Early bird registration for the TBA’s 2026 Annual Convention will end tonight at midnight. The convention, set for June 10-13 in downtown Knoxville, will offer annual favorites such as the Public Service Breakfast, Lawyers Luncheon, compelling CLE and swearing in of TBA’s new president, as well as the Wednesday night welcome reception and a Thursday evening reception at Knoxville’s minor league ballpark. This year’s gathering also will include TBA’s first-ever Tech Showcase and lunch and learn opportunities with tech vendors on June 11. Day passes for Thursday are available for those who unable to attend the full convention.

The TBA will offer a one-hour CLE webcast on June 24 focused on how lawyers can use artificial intelligence (AI) to become more efficient in their writing without compromising accuracy or professional judgment. Join Ryan Standil with Write To Excite as he demonstrates how AI can be used to revise drafts, find typos, monitor tone and identify faulty logic and ambiguities. Standil also will cover prompting techniques and guarding against AI shortcomings such as verbosity, desire to please and lack of human touch. Using AI to Accelerate Your Writing will run from noon to 1 p.m. CDT.

BLOOMEKATZ, Circuit Judge. Jorge Oxlaj-Perez petitions for judicial review of a Board of Immigration Appeals decision that affirmed the Immigration Judge’s denial of his application for asylum, withholding of removal, and protection under the Convention Against Torture. The government asks that we summarily dismiss the petition for review as untimely. It argues that Oxlaj-Perez filed the petition after the 30-day limitations period in 8 U.S.C. § 1252(b)(1), and that the statutory provision is not subject to equitable tolling. We hold that the § 1252(b)(1) deadline is subject to equitable tolling. But because Oxlaj-Perez is not entitled to tolling on this record, we dismiss the petition as untimely.

THAPAR, Circuit Judge. Efra Deh, a Mauritanian national, entered the United States and sought asylum, withholding of removal, and protection under the Convention Against Torture (CAT). After an immigration judge denied his petition, Deh moved to reopen the proceedings because he alleged his interpreter mistranslated portions of his immigration hearings. The immigration judge denied that motion, and the Board of Immigration Appeals affirmed. Deh now petitions for review of that denial. Since he can’t identify any specific mistranslations at his immigration hearings, Deh’s petition fails.

READLER, Circuit Judge. Jose Baltazar Us applied for cancellation of his removal from the United States to Guatemala, maintaining that his deportation would cause his U.S.-citizen children to suffer an “exceptional and extremely unusual hardship.” An Immigration Judge determined that Baltazar Us did not qualify for cancellation, however, and the Board of Immigration Appeals agreed. Because no reasonable adjudicator would be compelled to disagree, we deny the petition for review.

The mother appeals the juvenile court’s decision to impose sanctions against her for failing to produce documents in response to the father’s repeated discovery requests. She also challenges the amount of the award of attorney’s fees. We affirm.

This is an appeal from a final decree of divorce. The parties were married over twenty years and had three children. The mother was a stay-at-home parent while Father was employed. At trial, they stipulated to separate parenting schedules for their two teenagers but could not agree on a parenting schedule for their youngest daughter, a former foster child they had adopted years earlier. The trial court designated the father primary residential parent of the youngest daughter and adopted a parenting schedule with equal parenting time on an alternating weekly basis. The trial court denied the mother’s request for alimony in futuro and awarded her transitional alimony for a period of five months. The trial court ordered the father to pay $6,000 of the mother’s attorney fees, but each party was deemed responsible for the remainder of his or her own attorney fees. The mother appeals. We reverse in part, vacate in part, and remand for further proceedings.

Worker employed by a temporary staffing agency was assigned to one of the agency’s clients and then injured while working. In suing the client for negligence, the worker relied on the contract between agency and client that provided that such assignees would not be considered employees of the client. The trial court granted summary judgment for the client, finding that the worker was a co-employee of the client and thus subject to the exclusive remedy provision of the Tennessee Workers’ Compensation Law. Because the worker admitted all of the facts establishing his status as an employee of the client by failing to dispute them, we affirm.

Tennessee became the second state in the United States to ban convertible virtual currency (CVC) kiosks, the Commercial Appeal reports. On April 13, Gov. Bill Lee signed HB2505, which imposes a sweeping ban on the kiosks. CVC kiosks have come under scrutiny for facilitating scams. Under the law, a virtual currency kiosk is an electronic terminal that facilitates the exchange of virtual currency for money, bank credit or other virtual currencies and may be connected to exchanges or hold digital assets directly. Supporters of the ban cite high rates of fraud associated with the machines. Criminals use cryptocurrency kiosks to quickly convert cash to digital currency, making it easier to move funds overseas and evade U.S. laws. Tennessee and Indiana are the only states to pass legislation fully banning CVC kiosks. Operating or owning one of these kiosks will be a Class A misdemeanor starting July 1.

The Tennessee Supreme Court, which approved adoption of the NextGen Uniform Bar Examination (UBE) for Tennessee exam takers in 2024, announced new details on score transfers as the state prepares to transition from the legacy UBE in July 2027. Tennessee will accept transferred NextGen UBE scores beginning with the July 2026 administration, as some jurisdictions begin offering the new exam, while others will not implement it until February or July 2028, according to a press release from the Administrative Office of the Courts. The court also will continue to accept unexpired legacy UBE scores earned through the February 2028 administration. By no later than Aug. 31, 2026, the court will set the minimum passing score for the NextGen UBE for applicants seeking admission in Tennessee, including those transferring scores from other jurisdictions.