PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE
Thank You for The
Incredible Opportunity
to Serve As Your President
By Harold E. Franklin, Jr.
King & Spalding LLP
I
would like to thank you, my fellow Atlanta Bar Association
For this final edition, I would like to reflect on the theme I
members, for what has been a rewarding and wonderful
chose for the year, “Leadership through Service, Advancing
year serving as the 108th president of our incredible bar
the Legacy.” This was an important year for our bar associa-
association. I have been a proud member of this association
tion and we met the challenge of leading and not shying away
since the beginning of my legal career and I have been hon-
from tough issues. It is important that we continue to put the
ored to serve on the board in many capacities for the past
organization first, as we have done for so many years. Our
decade. I have enjoyed and benefitted from our exceptional
2015-2016 Atlanta Bar Association Board of Directors provided
programs and services and have made many lifelong friends
incredible service to strengthen our association and serve
through the Atlanta Bar. I am privileged to have as mentors
the community.
and close friends so many of our past presidents. Our bar is
in great hands with my good friend and successor, Jim Blitch
(a great lawyer who cares deeply for our bar), with whom I
have served on the board for many years.
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May 2016