The Community Legal Center will host Strut! Memphis, a fashion show fundraiser hosted by Mercedes-Benz of Memphis. The event will take place Thursday from 6-8 p.m. at 5389 Poplar Ave. To purchase tickets, visit the CLC website.

The Rutherford-Cannon County Bar Association will host its weekly free legal clinic from 4 – 6 p.m. on Thursday at Greenhouse Ministries, 309 South Spring St, Murfreesboro. Contact Andrae Crismon for more information.

The University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law and Public Action Law Society will host a Pro Bono Fair Thursday from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the School of Law Student Lounge. Contact Callie Caldwell for more information.

The Bradley County Bar Association and Cleveland Bradley County Public Library will host a Community Legal Forum to discuss issues related to deed transfers and reverse mortgages. The event will be Thursday at 7 p.m. in the Community Room of the Cleveland Bradley County Public Library, Main Branch, 795 Church St NE. For more information, call (423) 472-2163, etc. 126.

Legal Aid of East Tennessee (LAET) will host a Divorce Clinic Thursday at 3 p.m. free and open to the public. It will be located at 535 Chestnut St, Suite 360 in Chattanooga. For more information, contact Charlie McDaniel. View a full list of Celebrate Pro Bono Month events.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) is suing Bank of America for $1 billion alleging the bank committed fraud by selling defective mortgages to government-backed mortgage finance firms Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, resulting in over $1 billion in losses for taxpayers and countless foreclosures. CNN has the full story.

Female attorneys continue to lag their male colleagues in salary and leadership roles at firms, a new study from the National Association of Women Lawyers found. As reported in the Boston Business Journal, the study showed that compensation for women is lower at all levels, but especially in equity partner ranks, where women earn about 89 percent of what men make.

The New York Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that since lap dancing does not promote community culture in the way dance such as ballet does, it is taxable the ABA Journal reports. Albany establishment Nite Moves challenged the state tax law when they were ordered to pay $400,000 in back taxes, claiming the law does not make a distinction between “highbrow dance and lowbrow dance.”

The Metro Nashville school board is split on the decision whether to sue the state to force the return of $3.4 million the district didn’t receive last month as penalty for rejecting the charter application for Great Hearts Academy. The board came to no decision during a Tuesday meeting on whether it will move forward without the money or sue to get the funding restored. The board’s next regularly scheduled meeting is Nov. 13, The Tennessean reports.

A McMinnville widower has filed a lawsuit against Massachusetts-based New England Compounding Center after his wife died of meningitis from an infected steroid shot produced by the company, WSMV.com reports. His lawyer is requesting $50 million in damages. According to recent updates, the Center for Disease Control has confirmed 297 cases of fungal meningitis in 16 states with 23 deaths. The Nashville City Paper reports on other meningitis suits.