After several years working with her family in a successful restaurant in Nashville, Tennessee, Connie Reguli returned to school for a law degree. Although family and friends scoffed that finishing law school, passing the bar exam, and getting gainful employment in the practice of law were beyond her abilities, Connie never backed down.
After five years of night school while working full time, Connie finally completed law school and passed the bar exam. From 1994 to 1997, Connie worked as a prosecutor for Metro Nashville in Tennessee prosecuting domestic violence and crimes against children. It was also during this time, that she adopted her twin girls from Russia. In 1997, Connie took a leap to private practice and has not backed down. As the millineum came and went, Connie adopted her son from Russia and moved her practice from Davidson County to Williamson County, keeping an active practice throughout Middle Tennessee.
Over the past twenty years, Connie has participated in over 40 appeals through the Tennessee Court of Appeals; had been admitted pro hac vice in Kentucky, South Carolina, and Maryland for contested litigation; received the first substantial award for money damages for child abuse; succeeded in the Sixth Circuit gaining Fourth Amendment protection against social workers; and represented hundreds of families. In 2008, Connie stood firm against a judge who had violated the constitutional rights of her client. The judge retaliated by holding Connie in contempt of court. This matter went to the Court of Appeals and the contempt was overturned, however, the Court of Appeals sanctioned Connie telling her that she could not say a judge had lied. This personal experience sparked a personal passion for justice against abusive actions of the court system. In 2010, Connie spoke at the Joint Committee for Judicial Accountability at the Tennessee General Assembly. In 2013, Connie spoke to the 912 conservative group regarding judicial accountability.
Throughout this process, Connie has represented hundred of families in all levels of litigation. Troubled by the trend of increased child removals by the Department of Children’s Services, Connie began in investigate the federal funding scheme of foster care and the workings of the DCS operation in the State of Tennessee as well as other states. In 2011, Tennessee”s governor Bill Haslam appointed his East Tennessee friend, Jim Henry, as Commissioner of the Department of Children’s Services. Jim Henry was the founder an CEO of the largest foster care contractor in the State of Tennessee. Bill Haslam appointed his East Tennessee friend, Jim Henry, as Commissioner of the Department of Children’s Services. Henry held this position until 2015 when he became Haslam’s chief of staff. During his tenure as DCS, Henry’s company OmniVision profited 253 million dollars from Tennessee tax payers.
Connie has remained vigilant against the abuses of the child welfare industry. She has spoken in forums and meetings in Tennessee and other states; she spoke out at the Indigent Task Force committee and has challenged the constitutionality of child welfare and juvenile court laws at every opportunity.
This presentation was made in January 2017 to parents interested in change and this presentation was made in May 2017 at a forum in Sarasota Florida.
Connie’s private practice includes a broad spectrum of family law issues including, divorce, child custody, child support, probate, estate planning, adoption, and prenuptial planning.
2009 – News broadcast on secret emails of Board of Professional Responsibility
October 2010 – Joint Committee Judicial Accountability – Tennessee General Assembly
2013 – Judicial Accountability presentation for 912 Conservative Group
2016 – Radio program on child welfare abuses
January 2017 – presentation for parents interested in change
2017 – news broadcast on lawsuit against Williamson County Juvenile Detention
2017 – news broadcast on Fourth Amendment violations against parent – Tennessee
2017 – new broadcast on family destroyed by juvenile court system
May 2017 at a forum in Sarasota Florida
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Hi,
I know my reply may not be relevant as I live in Canada, but i my son and his dad are all victims of cps and I have been dealing with them for my son’s pregnancy of 7 months as well as the last 3 plus years of his life, and I have so far gotten nowhere. I have had doors galore slammed in my face and have almost died from exhaustion with dealing with cps, as has his dad, him more time than i can count. I am at my whit’s end. My son has been taking valuables from me, locked me into my relatives, home, held on to me any time it was time to leave, cried and kept saying he wants me to stay and does not want me to leave, he even SEVERAL TIMES expressed that he wanted to come home with me, even a few times got dressed while announcing to everyone he would get on the bus with me to come home, and a few times even walked out the door, and once even ran away (he laughed about it, i caught up to him though) and lately he has been running into the bathroom every time he knew i was going and told me he wanted to be alone with me and knew they wouldn’t come in the bathroom (my relatives are glued to us watching us like a hawk with not a moment of privacy) the interesting part is, I have NOT ONCE received a court paper in nova scotia since I have been here since 2016. Yet cps is involved. I JUST RECENTLY got my file from bc, which i was legally owed but denied, at best i got bits and pieces and even now quite a bit of info is still missing from it. My son is being ignored and disrespected and i feel that cps here as well as my relatives who i agreed to let be caretakers, are alianating us and trying to push me and his dad out of his life, which has been going on ever since i made crystal clear that i am refusing to sign away my parenting rights, ever since my uncle has been acting vindictive, passive aggressive and verbally abusive towards me, often in front of my son, all of which nova scotia cps knows about but told me (leah cunjak, ashley valley as well as their manager heather) they will do nothing until i do as they say, and that they cannot do anything as my son is not in their care. I am at my whit’s end please help. I also have no access to lawyer and am on disability income assistance, no access to lawyer thanks to the last lawyer katelyn viner who screwed me over by closing my file claiming client solicitor breakdown and her manager refusing to grant me a certificate. Both of which are fully aware of the circumstances in my relatives’ place yet refuse to do anything about it. I have not even made it to court in novoa scotia to get court ordered visit so my relatives cannot screw me over which katelyn promised me would happen but never did. She ended up betraying me by siding with cps, that is, if she did not get paid off like i feel that most lawyers i had in the past did.
Can you help me please
Please reach out to me re: a case being handled in Shelby County Tennessee at this time.
Please reach out to me so i can tell you my dcs story my son is 4 they sent hin to florida
I need you I am seriously broken mentally spiritually and I have reached out to several people even Nashville no help forced to deal with people that I have complained in reporting on i haven’t seen or talk to them in over three months or 4 probably longer please help me