Yesterday, the Tennessee Supreme Court entered an order that addresses a variety of issues I have written about on a number of prior occasions. You can take in the entire order setting out all of the new provisions here. In addition to making a spot change to Tennessee Supreme Court Rule 6 and a revision to […]
Tag: In-House Counsel
There is a lot of activity that can take place at the intersection of the lawyer ethics rules and public policy. There can be issues that aren’t addressed by lawyer ethics rules (or at least not fully addressed) but that are addressed as a matter of state public policy. What there really can’t be though […]
Over the last few months, I have posted on several occasions about the petition pending before the Tennessee Supreme Court seeking some significant changes to the rules in Tennessee regarding admission of attorneys to practice in a variety of contexts. If you are new to the blog, you can get up to speed on this […]
This will be the first of several more in-depth entries focused on the Board of Law Examiners’ petition seeking some changes to Tenn. Sup. Ct. R. 7, which deals with a collection of licensing issues in Tennessee. (This will also be one of those less frequent posts where I may not adhere strictly to my […]
Depending on what type of law practice setting you work in, you may or may not be aware of the several ways in which Tennessee’s system for licensing lawyers is a bit … I believe the technical word is “broken.” Yesterday, the Board of Law Examiners filed a petition to seek to have the Tennessee […]