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Features
President’s Message: A Look Back at 2014.......................................
Editors’ Note: The Hon. Diane Bessen and Lisa Liang.....................
2014 Year in Review
Atlanta Bar Association Events............................................................
Atlanta Bar Foundation Events............................................................
Atlanta Bar Foundation Fellows...........................................................
Programs Founded by the Atlanta Bar................................................
Success for LRIS in 2014................................................................
125th Anniversary of the Atlanta Bar...............................................
2014-2015 Board of Directors Listing..............................................
Atlanta Bar Association in the Community.........................................
Atlanta Bar Association in the Profession..........................................
Section Updates
Atlanta Council of Younger Lawyers Section.....................................
Estate Planning & Probate Section.....................................................
Judicial Section.....................................................................................
Litigation Section...................................................................................
Women in the Profession Section.......................................................
News & Notes
Upcoming Events for 2015...................................................................
Atlanta Bar Association 100% Club....................................................
Did You Know?......................................................................................
2014-2015 Atlanta Bar Supporting Sponsors....................................
December 2014
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
ACYL President
Eugenia Wooten Iredale
Fellows LaBriola LLP
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Members at Large
Michelle Edwards Crosland
Altisource
Joan C. Grafstein
JAMS
Nekia Hackworth Jones
United States Attorney’s Office
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Jonathan E. Hawkins
Krevolin & Horst, LLC
Nicole G. Iannarone
Georgia State University College of Law
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
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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
Hunton & Williams LLP
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Legal Counsel
Marc A. Rawls
Sutherland LLP
Atlanta Bar Foundation President
S. Wade Malone
Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
Gate City Bar Association President
Meka B. Ward
Thomas Kennedy Sampson & Tompkins LLP
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