TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Jan 10, 2022

Roane County lawyer Melanie A. Campbell-Brown was suspended from the practice of law today. She will spend 60 days on active suspension and the rest on probation so long as she does not incur new complaints of misconduct during the probationary period. One complaint was filed against Campbell-Brown on Nov. 12, 2020. At the time, she entered a conditional guilty plea admitting she accepted a fee to represent her client in a quiet title action but mislead her client regarding the filing the complaint. Specifically, she failed to (1) file the claim, (2) provide legal services in a diligent manner, (3) expedite her client’s litigation, and (4) reasonably communicate with her client regarding the status of the case. Her actions were determined to violate of Tennessee Rules of Professional Conduct (RPC) 1.3, 1.4, and 8.4(a), (c) and (d).