TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Mar 9, 2023

The Tennessee Supreme Court today denied a petition for reciprocal discipline from Knox County lawyer Elliott James Schuchardt, who was asking the court to suspend him for two years following a similar suspension by the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee. The district court also imposed conditions on his reinstatement. The state Supreme Court rejected that approach, saying that the factual allegations that served “as an underlying basis” for the federal court order are now the subject of disciplinary proceedings in Tennessee involving a petition for discipline and two supplemental petitions for discipline. The Board of Professional Responsibility alleges that Schuchardt’s purpose in filing the petition was to “execute an ‘end-run’ around the pending disciplinary proceedings prior to a final disposition …”.