Two Tennessee judges have ordered the release of 13 inmates in Murfreesboro who were being held because they couldn’t pay fees to a private company overseeing the misdemeanor probation system.
The Tennessee Supreme Court has affirmed the six-month suspension of a Nashville lawyer who challenged the constitutionality of the state’s disciplinary process.
After less than an hour of deliberation, a federal jury in Knoxville, Tennessee, on Wednesday convicted Leon Houston of threatening to kill his former attorney, James Logan, during a jailhouse…
Fred Thompson, who grew up in small-town Tennessee and went on to make his mark as a lawyer, a lawmaker and a film and television actor, died Sunday of a…
Seeking to persuade Tennessee’s top court to impose a 30-day license suspension on an attorney who admittedly had sex with a client, the respondent’s counsel on Wednesday argued that the…
For nearly two weeks last month, new audio recorders installed at a Knoxville, Tennessee, courthouse and a nearby city county building were capturing conversations near the entrance.
After Tennessee’s top court earlier this month rejected his appeal of a five-day contempt sentence, former television judge Joe Brown headed to jail in Shelby County on Thursday to begin…
In a Hamilton County, Tennessee, courtroom on Aug. 18, a preliminary hearing erupted into violence when one inmate was asked to testify against another.
A “doggedly unrepentant” lawyer who billed her wrongful death clients for watching reality crime TV shows has been suspended for a year from law practice.
A municipal judge in Tennessee who imposed conditions on the right to counsel and trial by jury has received a reprimand and agreed to a cease and desist order.