Attorney James Allison of Memphis; serial offender

The state of Tennessee provided James Torreyson Allison with a law license in 1963 after he graduated from the Vanderbilt University Law School.

The Tennessee Board of Professional Responsibility found Jimmy guilty of the following misconduct.

Jimmy’s 1^st bite at the Attorney Misfit Apple Tree

• Overdrew client’s trust account
• Commingled client funds with personal funds
• Paid personal expenses from trust account
• Failed to pay medical provider in full from settlement proceeds for over 5 years
• Knowingly concealed settlement proceeds from medical provider for several years
• Repeatedly provided false reasons for not paying medical provider
• Misappropriated (stole) client funds
• Improperly paid client advance funds for living expenses
• Took action on client’s behalf he knew or should have known the action would merely serve to harass the medical provider

As a consequence of his misconduct, the cheerleaders for Attorney Misfits sitting on the Tennessee Supreme Court punished Jimmy by gifting him with a complimentary censure.

Jimmy’s 2^nd bite at the Attorney Misfit Apple Tree

• Wrote insufficient fund check to IRS (rubber)
• Used trust account to pay personal expenses
• Neglected a client’s case
• Failed to respond to client inquiries
• Failed to keep client informed of progress of his case
• Failed to fully cooperate with ethics investigators (Up yours, said Jimmy!)

As a consequence of his misconduct, the cheerleaders for Attorney Misfits sitting on the Tennessee Supreme Court punished Jimmy by gifting him with a complimentary 6-day suspension of his law license.

Jimmy’s 3^rd bite at the Attorney Misfit Apple Tree

• Commingled client funds with personal funds
• Overdrew trust account (rubber)
• Failed to maintain adequate trust account records
• Failed to fully cooperate with ethics investigators (Up yours, said Jimmy!)

As a consequence of his misconduct, the cheerleaders for Attorney Misfits sitting on the Tennessee Supreme Court punished Jimmy by gifting him with a complimentary 6-day suspension of his law license.

As we speak (ca. October 2014) Jimmy practices at 8 South Third Street in Memphis, Tennessee.