TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Kate Prince on Feb 4, 2020

Knox County attorney Bailey McKillop Harned was censured today by the Board of Professional Responsibility. Harned was paid a flat fee by a minor child’s mother to reinstate visitation. Although Harned did not obtain a written fee agreement, she did not deposit the fee into her trust account. She failed to communicate with her client and finally filed a petition to modify custody on the client’s behalf more than one year after she was retained. At that time, the minor child had been adopted by the father’s new wife 16 months earlier.

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