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Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Jan 30, 2025

Grundy County lawyer Russell Shane Mainord received a public censure from the Tennessee Supreme Court on Jan. 29. Mainord represented three separate clients in immigration cases. Complaints against him included that he failed to provide a client with a copy of his files after being terminated, failed to take proper action on behalf of his clients when he failed to file court documents, and failed to exercise managerial and supervisory authority over his nonlawyer staff, which caused a delay in the proceedings. The court determined that these actions violated Rules of Professional Conduct 1.1, 1.3, 1.4, 1.15, 1.16, 3.2, 5.1 and 5.3. In addition to the censure, the court directed Mainord to refund $1,700 in attorney fees to the first client, $4,000 in attorney fees to the second client and $3,500 in attorney fees to the third client.