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Friday, September 26, 2025
In 2021, the National Guardianship Network (NGN) brought together 125 advocates, family guardians, judges, lawyers, scholars and other stakeholders for the Fourth National Guardianship Summit. At the conclusion of the summit, delegates approved 22 final recommendations to improve and reform the adult guardianship system in the United States. Amy Willoughby Bryant examines how well Tennessee is meeting those recommendations four years later.
Public Chapter 471: Goodbye THRC, Hello CRED
In this issue's installment of The Law at Work, Edward Phillips and Brandon Morrow get down in the details of how the state's civil rights enforcement landscape could be reshaped with the dissolution of the Tennessee Human Rights Commission (THRC) and the creation of a new Civil Rights Enforcement Division (CRED).
Read about the lawyers who have recently been reinstated, disbarred, suspended, censured or transferred their licenses to disability inactive status.
State Supreme Court Seeks Comments on Regulation of the Legal Profession
The Tennessee Supreme Court on Sept. 16 issued an order soliciting comments from the legal community and the public on seven questions related to regulation of the legal profession. The court said the goal of the effort is to lower barriers to entry into the profession and ensure availability of affordable legal services in the state while ensuring the competency of attorneys and safeguarding the public. Comments should address whether the court should (1) modify, reduce or eliminate reliance on American Bar Association (ABA) accreditation in setting minimum educational requirements for lawyers; (2) consider alternatives to ABA accreditation; (3) consider adopting alternative pathways for admission to the bar; (4) consider modifying requirements for admission for those licensed in other states; and (5) modify, reduce or eliminate regulations prohibiting non-lawyer ownership of law firms or fee sharing with non-lawyers. Feedback also is sought on whether there are less costly alternatives to the traditional three-year law school curriculum and whether any legal services currently provided by lawyers could be competently provided by paraprofessionals. Comments should include docket No. ADM2025-01403 and be submitted by March 16, 2026, to Clerk James Hivner, Re: Regulatory Reform, 100 Supreme Court Building, 401 7th Ave. N., Nashville, TN 37219 or by email to appellatecourtclerk@tncourts.gov.
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