TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Oct 23, 2020

Nashville lawyer Jamaal L. Boykin received a public censure from the Tennessee Supreme Court today. The court found that Boykin, after he was retained to represent a client in a bankruptcy proceeding, never filed a petition with the court but led his client to believe that he did. Boykin then ceased communicating with his client and effectively abandoned the representation. In mitigation, Boykin corrected the issues which led to his misconduct and provided a full refund to the client. His actions were determined to violate Rules of Professional Conduct 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.16 and 8.4(a)(c)(d).