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Services Friday for Former TBA President McMurray

Posted by: Katharine Heriges on May 31, 2017
News Type: Passages
Former TBA President Robert L. McMurray of Signal Mountain died on Tuesday. He was 87. McMurray graduated from Vanderbilt Law School in 1954 where he was Order of the Coif and on the Vanderbilt Law Review. Before retiring in 2010, he practiced law for 55 years, the last 45 of which were in Cleveland, Tenn., with the firms of Bell and Associates and McMurray Law Office. Visitation will be held on Friday, from noon to 2 p.m. at St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Cleveland, with the service to follow at the church at 2 p.m.

Former ABA President A.P. Carlton Dies

Posted by: Katharine Heriges on May 25, 2017
News Type: Passages
Former American Bar Association President Alfred P. (A.P.) Carlton died today. Carlton served from 2002 to 2003, during which he focused on reforming corporate governance and promoted the rule of law in Iraq. His most prominent advocacy, however, was his fight for judicial independence: he chaired the ABA’s Standing Committee on Judicial Independence and created the association’s Commission on the 21st Century Judiciary. Carlton was also a member of a number of community organizations and civic groups, both nationally and in his home state of North Carolina.

Services Set for UTK Law Professor Next Month

Posted by: Katharine Heriges on May 22, 2017
News Type: Passages
Services for the recently deceased University of Tennessee College of Law professor Neil P. Cohen will be held on June 17 in San Rafael, Calif. In lieu of flowers, Cohen’s family requests donations be made in his name to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, the American Civil Liberties Union or the United Nations Syrian Refugee program (UNHCR).

Services this Week for Williamson County Attorney

Posted by: Katharine Heriges on May 17, 2017
News Type: Passages
Franklin attorney Carol Davis Crow died on Sunday after a lengthy battle with a rare brain cancer known as Chordoma. She was 44. A native of Texas, she later moved to Tennessee to practice law specializing in representing medical professionals against malpractice claims. Crow was an outspoken advocate for others who suffered from Chordoma and was active in supporting the search for a cure. A visitation will be held at Williamson Memorial Funeral Home on Thursday from 5 to 8 p.m. with a funeral to follow on Friday at 9 a.m. Make donations to the Chordoma Foundation in memory of Carol Davis Crow at P.O. Box 2127, Durham, NC, 27702.

Services Tomorrow for Davidson County Senior Counselor

Posted by: Katharine Heriges on May 15, 2017
News Type: Passages
Clifford Joy Harrison of Nashville died last week. He was 92. Before earning his law degree from Nashville School of Law, Harrison served in World War II, where he flew 35 missions in Europe as a part of the Army Air Corps. He began his professional career at Third National Bank in 1950 and retired as Vice Chairman of the Board. Visitation will be held tomorrow at 12:30 p.m. with memorial service following at 2 p.m. at Christ Church Cathedral, 900 Broadway in Nashville. Memorial contributions can be made to Christ Church Cathedral, the YMCA Foundation of Middle Tennessee or the Nature Conservancy in Tennessee.

Longtime UTK Law Professor Dies

Posted by: Katharine Heriges on May 11, 2017
News Type: Passages
Retired University of Tennessee College of Law Professor Neil P. Cohen has died at the age of 74. He authored or co-authored 10 books, has been published in a number of law reviews, and served more than 30 years at the university. He also assisted the State of Tennessee in drafting the Rules of Evidence and the Tennessee Penal Code. More information about funeral arrangements will be posted when they are available. 

Former ABA President Robinson Dies

Posted by: Katharine Heriges on May 9, 2017
News Type: Passages
Former American Bar Association President William T. (Bill) Robinson has died, the ABA Journal reports. He was 72. Robinson was member-in-charge of the Florence, Kentucky, office of Frost Brown Todd, and also maintained a license in Tennessee. He was a member of the TBA and the ABA, where he served as president in 2011-2012. During his tenure, he fought passionately to secure adequate court funding, focusing on the human consequences of underfunded courts. He “will be missed by the entire ABA family and legal community,” current ABA President Linda Klein said in a statement.

Services Saturday for Kingsport Attorney

Posted by: Katharine Heriges on May 8, 2017
News Type: Passages
Kingsport lawyer William "Bill" Wray died on Friday. He was 68. Wray was born in Sullivan County, and graduated from the University of Tennessee College of Law in 1971. He worked at Hunter, Smith, and Davis for 28 years before opening The Wray Law Firm in 2005. A memorial service will be held on Saturday at 2 p.m. at First Presbyterian Church, with the family receiving friends following the service. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to Holston United Methodist Home for Children, P.O. Box 188, Greeneville, Tennessee, 37743.

Services May 13 for Nashville Lawyer

Posted by: Katharine Heriges on May 8, 2017
News Type: Passages
Longtime Nashville attorney Frank J. Scanlon died on April 22. He was 70. Scanlon moved to Nashville in 1975, and served for 12 years in the Attorney General’s Office, where he started the Environmental Enforcement Division. He represented Tennessee twice in the U.S. Supreme Court. He participated in the medical licensing case of Dr. George C. Nichopoulos, the attending physician to Elvis Presley, and was interviewed for several books about Presley. The family will receive family and friends on May 13 in the West Wing of the parish center of Christ The King Catholic Church at 10 a.m., eulogy at 11 a.m. and the funeral mass to follow at 11:30 a.m. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Nashville Humane Association, the Legal Aid Society of Middle Tennessee or the YMCA of Middle of Tennessee.

Famed Texas Defense Attorney Richard ‘Racehorse’ Haynes Dies

Posted by: Katharine Heriges on May 3, 2017
News Type: Passages
The famous Houston criminal defense lawyer Richard “Racehorse” Haynes died on Friday, the ABA Journal reports. Haynes was called “the master of courtroom theatrics,” and was known to have shocked himself with a cattle prod, cross-examined an empty witness chair and even threatened to drive a nail through his hand, all in attempts to prove a point in the courtroom. Haynes represented 40 clients in capital cases and none got death sentences, and he won all but two of 30 “Smith and Wesson divorce” cases, in which women were accused of killing abusive husbands in self-defense. Haynes was 90 years old.
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