TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Oct 14, 2019

Shelby County lawyer Timothy Joel Williams received a censure from the Tennessee Supreme Court on Friday. The court found that Williams failed to safeguard client funds that had been paid to cover the costs of an expert’s evaluation of the case. Instead, Williams gave a portion of the funds to an inactive attorney employed in his office for his opinion. Although Williams later reimbursed the funds to the client, the check was not drawn on his client trust account. His actions were determined to violate Rules of Professional Conduct 1.15, 5.3 and 5.5(a).