The YLD is replaying three CLE webcasts from earlier in the year to help lawyers refresh and rejuvenate their practice. The three one-hour programs will be broadcast in August from noon to 1 p.m. CDT each day. Join Immediate Past TBA President Tasha Blakney, Immediate Past TBA YLD President Brittany Faith and their colleagues for informative and lively talks on How to Measure Success on Aug. 14, How to Log Off When Your Workday is Done on Aug. 25 and How to Use Your Engagement Letter on Aug. 30. The first program will teach the business concept of key performance indicators for lawyers, focusing on the different ways to measure success, how to hit goalposts all year round instead of waiting until the end of the year, and how to self-evaluate including receipts, hours and other trackable key performance indicators.

The Tennessee Supreme Court has suspended Shelby County attorney Gerald D. Waggoner Jr. from the practice of law in Tennessee for two years with 18 months to be served on active suspension and the remainder on probation. Waggoner also must engage a practice monitor, pay restitution and complete 12 additional hours of CLE in ethics or handling client property.

Join colleagues on Aug. 3 at noon CDT for Real Estate Essentials 2023: Cybersecurity Considerations in Real Estate Transactions. This program will cover aspects of safeguarding information from cyber threats specific to real estate transactions. David Palmer, a supervisory special agent in the FBI Memphis field office will lead the session.

Three Black employees of the Nashville Electric Service (NES) have filed separate lawsuits in federal court alleging that the utility's promotion process was discriminatory, that they were subject to a hostile work environment and that NES was negligent in failing to take corrective action, the Tennessean reports. NES President and CEO Teresa Broyles-Aplin said the utility is aware of the suits but does not comment on pending litigation.

Comedian Sarah Silverman and authors Christopher Golden and Richard Kadrey today sued OpenAI Inc. and Meta Platforms Inc. for copyright infringement claiming OpenAI’s artificial intelligence generators used their copyrighted works as training material. According to BloombergLaw, the authors seek a permanent injunction, damages and profits. OpenAI and other generative AI companies have faced a number of intellectual property lawsuits as well as increased scrutiny from Congress and government regulators.

The Federal Public Defender's Office for the Middle District of Tennessee is now accepting applications for the district's Criminal Justice Act Panel. Members of the panel are private practice attorneys who are appointed to represent individuals accused of violating federal law and are unable to afford private counsel. Applicants for the panel must be members in good standing with the federal bar of the district and the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. Attorneys who lack experience may apply to participate in the CJA Fellows mentoring and training program. Applications for either program may be obtained from and returned to Panel Administrator Ann Card, Office of the Federal Public Defender, 810 Broadway, Ste. 200, Nashville, TN 37203, by emailing Card or by calling 615-695-6904. Completed applications must be received by Aug. 7.

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s staff has often prodded public institutions that have hosted the justice to buy her memoir or children’s books, the Associated Press reported today. Details of those events were obtained by AP through open records requests to public institutions as part of an ongoing investigation into the ethics practices of the court. The documents show examples of taxpayer-funded court staff performing tasks for the justice’s book ventures, which workers in other branches of the federal government are barred from doing. The AP also found that colleges and universities that host justices for speaking events used those visits as fundraising opportunities and that justices repeatedly accepted all-expense-paid teaching trips to locales such as Hawaii, Iceland and Italy that were “light on classroom instruction."

Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti’s office confirmed that former attorney general Herbert Slatery continues to do legal work for the state after leaving office last fall, reports the Tennessean. In January, Slatery was tapped by Skrmetti to assist the AG's office with "active and continuing oversight" of cooperation agreements under Tennessee's Hospital Cooperation at a pay rate of $400 per hour. Records of external legal appointments obtained by the Tennessean from January 2022 to the present show the state has hired over 20 lawyers and their firms to assist with a range of legal cases and issues.

Visitation for former Democratic lawmaker Roy Herron will be held this Friday from 5-8 p.m. and Saturday from noon to 2 p.m. CDT at First United Methodist Church, 225 Main St., Martin 38237. A service will take place following the visitation on Saturday at 2 p.m. Burial will be at Sunset Cemetery in Dresden at 400 Poplar St. A gathering celebrating Herron's life will take place after the burial. The location is tentatively set for Blake’s B-B-Que, 312 N. Lindell St. in Martin. The family also plans a celebration of Herron’s life in Nashville on Sept. 30. To RSVP for this weekend's funeral, please call Ashley at 731-364-5415. Memorial donations may be made to The Volunteer Center, c/o Mark Maddox, P.O. Box 5, Dresden, TN 38225; Vanderbilt University Cancer Center, c/o Nancy Miller-Herron, P.O. Box 5, Dresden, TN 38225; or Dresden First United Methodist Church Building Fund, 105 S. Church St., Dresden, TN 38225. See the previous story in TBA Today for more on Herron's life and career.

Memphis lawyer Ben Crump yesterday called for the Shelby County Sheriff's Office (SCSO) to release video footage of the shooting of 21-year old Jarveon Hudspeth, who was killed during a traffic stop in Memphis on June 24, reports the Commercial Appeal. Crump is representing Hudspeth’s family. "Don't play games with this family," said Crump. "Release the video.” Hudspeth was shot by a SCSO officer during a traffic stop. The sheriff's office says that the officer was injured after being dragged over 100 feet during the incident. Hudspeth's mother, Charlotte Haggett, said she has received no information from the SCSO office other than a phone call that Hudspeth was in an accident and “didn’t make it.” The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said the investigation remains active.