A program designed to prepare new lawyers for successful careers in the law would also provide up to 12 hours of continuing legal education for mentors and beginning lawyers if it is approved by the Tennessee Supreme Court. A pilot program from the Tennessee Bar Association is planned for this spring.

You did a terrific job on the Bar Journal article about Access to Justice (“Front Burner: Supreme Court Turns Up the Heat on Access to Justice; Lawyers and Advocates Respond,” January 2011 Tenn. Bar J.). Thanks for all your effort. It inspired me further!  

In January, the Tennessee Supreme Court appointed four new members to the Tennessee Board of Professional Responsibility. They are Michael E. Callaway, Bell and Associates in Cleveland; Wade V. Davies, Ritchie, Dillard & Davies in Knoxville; Michael U. King, King Law Office in Huntingdon; and ...

What is a writ of error coram nobis? Justice Drowota detailed the history in State v. Mixon, 983 S.W.2d 66 (Tenn. 1999). Originally used in English and early American common law for civil as well as criminal cases, today the writ is confined to the criminal arena. See Civil Rule 60.02, rendering Tenn. Code Ann. §27-7-101 obsolete.

Debilitating mental illnesses such as major depression, bipolar disorder and others often drive families to the attorney’s office. Why? Isn’t this more a medical than legal issue? Patients suffering mental illness are sometimes in denial of dangerous symptoms and refuse treatment, or they are so incapacitated by the illness that they suffer self-neglect...

Tennessee employers took one on the chin when the Tennessee Supreme Court recently decided Gossett v. Tractor Supply Inc.,[1] holding that the burden-shifting paradigm of McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green[2] is “incompatible with Tennessee summary judgment jurisprudence.”