In his column, Bill Haltom takes a poke at the Tennessee legislature -- Guns in Trunks, Don't Say Gay, livestock cruelty -- but what really riles him up is … seersucker.

Nashville lawyer Katie Edge writes in the recent Tennessee Bar Journal about Tennessee's famous bank robbers -- with the spotlight on the Butcher brothers and other fraudsters. In her column, Knoxville lawyer Monica Franklin says to avoid the "plain Jane" durable financial power of attorney and gives tips to punch up the forms you use for DPOAs.

To understand workers' comp law and all its changes, it helps to have some background. Russell Fowler does just that in the June Tennessee Bar Journal, tracing the concept's roots back to pirates and Prussians.

In the new Tennessee Bar Journal, Edward G. Philips and Brandon L. Morrow write about the recent "guns in trunks" law. However, after the article went to print, Tennessee Attorney General Bob Cooper issued an opinion on what limitations, if any, 2013 Tenn. Pub. Acts, Chapter 16, places on employers’ rights to terminate an employee who brings a firearm or firearm ammunition onto the employer’s property. In the opinion, Cooper says the law does not impact the employer/employee relationship ”and does not prohibit an employer from terminating an employee for possession of a firearm or ammunition on the employer’s property. This opinion, Phillips and Morrow say, would have significantly, but not completely, altered the article. "Our advice to employers," they write in an updated electronic version of the article, "would be to tread lightly in this area, or risk being a test case for a terminated permit carrier. In the end, the Tennessee appellate courts will have to decide."

If you haven't yet had a chance to read all of this month's Tennessee Bar Journal, be sure not to miss the works of Journal columnists John Day, who writes about common law, Marlene Eskind Moses, who explains how and when to modify permanent parenting plans, and Don Paine, who tells readers about the impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson.

King Richard III had a soft side? Well, maybe not exactly, but Russell Fowler explains in this issue of the Tennessee Bar Journal how Richard's actions were among the first to acknowledge a need for equal access to justice.

Volunteers taking part in this year's Celebrate Pro Bono activities are being encouraged to wear a "Volunteer for Justice" t-shirt that will be provided free of charge by the TBA to provide a consistent theme for the day. If you or your group would like to take part in this effort, contact TBA Access to Justice Coordinator Sarah Hayman at shayman@tnbar.org or (615) 383-7421. For more information about the national Celebrate Pro Bono campaign, visit the ABA web site at www.probono.net/celebrateprobono