TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Nov 7, 2022

The Tennessee Supreme Court has issued an order dismissing, denying and granting various provisions contained in a petition filed by the Tennessee Commission on Continuing Legal Education. On Sept. 19, the commission filed a petition to amend multiple sections of Tennessee Supreme Court Rule 21 to correct typographical errors and address other non-substantive items. The court dismissed some of the requested changes because they had already been corrected or were related to provisions the court had since eliminated. It denied amendments to sections 3.01(c), 4.02(b) and (d), 4.04, 4.09, 5.01(f) (the first suggested amendment) and 5.01(h). The court granted the remaining proposed amendments to sections 4.07; 4.08(d); 5.01(f) (the second suggested amendment); 5.05(a), (c) and (d); 6.01; and 8.03. The court also today granted the commission’s request to withdraw a petition requesting amendments to Rule 21. The commission said that changes to the rule made by the court on Oct. 8, 2021, made the petition unnecessary.