- The clear, practical book that you depend on with double the pages of legal discussion,*
- Updated practice forms for all common case types,
- New practice forms, including discovery forms,
- Step-by-step checklists for all the common case types, revised and expanded.
Table of Contents & Book Detail
“This is my last edition, so I tilted my head and shook out all my best stuff for you and your clients. It’s sassier too. I couldn’t help it…”
-Dawn Coppock
April 2-4, 2025
Focus: Adoption & Voluntary Termination
April 15-17, 2026
Focus: Involuntary Termination of Parental Rights
Learn Tennessee adoption law from the first client call to the new birth certificate with the lawyer who wrote the book.
Adoption Law School is Dawn Coppock’s signature class offered only every year or two.
This popular and much loved seminar is the only source for comprehensive training on Tennessee adoption law except to read Coppock on Tennessee Adoption Law, 8th Ed. alone. The brand-new 8th and final edition is the text for the classes, which will convene in Tennessee’s own vacation destination, Sevier County, in the Smoky Mountains.
What students love is closer to home:
- Comprehensive, up-to-the-minute legal curriculum. You will leave competent.
- Dawn’s practical, efficient, and irreverent presentation style. You won’t be bored.
- 100% of your annual CLE (12 hours general, 3 hours dual),
- 3 days with plenty of vacation time,
- A yoga class for CLE credit,
- Three breakfasts, one lunch and the best CLE snacks ever,
- Time to socialize with other good lawyers who care about families.
PLUS
- A springtime weekend in the Smokies on your own.
Class is dismissed at 3:45 pm on Friday.
Location
The Sevierville Civic Center
120 Gary Wade Blvd.
Sevierville, TN 37862
To learn more about developments in Tennessee Adoption Law:
PRESENTED BY
Dawn Coppock,
Attorney and Author
Dawn is the foremost trainer on adoption law in Tennessee. For her answers to their questions, both serious and silly, see the January 2019 Tennessee Bar Journal, a publication of the Tennessee Bar Association. here.* *Used with permission.
Good Seminars
for
Good Lawyers
Become a Competent and Confident Adoption Lawyer
- Includes yoga and mindfullness training
- Develop competence and confidence in the subject area
- Learn compassionate, child-centered strategies to help you help families
- Create and strengthen networks with other attendees
- Work through real practice challenges with clear, current materials and practice forms
- Stay interested and entertained
Presented by
Dawn Coppock,
Attorney and Author
Author of
Coppock on Tennessee Adoption Law, 8th Edition
Engaging content,
with practical exercises.
The Adoption Law School In The Mountains will prepare you with forms, checklists and practical advice to ensure you will be competent, confident and ready to practice adoption law.
Adoption Law School 2025
Focus: Adoption and Voluntary Termination
April 2-4, 2025
– Ethics
– Parties
– Petitions – Relative, StepParent, Independent, DCS, Children Born Abroad
– Termination Methods
– Finalization
– Post Adoption Contact Agreements
– ICWA
– ICPC
– Adoption Assistance
Adoption Law School 2026
Focus: Involuntary Termination of Parental Rights
April 15-17, 2026
– Ethics
– Necessary Parties & Other People
– Petition to TPR to Default
– Pretrial Procedure
– Trial Procedure
– Best Interest
– Experts
– Grounds I
– Grounds II
– Counseling Clients
About Good Law
At Good Law we don’t produce seminars just to check a continuing education box. Your time and money and your client’s needs are too important for that. Good Law teaches you the law and skills necessary to represent clients with competence and confidence. And you will stay interested and entertained all day!
Dawn will tell you, show you and then let you try so you can ask the questions that only arise when you begin. At last, practical legal skill efficiently taught.
Good Law, Good Seminars for Good Lawyers.
About the Speaker
Author of Coppock on Tennessee Adoption Law, 8th Edition
Dawn Coppock, Attorney at Law, is a Sole Practitioner based in Strawberry Plains, Tennessee. Her practice is limited to adoption law, including representation of both birth parents and adoptive parents in independent, agency, interstate, state agency, international, and relative adoptions, adoption record searches, contested adoptions, adoption appeals, and adoption subsidy disputes. Ms. Coppock is also a certified Juvenile-Child Welfare Specialist and a Tennessee Rule 31 mediator.
Ms. Coppock received her J.D. from the Marshall-Wythe School of Law at the College of William and Mary, in Williamsburg, Virginia, and her B.S. from Carson-Newman College, in Jefferson City, Tennessee.
Ms. Coppock is a member of the Family Law Section and Adoption Section of the Tennessee Bar Association and a member of the Family Law Section of the American Bar Association.
Ms. Coppock is AV rated by Martindale-Hubbell and has twice been listed among the best lawyers in Tennessee by Tennessee Business magazine. In 2004, she was named an Angel in Adoption by the U.S. Congressional Coalition on Adoption. In 2010, she received the Bill Williams Service Award for service to Tennessee children awaiting adoption.
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Comments from past seminar attendees
Contact Information
Speaker’s Website: www.dawncoppock.com
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