A month ago today, I wrote a post laying out my full thoughts on the things that the Tennessee Supreme Court ought to do in the realm of regulatory reform and submitted the same to the Court as my formal comment. Since that time I have also been involved in the submission of two other […]
On April 1, 2026, a press release issued about a Tennessee lawyer getting suspended for what primarily appears to be misconduct in connection with withdrawing from representation of a client of a type I’ve written about in the past. The matter involved a lawyer in Washington County, Tennessee* who, in seeking to withdraw from the […]
I am certain many of you have forgotten but I did promise last year to offer more thoughts on potential regulatory reforms being considered by the Tennessee Supreme Court. Today is the day I make good on that promise. If you are looking for a refresher, read here first. Now that you are back, you […]
And not just a fun clownshow like maybe you’d be able to see back in the heyday of Ringling Bros. Barnum and Bailey. No, as of March 2026, the DOJ is fully a clownshow in service of one petty, shitty man. I hate that this is where we find ourselves. I also hate that there […]
So, there will be more substantive stuff in the works that I’ll be publishing here at my site, but, in the meantime, if you are interested in hearing me talk about some ethics issues in a different media format, I was on a podcast that was released late last month. No, not this podcast, all […]
A fundamental precept for lawyers ought to be that, when it comes to clients, the only things that are worse than neglecting them are lying to them and stealing from them. For a shorthand version of that, if you find yourself failing to communicate with a client for 57 days (you know, the amount of […]
I have written in the past about the perhaps “unique” approach that Tennessee has to the question of allowing non-consensual screens to cure conflicts arising from lateral movement of lawyers. That approach can make lateral movement of lawyers both less and more complicated. What a lot of lawyers and firms in Tennessee do not grasp, […]
Some potentially big news out of Tennessee with respect to the overall conversation about the re-regulation of the practice of law happened last month. I missed it completely probably because it happened the day before I started a three-day disciplinary trial. But, I am still surprised I missed it. The Tennessee Supreme Court, sua sponte, […]
Here we are again, left with no real option but to write about the erosion of the rule of law and its replacement with adherence to the whims of a fascist. Late last night, the news broke that within a week of demanding on social media that the Attorney General of the United States get […]
The expeditious descent of the United States into a place ruled by fascist authoritarianism is a dark time to deal with. The woes of an upper middle class white lawyer who owns and controls his own law firm pale in comparison to the way this is impacting so many folks. But it is definitely making […]