TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Jan 8, 2020

The Tennessee Supreme Court today suspended Hawkins County lawyer Whitney Suzanne Bailey for two years, with 45 days to be served on active suspension and the remainder on probation. During the probationary period, the court ordered her to obtain an evaluation with the Tennessee Lawyers Assistance Program, engage the services of a practice monitor and complete the Board of Professional Responsibility’s three-hour trust accounting workshop. Bailey admitted her conduct — abandoning a client’s case, taking no action in a case she was retained to handle, failing to file adoption paperwork for a client and misleading a client regarding the status of a case — violated Rules of Professional Conduct 1.3, 1.4, 1.16(d)(4) and (6), and 8.4(d).