Note, Meet Me in the Middle: The Time is Ripe for Tennessee to Adopt the Uniform Collaborative Law Act
By Diana M. Comes, February 8, 2012
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This article argues that Tennessee should adopt the new Uniform Collaborative Law Rules and Act because it actively addresses ethical considerations in collaborative law, will give greater legitimacy to the practice, and its ethical provisions square with those in the Tennessee Rules of Professional Conduct. The article outlines collaborative law’s journey to its current popularity, discusses concerns about the ethic aspects of collaborative law, examines states’ attempts to regulate these ethical quandaries, and shows that the UCLA provides the most comprehensive ethical guidelines to date.
