William Caldwell Hancock v. Board of Professional Responsibility of the Supreme Court of Tennessee

OPINION

in which SHARON G. LEE, J., joined.

A federal bankruptcy court entered judgment denying a Nashville attorney’s application for approximately $372,000 in *846attorney’s fees and expenses. Nine months later, the attorney emailed the bankruptcy judge who denied his fee application, calling the judge a “bully and clown” and demanding that he provide a written apology for denying the fee application. The Board of Professional Responsibility instituted a disciplinary action against the attorney, and a hearing panel of the Board found that the attorney violated several Rule's of Professional…