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TBA President for 2011

Van Horn Elected Vice President

Tennessee Bar Association members have chosen Memphis lawyer Danny Van Horn to be TBA’s next vice president, a choice that will make him the organization’s president-elect in 2010 and TBA president in 2011.

More than 25 percent of TBA members voted in the competitive contest between Van Horn and Jackson attorney Linda Warren Seely. Van Horn, a former president of the TBA’s Young Lawyers Division, currently serves as the 9th District’'s

The Jackson law firm of Teel, McCormack & Maroney PLC has acquired the practice of Utley & Latimer PC, following the death of attorney Timothy B. Latimer. Teel, McCormack & Maroney will maintain offices at its present location as well as the former offices of Utley & Latimer.

The Nashville law firm of Farris Mathews Bobango PLC has added Reen Locker to its roster of associate attorneys. Locker earned her law degree in 2008 from the Nashville School of Law where she was president of the Honor Coun
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Reinstated

The following attorneys have been reinstated to the practice of law after complying with Supreme Court Rule 21, which requires mandatory continuing legal education:
Tamara Lynn Trimble, Winter Park, Fla.; and Kellye Lambert Walker, Norwalk, Conn.

Suspended

Suspension is effective 10 days after issuance, except where immediate suspension is necessary to protect the public. A suspended lawyer may not accept new clients but may continue representing current clients for 30 days. The lawyer mu...
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Amendments to Evidence Rules

Four significant amendments take effect on July 1, 2009. First, Rule 404(a)(1) will create another avenue for the accused to open the door to admissibility of his character to prove conforming conduct.  If the accused launches an attack on the alleged victim’s character for a particular trait, the prosecution in rebuttal can introduce evidence of that same trait in the accused’s character.

Second, Rule 703 will contain this additional language:  “Facts or data

Inherit the Land: Jim Crow Meets Miss Maggie’s Will

By Glen Stowe | University Press of Mississippi | $22 | 309 pages | 2007

Inherit the Land is a narrative account of a jury trial in Monroe, Union County, North Carolina, in 1921. The trial is centered on the wills of two white women, Sallie and Maggie Ross, who devised their property to a black man and his daughter, Bob Ross and Mittie Bell Houston.

At that time in North Carolina most deeds contained restrictions against ownership by “Negroes�

Strategies for Reducing Legal Risk in Reductions in Force

The economy is reeling from a staggering recession. Sales are down, inventories are up, financial markets have dropped precipitously and remain extremely volatile, consumer confidence is at low ebb, and the government is stepping in to bail out icons of American business to include major banks, General Motors and Chrysler. The nation’s unemployment rate rose to 9 percent in March 2009 — the highest rate since 1983. Experts predict the

Compared to Streaking, This Is Just a Flash (Mob) in The Pan

I am pleased to report that the First Amendment is alive and well on Tennessee's college campuses. Students across the Volunteer State are vigorously exercising their Constitutional right to assemble and engage in free speech often directed toward fellow students at the University of Florida. And unlike the college students of my
generation, they are keeping their clothes on.

At approximately 11 p.m. on the night of May 1, a number of un

Van Horn elected TBA Vice President