in Atlanta , where she practiced complex litigation , Beth ’ s work on class actions and multidistrict litigation has brought her multiple awards and recognition . Recently , she was a visiting professor at Harvard Law School . More details to follow .
Please join us for these great programs , again , free to members . If you missed the Zooms at Noon in November and December , no worries . They ’ re recorded and available on our website at www . atlantabar . org . Reach out , and we ’ ll hook you up .
We ' ve had great success with our past Zoom at Noon events . In November , Brian Fitzpatrick , who teaches at Vanderbilt Law School , talked about his ideas in his book , The Conservative Case for Class Actions . In December , Bill Nigut of GPB and host of
“ Political Rewind ,” led a great panel of current and former lawyerlegislators — Ed Lindsey , Mary Margaret Oliver , Elena Parent , and Mike Thurmond — in a lively and substantive discussion of the upcoming 2021 Session of the Georgia General Assembly . Look forward to seeing you on Zoom .
Craig Cleland , Atlanta Bar Association President
February 16 , 2021 at 12 PM EST Heirs ’ Property — A Substantial But Underappreciated Problem Hiding in Plain Sight
A 2020 MacArthur Genius Grant Fellow , Thomas W . Mitchell , a law professor at Texas A & M University , will talk about a serious problem right in front of us : heirs ’ property . After reviewing African-American land acquisition and loss over the last 150 or so years , he will turn to what heirs ’ property is , how its problems are so prevalent in low-income and low-wealth communities that are disproportionately but not exclusively communities of color , and how the problem is both a rural and an urban one . Then he will survey the legal and policy solutions for these problems — including the Uniform Partition of Heirs Property Act , which he drafted and Georgia has adopted , as well as the 2018 federal Farm Bill . Time permitting , Thomas will share how he intends to leverage his MacArthur Fellowship to impact these problems in disadvantaged families and communities . Thomas is a graduate of Amherst College , Howard University School of Law , and the University of Wisconsin Law School , where he was a Hastie Fellow .
March 16 , 2021 at 12 PM EST Building Resilience in Your Lawyer Brain
Three remarkable panelists — Dr . Elizabeth Boswell M . D ., Jesica Eames LCSW JD , and Robert Rubin , JD — will talk about the stress of practicing law and the unhelpful ways we try to manage it , more productive coping strategies in light of the most recent science of the brain , the importance of resiliency , and the tension between our working lives as lawyers and our relational lives as human beings .
April 2021 , more information to come .
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