The 50th anniversary of the United States Supreme Court’s decision in Gideon v. Wainright occurs on March 18. This landmark ruling recognized that the 6th Amendment to the federal Constitution, which provides that in all criminal prosecutions the accused has the right to assistance of counsel, is made obligatory on the states by the 14th...

John R. Tarpley, a shareholder at Lewis King Kreig & Waldrop in Nashville, has been named chair of the editorial board for the American Bar Association Journal. Tarpley, a former president of the Tennessee Bar Association as well as its Young Lawyers Division, will assume the role in August for a three-year term.

REINSTATED

The following attorneys have been reinstated to the practice of law after complying with Tenn. Code Ann. 67-4-1702 and Supreme Court Rule 9, Section 32, which requires the payment of an annual professional privilege tax to the Tennessee Department of Revenue:
Kahliel Robert Barlowe, Nashville
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A few years ago, the United States Supreme Court departed from its long-held “notice” pleading standard, and adopted a new “plausibility” pleading standard in its Twombly/Iqbal[1] decisions. The heightened pleading standard adopted by the Supreme Court in these cases requires a complaint, in order to survive a motion to dismiss, to “contain...

In my long and undistinguished legal career, I have somehow managed to win a few honors. Several years ago, I was elected a “fellow” of something called “The American College of Trial Lawyers.” I was very excited about this, until I found out that the

American College of Trial Lawyers is not really a college, after all. It does not have a football...