TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Oct 14, 2019

Shelby County lawyer Stephen F. Libby was censured on Friday after the Tennessee Supreme Court found that he missed the deadline for filing a lawsuit for his client, did not inform the client that the suit was not filed for a year, and failed to respond to multiple inquiries from the client about the status of her case. Finally, the court found that Libby made a settlement offer to his client without advising her to seek the advice of counsel. These actions were determined to violate Rules of Professional Conduct 1.3, 1.4, 1.8, 8.4(c) and 8.4(d).