TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Apr 8, 2020

The Tennessee Supreme Court censured three lawyers today. The court found that Fayette County lawyer Angela Lashanda Jenkins-Hines notarized a document, but did not witness the signature nor did she have personal knowledge of the individual or her signature. The court found that Rutherford County lawyer Stephen Walker Pate engaged in an inappropriate personal relationship with a client, risking his independent professional judgment and attorney-client privilege. The court found that Nashville lawyer John Terence Tennyson failed to comply with the conditions of a prior censure requiring him to reimburse funds to a former client. While he did ultimately reimburse the funds, he was 100 days delinquent in doing so.