TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Oct 2, 2019

The Tennessee Supreme Court censured Davidson County lawyer Scott David Johannessen yesterday. The court found that after Johannessen assisted a client in preparing an appellate brief to be filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit, he filed pleadings on behalf of a second client that had interests materially adverse to those of the first client. His actions were determined to violate Rules of Professional Conduct 1.9(a) and 8.4(a).