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MONTHLY MEETING

Plan now to attend the first Barristers monthly meeting of 2022 on Wednesday, February 9, starting at 5:15 pm at outdoor patio at The Firefly at the Hilton, located at 501 W. Church Avenue, Knoxville. Register by clicking February 9 on the event calendar at www.knoxbar.org.

VETERANS LEGAL ADVICE CLINIC

The Veterans’ Legal Advice Clinic is a joint project of the KBA/Barristers Access to Justice Committees, Legal Aid of East Tennessee, the Knox Co. Public Defender’s Community Law Office, the UT College of Law, LMU- Duncan School of Law, and the local Veterans Affairs office. This is a general advice and referral clinic which requires attorney volunteers for its continued operation. The next Veterans Legal Clinic will be held in person at the Knoxville Community Law Office on February 9. There will be NO clinic in January. Sign up at https://www.knoxbar. org/?pg=Upcoming-Legal-Clinics.

VOLUNTEER BREAKFAST COMMITTEE CONTINUES OPERATIONS

The Volunteer Breakfast is a recurring event on the 4th Thursday of each month at 6:15 a.m. at the Volunteer Ministry Center, located at 511 N. Broadway, Knoxville, Tennessee. The Barristers Volunteer Breakfast Committee always needs volunteers to serve food or sponsor. The cost is $150 for sponsoring, and we need 4-5 volunteers. If you are unable to fund the breakfast, the Barristers will subsidize the cost of the breakfast. We meet at 6:15 a.m. and serve breakfast to approximately 30-40 individuals, generally leaving the site around 7:30 a.m. It’s a great way to serve the community! Please contact either Matt Knable at (865) 360-5044 or Laura Wyrick at (865) 297-5511 with any questions and/or about volunteering.

VOLUNTEER FOR ANNUAL HIGH SCHOOL MOCK TRIAL COMPETITION

The High School Mock Trial Regional Competition will occur during the first weekend of March in the City County Building on March 4 and 5, and the final two teams will advance to the championship round held in LMU’s Business Courtroom on March 6. The competition consists of five rounds, and each round requires, at a minimum, six bailiffs, 16 scoring judges, and six presiding judges. This program is supported entirely by volunteer efforts. Traditionally, East Tennessee law school students, attorneys, and judges have donated their time to serve in the roles of bailiffs, scoring judges, and presiding judges during the competition. Please contact either Bridget Pyman at (865) 546-7000 or Isaac Westling at (865) 637-2900 with any questions, and if you are interested in volunteering, you can sign up at: https://memcentral.wufoo.com/forms/ z11pjxd21x2jchv/.

LEGAL UPDATE, continued from page 15

16 T.C.A. § 29-39-102 (2012). 17 624 S.W.3d at 487 (citing In re. Hogue, 286 S.W.3d 890, 896 (Tenn. 2009)). 18 Id. See Ki v. State, 78 S.W.3d 876, 880 (Tenn. 2002); Hunley v. Silver Furniture Mfg.

Co., 38 S.W.3d 555, 557 (Tenn. 2001); Jackson v. Miller, 776 S.W.2d 115, 117 (Tenn. Ct. App. 2005). The Court also noted the Tennessee Pattern Jury Instructions make a similar distinction between the “injured spouse” and the “other spouse.”

See TPA Civil 14.20 (20th Ed. 2020). 19 Id. 20 Id. 21 29-39-101(2) (2011). 22 Id. at 488-489. 23 Id. at 489. 24 Id. at 490 (citing Wessels v. Garden Way, Inc., 689 N.W.2d 526, 528 (Mich. Ct. App. 2004) (finding Mich. Comp. Laws Ann. §600.2946a(1) limited claim to single cap on noneconomic damages as it used the word “total,” which meant “the total amount; sum; aggregate” and the statute defined “noneconomic loss” to include “loss of consortium”); Oaks v. Connors, 660 A.2d 423, 425 (Md. 1995) (finding Md. Code Ann., Cts & Jud. Proc. § 11-108(a)(2)(i)(2) limited claim to single cap on noneconomic damages as “noneconomic damages” definition included “loss of consortium”) 25 Id. at 490-491. 26 596 S.W3d 686, 701-09 (Tenn. 2020) (Lee, J., dissenting). 27 Id. at 491.