Winston Law Center

06/23/2019

Drivers:
Tennessee goes hands free on July 1. Are you ready???

This is a guide to help drivers comply with Tennessee's hands free driving law

12/13/2018

New sign! Thanks to Garry Renfro for the design.

05/10/2018

Exciting news: we're back in business. After 3+ years working alongside some of the best lawyers around, Winston Law Center is once again operational. We're currently a growing solo practice run by Alex Winston. Check out our revamped website: www.winstonlawcenter.com

02/25/2015

2014's ABA Journal Cartoon Caption Contest Winners. You won't believe who won in September.

This was the first full year that the ABA Journal’s Caption Contest ran, since we began this project in September of 2013. We’ve been blown away by our reader’s inventiveness, creativity and affinity for puns. Thank you to the thousands of readers who have either submitted captions of their own, or…

12/19/2014

Fewer would be better, not that my opinion matters.

While Christmas shopping today, I ran into a young lady who sat for the bar exam with me. She was working retail in a clothing store. There is nothing wrong with working retail, but someone with a J.D. and oppressive student loan debt anticipates a more promising position, and needs one. She is not…

12/11/2014

This week's blog post: "Vanessa Coleman believes she is ready for society. But the petition showed the parole board that society is not ready for her."

Tennessee is not among the states that style criminal cases as The People v. [Defendant]. But as Vanessa Coleman's December 10th parole hearing approached, the people were working just as hard as the state to prolong Coleman's incarceration. Their chief strategy was to create and share a change.org…

12/08/2014

Columbia's Ivy is getting very soft. And Harvard law students say they received a similar email. If you think this news would impair your law school exam performance, maybe you should rethink your career choice. You're going to get worse--and much more personal--news than this while practicing law. You can't let it affect your work.

Columbia University has allowed law school students who feel they suffered trauma from two high-profile grand jury decisions to postpone taking their final exams, the school's interim dean Robert Scot

12/05/2014

Our latest blog post could help put money in your pocket.

A friend recently noticed something odd on her pay stub. Her employer was withholding union dues of about $50 each month. Here is the odd thing: she never joined the union. And she never signed anything that gave her employer the right to make those deductions. That means her employer ran afoul of t…