TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on May 9, 2022

Davidson County lawyer Charles Martin Duke was suspended today from the practice of law for three years, with one year to be served on active suspension. The Tennessee Supreme Court also directed him to engage a practice monitor. The court found that while representing a client in a personal injury case, Duke failed to file an action within the statute of limitations and falsified a tolling agreement in an effort to mislead his client. Duke entered a conditional guilty plea acknowledging that his conduct violated Rules of Professional Conduct 1.1, 1.3, 1.4(a), 3.1, 3.3(a)(1), 3.4(b), 4.1(a), and 8.4(a), (b), (c) and (d).