Legal Aid Society of Middle Tennessee & the Cumberlands will hold two phone clinics next week for members of the public with questions about housing and renters’ rights, bankruptcy, medical bills, debt collection, domestic violence, SNAP benefits and unemployment benefits. Clinics will take place on Monday from 4 to 5:30 p.m. and Wednesday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. CST. LAS is looking for attorneys to help answer questions. To volunteer, contact Andrae Crismon or Kendra Cheek or call 615-780-7131.

TBA member advantage partner ABA Retirement Funds will offer its annual “New Year, New Markets?” webinar on Jan. 27 at 1 p.m. EST. The presentation will focus on how the markets could affect law firms and retirement plans in the coming year. Presenters will review 2020, discuss recent market volatility and look forward to what 2021 could have in store. Register for the free event here.

The Lawyers' Association for Women Marion Griffin Chapter will hold its New Admittee Breakfast tomorrow from 8:30 to 9:15 a.m. CST.  For more than 40 years, the group has honored all new admittees to the Tennessee bar at a breakfast prior to the fall swearing-in ceremony in Nashville. The breakfast was moved to January when the Tennessee Supreme Court rescheduled the swearing-in ceremony for January. This year, the event will be held virtually to honor the class of 2020, which has faced challenges like no other in 100 years. The keynote speaker will be Davidson County Juvenile Court Judge Sheila Calloway.

The Nashville YWCA will host Stand Against Racism: Education in a Time of Crisis on Jan. 26 from noon until 1 p.m. CST. The event will feature a panel of experts from Nashville’s K-12 schools who will examine the dual impact of racism and COVID-19 on youth and how we can build towards an anti-racist future in schools and beyond. The virtual webinar is free to the public.  

Legal experts, survivors and advocates will explore the legal issues surrounding the “troubled teen industry” in a free webinar series from the American Bar Association. The first program in the series, “Youth in Congregate Care: Far from Home, Far from Safe,” will take place Thursday from 1 to 3 p.m. EST. The series is designed to shed light on regulatory failures, current initiatives and survivor stories. Learn more or register here.

The Nashville School of Law is hosting a virtual legal clinic to produce wills for new Habitat for Humanity homeowners. An upper-level law student team goes through the intake process with the client so volunteer attorneys are only needed to conduct the client meeting and provide guidance as the will is completed. Clinics, which will be conducted via Zoom, are scheduled for Jan. 19, March 16 and April 20. Each will held from 6 to 8 p.m. CST. Lawyers who are interested in volunteering should contact Ryan Harris with Habitat for Humanity of Greater Nashville.

The TBA will be closed Monday in observance of Martin Luther King Day. We will reopen Tuesday at 8 a.m. CST.

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings has launched a new legal clinic in Nashville designed to assist black-owned small businesses and nonprofits. The first clinic will take place virtually next Monday on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Clients will be assisted by appointment only from noon to 1 p.m. CST. Subsequent clinics will be held on the third Thursday of each month. The clinic, a joint project with the Arts & Business Council of Greater Nashville and its Volunteer Lawyers & Professionals for the Arts (VLPA) Program, will provide accessible and affordable business-oriented legal services, including corporate governance, review of contracts and guidance navigating local ordinances and state regulations. In announcing the initiative, the firm’s managing partner Jonathan M. Skeeters said the clinic is an “opportunity for Bradley to join the cause for racial equity and to make a lasting impact in the Nashville community.”

The link to volunteer for an upcoming legal clinic to help individuals and businesses affected by the Christmas day bombing in downtown Nashville was wrong in Friday’s issue of TBA Today. The correct link is here. The free clinic —a joint project of the Tennessee Bar Association, Nashville Bar Association, Tennessee Alliance for Legal Services, and Legal Aid Society of Middle Tennessee & the Cumberlands — will be held remotely by phone on Friday. Each appointment will last 30 minutes. Those needing assistance can schedule an appointment starting tomorrow by calling 615-953-4961.

Legal Aid Society of Middle Tennessee & the Cumberlands will hold four phone clinics this week for members of the public with questions about housing and renters’ rights, bankruptcy, medical bills, debt collection, domestic violence, SNAP benefits and unemployment benefits. Clinics will take place on Tuesday from 4:30 to 6 p.m., Wednesday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., Thursday from 3 to 4:30 p.m. and Saturday from 8:30 to 10:30 a.m. All times central. LAS is looking for attorneys to help answer questions. To volunteer, contact Andrae Crismon or Kendra Cheek or call 615-780-7131.