It has been a long time since I have had reason to strongly disagree with the insights offered by Karen Rubin and company over at their excellent blog – The Law for Lawyers Today – but here we are again. Karen has written a thought-provoking piece about a criminal defense lawyer with a parody Twitter account and […]
Tag: Disciplinary defense
I got a call a week or two ago from another Tennessee lawyer trying to noodle through a situation. The caller was curious to see if I could offer any insight about why a situation that seemed a bit broken was not. I couldn’t. Instead, I was able to sort of confirm for the lawyer […]
I have made reference in the past on this blog about the problems that can come from the fact that Tennessee is one of a very few states that still use the “preponderance of the evidence” standard in disciplinary proceedings against lawyers. Fewer than a dozen jurisdictions including Tennessee still use that standard. Around forty U.S. […]