team. He is, in my impartial opinion, the second greatest basketball coach in America. The first, of course, is the legendary Pat Summitt, coach of the Tennessee Vols basketball team.

You will note that I do not refer to the University of Tennessee...

By William L. Norton Jr. and William L. Norton III
Thompson West | $2,691 |13 volumes | 2008

Publisher Thomson West recently came out with the third edition of Norton Bankruptcy Law and Practice (Norton 3d) by William L. Norton Jr. and William L. Norton III. Along with Collier on Bankruptcy, edited by Alan N....

The Tennessee Supreme Court has decided two negligent infliction of emotional distress (NIED) cases within the past few months. This article summarizes the law after the release of these important opinions.

True NIED claims arise in two different situations. In the first situation, the plaintiff suffers emotional injury because of the negligence...