TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Apr 7, 2023

Knox County lawyer John Michael Boucher received a public censure from the Tennessee Supreme Court on April 5. The court found that Boucher violated Rules of Professional Conduct 1.4, 1.8(a), 1.15, 3.1 and 8.4(a) while representing a client in an employment discrimination claim by removing the client’s payment from his trust account and failing to maintain good communication with the client. As a condition of the censure, the court directed Boucher to return $5,000 to his former client within 60 days of the date of the censure.