September 17 is Constitution Day and Citizenship Day, commemorating the day in 1787 when the delegates to the Constitutional Convention met to sign the document they had created. Established in 2004 by Congress, federal law now requires that educational institutions receiving federal funding provide educational programming on the history of the American...

Nashville lawyer Fritz Richter has been appointed vice chair of the Fiduciary Responsibility/Plan Investments Subcommittee of the American Bar Association Tax Section’s Employee Benefits Committee. Richter practices with Bass Berry & Sims PLC, where he focuses exclusively in the area of employee benefits and executive compensation....

On Saturday evening, Sept.1, I will be at the Mike Rose Sports Complex in Collierville, Tenn. There I will see a sight that makes me very happy. I will see a Princess running.

The Princess will not be running alone. She will be running with hundreds of other young women from across Tennessee and the southeast, as they compete in the Twilight Cross...

By Sharon Davies | Oxford University Press | $27.95 | 327 pages | 2010

In Birmingham on Aug. 11, 1921, Methodist minister Edwin Stephenson shot Catholic priest James Coyle at the rectory next to the courthouse. The demented reason was that the priest had married Stephenson’s daughter Ruth to a Puerto Rican named Pedro Gussman.

The conventional wisdom is that net proceeds[1] from wrongful death cases in Tennessee are distributed under the law of intestate succession. However, while our wrongful death statutes expressly tell us that wrongful death proceeds are free from the claims of creditors,[2] they do not mention use of the law of intestate succession as a method of...

Recent headlines about a woman’s shoe collection have caused a stir this summer. Poker star Beth Shak is being sued by her Wall Street mogul ex-husband in a Pennsylvania court for allegedly hiding and/or failing to disclose during divorce proceedings three years ago a designer shoe collection. Ex-husband Daniel Shak values the collection, consisting of...