Go Ahead

The Tennessee Board of Professional Responsibility has publicly censured an attorney

Mr. Hamblen represented the mother of a child in a custody matter in which an order had been entered
granting the mother supervised visitation. The parties and their counsels were discussing entering an agreed
order giving the mother unsupervised visitation, but prior to any agreement on that issue, Mr. Hamblen’s client
called him and said she was having a problem arranging for her visitation to be supervised on a particular day.
Mr. Hamblen then instructed his client to go ahead with unsupervised visitation. Opposing counsel filed a
motion for contempt, and Mr. Hamblen told opposing counsel that he had instructed his client not to comply
with the existing court order, and that he knew no order had been entered relieving her of the supervised
visitation.

(Mike Frisch)