TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Julia Wilburn on Jul 5, 2024

Overton County lawyer Jonathan Lee Young has received a public censure from the Tennessee Supreme Court. Young represented a client in an emergency conservatorship petition. During the representation, Young signed another attorney’s name, “with permission,” to an order without authorization from said attorney and then presented said order to the presiding judge ex parte and obtained the judge’s signature. The order named an attorney ad litem to the conservatorship case, and Young, after obtaining the judge’s signature, failed to then file the pleading with the clerk of the court and failed to advise the guardian ad litem or the newly appointed attorney ad litem of the court order. In the same case, Young also filed pleadings with incomplete information and multiple documents with improper notarizations. Young executed a conditional guilty plea acknowledging that his conduct violated Tennessee Rules of Professional Conduct 1.3, 3.3(a) and 3.5(b).

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