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’ve lamented before that it seems like I could spend every day writing about another example of lawyers not learning the obvious lesson that using generative AI in connection with legal research or writing court filings is more trouble than it is worth. Even if the toll that GAI is taken on the planet weren’t […]
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 […]
We are fewer than three weeks into 2026, and it appears that the grave problems impacting the rule of law are only proceeding apace for another year. Trying to come up with something to say so far this month here at the blog has felt difficult. Who wants to hear me continue to scream into […]
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 could have titled this post: “In case you needed another reason not to use LinkedIn,” but that wouldn’t be fair. No one actually needs any additional reasons not to use that platform. The “grindset mindset,” AI groupies, and other toxic personalities you can find there daily provide more than sufficient reason to let reasonable […]
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, […]