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Work Underway on Future Davidson County Sheriff's Office Building

Posted by: Katharine Heriges on Jan 28, 2019
Site work is fully underway on the future Davidson County Sheriff’s Office building in East Nashville, The Nashville Post reports. First approved in 2016, previous reports had the project carrying a roughly $20 million price tag with a final cost yet to be announced.

Shelby County Lawyer Suspended

Posted by: Katharine Heriges on Jan 28, 2019
On Jan. 24, the Supreme Court of Tennessee suspended Memphis attorney Gerald Stanley Green from the practice of law for six months, with 30 days to be served on active suspension and the remaining five months on probation with conditions. The Board of Professional Responsibility filed a petition for discipline and a supplemental petition against Green based on complaints by three clients alleging that he did not adequately communicate and failed to diligently represent them. In addition, Green was charged with practicing law in Mississippi without complying with that state’s rule governing pro hac vice admission.

Maury County Lawyer Reinstated

Posted by: Katharine Heriges on Jan 28, 2019
The Supreme Court of Tennessee on Friday reinstated Maury County attorney William Clark Barnes Jr. to the practice of law, effective immediately. Barnes had been suspended by the Supreme Court of Tennessee for three years on March 31, 2015, with six months active suspension and the remainder on probation with conditions. A hearing panel found that Barnes complied with the terms and conditions of his suspension, and further found that he had demonstrated the moral qualifications, competency and learning in the law required for the practice of law, and that his resumption of the practice of law will not be detrimental to the integrity or standing of the bar or administration of justice, or subversive to the public interest. As conditions of his reinstatement, Barnes must have a practice monitor for one year, and enter into a new, two-year Tennessee Lawyers Assistance Program monitoring agreement.

Stewart County Lawyer Placed on Disability Inactive Status

Posted by: Katharine Heriges on Jan 28, 2019
By order of the Tennessee Supreme Court entered Jan. 25, the law license of Stewart County lawyer Billy Dudley Cobb was transferred to disability inactive status, pursuant to Section 27.3 of Tennessee Supreme Court Rule 9. Cobb cannot practice law while on disability inactive status. He may return to the practice of law after reinstatement by the Tennessee Supreme Court upon showing of clear and convincing evidence that the disability has been removed and he is fit to resume the practice of law.

ABA Entertainment and Sports Forum Coming to Memphis

Posted by: Katharine Heriges on Jan 28, 2019
The ABA Forum on the Entertainment and Sports Industries is bringing its Spring Governing Committee Meeting to Memphis on April 4. The event, which will be held at the University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphries School of Law, will include a luncheon featuring renowned author Robert Gordon whose books Memphis Rent Party and Respect Yourself tell the stories of Stax Records and Memphis’s rich musical tradition.

Paul Rose Wins Special GOP Primary

Posted by: Katharine Heriges on Jan 28, 2019
Covington businessman Paul Rose topped the results last week in the special Republican primary election for Tennessee Senate District 32, The Commercial Appeal reports. Rose will face Democrat Eric Coleman of Memphis in the special general election March 12 to fill the seat formerly occupied by Collierville Republican Mark Norris. The former Senate majority leader was recently confirmed as a federal judge. Rose beat out Shelby County Commissioners Heidi Shafer and George Chism, as well as former state Rep. Steve McManus.

TSC Holds Attorney-Client Privilege Extends to the Functional Equivalent of an Employee

Posted by: Katharine Heriges on Jan 25, 2019
The Tennessee Supreme Court has held that the attorney-client privilege protects communications between a business’s attorneys and a third party when the third party acts as the functional equivalent of an employee and when the communications relate to the attorney’s representation of the business and were intended to be confidential. In a unanimous opinion, authored by Justice Sharon G. Lee, the Supreme Court noted that it is increasingly common for businesses to use outside consultants and other independent contractors. These third parties often operate in the same manner as employees of the business and have information needed by the business’s attorneys that no employee of the business has.

Services Saturday for Knoxville Lawyer Gary Wright

Posted by: Katharine Heriges on Jan 25, 2019
Knoxville attorney Gary W. Wright died on Jan. 21 at the age of 66, the Knoxville Bar Association reports. Wright joined Wimberly Lawson Wright Daves & Jones PLLC in 1983 and started in its Morristown office before joining the Knoxville office in 1988. He practiced labor and employment law for the firm's clients for decades. Prior to entering private practice, Wright was a federal prosecutor for the National Labor Relations Board, working in its Peoria and Atlanta regions. Services for Wright will be held at 11 a.m. on Saturday at the First Presbyterian Church of Taos. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the church, according to The Taos News.

Federal Court Rules Against Job-Seeking Lawyer in Age Discrimination Suit

Posted by: Katharine Heriges on Jan 25, 2019
The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 8-4 this week that the Age Discrimination in Employment Act protects workers but not outside job applicants in suits for disparate-impact discrimination, the ABA Journal reports. The case stemmed from a 58-year-old lawyer who challenged an experience cap in a legal job ad, which asked for applicants with no more than seven years of relevant legal experience. The court's decision hedged on the interpretation of the word "individual" in context of the law, which the majority found “shows that Congress employed the term ‘any individual’ as a shorthand reference to someone with ‘status as an employee.’"

Federal Government Reopens for 3 Weeks

Posted by: Katharine Heriges on Jan 25, 2019
President Trump agreed last week to reopen the federal government for three weeks while negotiations proceeded over how to secure the nation’s southwestern border, The New York Times reports. The decision paved the way for Congress to pass spending bills immediately that Trump will sign to restore normal operations at a series of federal agencies until Feb. 15 and begin paying again the 800,000 federal workers who have been furloughed or forced to work for free for 35 days.
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