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Chattanooga Lawyer John McMahan Dies at 67

Posted by: Katharine Heriges on Jun 11, 2019
News Type: Passages
Longtime Chattanooga attorney John D. McMahan died on June 2 after a battle with cancer. He was 67. McMahan grew up in Houston, Texas, and Memphis, eventually attending the University of Tennessee Law School, where he graduated in 1975. Shortly after, he moved to Chattanooga, where he practiced law for 35 years. He was the Founding Managing Partner of McMahan Law Firm, was on the National Board of Trial Advocacy and served as a diplomate on the American Board of Professional Liability Attorneys. In lieu of flowers, please consider making a donation to the Community Hospice of Jacksonville, National Pan/Can Association, or The HEAL Foundation of PVB (Helping Enrich Autistic Lives).

Speaker Casada Could Still Make Appointments to Board of Judicial Conduct Prior to Aug. 2 Resignation

Posted by: Katharine Heriges on Jun 11, 2019
News Type: Legal News
By delaying his resignation from the Tennessee House's top post until Aug. 2, House Speaker Glen Casada is in a position potentially to impact the governance of a number of state boards and commissions, including the Board of Judicial Conduct, the Times Free Press reports. The speaker is tasked under state law with naming members to 20 new or existing boards, commissions and councils dealing with various aspects of state government. Casada gets four appointments on to the Board of Judicial Conduct, one of which is required to be an attorney and three others who cannot be an attorney or a current or former judge.

Thomas Jefferson School of Law Loses ABA Approval

Posted by: Katharine Heriges on Jun 11, 2019
News Type: Legal News
ABA approval for the San Diego-based Thomas Jefferson School of Law, which was placed on probation in November 2017, has been withdrawn by the council of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar, the ABA Journal reports. The council of the section reached the decision following its May meeting in Chicago. The law school’s 2018 California bar passage rate for was 23.85%, according to ABA data. Comparatively, the California bar passage rate for graduates of ABA-accredited law schools in 2018 was 60.34%.

LogicForce Names New CEO, COO

Posted by: Katharine Heriges on Jun 11, 2019
News Type: Legal News
Legal technology consulting firm LogicForce has named a new CEO and COO, the Nashville Post reports. Gulam Zade, who had been the company’s general counsel and also had overseen its sales and human resources functions, will take the post of CEO. He joined LogicForce in 2014. Stepping into the COO spot is Bret Babcock, who was previously LogicForce’s CFO and is keeping that title. He has been with the company since 2015.

Unsealed Lawsuit Shows Pharma Firm Fanned Flames of Opioid Crisis

Posted by: Katharine Heriges on Jun 11, 2019
News Type: Legal News
A recently unsealed lawsuit in Knox County Circuit Court showed that from 2007 to 2014 opioid maker Endo Pharmaceuticals sold nearly a million more pills in Knoxville than in New York City, Chicago and Los Angeles combined, a reality that was due to the company’s marketing and aggressive sales tactics. Knoxnews reports that Endo’s sales outpaced another opioid giant, Purdue Pharma, with tactics that included marketing directly to doctors and patients alike, targeting addicts and acknowledging pill mills that prescribed more drugs than people per square mile.

Volunteers Needed for Saturday Clinic in Nashville

Posted by: Katharine Heriges on Jun 11, 2019
News Type: Upcoming
The Legal Aid Society is hosting its monthly clinic in collaboration with Metro Nashville Public Schools this Saturday. Volunteers from all practice areas of the law are also welcome to attend. Ample support will be provided to new volunteers. The event will take place from 9 a.m. to noon at 615 Fessey Park Road, Nashville, TN 37204. For more information please contact Jorge Salles Diaz, 615-780-7131.

Services Saturday for Henderson Judge Lloyd Tatum

Posted by: Katharine Heriges on Jun 10, 2019
News Type: Passages
Henderson Judge Lloyd Tatum died on June 5 at the age of 93. A native of Jackson, Tatum served as a radio operator for the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II before he attended Cumberland School of Law. He graduated in 1948. Tatum served in the FBI for a short time before opening his law office in Henderson, where he practiced for 25 years. In 1976, he was appointed judge to the Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals by Gov. Ray Blanton, serving until 1986. The family will receive friends and loved ones from 5 to 8 p.m. at Shackelford Funeral Home in Henderson on Friday, and Saturday from noon until 2 p.m. at Grace Baptist Church, after which a funeral service will be held.

Sen. Alexander to Receive TBA President's Award

Posted by: Katharine Heriges on Jun 10, 2019
News Type: TBA Convention 2019
The TBA this week will bestow the President’s Award to retiring U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander in honor of his decades of public service to our state. The presentation will be made at the Lawyers Luncheon on Friday during the TBA Annual Convention in Nashville. The veteran Republican senator will also be recognized by the Tennessee Judicial Conference at the same event, where he will make brief remarks. To reserve your spot at Convention, visit the TBA website.

Global Rights Compliance Formalizes Partnership with Vanderbilt Law School

Posted by: Katharine Heriges on Jun 10, 2019
News Type: Legal News
Global Rights Compliance, an organization that offers international advisory services and litigation support focusing on human rights and international humanitarian law, has established a formal strategic partnership with Vanderbilt Law School. The arrangement will allow students to work as legal interns for GRC’s trial and consultancy teams and, through Vanderbilt’s Practice Lab, on other projects. Future aspects of the partnership will also include workshops — starting this fall, GRC’s senior legal consultant and project lead on the Mass Starvation Project will attend Prof. Michael Newton’s Practice Lab and jointly host a workshop titled "Starvation as a Method of Warfare."

Coffee County DA Under Investigation by BPR Following Complaint from Muslim Group

Posted by: Katharine Heriges on Jun 10, 2019
News Type: Legal News
Coffee County District Attorney Craig Northcott, who called Islam "an evil belief system" and said he refuses to prosecute domestic violence cases involving same-sex couples, is now under investigation by the Board of Professional Responsibility, the Tennessean reports. The Council on American-Islamic Relations, which filed the complaint against Northcott on May 28, received a letter Friday from the state board confirming that an investigation has been opened. Northcott has faced increased scrutiny since he was named a special prosecutor in a case involving a Nashville activist being charged with assault on House Speaker Glen Casada.
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