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State Bar CLEs: A Rant

Attorney at Work

I’ve been reading the meeting minutes published in my state bar magazine. CLEs Should Make You a Better Lawyer. This may be naive of me, and it may be because I’m still relatively new to the profession with only 10 years of experience, but shouldn’t the purpose of continuing legal education be to make us better lawyers?

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Next-Gen Bar Exam That Truly Tests Daily Practice Skills Must Include Technology

LawTechnologyToday

In today’s legal profession, lawyers must be technologically competent. Examinees will be required to perform the activities typically required of a newly licensed lawyer. He hypothesized that “lawyers in general are woefully deficient in using the software tools at their disposal – e.g., Word, Acrobat, Excel.”

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The Process of Buying or Selling a Business: A First-Time Seller’s Guide to Due Diligence

Strictly Business

A seller will typically receive requests for items such as: Corporate documents, including incorporation or formation records and related shareholder or member agreements, capitalization tables, meeting minutes, and other resolutions. Contracts with customers and vendors. This article is for general information only.

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Dismissal of Defamation and False Light Claim under Tennessee Public Participation Act partially reversed.

Day on Torts

Plaintiff raised several evidentiary issues on appeal related to the question of whether he was a public figure, and the Court of Appeals agreed that the trial court incorrectly relied on certain newspaper articles and meeting minutes from commission meetings and homeowners’ association meetings, neither of which were admissible.