Johnson blends law, love of writing at QP Legal

Law Talk profile for The Memphis Daily News

Jan. 24, 2013

As a student at Central High School and the University of Miami, Tiffany Johnson enjoyed writing more than anything.

It was this passion, and not necessarily one for the law itself, that took her to Georgetown University Law School.

“I went to law school because I loved writing and I wasn’t quite ready to get a job,” she said. “Some lawyers that I knew always talked about how much writing you do in law school, so I did that because I wasn’t quite sure what I wanted to do for a living yet.”

She graduated a year early from Miami with a degree in English.

“It’s a myth that the best preparation is to do political science or something like that, doing as much writing as you can is the best preparation for law school and for practice,” she said.

Law may not have been her first choice for a profession, but she grew up with a profound respect for the legal system from her late father, General Sessions Criminal Court Judge Anthony Johnson, who passed away in 2009. Johnson was caught unaware when she found she would graduate early and hadn’t applied anywhere. It was her father, and his belief in his daughter and the legal profession, that ushered her to law school.

“All of the application deadlines had passed, so I had to pay a boatload of money in late application fees and I had to go groveling to my dad for that money,” she said. “He gladly gave it to me for Georgetown, and when I got accepted he was thrilled, he was so excited. We had different motivations, but we were on the same page.”

After graduation from Georgetown, Johnson returned to Memphis and taught for a semester at Westwood High School … (read more)