The Bly Roll Race for Justice will take place Friday on the campus of University of Tennessee Knoxville and will support students pursuing work in public interest law. The 5k event is named in memory of Roll, a member of the 2012 College of Law class. Read more or register for the event at The Informant.

Ever since the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in August that police didn’t need a warrant to track a Knoxville suspect’s movement through his cell phone in a drug investigation, the battle has been on between public safety and privacy rights as challenges wend their way through the U.S. court system. “It’s accurate to say there are millions of requests (by police) to phone companies for tracking vehicles and people. Most of them, if not all of them, involve locating people through triangulation of signals through cellphones,” said Christopher Slobogin, a professor at Vanderbilt Law School. Nashville Public Defender Dawn Deaner said the tracking raises important questions about how far police can go without violating someone’s right to privacy. The Tennessean looks into it

The Knoxville Family Justice Center released the second in a projected line of eight posters as part of a domestic abuse public awareness campaign, Knoxnews reports. The poster claims more people died in 2010 from family violence than during the flood that ravaged the state the same year. The center will partner with more than 60 other organizations during the two-year initiative to help combat domestic violence.

The Tennessee Supreme Court upheld a jury verdict to award $750,000 to the parents of a deceased man whose body was not cremated by the crematory owner, the Times News reports. T. Ray Brent Marsh, the former operator of a Georgia crematory, was charged with intentional infliction of emotional distress after authorities discovered approximately 230 bodies that were buried or discarded on the premises instead of being cremated. Read the full court opinion here.

Knox County police administrators and government representatives joined Fight the Crime: Invest in Kids to stress the importance of early childhood education to reduce crime, the News Sentinel reports. Officials, including Knox County District Attorney General Randy Nichols, joined the nonpartisan organization on Thursday at a Knoxville Head Start center to read to children and spread their message that paying to educate children now is better than sending them through the justice system as adults.

Former Hawkins County Judge James "Jay" Taylor was sentenced to three years with 10 years probation in exchange for guilty pleas to six of 41 theft counts in Davidson County Criminal Court. Taylor was indicted in May of felony theft after being accused of making frequent claims to the Tennessee Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC). Additionally, he has been disbarred and ordered to pay $32,750 in restitution to the AOC. He cannot seek reinstatement of his law license until his probation ends in 2025. Timesnews.net reports

After settling a class-action lawsuit with shareholders two days ago, Fidelity National Financial has successfully acquired Nashville-based J. Alexander’s, the Tennessean reports. Nearly 74 percent of shareholders tendered their shares to Fidelity, giving the insurance holding company control of the dining chain which operates 33 restaurants located in 13 states.

Ten teachers have been indicted on allegations they hired others to take their certification tests, according to the Commercial Appeal. Former Memphis City School employee Clarence Mumford was charged with operating a test-taking scam dating back to 1995. Federal authorities say more than 50 teachers and paid test-takers throughout West Tennessee, Arkansas and Mississippi have been involved. 

The state of New York will require applicants to the state bar to complete 50 hours of pro bono work in order to practice law starting in 2015, the Wall Street Journal reports. Although 21 law schools have pro bono requirements for graduation, the law will be the first of its kind among the states.

The median salary for first-year associates at large law firms has decreased steadily within the past three years, The ABA Journal reports. Major markets such as New York and Chicago are still offering the standard BigLaw salaries, but the prevalence of such offers is declining according to research by the Association for Legal Career Professionals (NALP). The median first-year salary at firms of all sizes, however, has increased in the last year, based on a survey of 570 law firms.