TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Jul 19, 2023

Knox County lawyer Charles Scott Justice received a public censure from the Tennessee Supreme Court yesterday. Justice filed a lawsuit for a client alleging faulty construction of a deck at the client’s residence. The trial date was continued several times and then taken off the court’s active docket. For several months, the client contacted Justice about the status of the matter with no substantive response. Justice sent an email to the client stating that he wanted to withdraw from the matter, but the client did not receive the email. Justice did not move to withdraw from the case and took no further action. The court found that these actions violated Rules of Professional Conduct 1.16, 3.2, 1.3, 1.4 and 8.4(d).