The Literacy Project: Where are we now?
Tuesday, May 21st, 2019
In January of this year, Held Law Firm announced plans to work with Knox County’s Richard L. Bean Juvenile Service Center on a new initiative called The Literacy Project. We are thrilled that this project has been hugely successful thus far. Here’s the latest: As of mid-May and with the help of community partners, we […]
Read More »The Literacy Project: Next Steps
Monday, April 1st, 2019
Held Law Firm staff has been hard at work on The Literacy Project since January. Recent law graduate and Held Law Firm associate Jennifer Henszey first conceived of the idea for this project after she visited the Richard L. Bean Juvenile Service Center during her third year of law school. While there, she was told […]
Read More »Literacy in Juvenile Detention Centers
Tuesday, January 15th, 2019
According to a November 2015 article in The Tennessean, roughly 2,500 children and teenagers from across Tennessee come through Knox County’s juvenile detention center each year. Juvenile inmates are accused of all sorts of crimes, some as serious as murder and others as (relatively) minor as shoplifting. Some of these inmates stay at the center […]
Read More »Stepparent Rights
Thursday, June 21st, 2018
The role of a stepparent is not legally the same as that of a biological parent, but it is undisputed that stepparents often play an integral role in providing a loving and nurturing environment for their stepchildren. Stepparents develop strong bonds with their step-children, and unfortunately, few people truly see just how important some stepparents […]
Read More »Introducing the Advocacy Project
Thursday, May 17th, 2018
Unlike other professions, lawyers are not required to intern prior to taking their first client. We believe that fact is scary. Doctors go through years of residency because to perform surgery without that supervised experience would put patients in danger. Similarly, to entrust someone with zero experience to litigate such important issues as who gets […]
Read More »The Law Firm’s Dream
Monday, February 5th, 2018
When I started Held Law Firm, my dream was to do more than just take individual cases. I wanted to use what I learned from individual cases to design solutions for problems faced by many of my clients, and then advocate, organize, and lobby for those solutions. In those first few years, we were active […]
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