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Atlanta Bar Association Law Day Activities
I
n celebration of Law Day, the Atlanta Bar Association has
several events planned to enforce the importance of this
year’s theme, No Courts. No Justice. No Freedom., for
Atlanta Public School students. The Atlanta Bar is proud to
sponsor a Law Day essay contest for the 19 high schools
in the Atlanta Public School system. Students were asked
to submit short essays related to this year’s American Bar
Association Law Day theme. Cash prizes will be awarded
to the first, second and third place winners at a Law Day
Ceremony held at the conclusion of a state-wide Georgia
Bar Leadership Institute on Friday, April 27, 2012. Atlanta
Bar members visited the schools to announce the contest
and to talk with students and teachers about Law Day.
Our members also will perform mock trials at a local
elementary school and middle school, and will coach mock
trial teams at the Atlanta Bar’s adopted high school, the D.M.
Therrell High School of Law & Government. Fulton County
Judges will preside at each mock trial and juries will render
verdicts at the conclusion of the mock trial at Therrell. After
the mock trial presentation at Therrell, a framed picture of
five former Therrell students who participated in the Atlanta
Bar’s Summer Law Internship Program (“SLIP”) for high
school students, and who now are practicing lawyers, will
be presented to the School. These former SLIP participants
are now helping mentor students participating with the SLIP
program which will welcome its 20th class of SLIP interns in
the summer 2012 class.■
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