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Real Estate Matters in Divorce CLE Package

Posted by: Katharine Heriges on Dec 21, 2017
These sessions will address common real estate matters in divorce. Topics address deeds, joint debt, joint ownership, and mechanism(s) for house equity equalization. The 1-click package offers 3.15 hours of CLE.

LAS, Nashville Bar Launch New Program for Veterans

Posted by: Katharine Heriges on Dec 21, 2017
The Legal Aid Society of Middle Tennessee and the Cumberlands (LAS) has launched a new program with the Nashville Bar Association (NBA) to support veterans with legal issues. Called The Veterans Project, it is a partnership among the NBA, Veterans Court, Office of the Mayor of Metropolitan Nashville, Metro Homelessness Commission, Operation Stand Down TN (OSDTN) and Legal Aid Society’s Volunteer Lawyers Program. While the program is primarily focused on helping veterans who are homeless or facing homelessness, help with civil legal problems is available to all veterans. The scope of civil legal issues for which veterans can seek help includes child support, debt, bankruptcy, car purchase/repair, family law, expungement and reinstatement of driver’s licenses. 

Online Options in Communication Law

Posted by: Katharine Heriges on Dec 20, 2017
With one click, get three CLE updates in communication law. Sessions include broadband legislation, right of publicity and protective orders. Speakers include William Helou of WSMLEGAL PLLC, Brad Lampley of Adams and Reese LLP, Samuel Lipshie of Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP and Paul McAdoo of Aaron Sanders PLLC.

Rutherford Sheriff’s Office Pushes for Education to Fight Recidivism

Posted by: Katharine Heriges on Dec 20, 2017
The Daily News Journal has profiled the Rutherford County Sheriff’s Office’s efforts to improve inmate education and programming, including greater push for inmates to pass the High School Equivalency Test (HiSET), the newer name for the GED. In 2017, 50 inmates successfully completed the program and passed the test. Proponents of the new programs say they help inmates adjust and compete in the workforce when they are released.

City of Lakeland Faces Lawsuit Over New High School Construction

Posted by: Katharine Heriges on Dec 20, 2017
Shelby County Chancellor Walter Evans will allow a lawsuit to continue that was filed by citizens against the city of Lakeland, a suburb of Memphis, over a proposed new high school, The Commercial Appeal reports. Residents who filed the suit say plans for the school go against a 2015 vote that rejected a $50 million bond issue for the construction. Lakeland’s board of commissioners and mayor approved a financing plan earlier this month for a bond of $60 million. Evans denied yesterday a motion from the city to dismiss the suit.

Nashville Cleared to Move Forward with Opioid Lawsuit

Posted by: Katharine Heriges on Dec 20, 2017
Nashville Mayor Megan Barry’s administration has been cleared to utilize an outside law firm to explore a potential lawsuit against opioid manufacturers and distributors, The Tennessean reports. The Nashville Metro Council voted yesterday to defeat a motion to reconsider contracting with Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP for the effort. The road block in the process came from Councilwoman Erica Gilmore, who was concerned that minority-led law firms were not considered for the contract. Lieff Cabraser has now partnered with Manson, Johnson and Conner, a firm whose five partners are all African-American.

Lawsuit Alleges Non-lawyers at LegalZoom Performed Legal Work

Posted by: Katharine Heriges on Dec 20, 2017
A complaint filed yesterday in California alleges that online legal resource LegalZoom engaged in the “unauthorized practice of law, false advertising, unfair competition and other claims with respect to preparation and filing of trademark applications,” the ABA Journal reports. The state bars of Arizona, California and Texas are also named as defendants. The complaint alleges that when the plaintiffs applied for two trademarks through the service, LegalZoom utilized non-lawyer “trademark document specialists” to provide legal advice by “selecting classification and modifying the goods and services description from the template thereby applying specific law to facts.” 

Supreme Court Overturns Appellate Court Ruling in Child Custody Case

Posted by: Katharine Heriges on Dec 20, 2017
In a case involving the custody of two minor children, the Tennessee Supreme Court determined that the father had established that a material change of circumstances had occurred and that it was in the children’s best interests for the father to be designated as the primary residential parent. Previously, a juvenile court ruled that the mother's newly discovered employment at the Moonlight Bunny Ranch in Nevada, as well as what the court determined as her hostility towards the father, was enough to establish a material change of circumstance. The mother appealed and the appellate court reversed the ruling. When the case made it to the Supreme Court, the court concluded that the Court of Appeals usurped the role of the juvenile court by declining to extend deference to the juvenile court’s findings. The unanimous opinion was written by Justice Roger A. Page.

Clemency Application Filed for Cyntoia Brown

Posted by: Katharine Heriges on Dec 20, 2017
Lawyers for Cyntoia Brown, the Nashville trafficking victim jailed at the age of 14 for killing a man who picked her up, have officially filed an application seeking clemency from Gov. Bill Haslam, the Nashville Scene reports. Nashville Mayor Megan Barry, Davidson County Juvenile Court Judge Sheila Calloway and state Rep. Jeremy Faison are among those who have written leaders asking Haslam to grant her release. Brown’s lawyers are asking the governor to commute her sentence to second-degree murder, which would allow her release.

Mark Pody Wins Senate Special Election Victory

Posted by: Katharine Heriges on Dec 20, 2017
In an election decided by just 300 votes, Mark Pody has won the special election for Tennessee’s District 17 seat, The Tennessean reports. Pody, a current state House representative, defeated attorney Mary Alice Carfi to win the seat left vacant by Mae Beavers’ resignation. District 17 includes Wilson, Cannon, DeKalb, Smith, Clay and Macon counties.
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