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Contents

Volume 14, No. 6 | January 2016



Features

President’s Message
Fostering a Positive Environment

Columns
From the Bench
Law School Life
Student Loans and Finance
Tech Talk

News & Notes
US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia
President's summit
Atlanta Bar Election Schedule
Atlanta Bar Foundation LawJam 2016 Call for Entries
100% Club
Did You Know?

Atlanta Bar Association
President
Harold E. Franklin, Jr.
King & Spalding LLP
Vice President/President-Elect
James D. Blitch IV
Blitch Law PC
Secretary
Margaret H. Vath
Georgia State University College of Law
Treasurer
Nicole G. Iannarone
Georgia State University College of Law
Immediate Past President
Jacquelyn H. Saylor
The Saylor Law Firm LLP

ACYL President
Jonathan E. Smith
Miller & Martin PLLC
Members at Large
Joan C. Grafstein
JAMS

Jonathan E. Hawkins
Krevolin & Horst, LLC
Eugenia W. Iredale
Fellows LaBriola LLP
Robert M. Lewis Jr.
U.S. Department of Labor,
Office of the Solicitor
Lisa Liang
State Court of Fulton County,
Hon. Susan E. Edlein


Christopher P. Lightner
Alston & Bird LLP
Gregory T. Presmanes
Bovis Kyle & Burch, LLC

Section Updates

Construction Law Section
Estate Planning & Probate Section
Environmental Law & Toxic Tort Section
Women in the Profession Section

Melissa Phillips Reading
Owen, Gleaton, Egan,
Jones & Sweeney, LLP
Ryan K. Walsh
Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP
ABA Delegate
Rita A. Sheffey
Emory University School of Law
Legal Counsel
Marc A. Rawls
Sutherland LLP
Atlanta Bar Foundation President
S. Wade Malone
Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
Gate City Bar Association President
Darrick McDuffie
King & Spalding LLP

The Official News Publication of the Atlanta Bar Association

February 2016

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