The fourth and final juvenile to escape from Nashville’s Juvenile Justice Center has been captured, the Tennessean reports. Brandon Caruthers, 17, who is facing charges in an armed robbery case that has been transferred to adult court, was arrested today at an apartment complex in Antioch. Caruthers was one of four teens on work detail who exited the detention center after their supervisor left them to address a fight. That supervisor, and one other employee, have been fired and charged with facilitating the escape through recklessness, a class C felony.

The Memphis Bar Association has honored Burch Porter & Johnson attorney Charlie Newman with the Judge Jerome Turner Lawyer’s Lawyer Award. That award is voted on by MBA membership and given to an attorney who has been practicing for at least 15 years and has exemplified the aims and aspirations embodied in the Guidelines for Professional Courtesy and Conduct during that time. The Daily Memphian has more on Newman’s award and his remarkable history in Memphis, including his help representing Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. during the sanitation workers’ strike, his role in the creation of the Big River Crossing and more.

Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris will honor retired Environmental Court Judge Larry Potter and departing General Sessions Court Clerk Ed Stanton Jr. with Lifetime Achievement Awards tomorrow, the Daily Memphian reports. Potter established the county’s environmental court and retired in 2018. Stanton was appointed as clerk in 2011, elected in 2012 and re-elected in 2016. The awards presentation will take place tomorrow at 10:30 a.m. in the criminal justice auditorium of the Walter L. Bailey Jr. Criminal Justice Center at 201 Poplar Ave.

Belmont University College of Law has issued a statement following an article from the University’s student-run newspaper, the Vision, featuring the stories of four past and present female students who say they were treated unfairly by the law school during pregnancy. In the statement published on the Vision's website, Belmont says certain allegations made in the original article don’t “align with the student-centered values with which our law school strives to operate.” The school also referred to its handbook, which states that any pregnant student or new mother with health issues should contact the associate dean for academic affairs who, if possible, will work with them on making up missed classroom time. The Vision spoke again with the women interviewed and all four stood by their stories.

Attorney Bill Haltom will sign copies of his new book Why Can’t Mother Vote? Joseph Hanover and the Unfinished Business of Democracy during a special event on Jan. 7 in Memphis. Haltom’s book, which will be available on Dec. 23, tells the story of Rep. Joseph Hanover of Memphis and his role in the fight for woman suffrage and the passage of the 19th Amendment. The event will take place at Bounty on Broad from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. Get more information on the event or reserve your signed copy now.

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Legal Aid of East Tennessee will hold a legal clinic Dec. 14 from 9 a.m. to noon at its office in Blount County. The event will take place at 307 Ellis Ave., Maryville 37804. For more information call LAET at 865-951-1818.

Gov. Bill Lee last week appointed Kyle Hixson as criminal court judge for the 6th Judicial District, a vacancy created by Judge Bob McGee’s retirement. The 6th Judicial District covers Knox County. Prior to this appointment, Hixson served two stints in the Office of the Knox County District Attorney General. He is also an adjunct professor of law in trial practice at the University of Tennessee College of Law.

The University of Memphis and Austin Peay State University announced today the creation of a program that will allow students to earn a bachelor’s and law degree in six years, the Nashville Post reports. Austin Peay students would need to apply to the Memphis law school by the end of their junior year and, if accepted, would receive their bachelor’s degree upon completing their first year of law school. The University of Tennessee College of Law and the University of Tennessee at Martin announced a similar program earlier this year.

The Knox County Sheriff’s Office confirmed that it doesn’t have a centralized and easily searchable system to track documents related to its participation in ICE’s 287 (g) program, which gives deputies federal authority to detain immigrants who enter the country illegally. During an open records lawsuit today, Knox County Chancellor John Weaver peppered the sheriff’s office with questions about the system and why it’s set up in a way that requires costly and extensive searching to find documents. The lawsuit was filed by University of Tennessee professor Meghan Conley after the sheriff’s office tried charging her for records she requested on the 287 (g) program. The suit was filed under the state’s Sunshine Law and cites roughly a dozen instances in which the sheriff’s office refused to answer Conley’s request for documents. Read more from the Knoxville News Sentinel.