Singer-songwriter Andy Sneed, an attorney with Kizer & Black in Maryville, will play an “anti-Valentine’s Day” concert tomorrow night at Southland Books and Café. He’s chosen the J. Geils Band classic "Love Stinks" as the opener for the evening, he told The Daily Times.

Admissions to the Memphis and Shelby County Juvenile Court's detention center have decreased more than 65 percent since 2012. According to the Memphis Flyer, the drop is solely attributed to the area's implementation of the Juvenile Detention Alternative Initiative (JDAI). The goal of the program is to reduce the number of juveniles detained for misdemeanor offenses, like domestic assaults, and place emphasis on felonies. In addition to reducing detainment, JDAI also seeks to reduce racial and ethnic disparities affecting African Americans in the juvenile justice system.

In honor of Black History Month, the Tennessean remembers Adolpho A. Birch Jr., the first black chief justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court. Birch graduated from Howard University and came to Nashville to teach medical law at Meharry Medical College. He also taught at Fisk University and what is now Tennessee State University. He was appointed assistant district attorney for Davidson County in 1966 and named a General Sessions court judge in 1969, becoming the first black Tennessean to serve in a countywide office. He also became the first person to serve at every judicial level in Tennessee. Upon Birch’s retirement in 2006, Davidson County dedicated its new criminal court building, the Justice A.A. Birch building, in his honor.

General Sessions Judge Christie Sell will encourage female students to run for student government and political office during an appearnace next week at the University of Tennessee Chattanooga. Sell will appear Wednesday as part of the  Elect Her – Campus Women Win program. A collaboration between the American Association of University Women and Running Start, Elect Her encourages women to run for office as a way to diminish the longstanding political leadership gender gap,  The Chattanoogan reports.

Go inside the world of sports and entertainment law at the upcoming Predators CLE at Bridgestone Arena on Feb. 24. This CLE will offer a detailed look into the world of sports and entertainment, with winning advice from top professionals including former Nashville Predators players and a professional sports manager. Registration includes a pregame social hour and tickets to the Predators matchup with the Colorado Avalanche. Visit TBA CLE to register or for more information.

Elizabeth Catherine Cox was suspended on Jan. 30 for three years, with one year served as an active suspension, retroactive to February 3, 2014, and the remaining two years served on probation. Cox revealed damaging client information to the court in her request to withdraw, failed to communicate with her client and missed a scheduled court appearance, stopped communicating with her clients, provided legal advice to a client while suspended from the practice of law and failed to advise clients of her temporary suspension. View the BPR notice.

The percentage of African-American and Hispanic students enrolled in law school increased between 2010 and 2013, but those gains came almost exclusively at less prestigious law schools with lower admission standards, according to new research. Aaron Taylor, an assistant professor at the Saint Louis University School of Law, found that law schools at the bottom of the prestige ladder have relied disproportionately on African-American and Hispanic students to fill their classes. In contrast, elite law schools with higher median LSAT scores actually saw a proportional decrease in African-American and Hispanic students between 2010 and 2013, The National Law Journalreports.

To reduce the number of people in jail, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation plans to give $75 million to jail officials working on ways to remove nonviolent offenders, people too poor to afford bail and the mentally ill from behind bars. The foundation plans to award $150,000 to up to 20 local jurisdictions — states, cities, tribes and judicial districts — that operate a jail with 50 beds or more and are proposing ways to change how their jails are run. Next year as many as 10 of them will receive $2 million per year to support those plans, officials said. WRCB has more from the Associated Press.

Jury selection for three national cases have been complicated by heavy publicity, WSMV reports from the Associated Press. Seating a jury began for the Colorado theater shooting, Boston marathon bombing and “American Sniper” killing. The Boston and Colorado trials are also problematic because of the large number of people affected by the attacks and because the death penalty is on the table. Only jurors willing to sentence someone to death can be selected for such cases.

A report released yesterday by the Equal Justice Initiative has found 3,959 people were victims of "racial terror lynchings" in the South between 1877-1950. The report focused on the 12 most-active "lynching states" in America: Tennessee, Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas and Virginia. Of the 12 states studied, Tennessee is eighth on the list in terms of total victims. Not only were racial terror lynching totals found to be higher than previously thought, many victims were murdered without being accused of any crime, Fox 17 reports.