Seeking to persuade Tennessee’s top court to impose a 30-day license suspension on an attorney who admittedly had sex with a client, the respondent’s counsel on Wednesday argued that the…
For nearly two weeks last month, new audio recorders installed at a Knoxville, Tennessee, courthouse and a nearby city county building were capturing conversations near the entrance.
After Tennessee’s top court earlier this month rejected his appeal of a five-day contempt sentence, former television judge Joe Brown headed to jail in Shelby County on Thursday to begin…
In a Hamilton County, Tennessee, courtroom on Aug. 18, a preliminary hearing erupted into violence when one inmate was asked to testify against another.
A “doggedly unrepentant” lawyer who billed her wrongful death clients for watching reality crime TV shows has been suspended for a year from law practice.
A municipal judge in Tennessee who imposed conditions on the right to counsel and trial by jury has received a reprimand and agreed to a cease and desist order.
A Tennessee judge on Monday cited a “tainted juror” when he granted a mistrial in the case of two football players found guilty in the rape of an unconscious woman.
Nashville District Attorney Glenn Funk worked more than 25 years as a criminal defense lawyer before taking office in September. Now, many of his new hires come from the same…
A divided federal appeals court panel has overturned the sabotage convictions of an 85-year-old nun and two others who protested in 2012 at a Tennessee nuclear plant.
Two Tennessee lawyers have been convicted of extortion for threatening a client with an arrest for theft of services in a bid to collect $50,000 in legal fees.
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