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Baptist Healing Trust recently awarded a $55,000 grant to Legal Aid Society of Middle Tennessee and the Cumberlands, Tennessee’s largest non-profit law firm. The grant will support the 2014 Middle Tennessee Medical Legal Partnership (MTMLP), which i...

  NASHVILLE – Deborah Yeomans, Managing Attorney for Legal Aid of East Tennessee’s Johnson City office, has been named the Ashley T. Wiltshire Public Service Attorney of the Year by the Tennessee Bar Association (TBA).  The Award “recogniz...

Tennessee Alliance for Legal Services' (TALS) virtual legal clinic, Online TN Justice, was featured in the January edition of the Tennessee Bar Association's Tennessee Bar Journal. Online TN Justice is one of several pro bono options for Tennessee La...

Tennessee Alliance for Legal Services' (TALS) Board Member Linda Warren Seely will receive the  Marion Griffin-Frances Loring Award from the Association for Women Attorney's Annual Banquet on January 23, 2014. The Marion Griffin-Frances Loring A...

 Legal Aid of East Tennessee (Knoxville office) seeks to hire an experienced Chief Financial Officer.   Position requires substantial experience with fund accounting and reporting with federal, state, local government funding as well a...

Gail Vaughn Ashworth, Wiseman Ashworth Law Group, PLC, has been appointed to the Tennessee Access to Justice Commission. Ashworth is serving the remainder of Bill Young's term on the commission. Young has joined the Administrative Office of the Court...

The Tennessee Fair Housing Council, John Marshall Law School, West Tennessee Legal Services and Crain, Schuette & Associates have announced their event - Litigation Under the Fair Housing Act Workshop and Mock Trial. This free CLE will be held in...

  KNOXVILLE – The Board of Trustees of the Tennessee Bar Foundation has awarded Legal Aid of East Tennessee (LAET) a 2014 IOLTA Program Grant.  The award, totaling $95,699, will make available additional civil legal services for low-income ...

Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam has appointed Tennessee Court of Appeals Judge Holly Kirby to the Tennessee Supreme Court. Judge Kirby will be replacing Justice Janet Holder who will be retiring at when her current term ends. See the state of Tennesse...