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Atlanta Bar Association
President
Jacquelyn H. Saylor
The Saylor Law Firm LLP
Vice President/President-Elect
Harold E. Franklin, Jr.
King & Spalding LLP
Secretary
James D. Blitch IV
Blitch Law PC
Treasurer
Margaret H. (Maggie) Vath
Georgia State University College of Law
Immediate Past President
Wade H. Watson III
Caldwell & Watson LLP
Features
President’s Message: Around the Bar.................................................
2015 Atlanta Bar Basketball League...................................................
Law Day 2015 Dream Team: Magna Carta........................................
Law Day Celebration and Mock Trial..................................................
ACYL President
Eugenia Wooten Iredale
Fellows LaBriola LLP
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Members at Large
Michelle Edwards Crosland
Altisource
Joan C. Grafstein
JAMS
Columns
Nekia Hackworth Jones
United States Attorney’s Office
Law School Life: American Bar-ror Stories........................................ 10
Staff Spotlight: Brantly Watts............................................................... 12
Jonathan E. Hawkins
Krevolin & Horst, LLC
Nicole G. Iannarone
Georgia State University College of Law
News & Notes
2015 Annual Meeting & Awards Luncheon........................................
2015 Atlanta Bar Election Results......................................................
2015 Litigation Bench & Bar Reception..............................................
Beer & Bites 2015 Social......................................................................
2015 Past Presidents Dinner................................................................
Gatherings.............................................................................................
Atlanta Bar Foundation Lifetime Fellows............................................
LawJam 2015.........................................................................................
A Courthouse Line XI: North Side Story.............................................
State Bar Commitment to Equality Awards........................................
Truancy Intervention Project................................................................
100% Club..............................................................................................
Did You Know?......................................................................................
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Robert M. Lewis Jr.
U.S. Department of Labor,
Office of the Solicitor
Lisa Liang
Atlanta Legal Aid Society, Inc.
Christopher P. Lightner
Alston & Bird LLP
Curtis J. Martin II
Miller & Martin, PLLC
Gregory T. Presmanes
Bovis Kyle & Burch, LLC
David Richards
The Richards Law Firm, LLC
Melissa Phillips Reading
Owen, Gleaton, Egan,
Jones & Sweeney, LLP
ABA Delegate
Rita A. Sheffey
Emory Law School
Section Updates
Atlanta Council of Younger Lawyers Section Update.......................
Bankruptcy Section Update.................................................................
Environmental & Toxic Tort Section Update......................................
Estate Planning & Probate Section Update.......................................
Judicial Section Update........................................................................
Labor & Employment Law Section Update........................................
Women in the Profession Section Update....