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LAET Paralegal Position Available

June 09, 2017

PARALEGAL POSITION AVAILABLE   Legal Aid of East Tennessee (LAET) seeks a full-time, entry level, paralegal for LAET’s Family Justice Center office in Chattanooga to handle domestic violence matters. A commitment to high-quality legal work...

LAET Managing Attorney Elected to Chair Statewide Domestic Violence Council

June 05, 2017

JOHNSON CITY (June 2, 2017) – Deborah Yeomans-Barton, Managing Attorney for Legal Aid of East Tennessee’s Johnson City office, has been elected to chair the Tennessee Domestic Violence State Coordinating Council (DVSCC). Her one-year term begins on J...

WTLS Has 2 Attorney Openings

June 05, 2017

West Tennessee Legal Services, Inc. has immediate openings for two (2) attorneys in our Victim Assistance and Advocacy Project.  The attorneys will represent victims of elder abuse and financial exploitation in civil protection order cases, and ...

2017 Housing & Consumer CLE - June 23rd

May 22, 2017

Register for the Housing & Consumer Task Force Training Here. Agenda 9am: Registration 9:30am – 10am: Session 2017 Legislative Update This session will review bills and budget items which passed this year, specifically those which...

LAET Attorney Arnold to Receive Training at National Institute

May 12, 2017

MARYVILLE (May 12, 2017) – Legal Aid of East Tennessee (LAET) is proud to announce that staff attorney Zachary W. Arnold will participate in the prestigious National Institute for Trial Advocacy's Legal Services Corporation Grantee Lawyers (LSCO) Pro...

LAET Holds "Serving Justice" Event to Celebrate New Office

April 25, 2017

KNOXVILLE – Legal Aid of East Tennessee (LAET) will host “Serving Justice” at its new Knoxville location on Tuesday, May 2, 2017 starting at 5:30 P.M. The event celebrates LAET’s move into new offices in the historic Stair Building, 607 West Summit H...

TALS Staff to Present at National Equal Justice Conference

April 24, 2017

Three staff members from the Tennessee Alliance for Legal Services (TALS) will present at the 2017 Equal Justice Conference hosted by the American Bar Association and the National Legal Aid and Defender Association. The annual conference, held in Pit...

EJU Sessions Requested by Topic

April 20, 2017

2017 Dates: Wednesday, August 30, 2017 to Friday, September 1, 2017 The planning committee for TALS' 2017 Equal Justice University conference invites you to submit CLE session proposals for this year's conference. Please see the list below of spec...

LAS Gallatin Office Moves to New Location

April 18, 2017

GALLATIN, Tenn., April 17, 2017 – Legal Aid Society of Middle Tennessee and the Cumberlands, Tennessee’s largest non-profit law firm, announced today that it has relocated its Gallatin office from 650 N Water Ave. to 106 Public Sq...