TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Julia Wilburn on May 1, 2023

The May/June 2023 issue of the Tennessee Bar Journal is available online and will begin arriving in mailboxes later this week! This issue focuses on Access to Justice efforts across the state, including the cover story by Joy Radice that explores the relief offered by Tennessee's expungement statute, describes pro bono models that have been used statewide and highlights institutional expungement innovations. Linda Warren Seely's feature story covers how courts are addressing landlord/tenant or eviction cases in a more systemic way, and TBA's Public Service Award winners are profiled. Columnists Edward G. Phillips and Brandon Morrow take a look at the National Labor Relations Board's recent decision on severance agreements and John A. Day considers the principal tool used by the Tennessee General Assembly to enforce the prohibition of gender-affirming care — the tort system. A review of Keel Hunt's new book about Judge Gilbert Merritt and Tasha C. Blakney's final column as TBA president help round out the issue, plus we remember two pro bono giants we've said goodbye to in the last year.