On Monday, April 22, 2013, the Atlanta Bar Association co-sponsored
a special Law Day 2013 Realizing the Dream: Equality for All! event
held at the State Bar of Georgia. Sponsoring organizations included:
Atlanta Bar Association and its Family Law, Litigation, Sole Practitioner/
Small Firm, Tax and Women in the Profession Sections; Chief Justice's
Commission on Professionalism; Gate City Bar Association; Georgia
Asian Pacific American Bar Association; Georgia Association of Black
Women Attorneys; Georgia Association for Women Lawyers; Georgia
Hispanic Bar Association; Multi-Bar Leadership Council; South Asian
Bar Association of Georgia; State Bar of Georgia and Stonewall Bar
Association of Georgia.
Shown from left to right are State Bar of Georgia Secretary Patrise Perkins-Hooker (Atlanta Beltline, Inc.), deborah
Richardson (National Center for Civil and Human Rights), state senator Jason J. Carter (State Senate District 42,
Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore, LLP), Maria saporta (Atlanta Business Chronicle), Ambassador Andrew Young, Andrea
Young (Executive Director, Andrew Young Foundation), senator Nan orrock (Georgia Senate District 36), Nefertari
Kirkman-Bey (National Center for Civil and Human Rights), Atlanta Bar Asspciation Immediate Past President Rita A.
sheffey (Hunton & Williams LLP) and Atlanta Bar Association Law Day Chair Melody Z. Richardson (Pachman Richardson,
LLC).
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THE ATLANTA LAWYER
May 2013
The Official News Publication of the Atlanta Bar Association