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  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 Attorne...

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 ...

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!   ...

The Tennessee Alliance for Legal Services is preparing to say goodbye and good luck to one of its own. TALS' Policy and Training Director, Lisa Primm, has accepted the Executive Director position with the Disability Law and Advocacy Center of Tenness...

See the TN State Courts article regarding more than $200k in award money from the Supreme Court’s Access to Justice initiative here.

 TALS to host two CLEs in November 2012. Please join us for a training for non-immigration attorneys on how to assist immigrant victims of crime in applying for U Visas.  It provides legal status to victims of certain serious crimes (incl...

The Disablity Law and Advocacy Center of Tennessee is hosting a legal clinic to address bullying in schools in Lebanon on November 10, 2012. Everyone is welcome from across Tennessee. The Predators Foundation and Lipscomb University are proudly co-sp...