Attorneys and solicitors of record who begin a suit shall have a lien upon the plaintiff's or complainant's right of action from the date of the filing of the suit.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 23-2-102
Lien on right of action
Applied in 9 court decisions — leading case 97 Wash. 2d 598 - Ross v. Scannell (1982)
Most recently applied in Jeremy David Parvin v. Jackie LaDean Newman (December 2016)
Acts 1899, ch. 243, § 1; Shan., § 3592a1; mod
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Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
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