When you are facing serious charges, you need serious defense. Jeffrey Sweeney, former co-owner of the Casual Pint, was facing a misdemeanor charge of patronizing prostitution – until he hired T. Scott Jones, that is. You can check out the Knoxville News Sentinel’s coverage of how T. Scott Jones successfully represented Sweeney and had that charge dropped by clicking this link.
“I think it’s pretty safe to say that you have a legitimate argument for not paying the ticket,” says T. Scott Jones, partner at Banks & Jones in Knoxville. Check out the rest of T. Scott’s interview on Local 8 Now by clicking this link.
Motorcycles are fun to ride, and the one of the best places to ride is the “Dragon’s Tail.” The Dragon’s Tail is a curvy road that resembles a dragon’s tail and snakes across eastern Tennessee and North Carolina through the Smoky Mountains. Nevertheless, like other riding routes, the Dragon’s Tail is extremely dangerous, especially for beginner and absent-minded motorcyclists. Therefore, motorcyclists should take steps to ensure their and everyone else’s safety before taking on the Dragon [...]
We are constantly on the go here in Knoxville. We rely on our cars, our primary mode of transportation, for everything; to go to school, to work, etc. Now, a new type of car, a car capable of driving itself, is in development, and the Tennessee State Senate has passed a bill that sets guidelines and regulations for self-driving cars, or autonomous vehicles. What are AVs? Autonomous vehicles (AVs) are vehicles that operate themselves in one [...]
We Tennesseans are constantly on the go. Our cars and trucks are our primary mode of transportation, which means we have to deal with other drivers. We cannot always be safe on the road because we cannot control the actions of others. One common type of auto accident is a rear-end crash or collision. The most persistent kind of automobile accident, rear-end crashes involve one vehicle’s front bumper hitting another vehicle’s rear bumper. We also call [...]
There are few things more controversial than child safety. Everyone agrees that protecting our kids is a top priority, but we have a harder time agreeing on just how to do that. The recently recalled car seat bill is just another example of difficult it is. The bill, which had been passed by the Senate and the House, “would change the rules to require kids under two to use rear-facing seats; children under age five must [...]
Its technical title is HB 1416/SB 1608, but the charmingly named “Slow Poke Law” is looking to change the way we drive here in Tennessee. Legislators are looking to help ease congestion while making our interstates a little safer to drive on, and they’re using a plan that’s worked in other states to do it. The “Slow Poke Law” is essentially this: if you’re driving on a roadway with three or more lanes, you’d better stay [...]
Banks & Jones is thrilled to announce that firm founder, T. Scott Jones, has just been named one to the Million Dollar Advocates and Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forums! This prestigious forum is made up of trail attorneys throughout the country who have won jury verdicts or settlements for at least $2 million. There are currently about 4000 members of the Forums, which means fewer than 1% of all trial attorneys in America are part of the [...]
We are a mobile people; we are constantly on the go. Therefore, we rely on our cars to take us places and to see faces. But we cannot always rely on the roads we drive on, and some roads are safer than others. The federal government has compiled a list of the top ten states whose roads are the most dangerous nationwide. Our great state of Tennessee ranks number ten on this list. Ranking number ten [...]
It’s a nightmare scenario: you’re driving along when all of a sudden your vehicle is hit by another car, or a car stops short in front of you, or you swerve to avoid a deer and you hit a tree. Your car is a wreck, you’re completely shaken up, and you’ve no idea what to do next. At Banks & Jones, we’ve heard stories like these (and so many more) time and time again from drivers [...]
