Celebrating 125 Years
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such a success that Merrill continued to publish The Atlanta
Lawyer at no charge to the Bar for five more years.
Elizabeth Price’s 2005 Bar presidency began many influential
and systemic programs: the Atlanta Bar Asylum Project was
formed to recruit volunteer lawyers to provide pro bono legal
representation to asylum seekers, immigrant victims of human
trafficking, domestic violence, sexual assault and other crimes
(the Atlanta Bar Asylum Project became the Georgia Asylum
& Immigration Network and its own nonprofit organization);
ACYL adopted the Associates Campaign, formerly run by
Atlanta Legal Aid Society, to raise money for Legal Aid; the
Women in the Profession Committee petitioned to become a
Section, and the Bar adopted the Atlanta Volunteer Lawyer
Foundation’s One Child One Lawyer Program for the year
to recruit volunteers to help with adoptions. During her
presidency, Elizabeth Price also helped the Bar respond
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efficiently to two devastating tragedies. First, after the Fulton
County courthouse shootings resulted in the deaths of Judge
Rowland Barnes, court reporter Julie Brandau, Sergeant Hoyt
Teasley, and ICE Agent David Wilhelm, fundraising initiatives
resulted in the establishment of a $100,000 contribution to
the Rowland W. Barnes Scholarship fund at Emory School
of Law. Second, in response to Hurricane Katrina displacing
the Executive Director of the New Orleans Bar Association
to Florida, Elizabeth Price requested Alston & Bird send
the Executive Director computers, printers, technology and
support staff to establish an office until they were able to
return to New Orleans.
Later years brought the beginning of the award-winning
CLE program, March Madness, and the Litigation Section
organized the Securities and Corporate Litigation subsection.
2007 through 2009 were busy years as the Bar headquarters
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