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Celebrating 125 Years
Randolph W. Thrower: Most Tenured Atlanta Bar Member
Randolph W. Thrower was
Atlanta Bar President in 1958.
He graduated from Georgia
Military Academy in 1930. He
received an undergraduate
degree from Emory University
in 1934 and received his
law degree from the Emory
University School of Law in
1936.
Starting in 1969, Thrower was
an IRS Commissioner for three
years under President Nixon.
He resisted repeated White
House pressure to use the agency’s enormous power as a
partisan weapon. Thrower has always made time for Bar work.
During an eventful year as Atlanta Bar President, he helped
put in motion a far-reaching investigation of state government
corruption. In 1962, the American Bar Association named him
chairman of the tax section, and he served as a member of
the ABA House of Delegates for seventeen years.

Thrower’s phone always rung when ethics questions arose
in city government. The first of many of those calls was in
1977 when he and attorney Felker Ward co-chaired a probe
of cheating allegations in police promotion exams. In 1981,
Thrower was named chairman of the City’s Board of Ethics,
a post he held until 1992. For all his service to the civic and
legal community, in 1992 he received Bar’s Leadership Award
and in 1994 received the American Bar Association’s highest
honor, the American Bar Association Medal. He is also a
recipient of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under
Law’s Segal-Tweed Founder’s Award and the Lifetime AntiDefamation League’s Achievement Award, among others. He
is a retired senior partner with Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP
and on September 5, 2013, he celebrated his 100th birthday.
Material is borrowed from Lea Agnew and Jo Anna HadenMiller, Atlanta And Its Lawyers: A Century of Vision: 1888-1988
(1988).

Alina Lee: Youngest Atlanta Bar Attorney Member
Alina Lee entered high school at age 12 and graduated in
May 2005 at the age of 14. She then entered the University
of Georgia in August 2005, shortly after her 15th birthday with
a full golf scholarship, and graduated in May 2008 at the age
of 17 with an A.B. in History, magna cum laude. After college,
she obtained a real estate sales associate license in both
Georgia and Florida in addition to a Florida Mortgage Broker
license. She worked in real estate for about six months prior
to attending law school at Vanderbilt University Law School
in August 2009, and graduated in May 2012, at the age of 21.
Alina began wor king at Rogers & Hardin September 10,
2012, passed the summer 2012 Georgia Bar Exam, and has
practiced law as a corporate transactional attorney at Rogers
& Hardin since passing the Bar. She now practices corporate
transactional law and has assisted clients in a number of
financings, mergers and acquisitions, matters relating to
securities regulation, various corporate governance issues,
and general corporate law.
Alina mentioned that “Rogers & Hardin is proud that all of its
attorneys are members of the Atlanta Bar Association and I
am tremendously thankful for their support of my membership.
The Atlanta Bar Association has played a large role in my legal
career in that it has given me the opportunity to meet many
talented attorneys who are now dear friends and mentors.
The Atlanta Bar Association also provides informative CLEs.
My favorite CLE was the “Life of the Deal” CLE series at
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January/February 2014

Manuel's Tavern last year. The
Negotiations and Allocating
Risk session I attended
featured three speakers: inhouse counsel for a large
public company, a partner
from a large Atlanta firm, and
a senior associate from a
large Atlanta firm. Together,
they provided practical advice
regarding negotiations and
mergers.”
Moreover, Alina has received
tangible benefits from the
various networking events
at popular venues throughout the year. She met two friends
for the first time at a networking event at Tap Gastropub in
Midtown last March. The two attorneys have since become
mentors and provide perspective and support for her legal
career. Alina feels that their advice has proven to be priceless
as she transitions into her legal career. She remarks that
“the Atlanta Bar Association is unparalleled in providing
convenient access to a diverse group of Atlanta attorneys at
fun and engaging events.” Alina is 23 years old and, to date,
the youngest attorney member of the Atlanta Bar Association.

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