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64 Suspended for Failing to Pay Professional Privilege Tax

Posted by: Katharine Heriges on Apr 22, 2019
News Type: BPR Actions
Sixty-four attorneys licensed to practice in Tennessee have been suspended for failing to pay the professional privilege tax. The attorneys include those living in Tennessee as well as 15 other states, the District of Columbia and abroad. Read the April 12 order here and see a list of all administrative suspensions here.

Hamilton County Lawyer Reinstated

Posted by: Katharine Heriges on Apr 19, 2019
News Type: BPR Actions
James Ellis Ward, a Hamilton County attorney, has been reinstated from inactive status as of April 18. Ward was first placed on inactive status on March 1, 2004, and filed a petition for reinstatement on April 3 this year. The Board of Professional Responsibility found that he had met all requirements of reinstatement.

Shelby County Lawyer Placed on Disability Inactive Status

Posted by: Katharine Heriges on Apr 19, 2019
News Type: BPR Actions
By order of the Tennessee Supreme Court entered Thursday, the law license of Shelby County attorney J. Lester Crain was transferred to disability inactive status pursuant to Section 27.3 of Tennessee Supreme Court Rule 9. Crain cannot practice law while on disability inactive status. He may return to the practice of law after reinstatement by the Tennessee Supreme Court upon showing of clear and convincing evidence that the disability has been removed, and he is fit to resume the practice of law.

Shelby County Lawyer Censured

Posted by: Katharine Heriges on Apr 18, 2019
News Type: BPR Actions
Shelby County lawyer Joyce Diane Bradley today received a public censure from the Board of Professional Responsibility of the Tennessee Supreme Court. On Aug. 22, Bradley’s license to practice law was suspended for CLE noncompliance.  Notwithstanding the administrative suspension, Bradley continued to practice law thereafter by appearing in court and discussing clients’ cases with other attorneys. Bradley is in violation of the Rules of Professional Conduct and was censured for this violation.

Davidson County Lawyer Reinstated

Posted by: Katharine Heriges on Apr 17, 2019
News Type: BPR Actions
On April 16, Davidson County lawyer Travis Waymon Tipton was reinstated to the practice of law in Tennessee. Tipton was temporarily suspended on July 2, 2018 due to his failure to substantially comply with a Tennessee Lawyer’s Assistance Program (“TLAP”) monitoring agreement. After the initiation of formal proceedings by the Board of Professional Responsibility, Tipton resumed compliance and reinstatement is appropriate.

Shelby County Lawyer Censured

Posted by: Katharine Heriges on Apr 17, 2019
News Type: BPR Actions
On April 16, Shelby County lawyer Lewis K. Garrison was publicly censured by the Tennessee Supreme Court. A petition for discipline was filed against Garrison on June 20, 2017. Garrison represented a client in a personal injury claim arising from an automobile accident. He provided financial assistance to his client by paying the deposit so that the client might obtain a rental car and by advancing money to the client from a settlement with which to pay the client’s rent. Garrison had been disciplined on four prior occasions for improperly providing financial assistance to clients. A hearing panel found that Garrison had violated the Rules of Professional Conduct and recommended that he be publicly censured.   

Hamilton County Lawyer Censured

Posted by: Katharine Heriges on Apr 11, 2019
News Type: BPR Actions
Hamilton County lawyer Justin Grey Woodward today received a public censure from the Board of Professional Responsibility of the Tennessee Supreme Court. Woodward represented a client in a domestic relations matter, during which Woodward created a conflict of interest by exchanging sexually explicit text messages and emails with his client. There was a significant risk that Woodward’s personal interests materially limited his representation of the client. Woodward violated the Rules of Professional Conduct and is now publicly censured for this violation.

Hamilton County Lawyer Censured

Posted by: Katharine Heriges on Apr 10, 2019
News Type: BPR Actions
Hamilton County lawyer Lisa Bowman Luthringer received a public censure on Monday from the Board of Professional Responsibility. After being retained in a child visitation case in November 2012, Luthringer waited over seven months to file a motion for mediation. The case languished another 13 months until October 2014, when she finally filed a motion to modify the parenting plan. Luthringer waited another 19 months to file a motion to set the case for a hearing. By the time the parties completed discovery, another year and a half had passed. Luthringer violated the Rules of Professional Conduct and was censured for this violation.

Benton County Lawyer Censured

Posted by: Barry Kolar on Apr 8, 2019
News Type: BPR Actions
Benton County lawyer Alan George Ward was censured today by the Board of Professional Responsibility. Ward had failed to timely file a Motion for New Trial for a criminal client, which limited appellate review solely to sufficiency of the evidence. He also failed to timely file an appeal, which resulted in the dismissal of his client’s appeal. Ward also failed to timely file appellate briefs for the client even after being directed to do so by the court.

Sullivan County Lawyer Disbarred

Posted by: Katharine Heriges on Apr 3, 2019
News Type: BPR Actions
Sullivan County lawyer Everett Hoge Mechem was disbarred today by the Tennessee Supreme Court. He was previously disbarred on April 28, 2017, and had not been reinstated from that disbarment. On Feb. 23, 2018, a petition for discipline was filed containing one complaint of misconduct, in which Mechem represented clients in a personal injury lawsuit and accepted a settlement that was not authorized by his clients. Further, after depositing the settlement funds into his trust account, no distribution was made to his clients and Mechem misappropriated the funds. He entered a conditional guilty plea admitting that his conduct violated the Rules of Professional Conduct.
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