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Summer CLE Blast Set for July 20

Posted by: Katharine Heriges on Jul 11, 2017

Still need hours for 2016? The TBA is offering programs from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. on July 20 at the Tennessee Bar Center in Nashville. This CLE Blast will offer seven hours of dual CLE credit. Take as many or as few hours as you need. The registration desk will be open all day.

Former Federal Prosecutor to Open Firm’s New Chicago Office

Posted by: Katharine Heriges on Jul 11, 2017
Former Nashville attorney and Chicago U.S. Attorney Zachary Fardon will open a new office in Chicago for the firm King and Spalding, Crain’s Chicago Business reports. Fardon was a public defender and an assistant federal prosecutor in Nashville before serving as U.S. Attorney in Chicago, where he prosecuted gang crime and brought charges against former U.S. Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert. Fardon is a 1992 graduate of Vanderbilt Law School.

Services Tomorrow for Nashville Lawyer

Posted by: Katharine Heriges on Jul 11, 2017
Nashville lawyer Hampton Stennis Little, Jr. died on July 7. A veteran of the U.S. Navy, Little received his law degree from the University of Mississippi and his graduate law degree from Georgetown University. Before coming to Nashville in 1968, he worked for the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. Little was a leader in developing professional corporations and their employment plans, forming well over 600 in his career, along with their pension, profit-sharing and estate planning. He was retired from Little, House and Griffith. Funeral services will be held tomorrow at noon at First Presbyterian Church's Stanford Chapel, 4815 Franklin Pike in Nashville. A one-hour visitation will be held prior at the church in the Cheek House. In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations be made to the H. Stennis Judge Little Sr. Scholarship at Mississippi State University.

Supreme Court Creates Court Reporter Task Force

Posted by: Katharine Heriges on Jul 11, 2017
In response to a lack of qualified court reporters in Tennessee, the state Supreme Court has created a task force of judges, clerks and court reporters to address the shortage. With grant funding obtained from the Office of Criminal Justice Programs, the AOC and the Court Reporter Task Force have begun work on the development of a pilot educational program with the goal of increasing the number of well-trained court reporters.

Judge Dismisses Suit Against Prominent Nashville Restaurateur

Posted by: Katharine Heriges on Jul 11, 2017
A $1.5 million defamation suit against Nashville restaurateur Randy Rayburn was dismissed with prejudice from Judge Kelvin Jones’ courtroom, the Nashville Business Journal reports. The suit was brought by the former head of the culinary arts program at Nashville State Community College, Tom Loftis, and was based on comments Rayburn was said to have made about Loftis in a 2016 Tennessean story. Rayburn’s attorney praised the ruling, saying that the courts are no place “to litigate hurt feelings.”

Shelby Commissioner Pleads to Domestic Assault

Posted by: Katharine Heriges on Jul 11, 2017
Shelby County Commissioner Justin Ford appeared in court today and entered an Alford plea to one count of domestic assault, The Commercial Appeal reports. He was sentenced to a year of probation and will be required to attend anger management courses. The case stems from an April 23 incident in which Ford allegedly hit his girlfriend, who was driving a car in which he was the passenger. As she pulled over and tried to escape, he allegedly pull her back into the car and continued assaulting her.

Twitter Users Blocked by President Trump File Suit

Posted by: Katharine Heriges on Jul 11, 2017
A group of Twitter users blocked by President Donald Trump sued him as well as two White House aides today, arguing that his account is a public forum that he cannot bar citizens entry from, The New York Times reports. By blocking people from reading his feed, which the suit calls a “digital town hall,” the president is in violation of the plaintiffs’ First Amendment rights to express views he does not like. Trump, press secretary Sean Spicer and director of social media Dan Scavino are named as defendants in the suit, which was filed in a federal court in New York.

New Laws in 2 States Allow Guns in Courthouses

Posted by: Katharine Heriges on Jul 11, 2017
New legislation in Arkansas and Oklahoma will allow some people to bring guns into courthouses, the ABA Journal reports. The new Arkansas law allows state employees with concealed carry permits to bring their weapons into county courthouses. County employees already have the right. The Oklahoma bill allows elected officials who are licensed gun owners to carry concealed weapons into courthouses when they are performing public duties.

U.S. Agency Opens Door for Class-Action Lawsuits Against Financial Firms

Posted by: Katharine Heriges on Jul 10, 2017
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau adopted a rule today that would see banks and credit card companies lose the power to force customers into arbitration and block them from banding together to file a class-action suit. The New York Times reports that the change could cost financial firms billions of dollars. In the past, consumer who were prevented from banding together for a class-action suit often abandoned their claims.

Ramsaur Named to Fastcase 50

Posted by: Katharine Heriges on Jul 10, 2017

Fastcase has released its annual Fastcase 50 list, and the 2017 class includes TBA Executive Director Emeritus Allan Ramsaur. Started in 2011, Fastcase 50 honors “the law’s smartest, most courageous innovators, techies, visionaries and leaders.” Of Ramsaur, the organization noted that he “built his career dedicated to helping those in need, including taking a leading role in the revision of Tennessee's conservatorship laws. A new focus of Allan’s leadership is helping lawyers and the legal system to adapt to the evolving legal market.”

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