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SOCIAL JUSTICE ADVOCACY IN ACTION: FINDING YOUR PASSION June 7, 2019 ICLE: Annual Meeting Series Friday, June 7, 2019 SOCIAL JUSTICE ADVOCACY IN ACTION FINDING YOUR PASSION Copyright © 2019 by the Institute of Continuing Legal Education of the State Bar of Georgia. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form by any means, electronic, mechanical photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of ICLE. The Institute of Continuing Legal Education’s publications are intended to provide current and accurate information on designated subject matter. They are off ered as an aid to practicing attorneys to help them maintain professional competence with the understanding that the publisher is not rendering legal, accounting, or other professional advice. Attorneys should not rely solely on ICLE publications. 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The Institute of Continuing Legal Education of the State Bar of Georgia is dedicated to promoting a well organized, properly planned, and adequately supported program of continuing legal education by which members of the legal profession are aff orded a means of enhancing their skills and keeping abreast of developments in the law, and engaging in the study and research of the law, so as to fulfi ll their responsibilities to the legal profession, the courts and the public. Printed By: HOW CAN WE HELP YOU? Who are we? How does SOLACE work? What needs are addressed? SOLACE is a program of the State If you or someone in the legal Needs addressed by the SOLACE Bar of Georgia designed to assist community is in need of help, simply program can range from unique medical those in the legal community who email [email protected]. Those emails conditions requiring specialized referrals have experienced some significant, are then reviewed by the SOLACE to a fire loss requiring help with clothing, potentially life-changing event in their Committee. If the need fits within the food or housing. Some other examples lives. SOLACE is voluntary, simple and parameters of the program, an email of assistance include gift cards, food, straightforward. SOLACE does not with the pertinent information is sent meals, a rare blood type donation, solicit monetary contributions but to members of the State Bar. assistance with transportation in a accepts assistance or donations in kind. medical crisis or building a wheelchair ramp at a residence. Contact [email protected] for help. The purpose of the SOLACE program is to allow the legal community to provide help in meaningful and compassionate ways to judges, lawyers, court personnel, paralegals, legal secretaries and their families who experience loss of life or other catastrophic illness, sickness or injury. TESTIMONIALS In each of the Georgia SOLACE requests made to date, Bar members have graciously stepped up and used their resources to help find solutions for those in need. A solo practitioner’s A Louisiana lawyer was in need A Bar member was dealing Working with the South quadriplegic wife needed of a CPAP machine, but didn’t with a serious illness and in Carolina Bar, a former rehabilitation, and members have insurance or the means the midst of brain surgery, paralegal’s son was flown of the Bar helped navigate to purchase one. Multiple her mortgage company from Cyprus to Atlanta discussions with their members offered to help. scheduled a foreclosure on (and then to South Carolina) insurance company to obtain her home. Several members for cancer treatment. the rehabilitation she required. of the Bar were able to Members of the Georgia and negotiate with the mortgage South Carolina bars worked company and avoided the together to get Gabriel and pending foreclosure. his family home from their long-term mission work. Contact [email protected] for help. iii FOREWORD Dear ICLE Seminar Attendee, Thank you for attending this seminar. We are grateful to the Chairperson(s) for organizing this program. Also, we would like to thank the volunteer speakers. Without the untiring dedication and eff orts of the Chairperson(s) and speakers, this seminar would not have been possible. Their names are listed on the AGENDA page(s) of this book, and their contributions to the success of this seminar are immeasurable. We would be remiss if we did not extend a special thanks to each of you who are attending this seminar and for whom the program was planned. All of us at ICLE hope your attendance will be benefi cial as well as enjoyable. We think that these program materials will provide a great initial resource and reference for you. If you discover any substantial errors within this volume, please do not hesitate to inform us. Should you have a different legal interpretation/opinion from the speaker’s, the appropriate way to address this is by contacting him/her directly. Your comments and suggestions are always welcome. Sincerely, Your ICLE Staff Jeffrey R. Davis Executive Director, State Bar of Georgia Rebecca A. Hall Associate Director, ICLE State Bar of Georgia Annual Meeting Friday, June 7, 2019 - 2:00 - 5:00 p.m. The Ritz-Carlton Orlando, Grande Lakes Orlando, Florida SOCIAL JUSTICE ADVOCACY IN ACTION - FINDING YOUR PASSION Presented by: Georgia Association of Black Women Attorneys Gate City Bar Association DeKalb Lawyers Association State Bar of Georgia, Committee to Promote Inclusion in the Profession Arc of Justice Institute, Inc. Co-Chairs: Jacqueline F. Bunn, Esq., State Board of Pardons & Parole. Atlanta, GA Avarita L. Hanson, Esq., Attorney, Atlanta, GA MATERIALS & REFERENCES I. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES CO-CHAIRS Jacqueline F. Bunn, Esq. Avarita L. Hanson, Esq. SPEAKERS Lisa N. Cupid, Esq Donald P. Edwards, Esq. Hon. Glenda Hatchett Yolanda K. Johnson, Esq. Howard Moore, Jr., Esq. Derrick Alexander Pope, Esq. Tiffany Williams Roberts, Esq. II. FEATURED LAWYERS JUDGE GLENDA HATCHETT Dare to Take Charge: How to Live Your Life on Purpose, Center Street, Hatchette Book Group, Inc., NY (2010) Say What You Mean and Mean What You Say! 7 Simple Strategies to Help Our Children Along the Path to Purpose and Possibility (Harper Collins, 2003) 4Kira4Moms https://thehatchettfirm.com/4kira4moms/ Inside Edition, Judge Hatchett in Her Own Legal Battle After Daughter-in-Law Dies Shortly After Giving Birth, May 16, 2017, https://www.insideedition.com/headlines/23403-judge-hatchett-in-her-own-legal-battle-afte r-daughter-in-law-dies-shortly-after-giving Caitlin Keating, Judge Hatchett's Son Seeks Justice After His Wife's Tragic Childbirth Death: 'No One Should Feel This Pain', People.com, August 2, 2017. https://people.com/human-interest/judge-hatchetts-son-seeks-justice-after-wifes-childbirth- death/ Shelia M. Poole, Tv Judge Glenda Hatchett and Son Fight for Lives of New Mothers, THE ATL. J. & CONST., March 9, 2018, https://www.ajc.com/marketing/judge-glenda-hatchett-and-son-fight-for-lives-new-mothers /Z5Jg8DcqSz4NQLMKpP6PML/ Natalia Stone, Hatchett's Daughter-in-law Gave Birth to Her Second Child at 2:33 P.m. and Passed Away 12 Hours Later, People.com, May 13, 2017 https://people.com/tv/glenda-hatchett-son-suing-hospital-wife-death-after-birthing-baby/. HOWARD MOORE, JR., ESQ. Camp, W. Michael. “Protests and Civil Rights in Atlanta: The Papers of Howard Moore, Jr. at Emory’s Rose Library.” Atlanta Studies. February 02, 2017, https://doi.org/10.18737/atls20170202 Page 2 of 6 W. Michael Camp, “Howard Moore Jr. (b. 1932),” New Georgia Encyclopedia University, last modified March 14, 2019, https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/howard-moore-jr-b-193 III. NOTABLE GEORGIA BLACK JUDGES AND LAWYERS DONALD HOLLOWELL, ESQ. Maurice C. Daniels, Saving the Soul of Georgia: Donald L. Hollowell and the Struggle for Civil Rights, Birmingham, GA, Univ. Of Georgia Press, 2016. Edward A. Hatfield, “Donald Hollowell (1917-2004),” New Georgia Encyclopedia, last modified July 31, 2018, https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/donald-hollowell-1917-20 04. Louise Hollowell and Martin C. Lehfeldt, The Sacred Call: A Tribute to Donald L. Hollowell – Civil Rights Champion, FOUR-G Publishers, Inc., 1997. HON. MAYNARD JACKSON Robert A. Holmes, Maynard Jackson, Barnhardt & Ashe Publishing, Inc., Miami, FL, 2009. Bradley R. Rice, “Maynard Jackson (1938-2003),” New Georgia Encyclopedia, last modified August 10, 2018, https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/government-politics/maynard-jackson-1938-2 003 LEROY JOHNSON, ESQ.