Title: Donald Paine Papers

Date/Date Range :   circa 1900-1995

Extent: 6.0 linear feet

Abstract:

This collection consists of records of historical trials (including transcripts, newspaper clippings, photographs, scrapbooks, etc.) and two texts from seminars which were attended by Paine.

Call number: MS-2640

Repository: University of Tennessee Special Collections Library, Knoxville, TN

Aquisition Information:

This collection was donated to Special Collections in October 1996.

Access Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Copyright:

The copyright interests in this collection remain with the creator. For more information, contact the Special Collections Library.

Preferred Citation:

[Identification of Item], Donald Paine Papers, MS-2640. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Special Collections Library.

Collection consists of six boxes.

Donald F. Paine graduated from The University of Tennessee in 1963 (B.A.,M.A.,LL.B.). Thereafter he served three years in the Army. He was the original author of Tennessee Law of Evidence, and he writes a monthly column for the Tennessee Bar Journal. Mr. Paine lectures for the Tennessee Law Institute, BAR/BRI Bar Review, The Tennessee Judicial Conference, and The University of Tennessee College of Law. He is Reporter to the Supreme Court Advisory Commission on Rules of Practice and Procedure. In 1983 he was President of the Knoxville Bar Association and in 1986-87 President of the Tennessee Bar Association. Mr. Paine was elected to membership in the American Law Institute and the American College of Trial Lawyers.

This collection consists of records of historical trials (including transcripts, newspaper clippings, photographs, scrapbooks, etc.) and two texts from seminars which were attended by Paine.

• Paine, Donald.
• Lawyers -- Tennessee.