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Celebrating 125 Years
President Wilson’s “four minute men” network. One hundred
forty of the roughly 177 Association members served in the
military.
Post-war, with the return of its members, new Association
leaders emerged: Robert Troutman became first vice-president
and John Sibley, Hughes Spalding, Jack Spalding’s son, E.
Warren Moise, Bond Almand and Frank Carter all assumed
leadership roles. The Association’s national importance
grew, as several celebrities supported the Association at its
annual banquets: Congressman Finis Garrett of Tennessee;
Martin W. Littleton, former New York congressman; Clarence
Darrow, of the Scopes Monkey Trial; and President Franklin
D. Roosevelt.
Even before then-Governor Roosevelt’s 1929 address urging
Atlanta’s lawyers to bring the legal profession and justice
system into line with rapidly changing social conditions and
problems, the Association supported civil legal services for the
poor. In 1927, the Association passed a resolution in support
of the three-year old Atlanta Legal Aid Society.

Fee schedule - John L. Hopkins received $50 from wealthy
client, Richard Peters, for drawing up a will, although the
Bar's fee schedule recommended $15 for this service.

Nearing the end of its first fifty years and in the midst of
the Great Depression, Bar leaders again reconstituted and
revamped the Association: a drive for new members began;
officer elections were more formal and competitive, and Bar
activity expanded to exert a stronger influence in the greater
community.

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