TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Feb 19, 2020

The Supreme Court of Tennessee disbarred Kentucky lawyer Jonathan Stephen Carlton from the practice of law today. The court found that Carlton knowingly undertook representation of a new client while suspended from the practice of law, charged an unreasonable fee, filed pleadings in court while suspended, failed to reasonably communicate with his client, failed to act in a diligent manner, and failed to respond to the Board of Professional Responsibility about a complaint. His actions violated Rules of Professional Conduct 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.16, 3.3, 5.5, 8.1(b) and 8.4(a), (c), (d) and (g).