TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Oct 7, 2022

Davidson County lawyer Isaiah Skip Gant was censured by the Tennessee Supreme Court today. The court took the action based on Gant’s representation of a criminal defendant. Following the client’s conviction, Gant told lawyers representing another defendant charged with related crimes that their client was innocent. According to the court, this implied that Gant’s client was not innocent. Gant also had an ex parte meeting with the presiding judge and told the judge he believed the other defendant was innocent — all while a motion for new trial was pending for his client. The court found that Gant did not have his client’s permission to reveal this information, did not tell his client of the conversations and continued to represent the client. Finally, the court found that Gant did not report possible misconduct of another attorney to the Board of Professional Responsibility. His actions violated Rules of Professional Conduct 1.4, 1.6, 1.7, 3.5, 8.3 and 8.4.