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The Disability Law and Advocacy Center of Tennessee will be the featured charity when the Predators play the Dallas Stars on Monday, Feb. 25. DLAC will receive a portion of all ticket sales made through the link below.  $10.00 from every lower ...

See 'The Legal Aid Advocate' posted by the Legal Aid Society of Middle Tennessee and the Cumberlands for January 2013. January's content includes:   Client Story Campaign Update New Grant Highlight: Baptist Healing Trust 2013 Legal Clinic Opport...

The Tennessee Alliance for Legal Services Operations Director, Samantha Sanchez, has been named Secretary to the Grant Professional Association's Nashville Chapter (GPA). Samantha was awarded a free membership to the organization in 2012 af...

JOB ANNOUNCEMENT FAMILY LAW PARALEGAL LEGAL AID OF EAST TENNESSEE KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE   Responsibilities:          This position requires a close working relationship with other members of the f...

TALS Board Member Liz Todaro's piece on www.tba.org about how pro bono work impacts immigration here.

  TALS Announces Hughes as New Staff Attorney for Legal Help Line   The Tennessee Alliance for Legal Services (TALS) is pleased to welcome the addition of Timothy Hughes to the TALS team as the first Legal Information Line Staff Attorney. ...

In In re B.R., a case currently in a Tennessee circuit court, advocates maintain that the Tennessee courts must appoint counsel for children in proceedings imposing a “valid court order” related to truancy. Although children are appointed counsel f...

University of Tennessee College of Law Dean Doug Blaze, a long-time TALS board member and former Chair, has been named the 2012 recipient of the Deborah Rhode Award, given each year by the  Association of American Law Schools to a dean or facu...

Please see the press release regarding the TN Supreme Court  uploading its first videos in an Access to Justice Initiative to prepare pro bono lawyers to take on cases outside of normal scope of practice. Great job to everyone involved!   S...