I am looking forward to the opportunity tomorrow to speak at a seminar put on for, and sponsored by, the young lawyer’s division of the Tennessee Bar Association. I will get to speak about ethics issues that can arise when dealing with difficult counsel. I’m hoping I haven’t been invited in order to be the […]
Tag: RPC 3.5
It is not every day that a contempt case against a Tennessee lawyer gets some national coverage, but it also is not every day that a celebrity former television judge and former candidate for District Attorney has a criminal contempt ruling and sentence of 5 days in jail against him affirmed on appeal. The appellate […]
To clarify about that forthcoming revision to the comment to RPC 3.5(c) w/r/t restrictions on communicating with discharged jurors after trial: it impacts only the ability of trial court’s to enter routine orders — such as standing orders or local rule provision — that would place jurors off-limits from lawyers after discharge. It will not […]
After putting proposals out for public comment in 2014, the Tennessee Supreme Court in the span of a week in February 2015 ordered changes to Tennessee’s lawyer ethics rules that will each take effect on May 1, 2015. For those lawyers who favor a robust view of lawyer speech rights, the two orders present a […]