TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Jan 3, 2020

The Tennessee Supreme Court yesterday denied a third petition from Davidson County lawyer Brian Phillip Manookian to dissolve a suspension re-imposed on him on May 17, 2019, after he failed to comply with requirements for probation. Manookian filed, and the court denied, two previous petitions for dissolution this past fall. The third petition, filed on Dec. 13, 2019, argued that the Board of Professional Responsibility had failed to proceed with “all due speed” in his case. The court again denied the petition, saying that Manookian continues to pose a threat of substantial harm to the public and has failed to establish good cause for dissolution or modification of the suspension.