TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Paul Burch on Sep 26, 2023

Keith Lane Edmiston, a South Carolina attorney licensed to practice law in Tennessee, was censured by the Tennessee Supreme Court today. Edmiston accepted a $600 fee to defend a client against a lawsuit filed on a sworn account, but failed to appear at the hearing on the matter. Edmiston then accepted $1,125 to appeal the matter and filed no appeal and took no further action for the client. A few weeks later, Edmiston placed his license on disability inactive status. In another case, Edmiston accepted a filing fee of $335 for a client for whom he filed bankruptcy. Edmiston did not pay the filing fee to the court, did not place it in trust and did not return it to the client.