The election is over, and implementation of the Affordable Care Act is now very real and very near. Your clients and your firm have little time to grasp the fundamental changes that will be taking place in health care over the next 13 months as governments, insurance companies, health care providers and employers make the changes called for in the law. On Dec. 7, TennBar U will present a program that will help you get up to speed on the Affordable Care Act and help you serve your clients. Sessions include an overview of the Affordable Care Act, how to advise your small to mid-sixe business owner, a session on what lawyers need to do for law firm management, and answers to the top 10 questions your clients will ask.
The Tennessee Supreme Court today adopted a set of six forms for use in General Sessions Courts. The forms were first proposed by the General Sessions Judges Conference in June 2011 after consultation and assistance from the Tennessee Bar Association Creditor’s Practice Section. The court’s Access to Justice Commission provided more review during the public comment period and later worked with the Commission on further revisions. The order today includes an appendix with forms for:
1. Protected Income and Assets (Affidavit of Claim Exemptions)
2. Request to Make Payments (Motion and Affidavit for Installment Payment and Order)
3. Request Not to Pay Fees for Appeal (Pauper’s Oath in Lieu of Appeal Bond)
4. Request to Postpone Filing Fees and Order (Uniform Civil Affidavit of Indigency)
5. Request to Protect Income and Assets (Motion to Quash Garnishment/Execution and Claim Exemption Rights)
6. Sworn Denial (Sworn Denial on Account)
Need a quick update in the areas of law you deal with every day? The TBA’s General Practice Fast Track program will be held in both Memphis and Knoxville this Friday, with sessions on child parentage, child support, divorce, medical malpractice, wills and estates, intellectual property basics, labor and employment law, DUI law and more. Find out how you can get all 15 hours of needed CLE this Friday.
Get all of your CLE for 2012 at the Tennessee Bar Association’s General Practice Boot Camp. Topics touch on the areas of law important to general and solo practitioners. For Middle Tennessee lawyers the program will be Aug. 16-18 and for practitioners in West and East Tennessee the program is Aug. 24. Check out the details for the programs in Nashville, Memphis and Knoxville.
Keeping up to date on a broad scope of practice areas can be a real challenge for solo practitioners and attorneys in small firms. To help, the TBA’s TennBarU has put together three programs this summer that will help you get the knowledge you need in the most efficient manner. The General Practice Bootcamp Aug. 16-18 in Nashville will pack 15 hours of live programming into two and one half days. Fast track programs will be offered Aug. 24 in Memphis and Knoxville, offering a combination of live sessions and online access.
Donna L. Green and Emily Moore Leininger have joined forces to form Green & Leininger PC, a family law firm serving clients in Williamson, Davidson and surrounding counties. Green began her legal career at Neal & Harwell in Nashville after graduating from Vanderbilt Law School in 1998. Leininger graduated from Nashville School of Law in 2006. She previously worked at Hale & Hale in Franklin. Learn more about the new firm
News from the General-Solo-Small Firm Section
Client relationships need to start from a solid foundation to be successful. In the latest TBA All Access Network video, Memphis attorney and ethics expert Brian Faughnan offers six key steps to consider when beginning these relationships. Watch Faughnan’s program now or review any of the other video programming. All programs are five to 10 minutes long and can be watched at no cost.
The Shelby County Circuit and Chancery Court clerks’ offices will go to electronic filing of all court records in June. Attorneys will still be able to file a paper version of proceedings but clerks will scan the documents, and the court will go completely to e-filing at some point. Until then, the court will phase in use of the technology with the goal of a two-hour turnaround in approving filings during business hours. Attorneys will be able to file after business hours and will receive an email confirmation later after the office has reviewed the filing. Provided there are no errors in the e-filing, the court record will show the document was filed when it was sent in, instead of when it was reviewed. The Memphis Daily News has more
