This week, the Tennessee Supreme Court reinstated four lawyers who had been suspended for failing to complete annual continuing legal education requirements, including one in 2021 and three in 2023.

Mississippi lawyer Louis Collins Walker was reinstated to the practice of law in Tennessee on Sept. 5, retroactive to Aug. 28. Walker had been placed on inactive status on Jan. 16, 2019. The Board of Professional Responsibility determined that the reinstatement petition was satisfactory and recommended that the court approve it.

Over the past two weeks, the Tennessee Supreme Court reinstated 15 lawyers who had been suspended for failing to complete annual continuing legal education requirements in 2023. See the list of those reinstated online.

Over the past week, the Tennessee Supreme Court has reinstated 16 lawyers who had been suspended for failing to complete annual continuing legal education requirements in 2023. See the list of those reinstated online.

The Tennessee Supreme Court on Aug. 21 suspended 17 attorneys for failure to pay the annual registration fee; nine of them also failed to file proof that client funds are held in an IOLTA-compliant account. View the fee suspension order and IOLTA suspension order. See the list of all lawyers suspended and reinstated for fee and IOLTA violations in 2024 or access all administrative suspensions dating back to 2005. Lawyers recently reinstated include nine who were suspended this year, 11 who were suspended in 2023, one who was suspended in 2019 and one who was suspended in 2012.

Florida lawyer April Elaine Rolle was reinstated to the practice of law in Tennessee effective July 25. According to the Tennessee Supreme Court, Rolle filed a petition for reinstatement demonstrating that all delinquent annual registration fees had been paid to the Board of Professional Responsibility. The court issued the order on Aug. 20.

The Tennessee Supreme Court has referred the case of Maury County lawyer Ashlyn Elizabeth Blevins to the Board of Professional Responsibility for “whatever action” it deems warranted. The court took the action after Blevins pled guilty to the Class B misdemeanor of reckless driving in the General Sessions Court for Maury County. She received judicial diversion in that case.

On Aug. 20, the Supreme Court of Tennessee suspended 123 attorneys for failing to complete annual continuing legal education requirements in 2023. View the order or see the full list online, including those who have been reinstated in the last two days. Access all administrative suspension lists dating back to 2005.

The Tennessee Supreme Court has suspended the law license of Davidson County lawyer Mickie Smith Daugherty after finding that she failed to respond to the Board of Professional Responsibility about a complaint and posed a threat of substantial harm to the public. The court reported that the complaint alleged misappropriation of funds. Daugherty is immediately precluded from accepting any new cases and must cease representing existing clients by Sept. 19. The court also issued an order allowing documents in the case to be filed under seal.

The Tennessee Supreme Court has directed Florida lawyer Grace Ingrid Gardiner to respond within 30 days why discipline imposed by the Supreme Court of Minnesota should not also be imposed in Tennessee. On June 20, the Minnesota court imposed an indefinite suspension on Gardiner.