The Tennessee Legal Community Foundation Tlcf

Leadership law aims to serve the legal profession by equipping participants with the vision, knowledge, and skills necessary to serve as leaders in the profession and in the community as a whole. Eligible candidates will be tennessee lawyers with 5-15 years of experience by the time of nomination, calculated from the year in which they were licensed. The goals of leadership law are to nurture effective leadership with respect to ethical, professional, and community service issues, to build relationships among legal leaders from across the state and from across disciplines within the profession, to raise the level of awareness among lawyers regarding the broad range of issues facing the legal profession, and to enhance the diversity of leaders within the legal profession and the community as a whole.

The young lawyers division (yld) is comprised of lawyers in their first ten years of practice or under 36 years of age. It is dedicated to serving the professional needs of young lawyers and serving the public as the "service arm of the bar."