About
Margaret Held has recognized she desired to be a legal professional when you consider that she became 8 years antique, listening to the tales of her grandfather s practice in Knoxville. "When you make a decision to end up a legal professional while you are a child, it s because you want to stick up for the little man and take down the bully."
As a new lawyer, that mind-set landed Ms. Held a prestigious Equal Justice Fellowship, offered by means of the National Association for Public Interest Law to honor legal professionals who make specific contributions in public regulation. The Fellowship allowed Ms. Held to represent entrepreneurs and non-income rganizations to create and maintain jobs in terrible neighborhoods. "These oldsters could not find the money for company suggest," says Ms. Held. "It become excellent to be a brand new legal professional, running up the legal files to start a financial institution, suing the authorities over its use of economic incentives, and representing welfare moms to begin companies starting from child-cares to ice cream parlors."
After the fellowship ended, Ms. Held endured her mission with the aid of founding Held Law Office. "The Firm exists to help lawyers who've enough little youngster in them to love the fight - who wake up every morning excited to take on the large boys, and who haven t turn out to be cynical approximately beliefs like justice and truthful play."
Ms. Held represented India Tracy in her lawsuit against the Union County faculty system for non secular discrimination. She represented Citizens for Police Review in its war for extended accountability inside KPD. She helped the Tennessee Industrial Renewal Network to fight for a living salary for Knoxville people. She obtained a document-breaking settlement for a Department of Energy whistleblower who mentioned safety violations in Oak Ridge. She represented KnoxRecall in its pressure for accelerated accountability from Knoxville city lawmakers, and Knox County over abuses within the juvenile detention facility. "I think that those kinds of court cases haven t made me many buddies in sure circles," laughs Ms. Held. "But they weren t who I went to regulation college for anyway."
"But seriously," she maintains, "As amusing as those cases are, the troubles that count maximum to real humans are lots extra private. Law, for ordinary humans, is set your kids, your task, your business, your community. That s why we specialise in family regulation, employment law, and non-earnings law." "My nice desire is that we will take the thriller out of the legal process for my clients - that they will realize how the felony system works, feel like they were given sound recommendation and a good final results, and know that, win or lose, we fought the coolest fight for them. Big instances are fantastic, however there s nothing greater gratifying for me than to symbolize an sincere, tough-running character nicely."
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