Farmer v. Board of Professional Responsibility of the Supreme Court

OPINION

HARBISON, Justice.

After a full evidentiary hearing, a Hearing Panel found appellant guilty of violation of certain provisions of the Code of Professional Responsibility promulgated as Rule 8 of the Rules of the Supreme Court of Tennessee and containing the ethical standards relating to the practice of law and its administration. Appellant was ordered to be suspended from practice for sixty days.

It is not necessary here to delineate in detail the evidence, which is uncontradicted. Appellant was cited for scurrilous and improper language in briefs which he himself filed, the authorship…