Chattanooga Bar Association

09/19/2025

The CHATTANOOGA BAR ASSOCIATION (Jaw Bones) and the MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION (Saw Bones) present “Casino Royale”

Tickets are now available for Casino Royale: Jaw Bones & Saw Bones! Visit the link below to get yours today!

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09/19/2025

On Tuesday, HONORABLE TOM GREENHOLTZ (Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals) and LINDA MOSS MINES (County Historian) presented a CLE seminar on “The 100th Anniversary of the Scopes Trial”. Thank you for the history lesson from Linda and the ethical lessons learned from the lens of the Scopes Trial from Judge Greenholtz!

• Manufactured Test Cases:
ACLU’s creation of litigation
• Moral Compass of the Advocate: Darrow’s ideological motives
• Lawyer as Witness:
Bryan’s dual role in the trial
• Courtroom Spectacle:
Darrow’s theatrics and decorum
• Cross-Examination Ethics:
Limits of attacking beliefs
• Trial Publicity:
Ethical speech in a media circus
• Preserving the Record:
Darrow’s strategic omissions
• Client as Symbol:
Scopes sidelined in his own case
• Judicial Legitimacy:
Protecting the court’s integrity
• Strategic Waiver:
Ethics of preventing opposing argumen

Some comments from the attendees:
*Excellent on all fronts.
*Excellent.
*Both great job
*Very interesting, tied historical perspectives to present day dynamics. *Thought provoking!

Thank you to the County Commission for the use of the room!!

09/18/2025

Thank you to attorney for PAUL HATCHER, for another knowledgeable and insightful CLE seminar today on “Landlord-Tenant Law and Procedure With 2025 Update”. Some comments from the attendees are:

*Great level of coverage and love a good binder with useful materials!
*Good presentation, very knowledge and helpful.
*Very helpful, thank you!
*Very good and practical.
*Excellent as always. Thanks Paul!
*Thanks, Paul!
*Excellent review of applicable law and handouts are fantastic – a great resource to have.
*Great speaker.
*Thank you for all the effort it requires to coordinate and execute these CLEs.

Thank you to Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz for the use of the Conference room.
Thank you to all attorneys who attended!!

06/03/2025

Welcome to the CBA Podcast, "Raising The Bar". This week features MARC HARWELL of Harwell & Hurst, PLLC.
https://youtu.be/owpdkYbetls

LYNDA MINKS HOOD
Executive Director
Chattanooga Bar Association
801 Broad Street, Suite 420⎮Chattanooga, TN 37402
Direct (423) 602-9429⎮Mobile (423) 488-3620
[email protected]⎮www.chattanoogabar.org

Chattanooga Bar Association's Executive Director, Lynda Minks Hood talks with Chattanooga Attorney Mark Harwell of Harwell & Hurst.

05/24/2023

Some members of the Chattanooga Bar Association Book Club met today with Jerry Burden, the author of the true story of the “Murder by the River”. Thank you for your time and Q&A. A most interesting book, especially if you are from Chattanooga! Thank you to Cecilia Garrett for chairing the book club and to Chambliss Bahner & Stophel for hosting!

05/17/2023

Congratulations to the Chattanooga Bar Associations’s 2023 Liberty Bell Award recipient- ALLEN BRANUM!! The CBA honors an outstanding citizen in our community for public service. The Liberty Bell award is to recognize community service that has strengthened the American System of Freedom under law. (1) promotes better understanding of our Constitution and Bill of Rights, (2) encourage a greater respect for the law and the courts, (3) stimulates a deeper sense of individual responsibility so that citizens recognize their duties as well as rights, (4) contribute to the effective functioning of our institutions of government, and (5) foster a better understanding and appreciation of the rule of law. CONGRATULATIONS to ALLEN BRANUM!! 🔔

04/26/2023

Sign Up Today for this 2-hour seminar on Thursday, May 25, 2023 from 3:00 - 5:00 pm at Miller & Martin Conference Center. Register on line at: https://www.chattanoogabar.org/4/seminars or Email to: [email protected]

07/26/2022

05/20/2022

"Watergate at 50: Lawyers and Democracy" CLE seminar was amazing! Honored to have JOHN DEAN and JAMES D. ROBENALT present this seminar to the CBA attorneys.