by Jedidiah McKeehan | Aug 20, 2018 | Columnist, McKeehan
By Jedidiah McKeehan The world of youth sports is a crazy place. Parents take their children’s tee-ball games way too seriously and the internet seems to explode once a week with brawls between parents at sporting events. There was one such video recently...
by Jedidiah McKeehan | Aug 13, 2018 | Columnist, McKeehan
By Jedidiah McKeehan There has been a great deal of controversy in the last few years about individuals, particularly celebrities, choosing to forego immunization for their children, claiming that they actually do a detriment to their children. There are actually a...
by Jedidiah McKeehan | Aug 6, 2018 | Columnist, McKeehan
By Jedidiah McKeehan A phrase that I often hear people say that are unfamiliar with the court system is, “Well, I’ll just go get the court to appoint me a lawyer.” Okay, well that is great if you qualify, but the court will not necessarily appoint you a lawyer. It...
by Jedidiah McKeehan | Jul 30, 2018 | Columnist, McKeehan
By Jedidiah McKeehan So, I have explained previously the difference between an arbitration and a mediation. But today, I want to talk about the specifics of what occurs during a mediation. A mediation is essentially a meeting that takes place between the parties (the...
by Jedidiah McKeehan | Jul 23, 2018 | Columnist, McKeehan
By Jedidiah McKeehan We have all heard that we can act in self-defense when someone is trying to hurt us but what Tennessee law actually says we are allowed to do that? There are actually three very short statutes that spell out what you can do when acting in...
by Jedidiah McKeehan | Jul 16, 2018 | Columnist, McKeehan
By Jedidiah McKeehan So, individuals who have had an encounter with the law occasionally ask me if what they were charged with or what they pled guilty to is able to be expunged. When a charge is expunged, in the eyes of the law that charge never happened. The...
