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Friday, June 14, 2024
The 2024 Corporate Counsel Pro Bono Initiative Gala was hosted April 20 in the Nashville offices of Bass, Berry & Sims, offering a wonderful opportunity for supporters to meet and connect with colleagues from across the state. Event attendees included representatives from sponsoring companies and firms, as well as leaders from the TBA and the Tennessee chapter of Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC). The event included presentation of the inaugural Branham Grants, in support of a pilot legal services project between West Tennessee Legal Services and Aspell Recovery Center. The Branham Grants were established in honor of long-time access to justice champion Andy Branham, who passed away in 2022. Read more and see photos from the event.
Memphis Lawyer Awarded TBA’s Highest Legal Writing Honor
Memphis lawyer Miles Mason was awarded the TBA’s prestigious Justice Joseph W. Henry Award for Outstanding Legal Writing today during the group's Annual Convention in Memphis. The award, which was presented at the Lawyers Luncheon, was established more than 40 years ago and is given each year to the lawyer who writes the most outstanding article published in the Tennessee Bar Journal for the preceding year. Mason will be recognized for his article “You Are the Father!: Untangling Custody Rights in Tennessee Between Unmarried Parents,” which appeared in the November/December 2023 issue of the Journal. Mason is the founder of Miles Mason Law Group PLC and a certified public accountant. He is a nationally recognized speaker who presents continuing education seminars across the country. His father-in-law, the late Judge Joe B. Jones, was the first recipient of the Joe Henry Award in 1981. Read the TBA's press release for more information.
A Review of 'Everyday Justice: A Legal Aid Story' by Ashley Wiltshire
Linda Warren Seely, TBA's Access to Justice committee chair, reviews Ashley Wiltshire's Everyday Justice: A Legal Aid Story, which chronicles the creation of what we now know as Legal Aid Society of Middle Tennessee and the Cumberlands.
Family Ties: Retaliation and Temporal Proximity
In this installment of "The Law at Work," Edward Phillips and Brandon Morrow break down a case that reads more like a screenplay from HBO’s award-winning series Succession than a court decision.
Tennessee Bar Association members who have died recently are memorialized.
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