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LAET Seeks Candidates for Multiple Openings


Legal Aid of East Tenessee seeks multiple attorneys and paralegals to fill open positions in their office locations across East Tennessee. Click on a link below to see the job description and how to apply. Chattanooga Paralegal Staff Attorne...

Family Law Task Force CLE 6/10


Date Friday, June 10, 2016 Location Tennessee Alliance for Legal Services 50 Vantage Way, Suite 250 Nashville, TN 37228 Agenda 9am: Registration Opens 9:30am-11:00am: Violence against Women as a Men’s Issue; Presenter: S...

WTLS Seeks Staff Attorneys


West Tennessee Legal Services, Inc. has an immediate opening for an attorney in each of its Huntingdon, TN (1 attorney), Selmer TN (1 attorney), and Dyersburg TN (1 attorney) offices. The attorneys will represent victims of domestic and sexual violen...

6/3 Special Education/Juvenile Justice CLE


Special Education Task Force CLE - Friday, June 3, 2016 REGISTER NOW Agenda 9:30am: Registration Opens 10-11:30am: Building Strong Brains: Tennessee’s ACEs Initiative and Juvenile Justice System Changes; Presenter: Linda O'Neal, Exe...

MId-South Immigration Advocates seek Asylum & Children's Law Fellow


Asylum and Children’s Law Fellow Mid-South Immigration Advocates (MIA) is a Memphis-based nonprofit law firm whose core mission is to provide free and affordable immigration representation to low-income individuals and families in the Mid-South regi...

TCAD seeks State Long-Term Care Ombudsman


The Tennessee Commission on Aging and Disability (TCAD) is the designated state agency on aging and is mandated to provide leadership relative to aging issues on behalf of older persons in the state. Our mission is to bring together and leverage prog...

Online TN Justice Celebrates 5 Years of Service


Nashville, TN -- On Thursday, April 14, 2016 the virtual legal advice clinic, www.onlinetnjustice.org, celebrates five years of helping low-income Tennesseans receive free civil legal advice. The first question was posted to Online TN Justice site on...

TALS Staff Member to Present at Equal Justice Conference


On Friday, May 13, 2016 TALS' staff member Samantha Sanchez, Director of Training, Compliance, & Technology, will present at the 2016 Equal Justice Conference in Chicago, Illonois. Samantha and Tennessee attorney Buck Lewis will conduct a trainin...

Housing and Consumer Task Force CLE


Agenda TBD CLE Credit TBD Cost Free to Legal aid/services staff members $15 to registered pro bono volunteers and other advocates $75 for private attorneys Location TALS' Office 50 Vantage Way, Suite 250 Nashville, TN...

LAET Attorney to Co-Chair Blount DV Task Force


MARYVILLE – Legal Aid of East Tennessee is proud to announce that Kathryn Ellis, Ph.D., J.D., had been elected Co-Chair of the Blount County Task Force against Domestic Violence. She shares this leadership position with Amanda Ingle of Haven House. ...