The Knoxville Bar Association, attorneys and current and former Knox County judges will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Knox County Fourth Circuit Court on Sept. 20 at Calhoun’s on the River. The event, beginning at 11:30 a.m., will include a special recognition of Judge William Swann, who has served as the court’s presiding judge for 32 years. Tickets are $15 and are available at the court. Contact Kasey Stone, 865-215-2110 with any questions.

A new exhibit, Courting Nashville: The History of Our City’s Legal Profession, will open Wednesday at the Nashville Public Library. The exhibit depicts the rich history of Nashville’s legal profession, beginning with the Cumberland Compact in 1780 and continuing to present day. The opening will take place from 2-4 p.m. in the West Reading Room at the library. For more information, contact kelley.sirko@nashville.gov.

Registration is now open for the TBA Academy, which offers an exciting opportunity for Tennessee attorneys to be admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court and network with some of the nation’s leading appellate practitioners. The 2016 TBA Academy will take place Nov. 28-30 in Washington, D.C., at The Hay Adams Hotel. Participating attorneys will be sworn in before the court in a private ceremony on Nov. 29. Registration forms and required materials must be submitted by Oct. 19. Learn more online or contact TBA Meetings Coordinator Therese Byrne, 615-277-3208 with any questions.

David Williams II, athletics director and vice chancellor for athletics and university affairs at Vanderbilt University, will share his perspective on the Southeast Conference (SEC) Aug. 30 from 1-3 p.m. at the Williamson County Public Library in Franklin. Williams, who has represented the SEC in negotiations over television contracts and currently chairs an infractions appeals committee for the NCAA, holds a master of business administration and law degree from the University of Detroit as well as a master of laws in taxation from New York University.

Registration for the 2016 Equal Justice University will close this Friday. Don’t miss your chance to celebrate this year’s pro bono award recipients and hear from Tennessee Bar Association President Jason Long at this annual event sponsored by the Tennessee Alliance for Legal Services and the TBA.

Make plans now to don your best puckered suit, dress or casual wear and join Memphis-area lawyers for the 2016 Seersucker Flash Mob. The event, announced by the Memphis Bar Association, will take place Aug. 31 from noon to 1 p.m. in the lobby of the Peabody Hotel, 149 Union Ave. It will also raise funds for Memphis Area Legal Services and A Step Ahead Foundation.

Defense lawyers Dean Strang and Jerry Buting, known for their Emmy-nominated Netflix series “Making a Murderer,” will speak Sunday at 7 p.m. in Nashville. The pair will wrap up a multicity speaking tour at TPAC’s James K. Polk Theater. The event, called “A Conversation on Justice,” will be moderated by the Tennessean’s courts and criminal justice reporter Stacey Barchenger and will provide attendees the opportunity to submit questions. Tickets are available online at TPAC.org, by phone at 615-782-4040 and at the box office at 505 Deaderick St. in downtown Nashville.

Just City, an organization that provides financial, legal and administrative services to those seeking expungements, will host its first annual Plunge to Expunge dunk tank fundraiser tomorrow from 4-7 p.m. at Memphis Made Brewing Co., 768 South Cooper. This year’s dunk tank target is Just City board member and University of Memphis law professor Daniel Kiel, who teaches constitutional, civil rights and educational law. The group also announced that the brewery will debut its latest beer – Justice Will PrevALE – at the event. Read more from the law school.

The Sewanee Symposium at the University of the South will focus this year on Incorporating Equality: The First 150 Years of the 14th Amendment. The program will be held Sept. 15-17 at the Sewanee Inn. Featured speakers include David W. Blight of Yale University on The Origins and Meaning of the 14th Amendment in the Civil War and Reconstruction; Pulitzer Prize winner Annette Gordon-Reed on What The Framers Wanted: The 14th Amendment and Black Citizenship; and Micheal Kent Curtis of Wake Forest University on John Bingham vs. Thaddeus Stevens: Tennessee’s Readmittance to the Union. To reserve your space, contact Sewanee Symposium Reservations, 931-598-1934.

Lipscomb University’s Institute for Law, Justice and Society will hold its bi-monthly legal clinic next Tuesday from 5:30 to 8 p.m. Lawyers are needed to volunteer for this advice-only clinic at St. James Missionary Baptist Church, 600 28th Ave. North in Nashville. For more information contact Randy Spivey, 615-966-2503.