The Atlanta Lawyer April 2015 | Page 3

In This Issue Volume 13, No. 8 | 17 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 4 6 8 9 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?...................................................................................... 13 14 15 16 19 20 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 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....