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Class Action Online CLE Package

Posted by: Katharine Heriges on Feb 12, 2018
Check out the TBA's full Class Action Online CLE series, available now. Sessions address changes in discovery, developments in class action, updates in mass torts and MDL best practices. This series is produced by Mark Chalos of Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein.

Ripley Attorney Tommy Caldwell Dies at 86

Posted by: Katharine Heriges on Feb 12, 2018
J. Thomas Caldwell of Ripley died on Feb. 5. He was 86. Caldwell was an attorney in Ripley for 53 years, and served as Lauderdale County Attorney for over 40 years. He graduated law school in 1962 at the University of Mississippi, where he also played football. In 1986 he was inducted as a fellow in the Tennessee Trial Lawyers Association. He was also a member of the Ripley Masonic Lodge and a United States Air Force veteran. Serves were held on Feb. 7.

Services This Weekend for Nashville Attorney H. Naill Falls Jr.

Posted by: Katharine Heriges on Feb 12, 2018
Nashville lawyer H. Naill Falls Jr. died on Friday. He was 64. A native of Memphis raised in Arkansas, Falls graduated from Vanderbilt University School of Law in 1979, where he was the managing editor of the Vanderbilt Law Review. Falls clerked for Judge Harry Wellford of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee, and then moved on to practice commercial and securities litigation in Nashville. Visitation will be held at Montgomery Bell Academy on Friday from 4 to 6 p.m., and a Rite of Farewell will take place at Christ the King Catholic Church on Saturday at 2 p.m. Memorial gifts may be made to the Tennessee Justice Center or Alive Hospice.

Davidson County Lawyer Reinstated

Posted by: Katharine Heriges on Feb 12, 2018
The Supreme Court on Thursday reinstated Davidson County attorney George Avery Mott to the practice of law. Mott had been suspended on Dec. 27, 2017, for one year, with 30 days to be served as an active suspension and the remaining time on probation. Mott now begins his probationary period.

Nashville Vice Mayor Appoints 7-Member Committee to Investigate Barry

Posted by: Katharine Heriges on Feb 12, 2018
Nashville Vice Mayor David Briley has named seven members of the Metro Council to a special committee to investigate the use of city money during Mayor Megan Barry’s affair with her former bodyguard, The Tennessean reports. At-large council members Erica Gilmore and Bob Mendes, as well as district council members Brenda Haywood, Burkley Allen, Mina Johnson, Russ Pulley and Robert Swope, will serve on the committee, which will begin meeting this Thursday. The body voted 30-7 last week to approve the council-led investigation, which will include subpoena power. “The most important objective of this committee should be that its conduct and deliberations be seen as fair and impartial," Briley wrote in a letter to council members.

Third-Highest Ranking Official Exits Justice Department

Posted by: Katharine Heriges on Feb 12, 2018
Associate Attorney General Rachel Brand, the third-highest ranking official at the U.S. Department of Justice, is exiting the government agency for the private sector, the ABA Journal reports. Were Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to depart, Brand would have been in charge of the special counsel investigation into Russian influence in the 2016 presidential election. With Brand out, the next in line to take over the investigation is Solicitor General Noel Francisco. President Donald Trump has indicated in the past his displeasure with the investigation and lack of confidence in Rosenstein.

CBA Presents Awards at Annual Meeting

Posted by: Katharine Heriges on Feb 12, 2018
The Chattanooga Bar Association honored the service of several of its members at its recent annual meeting, the Hamilton County Herald reports. The President’s Award, given by outgoing president William Colvin, went to incoming president Marc Harwell. Judge William Brown received the Jac Chambliss Lifetime Achievement Award, and Sheri Fox took home the Ralph H. Kelley Humanitarian Award. The John M. Higgason Courage Award, given to an attorney deemed to have fought through an adverse situation, went to Bart Quinn, who passed away last April from cancer. Nora McCarthy received the Harry Weill Zealous Practice of Law Award. The Albert L. Hodge Volunteer Award was given to Frank Pinchak for work on the Unauthorized Practice of Law committee. The YLD Volunteer of the Year Award went to Matt Brock for his pro bono work with the CBA and the TBA.

SCOTUS Partially Stays Lower Court Decision in North Carolina Gerrymandering Case

Posted by: Katharine Heriges on Feb 7, 2018

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday partly stayed a lower court decision in a redistricting case from North Carolina that involved allegations of racial gerrymandering, the ABA Journal reports. The stay remains in effect while the court considers whether to grant cert in the case involving certain state legislative districts. The stayed districts had been found to violate a North Carolina constitutional provision regulating the timing of redistricting, while the others were found to be unconstitutional racial gerrymanders.

Safley Challenges Coleman in Run for Nashville General Sessions Judge

Posted by: Katharine Heriges on Feb 7, 2018
Former judge Joyce Grimes Safley announced today her candidacy for General Sessions judge for Nashville’s District 10, in the seat currently occupied by Judge Sam Coleman. Coleman won the seat via special appointment by the Nashville Metro Council last year, when the position opened up due to the resignation of Casey Moreland. Safley previously served as an administration judge for 15 years. The election will be decided on May 1.

Deliberations Underway in Pilot Flying J Trial

Posted by: Katharine Heriges on Feb 7, 2018
A decision in the trial of several former Pilot Flying J executives is now in the hands of the jury, Knoxnews reports. Former company President Mark Hazelwood, former vice president Scott Wombold and former account representatives Heather Jones and Karen Mann are charged with conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud in a five-year plot to scam smaller trucking companies. The defense made its final argument, claiming that prosecutors were trying to turn a civil issue into a more serious criminal issue, while prosecutors argued that the actions made by the defendants in their scheme were not merely “sharp business practices” or civil fraud.
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