An unincorporated association of lawyers who share an office isn’t entitled to summary judgment in a suit claiming it is liable for a member’s alleged malpractice, a federal judge has…
A Tennessee newspaper has uncovered more than a half dozen incidents in which a Campbell County judge barred the public from entering her courtroom during docket call and then ordered…
After about eight hours of deliberation, a Nashville jury on Monday awarded $55 million to sportscaster Erin Andrews in her lawsuit over a nude video taken from an adjoining hotel…
An 11-year-old boy who shot and killed his 8-year-old neighbor in a dispute over puppies “is in desperate need of help,” according to the judge who found the boy delinquent…
Rejecting a recommended 30-day law license suspension for a Tennessee attorney who had sex with a court-appointed client, the state’s supreme court on Thursday imposed a one-year suspension on Robert…
One of Tennessee’s largest law firms announced Thursday the addition of 10 shareholders, including two name partners, from a 26-attorney Nashville firm.
One of Tennessee’s oldest law firms has tripled the attorney roster in its Austin, Texas, office by acquiring a 13-attorney legal shop that specializes in commercial litigation, insurance and bankruptcy…
Two Tennessee judges have ordered the release of 13 inmates in Murfreesboro who were being held because they couldn’t pay fees to a private company overseeing the misdemeanor probation system.
The Tennessee Supreme Court has affirmed the six-month suspension of a Nashville lawyer who challenged the constitutionality of the state’s disciplinary process.
After less than an hour of deliberation, a federal jury in Knoxville, Tennessee, on Wednesday convicted Leon Houston of threatening to kill his former attorney, James Logan, during a jailhouse…
Fred Thompson, who grew up in small-town Tennessee and went on to make his mark as a lawyer, a lawmaker and a film and television actor, died Sunday of a…
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