The Community Legal Center and Memphis Bar Association will host Strut! this Thursday at Mercedes-Benz of Memphis. Strut! is the annual fundraiser for CLC and includes food, wine and a fashion show. The event starts at 6 p.m. Tickets are $50. For event sponsorship information, contact CLC at (901) 543-3395.

Samuel Jones was publicly censured on Oct. 16 for failing to adequately communicate with a client during his representation in a divorce proceeding. Jones also failed to diligently represent the client, which led to the court’s dismissal of the client’s case on two separate occasions for lack of prosecution. Download the BPR notice.

Young lawyers with the Tennessee Bar Association and the Chattanooga Bar Association will hold two training sessions Friday at 9 a.m. and 1 p.m. in the Chattanooga Downtown Library Auditorium. The sessions will educate librarians and court clerks about free services available to members of the public seeking legal assistance. To attend, RSVP to Ellie Hill at (423)756-7117. The Chattanoogan has more.

Former TBA President and Tennessee Bar Journal columnist Bill Haltom is recovering from two attacks he suffered recently while running in Memphis, the Commercial Appeal reports. Haltom had his iPhone taken and suffered a broken jaw, but his sense of humor remains intact. “They say that in America a man is assaulted every seven seconds," Haltom wrote on his website, "and he's getting mighty tired of it!”

The ABA’s 2012 Legal Technology Survey Report says 89 percent of American lawyers use smartphones for law-related tasks. Almost half of that number use iPhones, while 31 percent use BlackBerry and 18 percent use Android phones. To help lawyers decide which is right for them, the Canadian Lawyer compared and contrasted the features of these top three phones.

Memphis Mayor AC Wharton is speaking out about the city’s lost battle to have library cards with a photo serve as legal identification for voting. Wharton told  WREG News Channel 3 that the city stood up for poor, disenfranchised voters in the fight. “Emphasis ought to be on getting more people to vote as opposed to reducing the number of people who vote,”  Wharton said. The Supreme Court says the law doesn’t prevent anyone from voting because anyone who can’t afford it, can get a free photo ID from the Department of Motor Vehicles.

Michael Lloyd Freeman received a public censure for keeping his own money in his client trust account and using those funds to pay his office rent. Freeman also failed to maintain reasonable communication with a client and then failed to provide subsequent counsel with the client’s file. Finally, Freeman neglected a different client’s case by failing to act with reasonable diligence and failing to communicate with the client. Download the BPR notice.

Thomas Harding Potter received a public censure for disclosing confidential, prejudicial information about his client in a motion to withdraw. Download the BPR notice.

James Franklin Logan Jr. received a public censure from the Board of Professional Responsibility. Logan, on behalf of a Limited Partnership in which he and his client were principals, attempted to foreclose on his client’s residence to recover monies the client owed to the partnership. In so doing, he violated Rules 1.7 and 1.8 because his actions were adverse to the interests of his client. Additionally, Logan violated Rule 1.6 by discussing his client’s finances with his client’s ex-wife without his client’s consent. Download the BPR notice.

Four Tennessee same-sex couples have filed a federal lawsuit against the state of Tennessee to force the state to recognize their legal marriage from other states. The four couples were married in New York or California, where same-sex marriages are legal, and argue that Tennessee’s refusal to recognize their marriages violates their constitutional rights. “All of the sudden, they’re not married anymore,” attorney Abby Rubenfeld tells the Tennessean. “This case is about recognizing those marriages, it’s a very simple issue.” Rubenfeld said the lawsuit is just the first step to eventually having same-sex marriage legalized in Tennessee.