The Legal Aid Society of Middle Tennessee & the Cumberland will hold a Veterans Project Legal Help Clinic on Wednesday at Nashville’s Operation Stand Down Tennessee. The facility is located at 1125 12th Ave. S., Nashville 37203. The clinic is by appointment only. Call 615-248-1981 for more information.

Don't miss this opportunity to register for 15 hours of CLE in one day! The Tennessee Fall FastTrack is an annual staple that offers tips and updates in diverse areas of law, designed to be relevant to a wide range of practice areas. The program will take place Nov. 8 in Nashville. It will provide seven hours of live general credit and eight prepaid credits to complete online anytime — at home or on your mobile device. Please join us for this unique program.

Michael Kestner, CEO and majority owner of PainMD, was arrested this afternoon after being indicted on allegations he attempted to defraud taxpayers by filing $38 million in false medical claims. Earlier this year, three PainMD nurse practitioners were indicted on health care fraud after being accused of pressuring patients into worthless injections just to pad profits. This is the first time Kestner will face criminal charges. Headquartered in Franklin, PainMD owned 10 clinics that treated around 4,500 patients in Tennessee, North Carolina and Virginia. All clinics were closed or sold to new owners. Read the full story from the Tennessean. 

Birmingham-based law firm, Maynard Cooper & Gale, has opened a Nashville branch. The expansion, which involves the acquisition of Nashville firm McKenzie Laird Ottinger & Leach, marks the 10th office opened by Maynard Cooper since its founding in 1984. The Nashville team will be experienced in corporate law and commercial real estate, adding to the firm’s mergers and acquisitions and venture capital advisory capabilities and its Corporate, Securities & Tax and Commercial Real Estate practice groups. Greg Curran, the firm’s chairman of the board, calls the Nashville move a "logical next step to support our growing client base in Tennessee and tap into the thriving business community in the city and across the state.” Read more at the Nashville Business Journal.

The Lawyers’ Association for Women (LAW) will honor new attorneys with a breakfast before they are sworn in on Nov. 7. The breakfast is free for new admittees and will feature a keynote address from Chancellor Anne Martin of the Nashville Davidson County Chancery Court, Part II. Breakfast begins at 7 a.m. at the Wildhorse Saloon in downtown Nashville. Reservations must be made by Nov. 1.

Tune in to the October episode of the TBA BarBuzz podcast to hear a recap of legal happenings from across Tennessee, upcoming events at the bar, attorney shout outs and more. BarBuzz is one of three podcasts from the Tennessee Bar Association Podcast Network. Other shows include Sidebar, a podcast featuring human interest stories from Tennessee attorneys, and HealthyBar, which focuses on attorney well being. All three shows are available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, TuneIn and the TBA's website. Simply search the show's title or "Tennessee Bar Association" wherever you listen to podcasts.

A new installment of the Tennessee Bar Association Podcast Network show, Sidebar, is now available. The episode focuses on improv skills for attorneys and features interviews with the co-owner of the Third Coast Comedy Club in Nashville and Kirsten Jacobson, staff attorney at the Tennessee Alliance for Legal Services and improv student. Sidebar is available on the TBA's website or anywhere you listen to podcasts, including Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher and TuneIn. Simply search the show title of "Tennessee Bar Association." Do you have a story lead you'd like to hear on a future episode? Submit your ideas here.

Google and its YouTube subsidiary will pay a total of $170 million to settle allegations from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) that YouTube gathered data from children without parental consent, NPR reports. The FTC alleged in a complaint that the companies were collecting data on children by tracking users who were viewing channels directed at kids without asking their parents, violating laws that protect children's privacy. The complaint alleges that YouTube earned millions of dollars by using this information to target ads to the children. The settlement also requires YouTube to create a system that better protects the privacy of children.

Canadian-based practice management platform Clio announced today it has received $250 million in Series D funding from American growth equity firms TCV and JMI Equity. According to a press release from the company, the investment is the largest of its kind in Canadian history. Clio CEO Jack Newton writes in a blog post that the investment “will accelerate our ability, together, to make legal services accessible while also ensuring law firms thrive in the process.”

Get a monthly recap of bar association news and upcoming events on this month’s episode of BarBuzz, part of the Tennessee Bar Association Podcast Network. Also included in the network are Sidebar, a show covering human interest stories from attorneys in Tennessee and HealthyBar, a podcast centered on attorney well-being. The shows are now available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, TuneIn and the TBA’s website. Simply search the show title or “Tennessee Bar Association” wherever you listen to podcasts.