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Trial practice seminars offer practical tools
Whether your practice involves time in the courtroom, or preparing for cases that ultimately settle, the upcoming Trial Practice for Today's Litigator program from the TBA's YLD will provide practical tools to enhance your career. Hear from practitioners as they discuss how to optimize discovery without wasting time or clients' money. Topics will include taking effective depositions, using interrogatories to your benefit and gaining leverage in settlement negotiations. The course also will include a session on writing a winning summary judgment brief. Finally, a panel of judges and seasoned litigators will discuss how to protect your most valuable asset: your reputation. Learn how to establish and maintain respect as a formidable litigator while remaining civil and cordial with colleagues.
Learn more about this April 24 program in Knoxville, Memphis and Nashville
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TODAY'S OPINIONS
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ADRIAN R. BROWN v. STATE OF TENNESSEE
Court: TCCA
Attorneys:
Adrian R. Brown, Pro se.
Robert E. Cooper, Jr., Attorney General and Reporter, and Benjamin A. Ball, Assistant Attorney General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee.
Judge: MCGEE OGLE
The petitioner, Adrian R. Brown, appeals the McMinn County Criminal Court's dismissal of his petition for post-conviction relief. The State has filed a motion requesting that this court affirm the post-conviction court's judgment pursuant to Rule 20, Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals. Upon review of the record and the parties' briefs, we conclude that the post-conviction court properly dismissed the petition. Accordingly, the State's motion is granted, and the judgment of the postconviction court is affirmed.
http://www.tba2.org/tba_files/TCCA/2009/brownarrule20_041009.pdf
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| TODAY'S NEWS |
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Legal News
Politics
Practice Management
Disciplinary Actions
TBA Member Services
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| Legal News |
| Judges speak out on consequences of teen crime |
| Several Chattanooga area judges concerned about recent teenage criminal activities are speaking out, hoping to inform other youths of the consequences of such actions. "Almost weekly, people come to us begging to have a conviction removed from their record in order to get a good job," General Sessions Court Judge Bob Moon said. "Unfortunately, unless those cases were diverted years ago, nothing can be done to ever remove a criminal conviction from their record."
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Read more in the Chattanoogan.com
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| Bad economy bring out more DIY lawyers |
| Financially pressed people are representing themselves more and more in court, according to judges, lawyers and courthouse officials across the country, raising questions of how just the outcomes are and clogging courthouses already facing their own budget woes as clerks spend more time helping people unfamiliar with forms, filings and fees.
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Read more about the problem in the New York Times
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| Politics |
| Virginia group main funder for Nashville English-only vote |
| More than 90 percent of the money raised by the Nashville group working to make English the city's official language came from the Virginia-based ProEnglish, a group that has been linked to organizations tagged by the Southern Poverty Law Center as hate groups - an allegation ProEnglish and its sister groups vehemently deny.
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Read more on the Tennessean's In Session blog
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| Practice Management |
| 'BigSolos' could be a big threat |
| Watch out for the coming of BigSolos. That's the advice blogger and technology consultant Ross Kodner is giving to solo practitioners, who face new competition from refugees of big law firms who decide to hang out their own shingles after getting laid off. Kodner says the BigSolos bring top-notch legal skills and in many cases a potent book of commercial business.
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The ABA's Online Journal has more
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| Disciplinary Actions |
| Memphis lawyer suspended |
| Memphis lawyer Don A. Handley was suspended by the Tennessee Supreme Court on April 6 for six months for violating disciplinary rules by practicing while on administrative suspension, by failing to properly file a personal injury lawsuit, and by failing to candidly advise his client regarding the failure to properly file the personal injury lawsuit. The imposition of the suspension was suspended in conjunction with a six-month period of probation.
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Read the full release
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