TBJ Select

Friday, December 16, 2022

article image

Mindfulness Beats Stress

Buddy Stockwell reminds readers that mindfulness and meditation techniques effectively reduce stress and make it more manageable. Simply put, one does not have to suffer uninterrupted stress in the practice of law. By forming new habits and taking time to incorporate mindfulness breaks into their daily routine, legal professionals can reduce stress and become even more productive.

article image

Letters of the Law

Notes in praise of Russell Fowler's “‘Fighting Judge Snodgrass’: When Tennessee’s Chief Justice Shot a Lawyer,” and dialogue between a reader and John Day regarding Day's “Call It What It Is: A Loss of Human Companionship” column.

article image

Passages

Tennessee Bar Association members who have died recently are memorialized.

article image

New Book From Former Tennessee Bar Journal Editor to Debut in February

Parnassus Books in Nashville is hosting the launch of former Tennessee Bar Journal editor Suzanne Craig Robertson's book, He Called Me Sister: A True Story of Finding Humanity on Death Row. The event will be on Feb. 21 at 6:30 p.m. CST. The event is free, but seating is limited and registration is required. With a foreword by Sister Helen Prejean and preface by Bill Moyers, the memoir recounts the Robertson family's 15-year friendship with Cecil Johnson, who was on Tennessee's death row and was executed in 2009. Drawing from Johnson's own memoir, news accounts and court documents, the book also features interviews with many lawyers involved in the case. Preorders are available from Parnassus and other online retailers.

article image

TBA Admin Law Section Discusses Judicial Deference on New Podcast Episode

A new episode of the TBA’s Sidebar podcast is now streaming, featuring Administrative Law Section members Jerry Taylor of Thompson Burton and Bill Penny of Burr & Forman. Taylor and Penny discuss judicial deference to agency expertise in federal and in state courts and how agencies evaluate and interpret rules and statutes. The episode was produced by the Administrative Law Section and its chair, Rita Gibson Rayford.

Tennessee Bar Journal

View Current Issue