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Man Not Guilty by Insanity for Threatening Judge

Posted by: Katharine Heriges on Jun 6, 2017
A man was found not guilty by insanity yesterday for making threatening statements about Madison County Juvenile and Probate Court Judge Christy Little, The Jackson Sun reports. Omar Ahmad must now undergo mandatory treatment at Pathways Behavioral Services. He may not leave the county without a responsible adult and his social media accounts will be monitored for potential infractions. He was also ordered to stay off the campus of the University School of Jackson, after he was charged with disrupting an assembly in 2014 for Facebook threats that caused the school to go on lockdown.

Tennessee Congressional Races in 2nd, 3rd, 7th Districts Shape Up

Posted by: Katharine Heriges on Jun 6, 2017
Two Tennessee Democrats announced bids against Congressional incumbents this week, with a third mulling a potential run, the Nashville Post and Nooga.com report. A 64-year-old Knoxville psychologist, Joshua Williams, has announced his plans to seek the 2nd District Congressional seat currently held by Rep. Jimmy Duncan. Dr. Danielle Mitchell, a primary care and sports medicine physician in Chattanooga, will challenge Rep. Chuck Fleischmann for the 3rd District spot. Seventh District incumbent Marsha Blackburn of Franklin confirmed today her plans to seek reelection, while a Williamson County-based former Amazing Race contestant, Justin Kanew, has filed to run for Blackburn’s seat but hasn’t officially confirmed he will campaign against her. 

ABA Asks Accredited Law Schools How Tighter Bar Standards Could Impact Compliance

Posted by: Katharine Heriges on Jun 6, 2017
The American Bar Association has sent a questionnaire to ABA-accredited law schools to investigate how tighter bar passage standards might impact accreditation compliance, the ABA Journal reports. Under current standards, a school is not in compliance if 75 percent of its graduates in three of the five previous calendar years have not passed a bar exam, or if the school’s bar passage rate is not within 15 points of the state average. Under a proposed revision, law schools must show 75 percent of their graduates pass a bar exam within two years. Completed surveys will be made public at the 2018 ABA Midyear Meeting.

Learn the Basics of Charitable Deductions and Gifts with Online CLE

Posted by: Katharine Heriges on Jun 6, 2017

Check out the TBA's online CLE discussing chartible deductions, titled Charitable Planning in 3D. Attorney Sherri Allley examines the basics of charitable deductions under current federal tax law, various charitable gift mechanisms and more.

TSC, Fort Campbell Celebrate Military Spouse Rule

Posted by: Katharine Heriges on Jun 6, 2017

The Tennessee Supreme Court and 53 members of the 101st Airborne Division and 5th Special Forces Group, stationed at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, recently celebrated the Supreme Court’s Revised Military Spouse Rule (Rule 7), which permits attorney spouses of those in the military to obtain temporary law licenses to practice in Tennessee while their active-duty spouse is stationed in Tennessee at a military installation. All five justices participated in the ceremony to recognize four recently admitted attorneys to the Tennessee Bar through the revised rule.

Trump Statements Could Hurt Administration’s Legal Defense of Travel Ban

Posted by: Katharine Heriges on Jun 5, 2017
Negative statements made by President Donald Trump today against the revised travel ban could hurt the Justice Department’s legal case to defend it in court, The Washington Post reports. Trump derided the current iteration of the ban as “watered down” and said the DOJ should seek a “much tougher version,” despite the fact that the previous, tougher version was struck down in the courts. The president also confirmed that while “the lawyers and the courts can call it whatever they want,” the executive orders he issued temporarily blocking travel from Muslim-majority countries is indeed a “travel ban.”

Legal Aid Attorney Elected to Chair Domestic Violence Council

Posted by: Katharine Heriges on Jun 5, 2017
Deborah Yeomans-Barton, Managing Attorney for Legal Aid of East Tennessee’s Johnson City office, has been elected to chair the Tennessee Domestic Violence State Coordinating Council (DVSCC). Her one-year term begins on July 1, 2017. Yeomans-Barton has served on the Council for five years and is the appointed representative for legal aid service providers across the state. The DVSCC was established through legislation in 1995, and works to develop model policies and training curricula for law enforcement agencies, the courts, and batterers’ intervention programs. Yeomans-Barton also serves on the TBA Board of Governors.

SCOTUS Affirms Lower Court’s North Carolina Gerrymandering Ruling

Posted by: Katharine Heriges on Jun 5, 2017
The U.S. Supreme Court affirmed a district court’s ruling today that 28 state legislative districts in North Carolina are unconstitutional racial gerrymanders, CNN reports. The Court did vacate the lower body’s order for special elections in response. North Carolina must now redraw their state districts. The ruling comes after two U.S. Congressional districts in the state were struck down last month by the Supreme Court as well.

Big Law Sees Small Gains in Diversity, but None for African-Americans

Posted by: Katharine Heriges on Jun 5, 2017
Large law firms saw a small increase in diversity last year, but the gains did not extend to African-American lawyers, the ABA Journal reports. Minorities now make up 15.6 percent of the lawyers at the nation’s top 250 firms, up from 15 percent last year, and the percentage of minority partners increased 0.4 percentage points, to 8.6 percent. The percentage of African-Americans, however, did not change from the previous year. According to the American Lawyers's  diversity scorecard, Asian-American and Hispanic lawyers did expericnce gains in both number of lawyers and partners.  

Make Plans to Attend Annual Health Law CLEs

Posted by: Katharine Heriges on Jun 5, 2017

Recognized as one of the premier health law programs in the country, TBA's annual Health Law Primer, on October 4 and the Health Law Forum, held October 5-6, will address key issues impacting health law attorneys. Register early to avoid missing out on this popular program!

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