TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Suzanne Craig Robertson on Nov 26, 2014

President Jonathan Steen and columnist Bill Haltom each write in this month's Tennessee Bar Journal about being thankful. Steen writes that he is "thankful for you, fellow members of the TBA. ... thankful for your membership, and I encourage you, as you take time this Thanksgiving Day to reflect, count your blessings and give thanks, to find new ways to be active in the TBA. As W. J. Cameron once said, 'Thanksgiving, after all, is a word of action.'” Haltom writes in anticipation of a Thanksgiving feast with his wife's family, which is full of lawyers, where "we will give thanks for the blessing of being a lawyer. And make no mistake about it, it is a real blessing. It is a blessing to be a counselor and an advocate. It is a blessing to help people avoid conflicts or resolve them. It is a blessing to be a voice for people who would otherwise have no voice. And as a trial lawyer, I consider it a real blessing to be able to make a good living simply by doing the only thing I know how to do — talk."