Thanksgiving in Tennessee

It’s Thanksgiving in Tennessee. A lawyer with a baby riding on her hip — we’ll call her Cindy — bastes the turkey and turns her oven down low. Next, she’s headed to Bruce Street in the heart of Sevierville. Before she serves her family Thanksgiving dinner, she’s got a parenting plan to do for a client. After completing the first draft of the plan, she marks up her comments on the proposed new guardian ad litem rule, e-mails them off, and gathers up her little

Thank you!

I am writing this letter to thank you, your staff, and your contributors for the excellent content and professional polish of the Tennessee Bar Journal. During the early ’70s, I served on the TBA Board of Governors and contributed some legal articles which were published in the Journal. However, I believe that the quality of the Journal is better now than then. I find that the articles in the Journal, including the “serious” ones by Bill Haltom, are not only useful but entertaini

Female Majority

Lee Named to Supreme Court

Sharon Gail Lee of Madisonville was appointed to the Tennessee Supreme Court Sept. 29, giving women the majority on the five-member court for the first time.

Lee, who has served on the Tennessee Court of Appeals since 2004, fills a vacancy created by the recent retirement of Justice William M. “Mickey” Barker.

Before her appointment to the bench, Lee gained a variety of experience in both civil and criminal litigation. She began the practice of law in 1

Ash reelected Court of Judiciary presiding judge
Circuit Court Judge Don Ash of the 16th Judicial District has been elected to a second term as presiding judge of the Tennessee Court of the Judiciary. The 15-member panel receives complaints against judges and imposes sanctions for violations of the Code of Judicial Conduct.

Ash, of Murfreesboro, has been a Circuit Court judge since 1994. He previously served as city judge in LaVergne and was in the private practice of law. His a past-president of

Reinstated

The Dangers of Law Practice: Lawyer Murders Lawyer

If we had been alive in Memphis on Tuesday, March 10, 1891, around 11:20 a.m. at Main Street and South Court Alley, we would have witnessed lawyer Clay King murdering lawyer David Poston. Why did a lawyer kill a lawyer?

Henry Clay King was a prominent attorney. He compiled the Tennessee Digest in the nineteenth century, a copy of which I examined at the University of Tennessee Law Library. But Clay King was also a nut case.

He was married with five...
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Alive and Kicking: Legal Advice … for Boomers!

Written by a law professor and an elder law specialist, this book’s intended audience is the great mass of baby boomers — an estimated 80 million persons — born between 1946 and 1964. Reviewer Kelly Frère, born in 1959, sees the word “senior” in her not-too-distant future. Did this book give her the information she needs to avoid trouble?

This book is folksy. The authors pepper the text with notable quotes, jokes and anecdotes to convey

Banking on the Comeback of Old-Fashioned Bankers

Mark Twain once said that a banker is a man who will give you an umbrella on a sunny day and then ask for it back when it starts to rain. But Twain wrote this back in the good old days when bankers were conservative men who wore dark suits and somber expressions and only loaned you money when you proved you didn’t need it.

These old-fashioned bankers weren’t stingy old misers like Mr. Potter in It’s A Wonderful Life. They could be just as frie...
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Court seeks comments on proposed rules changes