Legal Opinion
In re Rule of Court Activating, Integrating & Unifying the State Bar of Tennessee
Tennessee Supreme Court
Decided October 7, 1955PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Tomlinson
The Bar Association of Tennessee, an unincorporated voluntary association of Tennessee lawyers, has petitioned this Court to adopt a rule integrating the Bar of Tennessee; that is, to order a State-Organized Bar to which every lawyer of the State must belong in order to practice law in this State. Proponents and opponents of the proposed rule orally argued the question on a day previously fixed. Briefs on each side have likewise been submitted.
Generally speaking, such a Bar has for its purpose the forwarding of the administration of justice and the prevention of the practice of law by…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- In Re Integration of State Bar of OklahomaSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1939
- In Re Integration of the Nebraska State Bar Ass'nNebraska Supreme Court · 1937
- In Re Constitutionality of Chapter 315, Laws of 1943Wisconsin Supreme Court · 1943
- Petition of Florida State Bar Ass'nSupreme Court of Florida · 1949
- In Re Petition for Integration of Bar of MinnesotaSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1943
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3Cited by14 opinions
- Petition of BursonTennessee Supreme Court · 1995
- Newton v. CoxTennessee Supreme Court · 1994
- Belmont v. Board of Law ExaminersTennessee Supreme Court · 1974
- Petition of Tennessee Bar Ass'nTennessee Supreme Court · 1976
- Petition of Tennessee Bar Ass'nTennessee Supreme Court · 1975
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