Following on the success of last year’s “Celebrate Pro Bono Month” when nearly 300 Tennessee lawyers assisted more than 1,100 clients on topics ranging from domestic violence protection to estate planning, lawyers are again stepping up to provide legal clinics, education programs, public presentations and other events.

Activities kick off with a...

I found Andrée Blumstein’s article “Bye Bye Hannan?” that appeared in the August 2011 edition of the Tennessee Bar Journal a very good explanation of summary judgment practice in Tennessee, post Hannan. We need more articles like Andree’s.

Thank you.

 — Bill Leader, Nashville

A client walks into my office with a serious personal injury case. She was hurt in a car wreck 11 months ago, spent a week in the hospital, and continues to undergo therapy. From experience I figure a jury would return a verdict in the neighborhood of $250,000.

I immediately file a civil warrant for $25,000 in General Sessions Court.

The...

It is difficult, if not impossible, for the general practitioner to stay current on all aspects of the law that affect families. In other words, it’s easy to blunder. Consider the following scenarios and how you might handle them:

With the flood of Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, individual blogs and other social media outlets, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has extensively addressed employer discipline of employees for comments on social media sites and the lawfulness of employers’ social media policies under the National Labor Relations Act.[1] The cases arise when an...