The TBA will host a book signing next week for Bill Haltom, author of the just released second edition of The Other Fellow May Be Right: The Civility of Howard Baker. The signing will take place June 15 during the TBA annual convention in Kingsport. The book examines the “strategic civility” of the late U.S. Sen. Howard H. Baker Jr. and also reflects on Tennessee’s current political climate. Nashville attorney Gary Shockley reviewed the book for the Tennessee Bar Journal.

With this long weekend ahead of you, it's a good time to whip out that fiction piece you've been pondering so you can send it to the Tennessee Bar Journal's First Annual Fiction Competition. Deadline is next Wednesday, May 31!

The A Step Ahead Foundation will host a get together during the TBA Annual Convention in Kingsport to spread the word on how the organization is helping prevent unplanned pregnancies in five Tennessee cities – Jackson, Chattanooga, Nashville, Knoxville and Memphis. Former Shelby County Juvenile Court Judicial Magistrate Claudia Haltom will lead the event, which is also being hosted by Jimmie Carpenter Miller, Dr. Leigh Johnson, TBA President Jason Long, Tennessee Lawyers' Association for Women President Ramona DeSalvo, Wellmont Health System’s Terry Eads, Kristi M. Bennett, Jane Van Deren Pera, Lucian Pera, Sarah Sheppeard and Judge Duane Slone. The event will be held in Salon A at the Meadowview Marriott Conference Resort on June 14 from 4 to 5 p.m.

The Crockett County NAACP and the Equal Justice Initiative are sponsoring a ceremony to remember Joe Boxley, a man lynched by a mob in 1929. The ceremony will feature a dedication of soil from the site where he was killed for permanent display in the Equal Justice Initiative museum. Speakers will include District Attorney Garry A. Brown, Tennessee History for Kids Founder Bill Carey, a Boxley family member and a representative of the Equal Justice Initiative.The dedication will be in the Crockett County Courthouse in Alamo at 10 a.m. on June 10.