This course is a fast-moving survey of the top ten Tennessee lawyers of our state’s dramatic, diverse, and inspiring legal history from the territorial period to modern times. This includes litigators, judges, and scholars and the legal and major ethical challenges they confronted and overcame, thus advancing the profession, ethical standards, and justice in general.

The ethical issues confronted included dealing with corruption in the courts such as criminal activities by lawyers and judges; lawyers’ ethical duty to advance access to justice by the poor and powerless such as through pro bono work; the obligation to represent even the unpopular and despised; and the duty to mentor new lawyers and strive to improve our system of justice. Sometimes these battles took great courage and risk. This course seeks to prove that, because of its obligations, ethics, and power, what President Calvin Coolidge said is true: “Law is the highest of the professions.” 

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