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Posted by: Kate Prince on Jul 10, 2020

Williamson County attorney Eric Trygve Olson on Wednesday received a public censure from the Board of Professional Responsibility of the Tennessee Supreme Court. Olson was hired in September 2016 as in-house counsel, but did not complete his registration with the Tennessee Board of Law Examiners within 180 days of the start of his employment. In January 2019, on his application for comity admission to the Board of Law Examiners, Olson incorrectly stated that he had never registered as in-house counsel. In April 2019, he went to work as in-house counsel for a different company, but did not notify the BLE of his termination with the first company and did not register as in-house counsel within 180 days of the date the second employment began. A Public Censure is a rebuke and warning to the attorney, but it does not affect the attorney’s ability to practice law.