Tennessee can claim six men who have sat on the nation’s highest court: John Catron, Howell Jackson, Horace Lurton, James McReynolds, Edward Terry Sanford and Abe Fortas. Only New York (17), Ohio (10), Massachusetts (8) and Virginia (8) can claim more, although Pennsylvania also has had six. While Tennessee is well-represented numerically, it is...

The Nashville Pro Bono Program presented two awards during the annual Nashville Bar Banquet on Dec. 8, 2010. Frank Grace, a lawyer at Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis, was named the Joseph G. Cummings Sr. Pro Bono Volunteer Attorney of the Year for organizing a monthly debt clinic. The group’s Pro Bono Leadership Award was given to the...

35 years ago when I was a “1L” at the Big Orange College of Law, I proudly wore a “Save the Snail Darter” t-shirt.

A snail darter is an itty-bitty little fish that’s about the size of a paper clip. But when I was in law school, the snail darter became the legal equivalent of the big fish that swallowed Jonah, only in this case the fish tried to...