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Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Feb 22, 2012
News Type: Politics

The race for Knox County law director so far has been gentlemanly, reports the Knoxville News Sentinel. But as it gets closer to Election Day, the two candidates have started making pointed comments about each other. Richard "Bud" Armstrong, who is challenging Joe Jarret for the position, says he questions Jarret's management and legal skills and his knowledge of Tennessee law saying, "I'm not against Joe because he's not from around here. But, he's just not a good law director because he's not from around here." For his part, Jaret points out that Armstrong has only been licensed to practice law for four years and is not yet licensed to practice in federal court. Read more in the News Sentinel

Posted by: Suzanne Craig Robertson on Feb 20, 2012
News Type: Politics

A candidate in the race for the Knox County law director’s job, Richard "Bud" Armstrong, is saying in a telephone message to Republican voters that he is the only candidate who has passed the Tennessee Bar exam and trained in Tennessee law. His opponent and incumbent, Joe Jarret, has been licensed to practice law in Tennessee since 2007 through reciprocity with Florida, where he was licensed in 1990.  A spokesperson for the Board of Professional Responsibility of the Tennessee Supreme Court points out that with reciprocity, licenses “are identical in all other ways." The News Sentinel explains in this column

Posted by: Barry Kolar on Jan 4, 2012
News Type: Politics

Three Shelby County commissioners filed suit against the full commission yesterday over the body's stalled deliberations on a redistricting plan. The suit asks the chancery court to bar any future elections of county commissioners using existing district lines and to either direct the commission to "proceed expeditiously with redistricting" or establish the constitutional districts itself. The commission was set to meet today for the first time since it deadlocked over the redistricting plan in December. The Commercial Appeal reports.


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