The Tennessee Supreme Court Justice Bus has now offered free legal services to clients in all three grand divisions of the state, the Administrative Office of the Courts reports. The Justice Bus made its way to East Tennessee with a visit to the American Jobs Center in Chattanooga last month where the Chattanooga Bar Association Young Lawyers Division helped provide assistance with civil legal issues and criminal law on expungement cases. It stopped in Middle Tennessee where it visited the Murfreesboro Day Reporting and Community Resource Center for its job and resource fair and helped 10 clients with issues ranging from expungement to family law. Recent events also included trips to an expungement clinic in Memphis, a Smyrna job fair, and an event with the Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition Clinic in Nashville. Trips to Sullivan, Knox and Obion counties are scheduled for this month.

The Germantown Board of Mayor and Aldermen will decide next week whether to appoint a municipal court judge to temporarily replace Judge Raymond Clift Jr., the Daily Memphian reports. Clift is guaranteed an eight-year term as he runs unopposed on today’s ballot, but he is currently on a temporary leave of absence. In Clift’s absence, Judge Robert Brannon has been filling in, but the board on Monday will consider naming Kevin Patterson as temporary judge to help with Brannon’s workload. Patterson is a local attorney with more than 30 years of experience and has previously served the city as judge when a substitute has been needed.

More than one month after its first lawsuit was dismissed, national LGBT organization the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) is taking the state back to court over its trans bathroom law, WPLN reports. HRC is suing on behalf of a Williamson County family and their 8-year-old child who, according to the Associated Press, was assigned male at birth but identifies as female. State law prohibits the student, identified as D.H., from using the girls' bathroom at school. The school allows D.H. to use one of four single-occupancy restrooms, which “reinforce the differential treatment” of D.H., violating her constitutional rights, the suit claims. HRC originally filed suit earlier this year on behalf of two Wilson County families with transgender children, but both families moved out of state before the lawsuit made its way through the court. The suit seeks an injunction against the bathroom law.

The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has overturned the death sentence of Clarksville man William Glenn Rogers, the Tennessean reports. Rogers, who was sentenced to death for the 1996 rape and murder of a nine-year-old Clarksville girl, raised claims of possible ineffective assistance of counsel and questions regarding the sufficiency of evidence against him. Judges Karen Nelson Moore and Jane Branstetter Stranch and Senior Judge Helene N. White heard the case. Moore wrote in the majority opinion that Rogers's counsel during the sentencing phase "makes us doubt whether this phase of trial produced a fair result." The opinion did not rule on innocence or guilt, but leaves the door open for the trial court to review claims of ineffective assistance on Rogers's motion for a new trial after his initial conviction.

Legal Aid Society of Middle Tennessee and the Cumberlands is now accepting applications for two attorneys to work on its Eviction Right to Counsel Project — a two year grant-funded project wherein low and moderate income tenants facing eviction receive appointed legal representation. The attorneys will provide legal representation to income-eligible clients in cases involving tenants’ rights, including public/subsidized housing, Section 8, private landlord/tenant issues and fair housing. Find application instructions and more information here or find more job postings on the TBA’s JobLink site.

Meet TBA’s Director of Finance & Accounting Derrick Dishner! Derrick oversees the processing of payables, budgeting and monthly financial reporting at the TBA. He says knowing that he’s “nurturing the financial health of the organization to keep it healthy for another 100 years” is the best part of his job! Don’t be jealous, but Derrick has two big trips coming up this year – a trip down the Rhine and to the Baltic!

The #TeamTBA series offers members a behind-the-scenes look at the inner workings of the TBA and how each staff members makes the association run. Check back every Wednesday for a new staff profile in TBA Today and on the TBA's Facebook Twitter and Instagram accounts.

The Chattanooga Bar Association recently held a retirement reception for Judges Russell Bean, Jeffrey Hollingsworth and Don Poole, the Hamilton County Herald reports. Roughly 180 guests attended the event, which took place at Pinnacle Financial Partners. Bean, who served 22 years on Chattanooga’s city court, told the crowd that stepping down was “bittersweet.” Hollingsworth, elected to the Hamilton County Circuit Court in 2006, announced his plans to open a mediation practice with his daughter. Poole practiced law for 33 years before being elected to the county’s criminal court in 2006. He thanked his wife and fellow jurists for their support, adding he wasn’t quite sure what people mean when they congratulate him for retiring. “Maybe they mean, ‘Congratulations for getting old,’” he joked.

Two former employees of the Knox County Criminal Court Clerk’s office have filed federal lawsuits against their former boss for alleged age and disability discrimination, the Knoxville News Sentinel reports.  Kathy Diane Lewis, 63, and Christine Dumais, 64, say Knox County Criminal Court Clerk Mike Hammond used the COVID-19 pandemic as an excuse to lay off older women in the office and replace them with “significantly younger females” with little or no experience. “Hammond established a pattern and practice of hiring females significantly younger than (Lewis and Dumais), and some of whom Hammond had become acquainted with at local bars and entertainment establishments,” the lawsuits state. Hammond allegedly told both women their positions were being eliminated due to lack of funds, but the suits allege the jobs were not eliminated, but instead filled by younger women. Lewis and Dumais filed complaints with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and have since received a “right to sue” letter based on that agency’s investigation.

Metro Council will tonight reconsider a proposal to host the Republican National Convention in 2024, the Tennessean reports. Councilmember Robert Swope last month pulled his resolution to bring the convention to Nashville before a vote due to lack of support, but last week refiled it in a final attempt to secure council support. Swope also filed a resolution that would welcome the RNC to Nashville and "open a dialogue" with state lawmakers to allow Nashville to impose development impact fees, which could be used to fund the infrastructure and schools strained by booming development. The Republican National Committee will make a final decision during its Aug. 5 meeting, but its site selection panel has unanimously recommended Milwaukee as the location for the 2014 convention.

Frost Brown Todd is looking to hire an automotive/mobility restructuring associate for its Nashville office. Interested candidates should have 3-5 years of experience in handling workouts and restructurings in the automotive and mobility industry. Additional experience with Chapter 11 work, including the representation of debtors, secured creditors and unsecured creditors in complex bankruptcy cases, will be considered. See the job posting for more information on how to apply and find other openings through the TBA’s JobLink site.