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Tennessee Bar honors Judge Robert M. Summitt
Each year, the Tennessee Bar Association honors a Tenn-essee lawyer or judge who has served his or her profession by participating in American Bar Association related activities. The TBA has selected Judge Robert M. Summitt as the 2011 recipient for his exceptional service on behalf of the ABA. The organization will commemorate Judge Summitt’s contributions to the organization during the ABA’s mid-year meeting in Atlanta.
Experience prepared judge for other side of the bench
When Judge William Carter was a criminal defense lawyer, he lost cases in all state trial courts and courts of appeals, the Tennessee Supreme Court, a U. S. District Court, the U. S. Court of Appeals in Cincinnati, Ohio and says he was even lucky enough to argue and lose one case in the U.S. Supreme Court.
50 years ago...
What was happening in Chattanooga in 1960
Saturday, February 11
Closed for one week to move from the city hall to its new million-dollar health-center on Third Street near Erlanger Hospital, the Chattanooga-Hamilton County Health Department will open for business Monday at 8 o’clock, Dr Paul Golley, director, announced.
Governor Bredesen’s Legal Counsel expands Miller & Martin’s roster
Lateral hire emphasizes firm’s public service traditions and kicks off new year of anticipated lateral hires following record 2010.
Miller & Martin is proud to announce that Junaid Odubeko has transitioned out of his role as Legal Counsel to Governor Phil Bredesen and brought his litigation and government relations talents to Miller & Martin.
Under Analysis
Character and unfitness: The harsh reality of debt
Failing to face one’s financial debts used to be punishable by jail or public humiliation. The origin of the word “bankruptcy” is a reference to the medieval practice of breaking the bench of a delinquent merchant. Even though bankruptcy laws have changed a lot since then, the humiliation of financial hardship has not changed much. Cruel as it may seem, people judge others by their ability or inability to handle money. Your ability to handle money is even important in getting a job – and not just in the financial industry.
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Sometimes you never know when you’re better off
I’ll never forget that warm September morning as I headed off to work when my cell phone rang with a call from my county mayor.?
As I answered the call and heard him identify himself, all kinds of thoughts ran through my mind, but none of them prepared me for the question he was about to ask me. Considering myself an above average county citizen, paying my taxes on time but not extremely early or anything, I wondered what in the world I had done wrong to deserve a call from the county’s chief executive.
Southern Style
I Wish You Knew - Charlie Louvin
It was the second Chatta-hoochee Valley Fiddler’s Con-vention bluegrass band competition for my fledging Peachtree Pickers. We stepped upon the stage and began performing, it was a Louvin Brothers song – “I Wish You Knew” that gained us the favor of the audience. It was Grand Ole Opry stars Jim and Jesse’s respect of the Louvin’s music that introduced me to the song combined with the admiration of my mandolin teacher Eugene Akers.
Case Digests: Tennesse Court of Appeals Syllabus
Estate of Carolyn A. Montgomery v. Daniel Kueter, M.D.
Hamilton County – We granted the application of Daniel Kueter, M.D. (“Defendant”) for a Tenn. R. App. P. 9 Interlocutory Appeal on the issue of whether the trial court erred in reinstating this case to its active docket after it had been dismissed without prejudice over a year earlier.
Are we there yet?
The movie year
Scarlett: Atlanta!
Mammy: Savannah would be better for ya. You’d just get in trouble in Atlanta.
Scarlett: What trouble are you talking about?
Mammy: You know what trouble I’s talkin’ ‘bout. I’s talking ‘bout Mr. Ashley Wilkes. He’ll be comin’ to Atlanta when he gets his leave, and you sittin’ there waitin’ for him, just like a spider.
I Swear...
He snuck into the Bar
I’m grateful to Martha Neil for her Jan. 10, 2011, post at the ABA Journal’s “Law News Now.”
Captioned “Ex-con allegedly worked as bogus lawyer …,” her post reports that a convicted burglar in Illinois apparently got away with impersonating a lawyer for five years before getting caught.
River City Roundabout
Get the gist
The best way to describe the new local band “The Gist” is to say they sound familiar, and like many other bands you’ve heard before. Yet, at the same time, the way they sound from one song to the next makes them about as versatile, new and fresh sounding as anything out there.
A Day in the Life
It’s easy to waste time. Hours skip by as you watch a TV show or bum around the house looking for something meaningful to occupy your time. Unfortunately, boredom usually leads to spending money – money you wouldn’t be forking over if you had something to occupy your time. It’s a vicious circle.
Brainbuster — Make your brain tingle!
Valentine’s Day is almost here! How much do you know about Roses?
1. When you first start dating someone and they give you a bouquet of yellow roses, what are they trying to tell you? I think you are cute; I want to borrow your car; will you go out with me; I am falling in love with you.
The Bookworm
“The Obamas: The Untold Story of an African Family”
There were days, you wish you’d listened closer.
Your grandfather told you many things about his grandfather: how he survived, how he lived and how he relaxed. You wish you had paid attention to what was said, but you were just a kid. Now, you wish you could tell those tales to your own children.
Junk tin can artist to teach workshop for beginners, experts
When Stan and Peggy Townsend of Townsend Atelier began looking for artists to teach workshops at their new studio, they were hoping to find instructors who would appeal to beginners and skilled artisans alike. When they found Karen Rudolph, they struck gold. Or rather, tin.
Bus service still popular for intercity travel, Greyhound says
There was a time when taking a trip on a bus was as much a part of Americana as a Norman Rockwell painting. Sleek silver Greyhounds rolling past fields of corn, traveling over tree-covered hills and stopping at mom and pop cafes were a part of the American lexicon.
GCAR names Teems Realtor of the Year
The Greater Chattanooga Association of Realtors has named Bobby Teems, a broker with Coldwell Banker, Teems & Teems Realty in Lafayette, Ga., as the 2010 recipient of its coveted Realtor of the Year Award.
GCAR President Jennifer Grayson said, “If receiving this recognition was only a “popularity contest, I can assure you that Bobby Teems would have already been a multi-time winner based solely on the number of our members who regard him with affection, esteem and enormous respect.
Joomas’ Lakes at Standifer offer dreamy features
Most families’ dream houses are situated on the lake, close to their workplace, and feature amenities especially tailored to their lifestyle. Finding all this in a prime location was difficult before the Lakes at Standifer subdivision began. Now, it’s a place many are joining and calling home.
Slow food options require only small changes in choice
The international slow food movement began in Italy in the late ’80s when a McDonalds was built near the historic Spanish Steps. Although our culture may not see the issue with a fast food restaurant setting up shop here, these Italians argued that this was an invasion of their culture and was just another example of fast paced consumption taking over their way of life. Similarly, the slow food movement that developed out of this and has spread all over the world is about connecting people who feel the same way about preservation of cultures, a slower lifestyle and making good, clean and fair food part of their life.
Real Estate Facts
A pricing puzzle
If you need to sell your home, but it has lost value since you first bought it, you’re facing a pricing puzzle. But before deciding on a fair price that may be below what you really want, consider the costs of not selling by asking more.
If your home sits on the market, waiting for a higher offer, you’ve got to figure in the costs of continuing your monthly mortgage payments, utilities, maintenance and insurance.
Kay's Cooking Corner
This winter has been such a snowy one! Sometimes I look out of our windows at the expanse of grass behind our house and can almost put myself back in Colorado where I was raised. Even though I love the warmer climates and try to steer away from anywhere cold, the snow is a beautiful sight when it is flurrying down. And there is no argument that it creates some gorgeous scenery through woods and along the rivers.
The Critic's Corner
"Rabbit Hole"
If a tree falls in a forest, and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound? “Rabbit Hole,” a newly released independent movie, asks a similar question: If a child dies, and no one talks about it, did it ever happen?
The characters in “Rabbit Hole” go to great lengths to avoid mentioning the death of Becca and Howie’s young son in an accident. Becca’s sister hides her pregnancy, the neighbors invite the couple to dinner because “enough time has passed,” and someone suggests group therapy without saying why Becca and Howie might need it.
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