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LAW With tuition up and lawyer salaries stagnant, it's more important than ever to choose a law school that delivers a good value. We crunched the numbers to identify the cream of the crop for value. LS With tuition up and lawyer salaries stagnant, it's more important than ever to choose a law school that delivers a good value. We cru nched the numbers to identify the cream of the crop for value.

BY REBECCA LARSEN

Even though Jennifer Kce~n had gone as other schools she was consid<~ring . privare, including Brigham Young to Florida State as an undergraduate, she More rhan ever bdore, law srudcnrs University and Phoenix School wasn'r. ready ro enter law school at the same should be concerned abour rhe value of a of Law, a school that received full university without looking around at other J.D. Tuition and cost-of-living expenses ABA accredir;Hion in June. places. have been risi ng quicker than entry-level T he Best Value study is nor designed to "J had a long list of 15 schools includ salaries for lawyers. The recent recession identifY the schools where students can get ing private schools and schools outside rhe has slowed hiring, making ira challenge for their greatest return on invesrmenr. While state, because I like rrying new things," graduates with large debt loads. such a 'financial investment' approach may she said. "Bur when I looked at all the fac To help prospective studen ts, prelaw be imporranr for some, rhis ranking is rors - actual cost, the amount of career magazine has crunched the numbers co designed for srudcnrs who wam a qualiry placement, the bar passage rare - I crossed identify rhc best value law schools. This legal education at an affordable price. many of the places off my list. FSU had all year's lis r has 60 Besr V.'llue schools, wirh T he vast majoriry of law school gradu rhc things I wanted ar an incredibly good each assigned a letter grade of A, A-, B+ or ates either work for a small, regional law COS(. " B. The schools that received an A are also firm or in public service. This ranking She's now a first-year law student at ranked - with Georgia Srare ar rhe rop. idcnrif1es rhc law schools that provide the Florida State. law schools make the Best Value rank best value for rhose graduares. Kara Wilder, also a first year, was accept ings if they meet three criteria: Their bar For example, The University of ed ar nine law schools she applied m and pass rate is higher than the stare average; Connecticut's tuition is approximately thought she wanted to leave Georgia for their average indebtedness after graduation $20,000, while Yale Law School, just New York or California. Bur then she is below $1 00.000; and r.heir employmem down the road, is more rhan $48,000. experienced sticker shock. Her firsr year ar rate nine months after graduation is 85 per The median privare starting salary for one of the other schools could have cosr cem of the class or higher. We chen weighr each school ($120,000 for UConn and her more than $70,000. She chose Georgia the schools using the same three factors $160,000 for Yale) would suggest that Ya.le State University instead, where she thinks plus in-state tuition costs. (See sidebar on is a better return on investment. Bur that she can save at least $30,000 a year in how we did the rankings for more derails.) is only true if the student is inreresred in c:xpcnses. She also said Georgia State wa.s Although most schools are publicly landing a job at one of the nation's largest ranked at about the same level academically funded, II of rhe 60 schools this year are law firms. continued on page 27

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2010 Best Value Law Schools School Statewide b;n Graduates Median private Median Tuition Average . passage rate known to be sector starting public se1vice Indebtedness . fo1 filst-time employed nine sal?')' starting salary (20081 test takers months alter graduation t:$.; Georgia State University 94·19% 89.27°/o 97·30% $80,000 Sst,ooo $11,838 $22,129 2 Brigham Young University •91.15°/o 85.58% 98.70% $120,000 $50,25 0 $9.980 $44,035 3 University of Louisville 8].96% 8).08% 93.50% Sss.ooo $44,000 $14,632 $26,177 4 Univ. of Nebraska·Lincoln 92.85% 88.64% 90.50% $55,ooo $44.100 $12,154 $49.946 5 University of Kansas 95·14% 89.17% 85.10% $62,500 $46,ooo $14,478 $J9,099 6 University of New Mexico 92.05% 91·59% 93·30% $6'1,000 $44.000 St2,62o $51,685 7 University of Mississippi 90.00% 88.oo% 90.50% $9.350 $60,121 8 rlorida State University 86.87% 80.76% 9$.10% 570,000 $42,000 $14,239 $52,969 9 University of Memphis 93.10% 88.10% 88.20% Ss9.281 $47,ooo $13,710 $49.737 10 Florida International 88.oo% 80.70% 92.oo% $12,800 $58,119 11 University of Tennessee 89.66% 88.10% 91.30% $76,250 $48.750 $13,118 $53.751 12 University of South Carolina 90·97% 81.83% 91.00% S75,ooo S39,ooo $19,034 S41,6t2 13 Northern Illinois University 96.o8% 90·94% 87.]0% $14,487 Sso,88o 14 U~v~ lty of Kentucky 93·70% 83.08% 93.70% $6o,ooo _ S3s.ooo $t6,020 sss.87o - . ~ 15 U111ve1S1ty of Georg1<1 98.85% 88.83% 96.so% $130,000 Sss.ooo $14.41,8 S6s.o47 16 University of Alabama 97.15% 88.96% 87.70% $90,000 $43.750 $14.450 Ss6,643 17 Texas Tech University 86.6o% 84.50% 9o.so% $15,194 $54.373 18 louisiana State Unive rsity 80.95% 67.32% 91.90% S7s,ooo $44.687 $14.350 $65.)24 19 University of North Dakota 87.33°/o 87.03% 81.20% $48,000 $47,100 59.461 $6],236 20 Unive rsity of Rorida 88.69% 81.47% 87.)0% $85,ooo $44.500 $14,228 $6),509 •see page 31 {or how we did the ranking and honor roll

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Arizona State University 89.53% 84.03% 92-90% $100,000 $511,ooo $19,225 $]3.317 Cleveland State Un iversity 90-30% 88.09% 89.50% $8o,ooo $49.000 $16,764 $61,500 Temple University 89.11% 86.69% 88.90% $125,000 S45.ooo $17,226 $78,502 University of Arizona 91·53% 82.49% 92-30% $n5.ooo $52,000 $20,895 574,678 University of Connecticut 92-31% 88.28% 92.20% S12o.ooo Ss2.125 $20,374 $65,224 University of Houston 91-34% 84-54% 96.oo% $95,ooo $47.400 $21,029 $70,575 Univ. of Missouri- Ka nsas City 97-62% 92-33% 88.70% $62,500 $43.800 $14,242 $75,093 University of Nevada- Las Vegas 81.48% 76.94°/o 93-60% $78,000 $56,ooo $18,838 S55.944 University of North Carolina 89.84°/o 82.61% 90-30% $130,000 $46,ooo $16,014 $63,621 University of Oklahoma 96.27% 92.80% 88.6o% $52,250 $4$.040 $t6,976 $65.775 University of Toledo 88.78% 87.12% 95-00% $70,000 $42,$00 $19,137 $74,167 University of Washington 84.68% 74-40% 93-60% $125,000 S49,ooo $22,267 $69.945 University of Wisconsin 99-31% 91-79% 96.20% $125,000 $47.500 $16,426 $67,655 Wayne State 95-90% 82.13% 86.oo% $23.713 $61,180 College of William and Mary 90-90% --- 83.50% 92-30% $zt,646 $76,155 B+ Faulkner University 93-44°/o 89.03% 90.00% N/A N/A $3o,87o $74.674 George Mason University 88-46% 82.70% 96.8o% $t4s.ooo Sss.ooo $20,556 $89,857 Indiana University-Bloomington 93-89°/o 86.69% 92.50% $9],000 Sss .ooo $24.891 $91,142 Loyola University New Orleans 67.39°/o 67.32% 91-90% $34,166 sso,1o3 Oh io State University 90-30% 88.09°/o 93.50% $1oo,ooo $46,500 $22,433 $79,855 Rutgers · Newarl< 86.85% 84.69% 93-00% $120,000 S41,000 $23,676 $73.244 University of Colorado 93-28% 83.29% 92-70% $82,500 $47,000 $25.399 $74.916 University of Iowa 93-06% 89.66% 94-60% 592.500 $47.750 $21,432 $81,735 University of Maine 91-53% 90-74% 87.10% $6o,ooo $41,000 $20,702 $72,627 University of Maryland 90.05% 85.51% 94-00% $109.999 $45,ooo $23,762 $81,872 Unive rsity of Oregon 83.84°/o 78-53% 89.40% $72,500 $47,000 $22.)28 $7].571 University of Pittsburgh 90.63% 86.69°/o 90-40% $102,500 $47.000 $25,098 $83,826 University of Texas 89.00% 84.50% 94-60% $27,177 $80.)22 Will amette Unive rsity 84.89% 78.zo% 94-10% $59,625 $45,ooo $29,680 $78,393 B- Gonzaga University 79-89% 76-92% 85.40% $67.500 $54,500 $31,460 594,074 Hamline University 91.62% 91.17% 88.20% $uo,ooo Sso.ooo $J2,014 $92,794 Lewis & Oark College 80.54% 78.64% 92.60% $80,370 Sso,ooo $31.934 S9s.6o8 Michigan State University 84.16% 83·93% 87.10% $33,054 $65,292 Mississippi College 94-28% 88.19% 90.10% S7s,ooo $51.500 $26,300 $89.906 Phoenix School of Law 96.88% 84.00% 88.oo% N/A N/A $]4.396 St. Mary's University 87.20% 84.54% 89.00% $5s,ooo ss4.2so $27,904 $91.518 University of California- Davis 79.89% 78.07% 95-20% $33.949 $72,959 University of Min nesota 96.19% 90.]7% g6.5o% $28,203 $94,087 University of Richmond 90.55% 82.70% 87.20% $90,000 $48,000 $32.450 $93.200 •Bar passage rate, emp/ovmelll and tuition data derived from the Official Guide to ABA Approved Law Schools .ZOlt edtion •See page 31 f or how we did /he ranking and honor roll

26 prelaw rules to follow. If you're interesred in trying school's 450 studenrs are non-Mormons. an our-of-stare public school, check out "We are very welcoming w students policies carefully in advance so you won'r of other faiths," Rasband said. ''Bur many be disappoinred later. of them find it difficult ro adhere to our Lower tuition often means less debr to honor code rcquiremenr of no rea, cof repay after graduation. Average indebted fee or alcohol. Our ruirion this fall will ness ofGeorgi

Ranked at the top T he rop Best Value L\w School on our lisr for 2010 is Georgia Stare University College of Law, which mnked tourrh last year. Second is Brigham Young University's J. Reuben Clark Law School, which also ranked second last year, and third is University of Louisville's Louis D. Brandeis School of Law. Most schools in the Top 20 are located in the Midwesr and Southeast with some in the Southwest. Almost all of our 60 Best Value schools are public, as they have been in the past. But due to rising economic problems in state government, fun ding for higher edu cation is being cut, and new tuition rates this fall are sometimes higher than the fig ures used on our lisr. If you are an applicant lucky enough to live in a state with fewer budget problems, a public law school will generally cost less, and you'll probably end up with less debt. Even if you go out-of-state and face wirion that can often be double what in staters pay, most public schools let students change to in-state status after the first year. T hat's true at mp-ranked Ceorgia Stare and at rhc University of New Mexico and Northern Illinois University, as well as orhers in our Top 20. Ar rhe University of Kansas and the University of Louisville, it's 111uch harder ro be declar~~d an in srare student, according ro school officials. Florida Stare allows the switch and counsels students on how to do it, as there are strict

Fall2010 27 job? In roday's job marker rhat may be less and get a quality education at NIU; ir's of Law, whid1 ranked and less likely ro hold true. worth ir." fifth on our Best Value "The amouru of debt doesn't drive One henefir her school is proud of, as list. "They can't wair the: kind of lawyer you will hecome," said are others in rhe Top 20 list, is its small si1.e. unril rhe last minute. Steven Kaminshinc, dean of rhe Georgia N lU's law school ha.~ about 320 srudems The days of I 00 per Stare University College of Law. "You're in all. cent getting a job nor compelled ro rake on debt. I under "We have a very warm atmosphere at graduation arc Stand that people often say you get what with 21 full-rime faculty and professors,'' gone forever - if you pay for, bur I think they also know that Rosato said. "T hc:re an.: very small classes. rhey ever cxisrcd." you can have a privarc school that is nor Professors are always available; rhc:y know The: KU law of 1he same quality as a public one. That's the students well, and they know them hy srudenrs who found why we're getting high-qualiry students. name." jobs recencly went to the Why pay four or five or six rimes when you Although low tuition and smaller debt same mix of the same pri can get as good an education her,·?" are importam ro graduates, students' ulti vare and public employ "Value is a wtal package; it means dif mate objecrive is landing a grear job. The ment as ever, he said, but ferent things to different students," said Top 20 schools on our Best Value list stress some arc going to smaller Jcnnifer Rosato, dean of the Northern that they work hard 10 help graduates find law firms in places that Illinois University College of Law, a school jobs and offer strong career services pro wouldn't have been rhcir that is new to the Top 20 list this year. Her grams on campus. first choice. sehoul is the only public law school in the "Bur then again," Mazza said, "the days Chicago metropolitan area; all the other of everyone graduating from Georgetown schools are privare. Help in your job search and going co D.C. or New York ro the "Our tuition is less than half that of the "\'qesrarr talking to students about being firm of rheir choice isn't the case anymore private: schools," she said. "And Sllldents proactive in their job search during their either." now arc really looking at what's going ro second year," said Stephen Ma1.~A1, interim Placement services are strong at Florida he their indebtedness. They can do well dean of rhe University of Kansas School State University's law school, whid1 ranks

28 ptelaw eighth on our Rest Value duce our students," he said. "We're very going our on their own to practice law. lisr. Dean Donald proactive in generating new opporrunirics, "Members of the stare bar have come Weidner said his and we've made inroads wirh rhe national hc.:tt' t<) talk w rhem abuur opening their school, located in security agencies, including rhe CIA and own practice," Pratt said. "We're trying to Tallahassee, has FBI, in order ro seek our opporrunides. sec up a monitoring system for young law placement pro- "We're in a capi tol ciry of a very popular yers ro give them advice, and we're bringi ng grams that rarger srare, so we have a lot of internship pro in accountants to show rhem how ro keep borh full- and grams and quire a few opportunities for track of their finances." parr-rime srudenrs. srudents roger their feet wer," he said. "We Smaller schools can sometimes do bet A key racric in rry to do everything we can l O be welcom ter when ir comes to placement. Kevin placement is help ing to employers. We're moving into video Washhurn, dean of the University of New ing students inreracr conferencing interviews w makt> ir more Mexico School of Law, sixth on rhe Top with alumni who could cost-effective w in terview our students. Wt• 20 list, said that since his school has only help find jobs for them. have a resume referral service so employers 340 studentS and 11 5 third years, "It's also Students arc invited ro all can pick from a group of resumes.'' easier whelp place srudenrs in jobs." alumni receptions. AJums Do job interviews make you nervous? In helping students ge r jobs, said and so merim ~s various Ar Florida Scare, the school has students Rashand of Brigham Young, his school local 'Y bar groups do special ses- suit up for mock four-minute interviews draws on the help of a huge network of sions wirh srudems. with an attorney, afrer which thc:ir perfor anorneys from all over rhe country. The "We've srarred what we call Networking manct• is critiqued hy other lawyers. TI1cn school also has a nationwide exrernship Noshes with studcnrs, featuring a particu the srudenr tries it all over again. program. lar alumni or practitioner who shares box Because of changes in rhc economy, Whcrher we're talking about Georgia lunches wirh a group of students." Weidner said Walter Pratt, dean of th e· University of State, Kansas, Norrhern Illinois, Nc.:w said. South Carolina School of L-lw, his school's Mexico, or any of the Top 20 law schools, "We have increased interaction wi th career services department has been hold mosr students find their johs in the region various sections of rhe Florida Bar ro inr.ro- ing programs for students thinking of where they wem to law school, as is true of

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Fall 20 10 29 mosr law schools. \XIh~c char means is that Mexico," Washburn of New Mexico said. ncaions rhac led ro jobs when chey were when you choose a law school, it mighr "Our-of-scare swdents often end up scay in chose public service positions," Chen be well ro consider wht•ther ir's in an area ing here." said. "Someone mi ght have a puhlic service where you wane co spend a few years, if not About 70 percenr of the Univc:rsity of placement in Legal Aid and then mighr your entire career. That doesn't mean yo u're South Carolina law school graduates scay later become a staff lawyer rhen:. Or sru locked in, of course. insi de che state; 30 percenc go outside fo r dencs mi ght work in a divorce clinic and "Students from KU go all over rhe their first jobs, Pratt said. find our that chey have skills in family law country," Mazza said, "Bur historically, \XIhat has helped in job placement ac which leads them 10 work in a firm special we've had a connection with Kansas City rhe University of Louisville is the school's izing in chat area. The objective is for rhem where many of our swdenrs work for law requirement chat every srudenr have 30 to get our of the classroom and engage with firms. Bur as the economy bas conrracced, hours of public service as a condition for a community network of alumni." we've had co expand our geographic area." graduation, said Dean Jim Chen. He also said that rhe school's srudencs "Most of our graduates stay in New "A significant number have made con- generally stay in rhe area after graduation, caking johs in Louisville, Nashville, and Indianapolis, for example. OUR STUDENTS "Bur a significanr number do go far, far GRADUATE WITH away - Ddaware, Pennsylvania, Ala.~k a THE MOST SKILLS and to markets across the United Srares," AND THE LEAST DEBT. Chen said. CASE CLOSED. At Massachusetts School of Law, we believe What about passing the bar? that a legal education can be practical, tech The har passage race for firsr-rime test nologic:llly sophisticated, and :1 great value. rakers is above rhe 90th percentile for Plus, unlike schools that focus on standardized almost all thl! Top 20 schools, with Georgia tests, we consider each applicant's com piece Srare srudems scoring slighdy above rhe history. Call today co discowr rhe school 94rh percentile. Bur law school officials are that's setting new standards for quick to point our rhar since chey choose a excdlence and value. Sessions great first-year class to starr with, scudencs begin in Au gmt and Janu:try. are likely to study hard, carch on quickly Add us on Facebook. and do well on ch e bar. Although clam~s 978-681-0800 • www.mslaw.edu somcri mes include discussions of quescions of law char mighr be on rhe locally admin MASSACHUSETTS SCHOOL OF LAW istered bar exams, schools do nor offer bar WHERE YOU LEARN TO BECOME A LAWYER review classes and generally expc:cr srudencs to rake rhos~:: reviews on their own.

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30 prelaw "[ would say our srrong performance on For average indebrcdne.~s . we used dara chan 2 percenc. T hese schools would have the bar exam is a reflection primarily of the from U.S. N~ws c!r \Vorld R~port. made our ranking otherwise and so we students that we admit," said Kaminshine While bar pass dara is difficult co have assigned them a B- in our grading of Georgia State. "Thq're mature and have compare, due co studcnrs raking the exam system. a strong, broad overall program. \'

How we did the rankings Law schools make the Best Value rank ings if rhey meet three criteria: Their bar pa.-.~ race is higher chan the scare average; their average indehcedness after graduation www.law.fsu.edu is bdow $100,000; and rheir employmem rare nine months after graduation is 85 percent of the cla.~s or higher. We then weight rhe schools using the same rlm:c factors plus in-state t uirion cos c.~. Tuition and indehredne.~s are the most heavily weighted crireria in our compura rion- accounting for approximately 45 percent each. Employment is approxi mately 7 percent and bar pass rare is 3 percenr. As a result, law schools with lower ruirion rend to rank better. Bur because many schools have similar ruitions, che employment and bar pass data help differenriare an A school from an A- school. For bar pass dara, employ ment and ruition, we used rhe most currcr11 data from the ABA. which can be found in th~ current Official Guide ro Law Schools.

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of a case." This spring Ricco joined Jackson Lewis LLP in Long Island, a law firm with a strong emphasis in the labor and employmenr area. She works in rhe affirmarive acrion practice group, which advises employers about diversity, Equal Employment Opporruniry regularions and other labor issues. "We're proacrive problem solvers, looking for problems before they're really rhcrc," she said . "I like working with diems on a lo ng-term basis and geuing ro know them." What has really inspired her, Ricco said, is that "labor law applies to every· one. We all spend so much rime in our lives working. I like how people-driven rhis area of law is, how people interact in the work place and rhe role that employers play in people's lives and how employees afTccr employe r's businesses."

Where to study Labor & Employment Law Yverre Rcramoza, who grew up in a small the attorney general of Jamaica presented farm rown in the Monterey, Calif., area, us wid• an issue 10 investigate involving Albany l aw School always knew she wanted ro work in a job multi-lateral treaties and extradition issues. California Western School of l aw rhar had a global scale. Seven of us worked on che issue and trav Ch icago-Kent College of law "I wanred co do something rhat would eled ro Jamaica co present our report," have an impact on the world, and I wa.~ Golden Gate University School of law Retam07.a said. inrcrested in rhe econ01nics and business Attorney generals rrom the Bahamas, Hofstra University School of Law side of things," she said. Trinidad and Tobago. Barbados and the Loyo la Law School, los Angeles That all culminated in her taking a Cayman Islands also participate in rh e clinic Marquette University Law School job last r~u as an attorney in the glob at the school, depending on the semester. Massachusetts School of law al affitirs division of the Boeing Co. in Students prepare their reports wirh the help Washingwn, D.C. of law school l·acul ry. T he research that stu New York law School As a teenager, she had spent her junior dents do rypically involves comparing how Northern Kentucky Univ. College of Law year in high school in Brazil as an exchange imernarion:tl law or the law of a particular Saint Louis University School of Law student. She had spoken some Spanish country addresses a particular qm:srion; stu· Seattle University School of Law while growing up, but had to pick up dcnrs chen offer possible solutions. Southwestern law School Portuguese that year. After gct£ing her J.D. in 2009, Reramoza After earning her bachelor's degree at passed rhe Washington, D.C. bar exam and Thomas Jefferson School of law California State Universi ty, Monterey Bay, found her job ac Boeing. University at Buffalo Law School she enrered the Florida Coastal School "] made the decision co move w D.C. University of Minnesota l aw Sc hool of Law in Jacksonville because of its inter because I knew there would be many amaz University of Toledo College of law national program and its Caribbean Law ing opporruniries here on a global scale," C linic, in which studems study rhe legal sys· she said. Un iversity of Virginia School of Law telns and processes of rhe Commonwealth Rerarnoz.a sugge.~ted chat studenrs inter University of Wisconsin Law Sc hool Caribbean area and th,·n a.~sess legal prob ested in imern:uional work should seek out Willamette University College of Law lems confronting individual countries. practical ex perience, including cxternships, "In 200R. when I was in rhe clinic, and study a (()reign language.

40 prelaw INTERNATIONAL LAW Where to study International Law Albany Law School Un1versity of Georgia School of law University of Virginia School of Law American Univ. Washington College of Law University of Kansa s School of Law Un iversity of Washington School of law Arizona State University College of Law University of Miami School of Law University of Wisconsin law School ·- .. - ·· Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law Univ. of Missouri-Columbia School of law Vanderbilt Unive rsity Law School California Western School of Law Univ. of the Pac ific, McGeorge- School of Law Vermont law School Case Western Reserve School of Law University of Pittsburgh School of Law Willamette University College of Law - Catholic University School of Law University of Toledo College of Law --Yale Law School Chicago-Kent College of Law University of Tulsa College of law ·-- - DePau l University College of Law Drake University Law School Duke University School of Law Florida Coastal School of Law florida State University College of Law Fordham University School of Law Franklin Pierce Law Center (soon·to·be Univ. of New Hampshire School of l aw) George Mason University School of Law Georgetown Un iversity School of Law Golden Gate Un iversity School of Law Hamline University School of Law

Hofstra Un~versi ty Sch?.ol of La~. Loyola Univ. College of Law, New Orleans Loyola Law School, Los Angeles ...... ~ Marquette University Law School Mississippi College Sc hool of l aw New York Law Sch ool Northwestern University School of Law Pace Law School Saint Louis University School of Law Santa Clara University School of law Seattle University School of Law Southwestern Law School Suffolk University Law School Syracuse University College of Law Temple University Beasley School of Law The John Marshall Law School Thomas Jefferson School of Law Thomas M. Cooley Law School Trinity Law School Tulane University Law School University of Arizona College of l aw University at Buffalo law School Un iversity of Cali fornia Davis School of Law Univ. of California Berkeley School of law . -· UCLA School of law University of Conne cticut School of law University of Florida College of law

Fall 2010 41 Bishop Eddie Long I B.J. Bernstein a media-savvy courtroom competi.. . http://www .ajc.cornlnews/bishop-eddte-long-o-o 1 !S'J)'I.mrm ! p n mAi t... e t=J Print this page [ _; Close Bishop Eddie Long l tB_~J.-:: Berrrste i · n :a media-savvy courtroom competitor

By Jeremy Redmon The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

12:22 a.m. Thursday, September 23, 2010

Editor's note: The f\.1..o men who are suing Bishop Eddie Long, claiming that he had sexual relationships with them, are represented by Atlanta attorney B.J. Bernstein.

Bernstein is perhaps best-known for her successful representation of Genarfow Wilson, a Douglas County teenager who was sentenced to 10 years in prison for having consensual sex with a minor female. He was released after serving f\.1..o years.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution published this profile of Bernstein in July 2007 as the Wilson case vvent to the Georgia Supreme Court.

Before B.J. Bernstein begins her frequent news conferences, she slowly and clearly spells her name for reporters covering the child molestation case against her client, Genarlow Wilson.

She warns a television cameraman when he is blocking the shot of a competitor. And Bernstein, who tops out at 5 feet, obligingly stands on an equipment box rather than force TV reporters to lower their microphones.

She is the feisty defense lawyer taking on Douglas County prosecutors, the Georgia attorney general's office and the state courts themselves, all through a sophisticated media blitz. She set up a Web site, www.wilsonappeal.com. She hired a media relations company. With her help, the case has continued to attract national news media attention. Wilson's story has appeared on CNN and ESPN and in The New York Times.

Bernstein is seeking to free Wilson from prison, where he has spent more than two years of a 10-year sentence for receiving oral sex from a 15-year-old girl when he was 17. His sentence, Bernstein argues, is cruel and unusual punishment for a teenager who had consensual sex with another teen, though the age of legal consent in Georgia is 16.

Her media-savvy approach has invited criticism as well as attention.

"There does appear to be more of an attempt for publicity and future book and movie deals and limousines and Web sites and publicists, that you begin to wonder whether or not Genarlow is the highest priority, "said state Senate President Pro Tern Eric Johnson (R-Savannah), who has been outspoken in his criticism of Wilson. "When you have a case, you try it in court. When you don't have a case, you try

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it in the media.

"That is what is going on."

Bernstein said she is not seeking publicity for herself, saying she is trying to highlight what she asserts is an injustice in Wilson's case so it won't happen again.

"Letting the world know about what is happening to Genarlow Wilson, "she said, "is the only reason we have a shot at saving Genarlow Wilson and protecting other kids."

Intense focus pays off

Brenda Joy Bernstein wasn't always so outspoken. She said she was shy, even "nerdy, "growing up in Columbia, the daughter of an insurance agent and a nursing teacher. She said she rarely dated and wasn't popular in high school, focusing on academics instead of cliques. She skipped her senior prom so she could attend a model United Nations conference, a forum for students to debate international issues.

"It wasn't like I had a date, " Bernstein said with a laugh.

Bernstein said she got hooked on the law in the eighth grade after she participated in a mock trial with the help of a real judge. She found she enjoyed explaining complex issues in public.

Paul Kurtz. who taught criminal law to Bernstein at the University of Georgia in 1984, said Bernstein's media calllJaign probably played a role in a Monroe County judge's decision last month to grant Wilson's appeal and order him freed from prison.

Attorney General Thurbert Baker is appealing that judge's decision to the Georgia Supreme Court, which has scheduled a hearing in the case for 10 a.m. today.

After she graduated from law school in 1987, Bernstein went to work as a prosecutor for about 6 1/2 years. She spent most of that time in Gwinnett County, working under then-District Attorney Tom Lawler and his successor, Danny Porter. For about two years, she worked on a special team assigned to child molestation cases. invaluable experience that she said has helped her in Wilson's case.

Bernstein eventually opened her own law firm with $10,000 her parents set aside for her wedding. That wedding never happened, she said, because she hasn't met the right man. She lives alone in a Midtown apartment, doting over two cats, Jaedon and Yo-yo. The sometimes combative lawyer melts when she describes how the two furballs spoon with each other in her bed.

That soft side carries over to the people she represents, particularly the younger ones.

"I definitely pay more attention to them more," she said. "I think that may be a little bit of mothering showing up in there . . .. Maybe because I was nerdy and not the cool kid, I can understand a little bit when they are a little out of place. And so it makes it easier to talk to them."

Bernstein's intense focus on her work paid off before she met Wilson, helping her snag several high-profile clients, including the platinum-selling rapper Da Brat. who faced charges of aggravated assault in connection with an early-morning brawl at a Buckhead nightclub in 2000. Bernstein also landed

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on lV as a legal commentator before she picked up Wi Is on as a client, discussing everything from Scott Peterson's murder trial to pop music star Michael Jackson.

Bernstein said she learned how to deal with the news media from veteran Atlanta criminal defense attorney Steve Sadow, who represented former Gold Club owner Steve Kaplan in his sensational racketeering trial in 2001 . Bernstein shared an office with Sadow for eight years and considers him her mentor, saying he showed her ''the balancing act between the public interest in needing to know about a case and making sure that a client was able to be fairly dealt with by the courts."

Sadow praised Bernstein's grasp of the law and her ability to connect with people.

"I give her better than 50-50 odds, " Sadow said of Bernstein's chances of winning Wilson's case before the Georgia Supreme Court. "I put my money on her."

Wilson's mother, Juannessa Bennett, hired Bernstein after hearing about her from Wilson's trial attorney.

Bernstein said she has been representing Wilson for free. A separate attorney not working on the case is administering a legal-defense fund for Wilson to which donors have contributed more than $10,000 during the past year. Some of that money has gone to pay the media-relations firm assisting Bernstein in the case.

"She is doing a great job, " Bennett said of Bernstein this month after attending a rally for her son at the Douglas County Courthouse in Douglasville. "Her heart is definitely in this case.

" I don't think I could have picked anybody to do a better job."

Sen. Johnson and others have been critical, saying Bernstein's chances of winning Wilson's freedom are extremely slim and that she should accept a plea deal Douglas County District Attorney David McDade is offering.

Wilson would get a 15-year sentence with five years in prison including credit for time served. And he would be able to avoid registering as a sex offender, McDade said.

"She is interested in publicizing the case for her own personal gain, " McDade said. "She has lost sight of what is best for her client."

University of Georgia professor Donald E. Wilkes Jr., an outspoken critic of Baker's handling of the case, said Bernstein's argument-- that 10 years in prison for consensual sex is cruel and unusual punishment --has precedent in Georgia.

In 1997, the Georgia Court of Appeals ruled that it was cruel and unusual punishment to sentence a man to 12 months in jail and fine him $1 ,000 for criminal trespass. McDade may have followed the letter of the law in prosecuting Wilson, but, Wilkes said, "Constitutional rights always trump statutes."

Bernstein says she has discussed McDade's plea deal with Wilson and that he will accept nothing more than a misdemeanor.

So the fight will continue.

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''This is not about me getting famous, " Bernstein said. "It is just the stupidest thing I have ever heard. If people believe that, so be it.

"I have to be a lawyer, and after this is over, I am still a lawyer."

Staff writers Steve Visser and Jeffry Scott contributed to this article.

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Home sweet home Jackie Roberts is a homeowner now, thanks to Benham. Roberts completed ALI's homebuyer certifi Heather Benham helps peo cation class several years ago, but ple buy a place of their own delayed buying a home because as a single mother with three children she by Allyson Mann (MA '92) was concerned about taking on extra responsibilities. She was planning to Heather Benham hasn't forgot- ·':i move into another apartment, but ten her first visit to Athens' home- .' . r Benham called to ask if she was still less shelter. ,\~;¥ interested in buying a house. "What I saw that shocked me ·~! "I probably would have put it off was how many families were there," · had she not contacted me," says she says. "They had jobs, and they Roberts, administrative manager at had kids in school that were doing "'o""'''DA''~ '"""" UGA's Vinson Institute. "I thought well, and they were living at the shel- Heather Benham the timing was just perfect when she ter because something had happened to where they were reached out and called me, so I j ust took that as a sign that living." it's time to go for it. She was definitely the factor that helped At the time, Benham (JD '03, MHP '03) was a UGA me make the decision." graduate student volunteenng for the School of Law's legal Over time, and with Benham's reassurances, Roberts clin1c. Her experiences at the homeless shelter spurred her became more comfortable with the idea of home ownership. interest in housing issues, and she served as a summer in- "I was just excited when I saw the colors go up on the tern for the Athens Land Trust, a nonprofit community land outside of the house-it was a thrill a minute. Every other trust with a dual mission of preserving natural resources weekend I went by JUSt to look at the house and see as it and creating affordable housing. That was 2002, and she developed from one stage to the next. I guess you could say joined ALT full time the next year after finishing her degrees I was like a house stalker," she says, laughing. in law and historic preservation. The night before the April ribbon cutting at her new Now ALT's housing director, Benham oversees new home, Roberts found Benham working in her yard. construction- as many as eight houses a year- and reno- "She was out there by herself, and it was maybe 6 or vation projects. For each project, she checks her waiting list 7ish in the evening. I'm like, 'Oh my God, I can't believe to find the client whose needs will best be met by a particu- you're out here working.· She had planted a little flower bed lar project. In addition to working with architects, attorneys, at the bottom of the staircase, which I fell in love with." bankers, clients and contractors, Benham's JOb requires Benham's dedication shows in all aspects of her work, that she navigate complex property issues, historic preser- whether she's landscaping, choosing fixtures or simply listen- vation standards and Earthcraft certification ·a residential ing to a client's concerns, Stangle says. green building standard for the Southeast. Sometimes she "She relates very well to people- all people, of all chooses paint, flooring and fixtures for the homes, tasks ethnicities and socioeconomic backgrounds," Stangle says. that she takes seriously because she wants to make sure "That's another aspect of her job that's really important the new owners approve. because she's able to get to know our potential homeowners "That's actually what the contractors always tease me very well. They relate very well to her, and she gets to know about," she says. '"You're not going to live in this house. them and what the1r needs are." Why do you care so much about every little detail?'" Often what they need is a little extra help navigating the Benham "has a great eye for design and aesthetics, " process of becommg a homeowner. Benham and ALT are says ALT Executive Director Nancy Stangle (MEd '79). "She able to provide that assis ta nce. gets the credit for how nice our houses look." "It seems like a lot of what things come down to is More important is Benham's commitment to helping whether you have a backup support system to help you get her community. a leg up or if you don't." Benham says. "I had help from my "She's very creative in coming up with ideas and ways family-that's how I got my first house. If you don't have to help people and make projects work, and she's very that, then 1t's hard to get in the game." dedicated," Stangle says. ''I'm sure she passed up many opportunities to make a lot of money as a corporate at torney to work at a nonprofit that's trying to maintain the quality of life we have here in Athens. She works to help Athens Land Trust people have a better life." www.athenslandtrust.org

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"Schol ars ha ve l ong u nder stood t h a t t he i n s tability of powe r has ramifications f or compl i a nce wi t h international l a w. Schol ars have not, however, f ocused on how states' expe ctat i ons about shifting power a f fect the i nitial desi gn of i n t e r national agr e ements," sci e n tists writ i n g i n t he Ha rvard International Law Journal report .

"In t his paper , I i n tegrate shifting power i n t o an anal ysis o f t he initi a l design of both t he for mal and substantive aspects of a gre ements. I a r gue t hat a state expecting to become more powerful over time incurs an opportunity c ost by agr eei ng to formal provisi ons t hat raise the c ost o f e xiting a n agreement . Exit costs- wh i ch promote t h e stabil i t y o f legal rules-h a ve d i s t rib utional i mpl ica tions . Befor e j oining a n agree me n t, a n ''ascendant ' ' s t ate will therefore often require e i t he r a g r eater share of t he b enefi ts from cooperation, o r a reduction in exi t costs through t he u se o f f ormal provi s ions such as withdrawa l clauses, sun s et c lauses, and prov isions aff e cting t he l egality of a n agreeme nt . I analyze how s t a t es determi ne which concessi o n s t o ma ke i n o rder t o r each agreement with a n ascenda n t state," wrote T. Meyer a nd col l eagues, University of Georgi a .

The researchers concluded : "This a n a lys is hel ps expl ain a n umber o f puzzles i n t he i nternational legal literat u re, such as wh y s t a t es wi t h poor compl i ance rat es are sometimes ob served t o j o i n international agreements at t h e same or h i g her rat es than states wi th good compl i ance rates; why weak agreements o ften evolve into more c onstraining agreements; and why multilateral a g r eements are mo re l i kely t o ha ve l ow e x it costs than b i l a t eral agr e emen t s."

Me yer and coll eagues publ ishe d t he ir study i n Ha r vard I n t e r nat ional Law J o ur nal (Power, Exit Costs, and Re negotia t i on in I n terna tiona l Law . Harva rd I nternational La w J ournal , 2010 ; 51 (2 ) : 379- 425) .

Addi t i o nal infor mation can be obtaine d by cont acting T . Meyer, Univers ity o f Georgia, School La w, Athen s , GA 30602, USA .

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By Craig Schneider The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

10:40 p.m. Thursday, September 2. 2010

An illegal irmigrant charged with trafficking cocaine worth millions of dollars suffered a massive stroke in the Douglas County jail earlier this year and ran up $400,000 in medical bills that were charged to the county.

Authorities in Douglas decided to dismiss the charges against Luis Luna Baro, 71 --in large part because the county didn't want to cover his bills anymore, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has learned.

"He was an illegal alien," District Attorney David McDade said. "He did not have legal status to be in the United States, and the taxpayers were going to be asked to pay for his care. Is justice served by dismissing charges when the man has basically been sentenced by God? ... I think so."

Baro's case is an extreme example, but city and county jails all over metro Atlanta face the same challenge: paying medical expenses for illegal immigrants who happen to be lodged in the jail when they get sick, or who bring chronic illnesses to jail with them. Local law enforcement officials say Douglas County did the right thing and saved its taxpayers a whopping bill.

Contacted by the AJC, immigration attorneys, however, have questioned whether county officials bent the law to save money and abandoned an inmate who the lawyers said was the county's responsibility.

These issues elicit strong opinions across metro Atlanta.

'We are paying too much for exactly this kind of thing," said Don Nash, 54, of Canton, who works in horne improvement. 'They just keep coming .... We end up paying for it."

The country, Nash said, needs to tighten both is borders and its immigration policies.

Joseph Rosen, a Roswell attorney who represents illll'Mgrants, said it isn't right for authorities to drop charges sirfl)ly to save taxpayer dollars.

"I really don't think you dismiss criminal charges for anything other than prosecutorial reasons," Rosen said.

Baro's situation carne to light a few weeks ago when the Douglas County Commission granted the sheriff's office money to replenish the fund for inmate medical costs.

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Killorin said Baro bought about 20 pounds of cocaine that would have been worth between $10 million and $20 million on the street, depending on how it was cut.

Baro, an illegal immigrant from Cuba living in Miami, was driving through Douglas County in November. Atlanta is a major supply point for Mexican drugs to reach Miami, rather than the other way around, said Killorin, whose unit tracks drug dealing to uncover major sources.

Baro and an alleged accomplice, Jose Arturo Vega, were traveling in separate vehicles when they were stopped in Douglas County on Nov. 9.

Authorities pulled over Vega's gray Volkswagen Passat on a tinted-window violation on 1-20. An officer noticed that Vega became increasingly nervous during the stop. Then the officer spotted some tooling on the screws to the rear seat. He asked for Vega's permission to search the vehicle , and Vega signed a document permitting it.

Under the rear seat, the officer found 10 kilo-sized packages of cocaine, according to authorities. Each was the size of a brick and weighed two pounds.

Baro was not carrying drugs in his vehicle; he allegedly was supervising the operation, Killorin said. When Baro was arrested, he was denied bond.

In the spring, Baro had his stroke and was in a coma for two weeks before undergoing several surgeries.

Stan Copeland, Douglas County's chief sheriffs deputy, said he looked into the possibility of deporting the illegal Cuban immigrant, but was told it couldn't be done.

Deporting Cuban immigrants is difficult for several reasons, according to Barbara Gonzalez, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman. Cubans generally have an easier time becoming legal irmigrants. Once they reach U.S. shores, they can apply for legal status after a year. A Cuban immigrant can't become legal if he or she has a criminal record.

But deporting Cuban irmigrants is difficult, because Cuba often won't approve the paperwork, Gonzalez said.

Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies in Washington, said the days of granting Cuban immigrants easy access to legal status in this country should end. He said the policies were rooted in the Cold War.

"Cuba is no longer an outpost for an aggressive foreign empire," said Krikorian, whose group supports tighter controls on irrmigration. "It is just another sorry Third World country."

Because Baro was in Douglas custody when he had the stroke, the county was responsible for the bill. Baro was paralyzed over much of his body and was not expected to recover his movement. He probably needed to be in a nursing home, Copeland said.

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Copeland said there were other reasons for dropping the charges beside the rising medical tab, notably the fact that Baro was so incapacitated he couldn't defend himself.

McDade, the DA, said he did the right thing in dropping the charges. Other metro Atlanta sheriffs have supported the Douglas prosecutor's action.

Gwinnett Sheriff Butch Conway estimated that inmates who are illegal imrrigrants cost Gwinnett taxpayers up to $500,000 a year in medical costs. He said all inmates cost the county $6 million in medical costs annually. When an inmate is set to run up a big county medical tab, the sheriffs department looks for alternatives.

"If circumstances allow it, we try to release them," Conway said. "I 've got to look out for the taxpayers."

Col. Don Bartlett of the Cobb County Sheriffs Office said if an inmate becomes incapacitated to the point that prosecution can't go forward, the sheriff could ask the prosecutor to drop the charges or work out a bond that allows the inmate to leave the system. At the same time, if an inmate has corrmitted a serious crime, needs major surgery and will recover, the department often pays the medical bill, allows the inmate to recover and moves forward with the case, Bartlett said.

Considering few inmates have their own health insurance, Rosen said the county likely shifted the costs to some hospital, which will pass it on to other patients and taxpayers through indigent care costs.

Charles Kuck, a University of Georgia adjunct law professor, said bending the rules to remove an inmate from a county's responsibility can border on medical abandonment.

"Just because he's illegal, the county doesn't get away with not taking care of his medical care," said Kuck, who also is an immigration attorney.

The charges against Baro were dropped on May 14, six months after his arrest. Insufficient evidence was the reason cited on the arrest warrant.

The next day, Baro was released from the hospital into the care of family members, said Sandra Jerkins, Douglas sheriffs department records supervisor.

It was now up to those family members to find medical care for Baro.

Staff writer Alexis Stevens contributed to this article.

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" Scho l a r s have l o ng u nder stood t ha t t he i ns t a bility of p o wer has r amifications for compl iance wi t h i n t ernational l aw. Scho l a rs hav e not, howev er, focused on how s t a t es' expectations abou t shifting power affect t he i nit i al desi g n o f inte r national a greements,'' scie ntis t s writing i n t he Harvar d I n t e rna t i o na l Law J o urna l r eport .

" I n this pape r, I i n t e grate s hifting power i n t o an anal ysis o f the i nit ial d esign of both the for mal and s ubstan t i ve aspects of agreement s . I argue tha t a s t a t e expecting t o b ecome mo r e powe rful o ver time incurs an oppor t u n i t y cost by a g r eei ng to f o r ma l pro vis i ons that r a ise the c ost o f exi t i n g a n agreement . Exit costs- wh i c h promote the s tabilit y o f l e ga l rul es- ha ve d i s tributional i mpl i cations . Before j o i n i ng a n agr eement , a n ''ascendant' ' s t ate wi l l t herefor e oft e n requir e either a g rea t er share of the benef i t s from cooperat ion, or a r educt ion i n e xit costs t hroug h the use of f o r ma l p rovisi ons such a s wit hdrawal clauses, sunset c lause s, and p r o visions affecting t he legality of a n a greement . I anal y ze how s t a tes determine which concessions t o ma ke i n o rde r to reach agreement wi t h a n ascendan t state," wrote T . Me yer and col leagues , On ive r s i ty of Geor gia .

The r ese a r che rs concl uded: "This analysis helps expl ain a n umber of puzzles in t he internalionaJ l ega l l i t e r a t u re, such as wh y state s wi t h poor c ompli anc e rates are somet imes observed t o join international agr eeme n t s a t t he same or h i gh er rat es t ha n s t ates wi t h good comp l i ance r a t es; why we ak a g r eements often e vol v e i n to mo re constraining agreements ; and why multila t e ral agreement s are more l i ke ly to have l ow exi t costs t h a n b i l a t e ral agr eemen t s . "

Meyer and col leagues p ub l i s hed t hei r s t udy in Harvar d I n t ernational Law Journa l (Power, Exit Costs, a nd Renegot i a tion i n I nternationa l Law. Harvard I n t e r natio nal La w Jou rna l , 2010 ;51 {2 } :379-425} .

Add i tional i nformatio n c a n b e obtained b y con t acti ng T . Me yer, University o f Geo [·q i a, School La w, At hens, GA 30602, lJSA .

The publ i s her o f t he Harv ard I n terna t i o nal Law J o u r na l c a n be contacted a t: Ha r vard Law School , Publicat i o ns Cent e r , Cambridge , MA 0 2138, USA .

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IN THE CITY 2010 is reaching out to the next generation of music indust ry executives by r unning a progra mme of educational e v ents designed to appeal to those looking for an entry point into the business .

The In The City !live will cover topics including artist management, music publishing, understandinq the me d i a, songwciLing a nd studio production.

F. vents already confirmed incl ude The Musici ans' Onion Guide To Do ing It Yourself, which examines self-rel easing a record; The Music Managers' Panel , looking at how to start out i. n management ; and My Generation, Ne xt Gene ration, in which Drowned in Sound founder Sean Adams a nd journa l ist Rebecca Nicholson discuss the digitaJ and cult u ral tcends of the p assi ng musical generation and examine what is next on the hor izon .

In The City director Yvette Livesey told Music Week at ITC ~009 that the event ' s audience was already getting younger as more students aLLended . However, while ITC has previously offered a student discount on tickets, the appearance of the Hive marks a major move into the educational market.

" I n The Cit y has always adopt ed the twin t e net s of education and i nspiration and we h ave decided this year to put in a p lace a b espoke programme tai lored to the specific needs of young p e ople looking to l earn about a nd get i n to t h e mu sic industry," Livesey explains .

"The In The City Hive will bring together a range of respected and successful industry professionals to inspire delegates and give them Lhe tools to start their journey into the industry."

The Hive wi l l run during the main ITC convention in Manchester on October 13-14 . Taki ng pJace at The Ma l maison Hotel, i t wi l l be a separately ticketed event from t he main conventio n, wjth passes p riced at £ 60 , i ncluding free entry to a l l In The City Live events . A special t i c ket for studenLs, including accomodation, will cost £ 150 f or t h e main ITC event .

Other confirmed panels for the ITC !live include:

* Write It, Record It, Mix It - a producers ' masterclass from Access To Music and JAME:S , the educational arm of Lhe Association Of Professional Recording Services and the Music Producers Guild;

* The I n siders Guide To The Media. Ray Paul , one t he f o u nders of lXtra, presents a wor kshop discussing t he d i fferent rol e s of the media ;

* The Untapped Goldmin e : 'l'h e Impo.rLance Of Publ ishing ;

* The Northern Song Col lect ive Songwriting Ma sterclass ;

* Learning How To Sell Yourself: The Art Of Networking ;

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Downs has represented the band s ince early on i n their c a reer a nd also teaches occasional courses on entertainment and mu s ic law at the University of Georgia La w School .

Fu rther panels a nnounced for t he main event include What' s The 0 2, examining t he telecoms company ' s live v enue s ponsorship deal; A Question of Sport , in wh ich artist manager John Arnison will quiz a panel of sports execut ives t o find out what the music business can l earn from the sports world; and 21st Century ticketing .

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IMially pu-suilg a degree in large-animal medicine. Bridges soon realized that her lour-legged friends were more of a hObby than a career. Wrth six generations of attorneys in her family, it's not sll'prising that She followed in their footsteps and ended up in law school.

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HEADLINE: Bright Star : Kevin Lang

BYLINE : Don Nelson, Athens Ba nner- Heral d, Ga .

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Sept . 06--Before moving to the Athens area six years a go a nd join i ng .th e ~ a w pr·actice o f Fortson , Bentle y and Griffin wi th its 16 attorneys, l a~vye r- Kev in Lang had worked wi th an Atl anta f irm t hat boasted 470 l egal professional s .

The workload a nd substance of his practice hasn 't changed much, though, said Lang who works i n transactional l aw, handl ing busi ness d eal s for commerci a l rea l estate proj ects and peopl e who buy and sel l businesses.

" I l i ke negotiated deal s ... mergers and acquisitions," Lang sai d.

The move to Athen s was more a choice o f lif estyles for h im.

He and hi s wife, who bot h a t t ended the Un i versity of Georgia, wan ted to get away from the h ustl e and bustle of t he big city.

"My wif e a nd I both went to school here, and we decided Athe n s was our top choice."

Since settling in to his new job and home, Lang h as cont i nued to work hard, putting in 60 t o 70 hour s a we e k.

Wh e n he's not worki ng, he's spendi ng t i me with his wife and two young chil dren or he's volun t eering with t h e board of d irect ors of t he UGA Alumn i Association or the Food Bank of North east Georgi a, where he provides legal counsel.

ll i s associa tion with t he Food Ba nk has been highly rewardin g , he said.

" I t's been a great experience . The food b ank d oes a r ema rkabl e job o f get t i ng f ood to people on a very e f f icient basi s," he sald . " It ser ves a l ot of people . "

He's also a graduate of t he L . E .A.D. At hens , a community l eader ship p rogram h eaded up by t h e Ath ens Area Chamber of Commerce.

About Lang

Age : 34

Profe ssion/place of work : Attorney, Fortson, Bentley a nd Griffin , P .A.

College background: Bachel or ' s degree in finance, Universi ty of Georgia, 1998 ; J . D., U.GA School o f:Law, -20 0'1

Your· f irst. payin g job: Cu t ting t he g rass a t home

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Childhood ambition : To p l ay o n t he PGA Tour

Comn1uni t y involvement : Board o f directors for Food Bank of Nor theas t Ge orgia Inc.; board o f directors f or UGA Al umni Association

Favorite book : "The Match : The Day the Game of Golf Changed Forever," by Mark frost

Favorite p astime : Golf

favorite movi e : " E'orr.est Gump "

Fa vor i t e mus i cal group : R. E .M.

If you we re the chief ele c ted offLci.al of your commu nity what i mme d i a te changes wo u l d you make? I would f ocus my aLLention on economic development , including attracting clean indus t r y (including biotech companies) to build facilities in Athens-Clarke County .

How would you address poverty in a county like At hens-Clarke wher e t h e pover ty rate is so high? We n eed more skill-based j obs i n our community . I don' t think we a re going to see much o f a change in t h e poverty rate unt il t hose living in poverly have a n a l t ernative to minimum a nd l o w-wage jobs . If t h e j obs are avail abl e, t hey wJ l l b e filled by those interested in developing the requisit e skil l seLs .

To s ee more of The Athens Banner - Herald or to subscribe to the newspaper, go to http: //www . onlineaLhens . com/ . Copyright (c) 2010, Athens Banner- Hera ld, Ga. Distribute d by McClatchy-Tribune Information Services . For more information about the content services offe red by McClatchy- Tr ibune InformaLion Services (MCT) , visit www . mctinfoservice s . com, e-mail services @mctinfoservi ces . com, or call 866- 280- 5210 (outside t h e United States, calJ + l 312- 222-4544) .

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SepL . 0 6 --As an attorney wit h t he Athens-Clarke sol i ciLor ' s off i ce, J anna Landreth ha s found a sense of chemistry in her job, though she rrtight not choose that ter minology .

Especially since Landreth scr apped her childhood plans to become a doctor

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after her f irst high school chemi stry class . It wa sn' t unti l she comple ted her anthropology degree at the University of Georgia and realized she d i dn ' t want to be a professor, that s he decided to pursue a law degree .

" I didn ' t know what I wa nted to do, but I knew a l aw degree c oul dn' t hu rt me," Landre t h said .

After earning her law degree in 2001 , she interned with t he Georgia Supreme Court in Atla n ta before taking a job clerking in the Superior Court o f Ath ens-Clarke County .

In 2003, former Solicitor General Ralph Powell recruited her to hjs team of attorneys to prosecute misdemeanor cases in state court and in the Athens-Clarke and Wi ntervil le municipal courts .

She really found her element in mu nicipal court .

"Once I got to mu nicipal court, I thought t his i s whe re I want to be," Landret h said.

In 2006, a fter giving birth to twins who were in the NICU for three months, she resigned her position, but was lured back in 2009 by Powell ' s successor, C. R. Chisholm, who p romised she could stay in municipal cou rt.

" I love municipal court and l ove t raffic cases ... it 's a very fast-paced court with a high volume of cases and requir es a high level of organization, which I excel at, " she s aid.

She takes a lot of work home and works every weekend, but that a llows her flexibility in her schedule and more time with her childre n and husband, she said .

About La ndreth

Age : 33

Profession /place of wo rk: At t orney i n Lhe Athens-Cl arke Coun ty Solic itor ' s Of fice

College background : Hachelor's degree in anthropology, the University of Georgia , 1998; J . D. from UGA School of Law , 2001

Yo ur first paying job: Clerk in a fami ly- owned pha rmacy

Childhood ambition : To become a physician

Commu nity invol vement : Attending l ocal festivals and events, and shopping a t locally-owned businesses

Favorite book: " The Secret Garde n ," by Fr ance s Hodgson Bu rnett ; " In t he Heart of t he Canyon, 11 by Elisabet h Hyde; and " The Namesa ke," by Jhumpa Lahiri

Favorite pastime: Running and cycling

Favorite movie : " Far go," " The Shawshank Redemp Lion," and "The Breakfast Club"

Favorite musical group : Willie Nelson, Erasure, "Flashda nce'' soundtrack, Cowboy Junkies

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inef ficiencies exis t , for which Lhe community suffer s . I don 't say t his to be cri t i cal, but merely to poi n t out that there is alwa ys room f or impr ovement and a thorough audit would provide a starting point for any changes t hat might benefi t the community at large .

How would you address poverty in a coun ty like Athens-Cl arke wher e the poverty rat e is so high? For some folks , it ' s a matter of being willing to work, but for an overwhelming number of individual s, working 40 or more hours a week i s not providing the income necessary to adequately f inance their l i ves . I don ' t have an answer to t his, b ut did read a real ly interesting book on t he topic several years ago by Barbara Ehrenreich called ~ Nic k el and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in 1\me rica."

To see more of The Athens Banner-Herald or to subscribe to the newspaper, go t o http : //www . onlineathens . com/ . Copyright {c) 2010, Athens Banner-Herald, Ga . Distributed by McClatchy-Tr ibune Inf ormation Services. For more inf ormalion about the content services offered by McClatchy-Tribune Informa tion Services {MCT} , visil www.mctJnfo services . com, e-mai l services@mc l i nfoservi ces.com , or c a l l 866- 28 0-5~10 (ou lside the United Sta t e s, call +1 312-222-4544) .

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Sept . 06- -The Colorado Navy recr uiter who mer Adam band i n t h e d ays following the Sept . 11 terror attacks nudged him to Na vy f ighter planes . His decision to join resulted in Land ' s arriving in Athens .

" I wante d Lobe a cryptologist, be a Navy computer geek, basical ly," Land sai d. ''They asked me if I wa nted to be a pilot. I was surprised. l t hought you had to look l i ke all the guys in ' Top Gun,' be short and have perfect eyesight ... you just have to fit in a ll the planes you ' re flying ."

Hjs officer a nd flight t raining spanned t h e next t h .rce-plus years . Aircraft car rier qualjfications stopped his advance .

~I was 80 percent of the way through," Land said. ''It was real disappointing, but Lhe way I look a t i t , I wouldn ' t trade anything for the way t h i ngs have wo rked out ."

The GI Bill, a l ong wjth his wife, Jacqueline , being from Atlanta , r esulted in Land reloca ting to Athens where he attended the Un i vers i ty of ~QQ~ia Law School

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. The couple' s new mission : To e sta b lish roots for daughte r s Emme lin e , 4 , and Juli a, 1. (The couple ls expect i ng t heir t hird child in March . )

Land is an attorney with Blasingame, Burch, Garrard & Ashley, P . C ., a nd recent g radua te o f L . E . A.D. Athe ns . His g roup studied ho w t o connect Lh c heal th department ' s WIC (Women, I n f a nts and Chll dren) rec i p i ents wi th local vendors.

Additionally, Land is a mentor to an at-risk youth lhroug h the Clarke County Mentor Program. He credits a fellow l aw school stude nt wit h inspiring him to h e lp young people soar, t oo .

" He was one of the first mentees , that was 20 years ago and he still meets with his mentor once a week," Land said. " I thought that was kind o f n eat ."

About La nd

Age : 33

Profess i on/place of work: At t o rney, Bla s ingame , Bu rch, Ga rrard & Ashley, P. C .

College background : Bachelor ' s degree in finance , University of Colorado a L Boulder , 1 999; J . D. from the Unive r s ity of Georgia, 200&-

Your first paying job : A r unner a t a p ublic rela t i o n s fi r m

Childhood ambition : Astr onaut

Commu n ity involvement : Clarke County Mentor program, L . E . A. D . Athens

Favorite book : "The Great Santini," by Pat Conroy

Favorite pasti me : Spending time wit h my children

Favorite movie : " The Big Lebowski "

Favorite musical group : Wldespread Pa nic

If you were t he chief elected o ffi cial o f your conununity what i mmedia te cha nges would you make? I would pass an ord inance requiring Chick- fil- a to be open on Sundays .

How would you address poverty i n a county like At hens-Clarke where t he pover ty r a t e is so high? I would find ways t o improv e the high school graduation rat e and lower the teen p regnancy rate .

To see more o f The Athe n s Banner-Herald o ~ to subscribe to t he newspaper, g o to ht tp : //www . onli nea thens . com/ . Copyrlght (c) 2010, Athens Banner- Herald, Ga. Di stributed by tJ!cClatchy- 1'r ibune Inf ormation Services. For more information about the contenL services offered by McClatchy-Tribune I nformation Services (MCT J , visi t wwv1 . met i. nfoserv i.ces . corn , e -ma .i. l [email protected] . com, or cal l 866-280-5?. 10 (o u t side the United States, call +1 312- 2 22-45 44) .

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R0 m.·e,., 1I ~J {' - T r-· 1"1 • J ~-v€./ Local law firm honored for giving to UGA Reputation, Reputation, Reputation by Lydia Senn q ·7 / 0 16 hrs ago 1355 ..W.vs 1o ar;~ I 3 I 1c. J 1 f/ j Since graduating from the University of Georgia schOol of law in 1984, Andy Davis has remained active in mentoring young law school graduates and supporting the university.

Davis is one of ni ne attorneys at the Rome-based Brinson. Askew, Berry, Seigler, Richardson and lJh1~~~~~ :R~f:~~ Davis. LLP to graduate from UGA's law school.

The fi rm has been awarded the Dean's Trophy from UGA Phyllis Cooke. director of annual giving CLICK HERE for UGA. said the 1 00-percent award goes to law firms with five or more UGA graduates who all To see all Real Estate Listings donate to the law school, and Brinson, Askew and Berry is the first firm to ever reach such an in County with photos achievement. Floyd

The award recognizes the firm's 100-percent donor participation. The firm will be awarded with a special ceremony today.

"We are excited because this award recognizes the law firm, but also the school: Davis said.

The firm will be awarded With a reception and a special trophy presented to them at their office on West First Street by law school dean Rebecca Hanner White.

"It's a nice honor: Davis said.

Davis said the number of attorneys from the firm who chose to support the school through annual giving puts them in the ra nks of larger firms with more partners and associates. Nearly half of the firm's 19 lawyers got their law degree from UGA

"I think this makes a statement that we support the school." Davis said.

The fi rm has also worked to mentor young lawyers, not just graduates from UGA as a part of State Bar of Georgia requirements. Share Th•s Article I

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Russell l:.dwards, a Democrat and graduate of the University 's School of Law, is vying for a chance to represent Georgia's I Oth District in the U.S. House of Representatives. He is running against incumbent Rep. Paul Broun Jr.

Edwards recently shared with The Red & Black his views on running against an incumbent, how best to serve our district's interests in Washington, D.C., and how the outcome of this election could affect University students.

EDWARDS

Why do you want to represent Georgia's lOth District?

I want to represent our district because I love a ll that it has to offer. We have beautiful mountains in north Georgia, fantastic cultural offerings in Athens, and wonderful schools throughout the district. However, we are underserved by our incumbent congressman. I lc does nothing to support the University of Georgia or any other part of our community. Last year, the University of Alabama received I 0 times more federal funding than UGA simply because our incumbent congressman does not direct any government research funding to us. If you're unhappy with tuition hikes and program cutbacks, get involved with our campaign to strengthen UGA and send responsible leadership to Washington.

What is your strategy for com1>eting with an incumbent who bas raised more money than your campaign?

We have remained competitive in fundraising against our opponent, having raised money from nearly 500 individual donors. Our campaign is a people-powered movement with the vast majority of our support coming from individuals within the I Oth District. The incumbent' s campaign - currently nearly $100,000 in debt - is being funded by out-of-state PACs [political action committees] and major corporations. This stark difference in support proves that the incumbent has made enemies with his refusal to support UGA and the greater community. It's not all about money though - we are building a broad coalition throughout the district to move us forward beyond the useless rhetoric of hate, and we encourage students to join us.

What did you enjoy most about your time at the University's School of Law?

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The law school is a great community of professors, staff and students. I enjoyed plugging into the Athens activist community and coordinating with important groups like the Southern Poverty Law Center. The SPLC leads the fight against bigotry in our country by suing hate groups, like the Ku Klux Klan, when they commit acts of violence. However, the SPLC is also currently tracking our incumbent congressman and has profiled him as one ofthe top five enablers of hate crimes in our nation. If you find this as appalling as 1 do, I encourage you to get involved in our campaign.

Why should University students registered in the lOth District vote for you'?

I believe in fully supporting UGA and restoring responsible leadership for our district. Not too long ago, I attended UGA, and I recogni1.e the need for a new generation to step up and lead our commun ity. I ask all students to register to vote in our commun ity and join me in shaping our future. Please contact Sarah Morris, our campus coordinator, at [email protected] and join the Dawgs for Russe ll facebook group.

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The Universi t y of Georgia i ssued the f o l lowi ng ne ws r e lease :

Th e University of Georgia Schoo l of Law wi l l host j udges fro m t he U. S . Cou rt o f Appeals for Ve t eran s Cl a ims on Sept . 2 1 as t hey hea r a case. The h earing wi l l t ake p lace i n t he l aw school 's Ha t t on Love joy Cou r t room, l ocated i n Hirsch Ha l l, f r om 10:30 a.m . to 12 p.m. and is open t o t h e public .

" It is a grea t honor to we l come t hese j udges to t he School of La w, " Assoc iate De a n for Academic and St ude n t Affairs Paul M. Ku rtz said. "The U. S . Cou r t of Appeals f or Veterans Claims p l ays a u nique a nd imp ortant rol e i n t he j udicial syst em by specifica l l y f ocusing on veterans ' rights . I t i s a rare opport un i ty and a p rivi l ege for peopl e in our community to h a v e a chan ce to observe t he working s of t hi s court a nd s i t i n on a case . "

The Ve t erans Cl a ims Cou rt ha s excl usive j urisdiction to provide vetera ns an i mpartial j ud i c i al revi ew of fina l d e c isions by t he Board of Ve t e rans' Appeal s, an entit y wit h in t he Department o f Ve t erans Affa irs. I t r u l es on mat t e rs invol v i ng a dmini s t r a tive d eci s j ons on ser vice-connected disabil i t ies, survivor benef its, educati on payments, waivers of indebtedness and other ben e fit s. For more infor ma t ion about t he court, see www . uscourts . cavc.gov .

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Gov . Sonny Perdue, R-Ga . , issued the following news release :

Governor Sonny Perdue announced today the following execut)ve appoint ments . Brief biographies are provided below :

Board of Commissioners of the Superior Cour t Clerks ' Retirement Fund of Georgia

Kevin D. Abernathy, 34, Atla nta - Abernathy is an a ttorney i n the Atl an t a office of Ha l l Booth Smith & Sl over. He served as Deputy Legislative Counsel and Special Deputy Legislative Counsel to Lieutenant Governor Casey Cagl e . Abernathy earned a bachelor ' s degree from t he University of Georgia and a l aw degree from Georgia St ate College of Law.

Board of Corrections

M. Ashley Paulk, Jr., 65, Hahira- Paulk is chairman of the Lowndes County Board of Commissioners and president of Valdosta El ectric and Shiloh Far ms . He is a member of t he board of the Boy Scouts of America and is c hairman o f t he board of Guardian Bank . In 2006, he received the International Rotary Award. He served as Lowndes County s heriff for sixteen years. Paulk and h Js wife, Gin ger, have f ive children and ninet een g randchildren .

Board of DirecLors of the Georgia Regional Transportation Au Lhority

Ken Stewart, 60, MarieLta - Stewart is the senior advisor for industry strategy a l Lhe Georgia Institute o[ 'l'echnology. He is treasurer of Lhe American Forest Foundation, serves on the Board of Trustees of the Georgia Historical Sociely a nd t he board of directors f or the Langda l e Company. lie is past commissioner of the Georgia Department of Economic Development . Stewart earned a bachelor ' s degree from Mississippi State University and a law degree from Woodrow Wilson College of Law . He and hls wife , Linda, have one son .

Edward M. Tate, 34 , Atlanta - Tate is the campaign manager for U. S . Senator Johnny Isa kson ' s rc-e)ection campaign . He is Lhe director of the T .R. Miller Mill Co., Inc . He served as deputy executive counsel a nd deputy chief operating officer for Governor Sonny Perdue . Tate earned a bachelor ' s degree from Harvard and a law degree from the University of Virginia School of Law .

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Brai n and Spj na l I n j u ry Trust Fund Commission

Timot h y A. Wa ll, 30, Brooklet - Wa l l is a t herapeutic r ecreat ion s peci a l ist and a graduate assistant a t Geor gia So u thern Un iversity . He i s an associate i nstructor of t he Professi onal Tennis Regi s try at t h e S t a t esbor o Bul l och County Parks and Recreat i o n Departmen t . Wa l l e arned a b achelor ' s degree f rom Georgia Southern University .

Ge orgia Environmental Facil i t ies Authori t y

Boyd L . Austin, J r., 47, Dall as- Austin is the ma yor of t he cit y o f Da l l as a nd t he d e a n o f c h ief e lected o f f i c i als and constit u tional o f f i c ers in Pauld i ng County Georgia Municipal Association. lie serves as the vice chairman of t he No r t h Georgia Wa l e .c Planning Di s t rict a nd is a member of t he board of d irectors o f t he Northwest Ge orgi a Regional Commission. Boyd e arned a bach e l or's d egree from t he Univer sity o f Georgi a .

Georgi a Musi c Hal l of Fame Au t hority

David Barbe, 46, At hens - Barbe is t h e co- owner, presid e n t a nd chief e ngineer o f Chase Park Transduction Recording St udios and i s a free- l ance recording engi neer. He i s a member of t he b oard of d i rector s for Nuci's Spa c e i n At hens a nd a member of the board o f directors for At hens Littl e League Base ball . Ba rbe earned a bache1o r 's degree f rom the Univer sit y of Georgi a . He and his wif e, Amy, have t h ree children .

Rob J. Gibson, Jr., 51 , Savannah- Gibson is executive and artistic d irector of t he Savannah Music Festiva l . He is the fou ndi ng d irector o f Jazz a t Li ncol n Center whe re h e wor ked f o r t e n years . He served as a member of t he faculty o f Tt1 e Jul l i a rd School . He helped creat e and co- produce the Peabody Awa rd winni ng secies ''J azz from Lincoln Center'' for national public radio . Cibs on earned a bachel or ' s degree from t h e Universi ty of Georgia . He and h is wife, Caroline, h a ve t h ree chi ldren .

R. Kirby Godsey, Ph. D., 74, Macon- Godsey i s chancel lor of Merce r Un iversi ty. He ser ved as president a nd CEO of Mercer for 27 years. He is chairman of the Board o f Bir ch Corrununic ation a nd a d irector o f NewTown Buil d e rs, LLC. He is a member of t he board of d irectors o f t he Rome Chamb er Music Festi val i n New Yo rk a nd t h e Peyton Ander son Foundation in Macon, Georgia . Godsey earned a bachel o r's degree from Samford Universit y , a master's degree a nd a doctorate from New Orleans Baptist Theol ogica l Seminary, a master's d e gree from t he University of Alabama a nd a Ph . D. f rom Tulane Uni versity . He a nd his wife, Joan, have f our chil dren and five grandchil dren .

RoberE S. Hi gh sm~h, Jr . , 39, At l anta- Highsmi t h i s a p artner at Ho lland & Knight where he p ractices l egislative, administrative, and r egulatory l a w, government r e latio n s a nd litigat ion. He serves as t he nati onal t eam l eader f or the f irm's State Capi tals Team, and l eads t h eir Georgi a Government Relations Pract i ce . He is p ast Deput y Executive Coun sel for Gover nor Sonn y Perdue. Hi g h smit h ear ned a bachelor' s degree f ~om Yale a nd a l a w d e gree from the Univer sity of Georgia ' s School of Law . He and his wif e , Kris tl , hav e fou r c h i ldren .

Cla ire F . Hi l l ard, Ph .D., 52, Albany -Hi l l ard is a member of t he musi c faculty of Darton Coll ege. He serves as mu s i c d irector a nd conduc t o r f or the Al bany Symph ony Orchestra . He is a member of t he Geor gia Counci l f or t he Arts Music Panel and a professional affil iate member o f t he American Symphony Orch estra League . Hi llard earned a bachelor's degre e from Calvin College, a master's degree a nd a Ph. D. from t he Univer sity of Iowa . He a nd his wife, Meri Beth, have three chil dren .

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Georg ia House Speaker David Ra l s t on (R- Blue R.:i:<:!ge rJ.s t h e fea tur e d spea ker at a G ~orgi a Sou t hwester n S t a t e Univers ity convoca tion Wedne sday, Sept. 29 a t 11 a. m. Set in Jac k s o n Performa n c e Hall , t he convocation is f r e e . The c ommu n ity i s i nvite d a nd encouraged to a ttend.

Ra l s ton was elected to t he Georgia St a t e Sen a te in 1 992 and served until 1998 when he won t he Republ ican n ominat ion for a t torne y general o f Georgia . In 2002, Ralston was elec ted to the Georgia House o f Rep resentati ves t o serve the ci ti~ en s o f t he s e ven th district , which inc l udes the cou nt ies of Fannin and Gilmer and par t o f Da wson. On J anuary 11, 2010, Ralston wa s elected Speaker o f the Geo r g ia House o f Representatives.

As a member of t he Georgia House of Represe n t atives, Ra l ston has served o n t he f ollowing committe es : Appropriat ions, Rules, Transportation , Government al Affairs , J udic i a ry (vice-chai r) and J udici a r y No n-Civll (chair}. Ra lston ' s support in Lhc House was a key c omponent f or Ge orgia Sout hwestern t o s ecure s tate f unding for its llealth a nd Human Scienc es Comp lex . Groundbrea k ing f or t h e c omplex i s s c hedule d for 2012 .

"We a re exc ited about t h e Speake r' s visit and grate ful to Re p res ent ati ve Mi. ke Che o kas f o r ma king his v isil possi ble," said GSW Presi dent Kendall Blanchard . ''Representa t i ve Ralston 's l eadership has a lready made a d ifferenc e in t he s tate legislat u r e. Hi s inf l u ence was imp ort ant to t he University' s g e tting $6 . 5 mi l l i on this y ear f or t he c onstruction of Phase I o f the Heal t h and Huma n Sciences Compl ex. We appreciate his s uppor t of Georgia Southwestern and look forward to h is comments a t t his special convocation ."

Ra lsLon was b orn in ~ll i j ay where he grad uated f r om Gilme r Coun t y High School . lie e arned a b a c heJ or's deg ree from No r t h Georgia Co l l ege a nd State Un iversi t y a nd later a law degree from t he University of Georgia School .of Law_,

Aside f rom h i s legislative duties, Ra l s ton i s a n atl orney i n Bl ue Ridge . His c ivic a cti vities include participati on wi th the Fanni n County Chamber o f Commerce , t he Blue Ridge Mountains Arts Asso ciation and t h e Bl ue Ridge Lions Club .

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The tJni v e rsi ty of~Georgia School o( Law wi-i!.l host-judges from the U. S . Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims on Sepr. 21 as they h ear a case. The hearing will take place i n t he law school ' s Hatton Lovejoy Courtroom, located in Hirsch Hall, from 10 :30 a. m. to 12 p . m. and is open to the public .

" It is a g r eat honor to welcome these judges to the School of Law," Associate Dean for Academic and Student Affairs Paul M. Kurt z said. "The U. S . Court of Appeals for Veter ans Claims plays a unique and important role in the judicial system by specifically focusing on veterans ' rights. It is a rare opportunity and a privilege for people in our community to h a ve a chance to observe the wor kings of this court and sit in on a case."

Th e Veterans Claims Court has exclusive jurisdiction to provide veterans an impartial j udic i a l review of final decisions by t h e Board of Veterans ' Appeals, an entity within t he Department of Veterans Affairs . It rule s on matters involving administrative decisions on service-connected disabilit ies, survivor benefit s, e d ucation payments, waivers of indebtedness and other benefits. For more information about the court , see www . uscourts . cavc . gov. For a ny q~ery with respect to thi s article or any other con tent requirement, p l ease contact Editor at htsyndication@hindustantimas . com

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Sept . 09--The new nltama ha Rlver keepe r wi l l a rrive on the Georgia coasL next month, packing two d egrees f rom the Universit y of Georgia .

SonJa Cox has been named the n ew Altamaha Riverkeeper, a position h eld by former commerc ial crabbe r James Hol l and unt i l his retirement in May, the environmental o rgan i zatio n based i n Da rien wi t h the s ame Alt amaha Ri verkeeper name it gives i ts t op d irector announced Wednesday .

She will begin her job in mid- October .

A nalive of Al hens, Cox graduated magna cum l aude from t h e Grady School or Journa lLsm at UGl\ and g n.luar~a "Cum laude from the UGA School cf Law, d ·cording to the organization that advocates for environmental p rotect ions in the Alamaha wa tershed .

Cox has had courses i n environmental l aw, n atural resou rces law, l ocal government law and land u se law .

A former a ssistant dis t rict a ttorn ey, she started her own l ega l p ractice i n res identi a l and commercial real estate . Her b ackground includes litigation e xperience with several Atlanta l aw firms .

In her most recent job, s he was cou nt y attorney f or Do ug l a~ Cou nty . It's wher e she gained a n unders t andi ng of local, s tate, and federal e nvironmental l a ws , wa tershed p rotecL ion r egulations and general water pol icy issues, as well a s an understanding of the workings of state and local gover nment, t he organization said .

Cox should feel right at home in the wetlands of Coastal Georgi a . The riverkeeper organization descrjbes her as a person who loves the outdoors .

She par t icul arly enjoys hi king a nd water- b orne paddJing, it said.

''The R i ve~keep er is the kind of job I ' ve always wante d to do, wha t I ' ve always d reamed o f, a nd been working t oward," Cox said i n a p r epared s talcment .

"It ' s the culmin a tion of all my career and professional dreams . I welcome t h e chance to dedicate myself to something I care passionatel y about and I am exci t ed to bring my career a nd life experie nce to the job .

''There has never been a more c ritical time to work to protect and conserve our natura l resources and the e nvironment. "

founded in 1999, the Altamaha Riverkeeper was the 27th Waterkeeper l\lliance organization in the Uni t ed States and Lhe second such organi zation i n Georgia.

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ATLANTA , Sept . 8 - - Gov . Sonny Pe rdue, R- Ga ., iss ued the f o J lowlng p ress release:

Governor Sonny Perdue ann oun c ed t oday t he fol lowi ng execu ti v e app oLnt ments . Brief biographies a re provided b elow :

BO~R D OF COMMISSIONERS OF THE SUPERIOR COURT CLER KS ' RETIREMEN T FUND OF GEORGIA

Kevin D. Abernathy, 34, Atlanta - Abernathy is an attorney i n the Atla nta office o f Ha lJ Booth Smi th & Slover . He s e rved as Deput y Legisla tive Coun sel and Special Dep uty Legislative Counsel to Li eute nant Governor Casey Cagle . Aberna thy earned a b a chel or 's deg ree From the University o f Ge orgia and a l a w d egree from Georgia State Colle ge of La w.

BOARD OF CORR ECT I ONS

M. Ash.ley Paulk, Jr. , 65, Hahi.ra - Paulk i s chairman of the Lowndes County Board of Commiss ione rs a nd president o f Valdosta Ele ctric and Shiloh Fa rms . He is a member of t he b oar d o f the Boy Scou ts o f Ame ric a a nd is chairman o f the boar d of Guardian Bank . In 2006, he rece ived the I nterna tional Rotary Award . He served as Lownde s County sheriff for six teen years . Paulk and h is wife, Gin ger, have f i ve chil dren a nd nineteen grandchildre n .

BOAR D Of' DI RE CTORS OF 1'HE GEORGIA REGIONAL TRl\NS PORTATION AUTHORITY

Ken Stewa rL , 60, Mariett a - S tewa rt is the senior advisor for i ndustry strategy at the Georgia InstiLute o f Technology. He is treasurer of the American rorest foundatio n , s erve s on Lhe Roa rd o f Trus tees of t he Georgia Hi s torical Society and the board of directors for the Langdale Company. He i s past commiss i oner o f the Georgi a Departme nt of Economic Developme n t . Ste wa r·t earned a bachelor ' s d egree from Missi ssippi State Univers ity a nd a l a w degree from Woodrow Wilson College of La w. He and h i s wife, Linda , have one s on .

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officer f or Governor Sonny Perdue . Tate earned a b a chelor's d egree from Harvard and a law degree from t he University of Vi rginia School of Law.

BRAIN AN D SPINAL INJURY TRUST FUND COMM ISSION

Timothy A. Wall, 30 , Brookle t - Wa l l is a t herapeutic recreation s pecial i s t and a graduat e assistant at Georgia Souther n Universi ty . He is a n associate instructor of the Professional Tennis Regis try at the Statesboro Bulloch County Parks a nd Recreation Deparlment. Wall earned a bachelor 's degree from Georgia Southern Un ivers i ty.

GF:ORGIAENVIRONMENTAL FAC ILITIES AUTHORITY

Boyd L. Au sLln, Jr., 47 , Dallas- ~ustin i s t he mayor of t he city of Dallas and the dean of chief elected officials and constitu tional offLce rs in Pauldin g County Geor gia Municipal Association . lie serves as t he vice chairman of. t h e Nor th Georgia Water Planni ng District and is a membe r of the board of directors of t he Northwest Georgia Regional Commission. Boyd earned a bachelor ' s degr ee from the University of Georgia .

GEORGIAMUSIC HALLOF FAME AUTHORITY

Davi d Barbe, 46, Athens - Barbe is the co-owne r , president and chief eng ineer of Chase Pa rk Tra n sduction Recording Studios and is a free- lance r ecording engineer . He is a member o f t he board of d irectors for Nuci ' s Space in AL hens and a member of the board of directors for Athens Little League Baseball . Barbe earned a bachelor's degree from the Univecsity o f Georgia . He and his wife, ~y . have three chil dren .

Rob J . Gibson, Jr., 5 1, Savannah- Gibson is executive and artistic director o f the Savannah Mus ic Festi val . He is the f ounding director of Jazz at Lincoln Center. where he wor ked for ten years . lie served as a member o( t he faculty of The Julliard School. He helped crea te and co-produce t he Peabody Award winning series " Jazz trom Lincoln Center" for nat ional public radio . Gibson earned a bachelor's degree from the Univecsity of Georgia . He and his wife, Caroline, have three children.

R. Kirby Godsey, Ph . D., 74 , Macon- Godsey is chance llor of Me r c er Un i versity . He served as p resident and CEO of Mercer for 27 years . He is chairman of the Board of Birch Communication and a director of NewTown Builders, LLC . l!e is a member of the board of director-s of the Rome Chamber Music Festival i n New York and t he Peyton And erson Foundation in Macon, Geor g ia . Godse y e arned a bachelor ' s degree f rom Samford University, a master ' s degree a nd a doctorat e from New Or leans Baptist Theological Seminary , a master ' s d egree fcom the University of Alabama and a Ph . D. from Tulane University . He and his wife, Joan, have fou r c hildren and five grandchil dre n .

Roberts . Highsmith, Jr., 39, ~tlanta - Highsmith is a parlner at Holland & Knight wher e he practices legislative , administrative, and regulator y l aw, government relations and litjgation . He s erves as t h e national team leader f or t he firm ' s State Capitals Team, and l eads t heir Georgia Government Re lations Pr actjce . He is past Deputy Executi ve Counsel for Go vernor Sonny Perdue . Highsmith eat ned a bachelor ' s degree from Yale and a law degree from the r n!~ersity o f Georgia's School of Law. lie and his wi f e , Kristi, have four c hildren .

Claire F . Hillard, Ph . D., ~2 , Albany- Hillard is a membe r of t he music f aculty of Darton College . He serves as music director and conductor for the Albany Symphony Orchestra . He is a member of the Georgia Co u ncil for the Arts Mu s ic Panel and a professiona l affiliate memb er o f t h e American Symphony Orchestra League . Hillard earned a b achelor' s degree from Calvin College, a master ' s degree and a Ph . D. from the University o f Iowa . He and his wife, Meri Beth, have t hree children . For any q uery wi t h respect to this arlicle or any

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Board of Commissioners of the Superior Court Clerks' Retirement Fund of Georgia

Kevin D. Abernathy, 34, Atlanta - Abernathy is an attorney in the Atlanta office of Hall Booth Smith & Slover. He served as Deputy Legislative Counsel and Special Deputy Legislative Counsel to Lieutenant Governor Casey Cagle. Abernathy earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Georgia and a law degree from Georgia State College of Law.

Board of Corrections

M. Ashley Paulk, Jr., 6S, Hahira - Paulk is chairman of the Lowndes County Board of Commissioners and president of Valdosta Electric and Shiloh Farms. He is a member of the board of the Boy Scouts of America and is chairman of the board of Guardian Bank. In 2006, he received the International Rotary Award. He served as Lowndes County sheriff for sixteen years. Paulk and his wife, Ginger, have five children and nineteen grandchildren.

Board of Directors of the Georgia Regional Transportation Authority

Ken Stewart, 60, Marietta - Stewart is the senior advisor for industry strategy at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is treasurer of the American Forest Foundation, serves on the Board of Trustees of the Georgia Historical Society and the board of directors for the Langdale Company. He is past commissioner of the Georg ia Department of Economic Development. Stewart earned a bachelor's degree from Mississippi State University and a law degree from Woodrow Wilson College of Law. He and his wife, Linda, have one son.

Edward M. Tate, 34, Atlanta - Tate is the campaign manager for U.S. Senator Johnny Isakson's re-election campaign. He is the director of the T.R. Miller Mill Co., Inc. He served as deputy executive counsel and deputy chief operating officer for Governor Sonny Perdue. Tate earned a bachelor's degree from Harvard and a law degree from the University of Virginia School of Law .

Brain and Spinal Injury Trust Fund Commission

Timothy A. Wall, 30, Brooklet -Wall is a therapeutic recreation specialist and a graduate assistant at Georgia Southern University. He is an associate instructor of the Professional Tennis Registry at the Statesboro Bulloch County Parks and Recreation Department. Wall earned a bachelor's degree from Georgia Southern University.

Georgia Environmental Facilities Authority

Boyd l. Austin, Jr., 47, Dallas - Austin is the mayor of the city of Dallas and the dean of chief elected officials and constitutional officers in Paulding County Georgia Municipal Association. He serves as the vice chairman of the North Georgia Water Planning District and is a member of the board of directors of the Northwest Georgia Regional Commission. Boyd earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Georgia.

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David Barbe, 46, Athens - Barbe is the co-owner, president and chief engineer of Chase Park Transduction Recording Studios and is a free-lance recording engineer. He is a member of the board of directors for Nuci's Space in Athens and a member of the board of directors for Athens Uttle League Baseball. Barbe earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Georgia . He and his wife, Amy, have three children.

Rob J. Gibson, Jr., 51, Savannah - Gibson is executive and artistic director of the Savannah Music Festival. He is the founding director of Jazz at Lincoln Center where he worked for ten years. He served as a member of the faculty of The Julliard School. He helped create and co-produce the Peabody Award winning series "Jazz from Lincoln Center " for national public radio. Gibson earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Georgia . He and his wife, Caroline, have three children.

R. Kirby Godsey, Ph.D., 74, Macon- Godsey is chancellor of Mercer University . He served as president and CEO of Mercer for 27 years. He is chairman of the Board of Birch Communicat ion and a director of NewTown Builders, LLC. He is a member of the board of directors of the Rome Chamber Music Festival in New York and the Peyton Anderson Foundation in Macon , Georgia . Godsey earned a bachelor's degree from Samford University , a master's degree and a doctorate from New Orleans Bapt ist Theological Seminary, a m aster's degree from the University of Alabama and a Ph .D. from Tulane University . He and his wife, Joan, have four children and five grandchildren.

RobertS. Highsmith, Jr., 39, Atlanta - Highsmith is a partner at Holland &K nigh ~ where he practices legislative, administrative, and regulatory law, government relations and litigation. He serves as t he national team leader for the firm's State Capitals Team, and leads their Georgia Government Relations Practice. He is past Deputy Executive Counsel for Governor Sonny Perdue. Highsmith earned a bachelor's degree from Yale and a law degree from the University of Georgia 's School of Law . He and his wife, Kristi, have four children.

Claire F. Hillard, Ph.D., 52, Albany - Hillard is a member of the music faculty of Darton College . He serves as music director and conductor for the Albany Symphony Orchestra. He is a member of the Georgia Council for the Arts Music Panel and a professional affiliate member of the American Symphony Orchestra League. Hillard earned a bachelor's degree from Calvin College , a master's degree and a Ph.D. from the Un iversity of Iowa . He and his wife, Meri Beth, have three children .

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ATHENS, Ga. (AP) - The University of Georgia's law school will host a hearing for the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims this month.

The court hears appeals on cases involving service-connected disabilities, survivor benefits, education payments, waivers of debt and other veteran benefit programs.

The hearing is scheduled for Sept. 21 from 10:30 a.m. to noon in Hirsch Hall on campus. It is open to the public.

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Wednesday night, Mr. Thurmond spoke at the annual Founders' Award Scholarship Luncheon of UGA's Black Faculty and Staff Organization.

According to the Athens Banner-Herald the candidate hinted that even if his opponent prevails in November, this race might not be his last run for elected office.

Mr. Thurmond recounted the first time he ran for office in 1982, running for a seat in the state legislature against longtime Athens political fixture Hugh Logan. Michael Thurmond (D) "Nobody thought I could win," Mr. Thurmond said - a claim he's heard again in his campaign for the U.S. Senate.

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"Expanding Yo ur GenealogLcal Horizons, Using Easily Accessible Resources Lo lncrea se your Success" is t he theme for the Georgia Genea l ogical Society ' s Fall Seminar on Oct . 2 .

Th e meeting wi l l b e at the Na tional Archives-Southeast Region i n Morrow beginning a t 9 : 30a . m., with registra t i on un tiJ 4 : 30 p . m. Mjchael Page, o f Emory University, will s peak on using GPS Technology and maps to help l ocate historic sites and grave s ; Laura Carter of the Athens- Clarke Public Library Sys tem will s peak on using PINES a nd WorldCat to locate materials i n d i stant l i braries a nd using lnlerlibrary Loan and other means to ac~_ess t hem; a nd .Cry ~t.aJ..-Cll.3s.t;...a·in Ba ke r ot the UGA Law S.cbo.QJ, ·wL.t SfJeaK ori " Herr- Prop_ert_Y. alfcl - t he-InToo r t:~ .Q f Genecu.ogy J. n Lh~s Proc ess . " =

She will be followed by three professional genealogists - -- J oye Lett Quinn, Nathan Ma thews a nd Barbara Smallwood Stock - - - speaking on what is involved in hiri ng a g e n eal og jst.

'!'he cos t is $25 for me mbers, $35 for nonme mbers; lunch is on your own . To register, send your check before Sept. 24 to the Georgia Genealogical Society, P .O . 550247, At lan ta , GA 30355 - 2747 . For more i nfo rmation, check www . gagensociety . o rg o r c all Ronda Sanders a t 770-531-9277 (even i ngs) . The first 28 people to register will each receive a 15- minute, one-on-one consultation with a member of t he Georgia Chapter o f Lhe Associa tion of Professional Genea l ogists.

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Th e history o f Deca t u r' s founding in 1823 t o t he prese n t wil l be Lhe s ubject of the DeKa lb History Center's Lunch and Learn Seminar at noon Sepl . 21 aL the Old Courtho use on t he Square, t he cent er ' s headquarters . WaJL Drake , an a tto rney, f orme r Deca t u r mayor a nd l ocal h istorian, will speak . Participants are i nvited to bring a lunch to e a t during t h e program. Also a vailable at t his e ve n t will be the new picture book on Decatur written by Joe Ear le and published by Arca dia Publishing of Charleston . E:'o r mo re i nforma t ion on the event and the book, see ww.~.de ka lbhi story. o rg or c ull 404-373-1088, e x t. 23 Lo speak wi t h archivist Jill Swe etapple .

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Every fall, Bulldog fans make their pilgrimage to Athens for the near-religious event held at Sanford Stadium. The streets of downtown are filled with football patrons visiting the shops, restaurants and bars that help make Athens' downtown great.

Intermingled with the hum of cheering crowds is the melody of street performers competing for tips. One of these perfonners is bucket drummer Chris Harris, also known as "The Bucketman." But this football season, thanks to a noise ordinance violation, he may be silent.

Harris, a resident of Tampa Bay, Fla., has traveled to Athens every fall for the last 10 years in order to perform for the crowds downtown. His parents live in Covington, and he stays there during the fall in order to save money.

Drummer Chris Harris has been silenced following a citation. Courtesy of CHRIS HARRIS

Street performing is how he makes a living to help support his wife and baby, and he travels all over the Southeast to perform at different festivals and events.

On Sept. 4, the opening game against Louisiana-Lafayette, Harris was ticketed by Athens-Clarke County police for a noise violation. This is the frrst ticket Harris has received in Athens.

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Harris said he was playing on the comer of College Avenue and Clayton Street downtown when a couple of police officers walked up to him and informed him he was violating a noise ordinance. They gave him a ticket, and told him he would have to leave.

Harris said the noise ordinance is unfair to him and is in violation of his First Amendment rights.

"All street perfom1ers have protection in freedom of speech," Harris said. "There are court cases that have set precedence protecting street performers.''

Harris' claim was further confirmed by University law professor Randy Beck.

"The First Amendment protects freedom of speech which includes street musicians," he said. "Governments can set limitations on the time, place and noise level of performing music as long as they

are not discriminating against a performer because of lyrics or style."

A noise violation is defined by the Athens-Clarke County Code of Ordinances as producing a plainly audible sound that can be heard more than 300 feet away between the hours of7 a.m. and II p.m. Sunday through Thursday, and 7 a.m. to midnight Friday and Saturday. For the remaining hours, sound heard I 00 feet away is prohibited.

Harris said the ordinance is too vague and it is not systematically enforced.

" I haven't been too loud for them for the past 10 years. Why did they decide to ticket me now?" Harris said.

Harris is not the only Athens musician to be ticketed.

Saturday, Athens-Clarke County Police issued a ticket to another street performer in the same area where Harris was ticketed. Jason Elder, 31, was playing his guitar, harmonica and a cymbal attached to his shoe. I le was cited and told police "there was no way he could play his music and stay within the guidelines of the ordinance."

But Harris may not be packing up his buckets just yet.

He is seeking legal counsel in order to fight his citation.

However, this might be hard for Harris because of the exactness in time and distance of his specific case, Beck said.

" Right now, I will just have to pay the fine," he said. " It's too much trouble to fight without a lawyer."

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Witrtess: K1d Rock 'hir accuser Scott, a muscular, workaholic Georgia Tech grad who ran a Boy's death called s11spicious thriving trucking business near the airport. Earty one morning Witnesses: Kid Rock started right two years ago, as they confronted each other naked in the DeKalb gets $2M to fight rat master bedroom of their three-story Dunwoody home, she Dunwoody woman retned for rro.1rder fired srx shots into his body. Two other shots missed. Today's t op videos

During opening statements of her murder trial Tuesday, Assistant District Attorney John Melvin told jurors not to believe Lona Scott's contention that she feared for her life because her husband said he was going to kill her and then charged at her. She killed him m rage because he was hiding his considerable assets from her during their divorce, he said.

"When you shoot a naked man to death and he's unamned. it's called a crime," Melvin told the jury. "It's murder."

Scott's lawyer, Brian Steel, countered that his S-foot-4, 120-pound client was defending herself when her barrel-chested, 6-foot, 200-pound husband came at her shortly after 3 a.m. on March 4, 2008.

"Lona didn't want to die," Steel told jurors. "He was agile. He was fast. He was powerful." Watch more video This is the second time thiS year a DeKalb County jury is being asked to decide whether this is a case of murder or justifiable homicide. In February, a jury deadlocked on the murder charge and Local sports 1Local video from AJC, Channel 2 prosecutors are trying Lona Scott again. Today's news Tools and widgets

Atlanta attorney Richard Deane, the fomner U.S. attorney here. said both sides have advantages Reprints. Pel11llssions Archives in a retrial.

If jurors who heard the first trial informed the defense they had serious doubts about an important The Atlanta facet of the case or had questions that were never answered. the defense can build on that in the joum:d-Constltu tkm next go-round, Deane said. S1milarty, if jurors saw a significant weakness in the case. the Mthscrihe for 2 months prosecution can figure out how to address it this time. for the price oft. -

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Events "And 11 wrtl have potentrally.rmpeachlng matenaltf she strays from her test1mony ~n the first tnal." Volunteer he sa1d. Donate Lona Scott grew up with a twin sister in Ohio and moved with her family to Georgia, attending Find more causes • List your nonprofit Parkview High School A former gymnast. she excelled at tae kwon do and helped with home renovation. She was pregnant with her first child when she and Cliff Scott married in February

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2000. ;.;·,_) ;;L\ Services » Find the rig!'( people tO< lhe job Cliff Scott. an engineer, was good with his hands, trained in martial arts and lifted weights almost Erier keyv>Qrd or business narre Scn~ch daily. He typically rose at 3 a.m. to go to work and spent so much time on the job that he often Yard & Garden Guide; Find llusted service pros. slept in a makeshift apartment above his office off Moreland Avenue Oiscoonts on landscaping services. It had been the Scotts' plan for Cliff Scott to eam as much money as possible and for her to raise their two daughters. Steel told the jury. But in October 2006, he said. lona Scott found out that her From our news partners husband had been having an affair. Vlhlen she confronted him and told him to leave. he put her in a Artifreeze killer lym Turner committed suicide in prison, choke hold and threw her to the floor just as their daughter came into the room and cried out. Steel authorrtres say said. Elementary school stooent run over by school bus Device lhat prompted bomb scare likely a prop from A bitter divorce case ensued. In August 2007, the couple brokered a reconciliation agreement Denzel WasNngton movie Cliff Scott would deposit S 1 milfion into her personal bank account and sign over the title of their Father seen on 'Extreme Makeover' frghts domestic $900,000 home. In return, she would let him return home and give him the chance to earn back her violence charges. trust. 10-year-old opera singer wows jooges dll'rng 'AGr finale The couple got along fine over the next few months, Steel said. untillona Scott filed a contempt Teen girl accused of intentionally rllnting o\ler boy motion. charging that her husband had not deposited the money into her account or signed over Burial at sea farls when body surfaces off Fla. coast the home. Woman charged for handing husband gun he used to commit sl..icide His mistress. Rhonda Arnold. a respiratory therapist. testified Tuesday that Cliff Scott called her lost wedding ring finds its way back to widow three days before his death and told her about the contempt motion. He said he was soon leaving Couple whose relationshiP made national headlines frght to the Bahamas for six months, she testified. to see son

"He was moving his money. as much as he could, outside the United States," Arnold said.

Vlhlile he was gone. he said, the house would go into foreclosure, Arnold testified.

Arnold, who did not testify at the first trial. said she and Scott first met in 1998 and were intimate two weeks before the Scotts' marriage. After that. she and Scott continued to talk almost daily for months and later began having an affair, she said.

She testified that Scott often cofl1)1ained to her about his wife's lavish spending. He said he once had to put his wife in a headlock because she had been attacking him. Arnold said.

On March 3, 2008, Cliff Scott came home for the last time. Angry about the contempt motion, he was so rough with lona Scott in bed she went to sleep with their younger daughter down the hall, Steel said. But she returned to the bedroom when he woke up and demanded more sex, which she refused, Steel said.

Melvin told jurors that was when Scott executed her husband. She likely fired one shot in his upper left chest and then two in his elbows, he said. As her husband fell and knelt before her. lana Scott shot him in the head and then twice more in the upper back as he lay on the floor, Melvin said.

Steel disagreed, saying lhe forensic evidence wiU be consistent with his client's testimony, that she tired the shots while he was charging at her.

In February, lona Scott testified that after her husband reentered the bedroom, she told him their marriage was over. l ike he'd done before. he put her in a chokehold. only to release her when she screamed out he would wake their 5-year-old daughter, she testified.

lona Scott told jurors she grabbed her .22-cafiber semi-automatic target pistol from a drawer next to her bed and retrieved her purse and car keys so she could take their daughter and leave. But Cliff Scott cornered her and said that because she was now holding a pistol. he had permission to krll her. she testified.

Vlhlen he charged, she said. she fired once, striking him in the chest. Cliff Scott staggered but then charged again. so she opened fire again. she said.

Otherwise. she testified in February. "I'd be dead right now."

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~a~al R. Khan, professor speciallzing in University ot Georgia School of Law

Twenty states have c hallenged whe t her the federa l government c an require individuals to carry hea l th insurance or face a tax p enalty . Opponents argue t hat refus ing Lo b u y insu rance ls not commercial a ctivity and t herefore o utside federal authorily. Le<;Ja ll,Y these cases should be dismissed as Congress has two separate const ' tJliona l bases to pass this law, the powers to re g u~ftte inlerstace commerce and to tax .

Not buylng health insu rance is a dec ision thdl affects i nterstate commerce. l n 2008 , uncompensated c are tallied $ 56 billion . This i s not ''free '' care, i t i s paid f o r t h r ough higher p remi ums and taxes . Fu rther, uncontrol l ed employee health b enefit costs d e finitel y pu t funerican corporations at a competitive disadvanta ge.

Lastl y , taxes are often used to incentivj7.e behavior (e . g ., sin taxes} . Withou t a mandate, peopl e could game t he system and-only buy. ins.urancg onc e they got. s i c k as n ew rGforms quarantee issue to all a nd ban denials b a sed on pre-existing conditions .

David G. Oedel , constitutional law professor at Mercer University School of Law, is d eputy special attorney general for Georgia in lls lawsuit against the federal h ealth care law

Crilics q uestion whet her the l awsuit has lega l meri t. I t ' s true t hat congressional powers --- whether to regulate comme r ce, to tax, or t o spend have o ften been left un checked by t he courts . But t here must logically be some point at which constitutional limits are reached; where the doctrine of limited congressional power becomes real again .

The Constitution gives Congress d i scretion to .regulate lnterst a t e commerce . J t does not, however, give Congress the power to make citizens enter markets for health care services t hat they choo se t o avoid . The Constitution also is supposed to restrain t he federal government ' s abili ty to spend i n ways thaL strip the states of their inLegrity . Heallh care r eform, however, forces states into a no- win situation: They have no practical option but to accept the often-clue less design of Medicaid, and spend Jarge parts of their own budgets on iL, just t o continue the f low of federal funds to the poor .

Justice Benjamin Car dozo warned i n 1931 that t he usc of the spending power would become unconstitutional at. some p oint. when and if the fede ral pressure on the states turned i n to compulsion . That time has arrived, and its face is health care refor m.

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ATHENS , Ga ., Sept . 15 -- The University of Georgia issued the follow i ng news release :

The Univers.iLy o f G eo rgi e;~ School of Law is part"icipating i n the "Robes i n -the Schools " pro-gram, wh ich brings toge t h e r a panel of judges to share t heir ~xpe rienc e s, give advice and answer questions from students interested in the legal profession . The program will be held in Hirsch Hall, classroom B, from 12 : 30 p . m. to 1 : 45 p . m. on Sept . 30 .

Chief Judge Patrici a Barron from the Magistrate Court of Athens-Clarke County is participa ting in the program along with five Ge orgia Law a l umnj : Judge J anet F . King from t h e U. S . Magistrate Cour t for the No rthern DiStrict of Georgia, Judge Me lod ie Snell Conner from the Superior Cou rt of Gwinnett County, Judqe Doris L. " Dee" Downs from the Superior Court o f Fulton County, J udge Susan B. Forsling from the State Court of Fulton County and Judge Stephen s. Goss from the Superior Court of Dougherty County .

''We are extremely proud t o host t h is program with six impressive judges, f i ve of whom are our alumni , " Associate Dean for Academic and Student Affairs Paul M. Kurtz said. '' I ' m sure tha t students will gain a ne w appreciat ion for and a better understanding of the legal profession in general and the r ole of a j udge in particular."

The six- judge panel will speak to students about their paths to law school and the bench and share strategies and tips for success in the l egal field . The program will be moderated by Georgia La w Hosch Professor Julian A. Cook I I I .

This program will be one of more than 40 presenta tions that will take p l ace at law schools, colleges and high schools t hroughout the metropol itan Atlanta area and in select counties throughout the state o f Georgia on Sept. 30 . It is sponsored by Just the Begjnning Foundation, which strives to develop and nurture interest in the law among young persons from various ethnic backgrounds underrepresented in the legal profession and to support their continued advancemen t . For any q u e ry wiLh respect Lo this artjcle or a n y o t her conLent r equirement, please contact Editor a t htsyndication@hindustan times . com

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ATHENS- University of Georgia police responded with guns drawn to a campus center Thursday, but the report of a gunman there turned out to be false, UGA officials told the AJC.

"You yell 'gun' on a college campus and you're going to get some police," said campus Police Chief Jimmy Williamson. He said as many as 20 patrolman and detectives, some toting rifles, rushed to the Dean Rusk Center -- part of the law school-- after someone reported seeing a gunman there.

It turns out that people thought they'd seen a former graduate student who allegedly threatened a professor, Williamson said. The alleged threat is being investigated, added the chief. He will not identify the individual unless charges are filed, possibly Friday.

UGA spokesman Tom Jackson told the AJC that police determined that the alleged gunman already was in jail.

They reached that determination after arriving at the law school, Williamson explained. "The one we thought was the gunman wasn't even there," he said.'The rifles were out, so I'm sure people might have thought it was a SWAT team."

The chief said the individual who was thought to be a gunman was sitting in jail for violating a bench warrant, meaning he probably failed to appear in court. Williamson said he did not know what charge the person was facing but said it was unrelated to Thursday morning's scare or the alleged threat.

He said he was not bothered that a rumor led to the deployment of his officers. "I'd much rather have that happen than them not call us," he said.

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Attorney Phaed(a c . Parks l s in hot demand these days. She's been invited t o speak, s it and appear in everything from classrooms to boards to television . Recently the Georgia-based lawyer was invited to speak to a group of entertainment law stude nts at .The- Unive.rsity of Georgia Schpol of Law in Septembec . She has aJ so been in vi ted to ser.ve anot he r 2 yea.r:·s on Che pccsti gious board of Georgia's Law School Alumni Council . The university i s widely r ecognized as one of the 50 b est l a w schools i n Lhe n ation.As a b oard member one of her many duties is to hel p choose t he b est s tudents t o attend the s chool as well as awa rd scholarships to deserving recipients . Parks beljeves action speaks loude r than words and doesn ' t hesitate to roll up her sleeves and get involved . " Everyone deserves an oppo r·tunity to s ucceed as everyone d eser ves t he right to good counsel,'' she shar es . Every year Parks donates at l east $10, 000 of h er own money to schools and hardwor king underprivileged f uture l awyers.

Having made a name for herself as an attorney, the TV network Bravo just announced that. the southern intell ectual beauty has become the latest to join t he cast of t hei r h ugely popular TV show, the Real Ho usewives of Atlanta . The show i s its third season. The program r e turns on October 4, 2010 at 9PM ~T/PT .

Phaedra Parks is an entertainment attorney and televisi o n show p r oducer (BET's The Tiny a nd Toya Show) . She is the Managing Partner o f T he Parks Group, P . C., an Atlanta- based boutique l a w firm . He r practice a reas include ~nt erta j nmen t Law, Civil a nd Criminal Li t i gati on .

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Weis' attorneys blame the funding shortfall on the Georgia Legislature's decision to divert $30 million raised from court fines and fees from the public defender system to the state's general fund. Weis' dilemma is the most immediate in a string of capital cases scrutinized by the nation's highest court, which sent a warning of sorts in October 2008 when Justice John Paul Stevens wrote a scathing opinion that said the Georgia Supreme Court carried out an "utterly perfunctory'' review of a death penalty case. In the most high-profile case, the court in August 2009 granted death row inmate Troy Davis a rare hearing to test his claims that he was wrongfully convicted of the 1989 slaying of an off-duty police officer. After the hearing, a federal judge ruled the new evidence amounted to little more than "smoke and mirrors," but his attorneys are appealing and the case could again wind up before the nation's high court. The top court also asked a federal appeals court in May to review the case of Lawrence Joseph Jefferson, a death l of2 7/ 10/2013 12:52 PM ucv•~·ll ~.:llpmu ~.:ases m :::.upremc cowt's crosshairs 1The Augusta Ch... http://chronicle.augusta.comllatest-news/20 I 0-09-17/ga-capital-cases ...

row inmate convicted of beating a co-worker to death in 1985 with a tree limb. Jefferson claims his lawyers failed to investigate a traumatic head injury he suffered as a child.

A month later, the Supreme Court ordered Georgia judges to consider claims that DeMarcus Ali Sears' defense lawyers mishandled his death penalty case. Sears was sentenced to death for kidnapping and then raping and killing 59-year-old Gloria Wilbur. Perhaps the most unusual cases, though, came in January when a divided U.S. Supreme Court ordered the appeals court to review a 1993 Georgia death penalty case because of allegations that a juror sent raunchy gifts made of chocolate to the judge and a courtroom bailiff at the end of the trial. The court ruled 5-4 to set aside an appeals court ruling that upheld a death sentence against Marcus Wellons, who was convicted and sentenced to death for raping and strangling a 15-year-old.

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MhOugh officers responded to a false alarm, the police chief said people whO phoned it in did the right thing.

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11 :17 a.m. Friday, Septerrber 17, 2010

ATLANTA - The U.S. Supreme Court has stepped into four Georgia death penalty cases in the last year or so, and it could yet again intervene - this time over a defendant who said he languished in jail because the state couldn't pay his lawyers.

It's the latest test for Georgia's justice system, which has come under scrutiny in recent years. The state's new public defender program has had funding trouble ever since the $3 million Atlanta courthouse shootings trial, and the Georgia Supreme Court has been criticized for not reviewing death penalty appeals closely enough. ,

In this case, Jaime Ryan We is, who is accused of killing a 73-year-old woman, argues there was a "complete breakdown" in the system when he sat in jail without an attorney for rrore than two years. The U.S. Supreme Court will decide after a closed-door conference Sept. 27 whether it wants to intervene.

"It's especially surprising because this Supreme Court is not an anti-death penalty court," saia Donald E. Wilkes Jr., a University of Georgia Law School professor who specializes in death penalty cases. "Maybe they think that Georgia is giving the death penalty a bad name, if that's possible."

But We is' case may not be as simple as he claims. Prosecutors said We is was never without legal representation, though they concede his lawyers were limited by a funding shortfall.

''The Georgia Supreme Court properly determined there was not a systemic breakdown in the indigent defense system in Georgia," Beth Burton, a senior Georgia assistant attorney general. said in arguments.

Weis was charged in the February 2006 killing of Catherine King, by blunt force injuries and two gunshot wounds to the head during a robbery. He has pleaded not guilty. ,

Two private attorneys were appointed to represent him, but when the state couldn't afford to pay them, a judge ordered two public defenders even though they said they had overwhelming caseloads. After Weis refused to work with them, appellate attorneys from the Southern Center for Human Rights took up his case for free, and argued his right to a speedy trial was violated.

The Georgia Supreme Court rejected the speedy trial appeal in March in a 4-3 ruling, finding that Weis played a key role in the delays. His new attorneys then asked the U.S. Supreme Court to step in.

The case has taken a toll on Weis. He has attempted to commit suicide three times, and his attorney

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Steven Bright said We is has told the judge several times he wanted to give up the legal fight and go to trial, only to change his mind.

"He can't sleep. He's a nervous wreck. And amid all this uncertainty, not having a lawyer just made everything worse," said Bright, the president of the Atlanta-based center. "Even for a normal person facing the death penalty, being able to talk to a lawyer about our legal plight would be critical. But for somebody who is mentally ill, to go without a lawyer is agonizing."

Weis' attorneys blame the funding shortfall on the Georgia Legislature's decision to divert $30 m llion raised from court fines and fees from the public defender system to the state's general fund.

Weis' dilerrma is the most immediate in a string of capital cases scrutinized by the nation's highest court, which sent a warning of sorts in October 2008 when Justice John Paul Stevens wrote a scathing opinion that said the Georgia Supreme Court carried out an "utterly perfunctory" review of a death penalty case.

In the most high-profile case, the court in August 2009 granted death row inmate Troy Davis a rare hearing to test his claims that he was wrongfully convicted of the 1989 slaying of an off-duty police officer. After the hearing, a federal judge ruled the new evidence amounted to little more than "smoke and mirrors," but his attorneys are appealing and the case could again wind up before the nation's high court.

The top court also asked a federal appeals court in May to review the case .of Lawrence Joseph Jefferson, a death row inmate convicted of beating a co-worker to death in 1985 with a tree limb. Jefferson claims his lawyers failed to investigate a traumatic head injury he.suffered as a child.

A month later, the Supreme Court ordered Georgia judges to consider clail11$ that DeMarcus Ali Sears' defense lawyers mishandled his death penalty case. Sears was sentenced to death for kidnapping and then raping and killing 59-year-old Gloria Wilbur.

Perhaps the most unusual cases, though, carne in January when a divided U.S. Supreme Court ordered the appeals court to review a 1993 Georgia death penalty case because of allegations that a juror sent raunchy gifts made of chocolate to the judge and a courtroom bailiff at the end of the trial.

The court ruled 5-4 to set aside an appeals court ruling that upheld a death sentence against Marcus Wellons, who was convicted and sentenced to death for raping and strangling a 15-year-old.

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Two partners' decisions to pursue judgeships and a lease that expires in December have prompted the four partners in Atlanta's Holland Schaeffer Roddenbery Blitch to dissolve the litigation firm founded by Charles M. Kidd in 1971. The firm will disband at the end of the year.

David N. Schaeffer is running for an open seat on the Georgia Court of Appeals, and James D. Blitch IV is pursuing an appointment for a vacancy on the State Court of Fulton County, which came open after the state court's chief judge, A.L. Thompson, resigned on Sept. 6.

Gwenn D. Holland and Tina S. Roddenbery will form their own shop, Holland Roddenbery, in January. Holland handles primarily family law as well as trusts and estates and business litigation. Roddenbery's practice is all family law.

"This is the end of our firm together, after almost 40 years," said Shaeffer. The firm updated its name from Kidd & Vaughan to Holland Schaeffer Roddenbery Blitch at the beginning of 2009 after the retirement of Woodrow w. Vaughan Jr. Kidd died of cancer in 1994.

"At this point in our careers, especially with my attempt to move onto the bench, it makes sense to separate out our practice areas," Schaeffer said. His practice, like Blitch's, is business litigation and personal injury.

"To some degree that's sad, but I am very supportive of Tina and Gwenn. I wish them all the luck and success in the world, and we will always be great friends," added Schaeffer, who has spent his career at the firm, since 1981.

Despite the crowded field, Schaeffer said his plan is to be a state Court of Appeals judge next year. "I feel like it's going very well," he said of the race. The five other candidates for the post are Decatur, Ga., lawyer Christopher J. Mcfadden, Atlanta lawyers James A. Babalola, Antoinette "Toni" Davis and Adrienne Hunter-Strothers and Enotah Circuit District Attorney N. Stanley Gunter.

Blitch said he decided to pursue an appointment for Fulton County State Court after learning last month that Thompson would be resigning. "I have for a long time had quiet aspirations to serve as a trial court judge," he said.

"At the same time, I am also excited about other opportunities in front of me to continue my business litigation practice. I am actively pursuing those opportunities as well, not knowing at this time whom Gov. Perdue will choose to appoint," added Blitch, who's practiced with the firm for 10 years.

"All the partners are equally excited for each other and our futures," he said. "We all are very close and have the highest respect for each other."

Roddenbery said she and Holland are looking at office space in Atlanta's Buckhead district. Lucy M. Martin, an associate from Holland Shaeffer, is joining them. They plan to hire another associate, two paralegals and a secretary-receptionist.

The move will be a big change, since the two have spent their entire careers at their current firm downtown. Kidd hired Holland in 1977 and then Roddenbery in 1987. Both had clerked there while in law school.

Holland and Roddenbery said their partners' judicial aspirations and the end of their lease sparked the decision to move to Buckhead from their current location at 191 Peachtree Street. "It was the perfect opportuhity to practice together," said Holland.

Buckhead is a more convenient location for their clients, Roddenbery said, adding that only a couple of family lawyers still practice downtown and most have migrated to the north side of town.

Holland and Roddenbery started out as general civ il litigators and their practices evolved Into family law over the years.

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Rod·-:!e nbery said that when she joined the firm in 1987 from t he Un1versity of Georg1a Law School, she was the only associate for four partners, so she worked on all their cases. "Charles Kidd was a tremendous trial lawyer," she said. He passed on a lot of family law cases to her, she said, which is how she developed her practice. "It's been a wonderful experience. I've been fortunate," Roddenbery said.

Holland, who is the most senior of the Holland Shaeffer Roddenbery Blitch partners, became the firm's first female lawyer after Kidd hired her for a clerkship in 1976 while a student at Emory University School of Law. "He was an incredible mentor," she said. "And people who practiced against him adored him and respected him."

An unexpected tum of events caused Kidd to bring her on. Holland recalled that he had visited his alma mater, the University of Virginia Law School, to interview prospective new lawyers. He'd put only men on his interview list, and the law school's administrators asked him why he wasn't considering any women. Women couldn't be litigators, Kidd told them.

Holland said UVA Law temporarily suspended him from interviewing on campus, which was upsetting to the proud UVA graduate. To get back into UVA's good graces, she said, Kidd hired two Emory law students as clerks -- a man to do the litigating and her to handle the other work.

Holland said her clerkship caused Kidd to change his mind about women's litigation capabilities, and he hired her as an associate. She became a partner in 1984 and has been there ever since. "At one point he went around bragging that 50 percent of his partners were women," she recalled fond ly.

All four partners are active in the legal community. Schaeffer is the past president of the Atlanta Bar Association, and Blitch currently serves as the chair of the Atlanta Bar's litigation section.

Roddenbery is the past chair of the State Bar of Georgia's family law section and has been a member of the bar's board of governors since 1995. She is also a member of the board of trustees of the Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers Foundation and involved in her children's schools, serving on the boards of Trinity School and The Schenck School.

Holland is the program chair for The Charles Longstreet Weltner Fam ily Law American Inn of Court and on the editorial board of "The Mortmain," the newsletter of the Atlanta Bar's estate planning and probate section. She has also served several terms on the board of her synagogue and is an avid hiker.

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ATLANTA - The US Supreme Court has stepped into four Georgia death penalty cases in the last year or so, a nd it could intervene a gain - this time over a defendant who said he languished in jail because the slate couldn ' t pay his lawyers.

I t's t he latest test for Geor gia's just ice system, which has come under scrut i ny i n recent years. The state ' s n ew public defender program has had fundi ng trou ble ever since it spent $3 million i n 2008 defending Brian Nichols , l he man convicted of killing a judge, court reporter, sheriff ' s deputy, and federa l agen t during a 2005 rampage al an Atlanta courthouse . And t he Georgia Supreme Court has been criticized for not reviewing death penalty appeals closely e nough .

Jn this case, Jamie Ryan We i s, who is accused of killing a 73- year- old woman, said there was a ··complete breakdown '' in the system when he sat in j a il without a l awyer for more t han two years . The US Supreme Court could decide after a clos ed- door conference Sept . 27 whether it wants to intervene .

'' JL ' s especia l ly surprisin g because this Sup reme CourL is not an anti - dea t h penally court," '>.liJ Donald E . Wdkes Jr., a University of' Gc'orgia-r.a~ Schoo rr,fessor who specializes in dea t h penalty cases. ''Maybe Lhey thi nk t hat Georgia is giving the death penal ty a bad name , if that's possibJe.''

But We is's case may not be as simple as he asserts . Prosecutors said Weis was never without legal representa tion, though they concede his lawyers were limited by a funding shortfall .

''The Georgia Supreme Court properly determined t here was not a systemic breakdown in the indigent defense system i n Georgia,'' Be t h Burton, a sen ior Georgia assistant attorney general, said i n argume n t s .

Weis was charged in the February 2006 kill ing of Cat herine King, s l ain by blunt force i njuries and two gunshoL wounds to t he head during a robber y . He has pleaded not guilty .

Two private lawyers were appointed to represent him, but when the s t a te couldn ' t afford Lo pay them, a judge ordered two public defenders even though they said t hey had overwhelming caseloads.

After Weis refused to work with Lh em, appell ate lawyers from t he Southern Center f or Huma n RJghts took up his case for free, and said his r ight to a speedy t rial was violated .

The Georgi a Supreme Court rejected the speedy trial appeal i.n Ma rch in a 4-to- 3 r uling, finding that Weis played a key role in the delays . His new lawyers then asked the US Supreme Court to step in .

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We is has r eported l y attempted suicide t h r ee time s.

'' He can ' t s l eep. He' s a nervous wreck. And amid all this uncertai nty, not having a l a wyer just made everything wors e, '' said Steven Bright, his lawyer and president of the Atlanta-based center .

''Ev en for a n o rmal person f acing t he d eath p enalty, being able to tal k to a l a wyer abo u t our l egal plight woul d be cri t i cal . But for somebody who i s mentally ill, to go without a lawyer i s agonizing .''

Wcis ' s lawyers blame the f unding shortfall on the Georgia Legislatur e ' s d e cision t o dJvert $30 milli on raise d f rom court f ines and f e e s from the public defender system to t he sLate 's general f und .

Weis's dilemma is the most immediate in a string of capital cases scrutinized by the nation ' s highest court, which sent a warning of sorts in Octobe r 2008 when Justice John Paul Stevens wroLe an op inion t hat said t he Georgia Supreme Cou rt c a r r ied out a n ·'utterly p erfunctory '' review of a dea t h penal ty c a se.

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Community "Matt Reeves fights tenaciously for his clients in court, but he also fmds the time to make meaningful contributions to our community and the legal Announcements profession," says Tom Tate, managing partner of Andersen, Tate & Carr, Editorials P.C. Feedback Matt Reeves is a veteran business, real estate, and probate litigation attorney Festivals at Andersen, Tate & Carr, P.C. He is the President-Elect of the Gwinnett Fun Things County Bar Association and was counsel to the House Judiciary Committee To Do during the 2008 Georgia General Assembly. Matt graduated with honors Governments from the University of Georgia School of Law and Mercer University. He and his wife, Suzette, have three young children and reside in Duluth. Reeves Gwinnett is optimistic about the future of Gwinnett County and the firm, in part Delegation because he interviewed with the firm as a law student the week after Letters September II, 200 I and remembers witnessing the post-9/ II recovery in the Museums area after extremely dark days.

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BYLINE : Nevin Ba tiwal l a, The Bruns wick News , Ga.

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Sept . 21--For the f irst t ime in 16 years, Brunswick Jud ici al Circuit Chief Judge Amanda Wi lliams heard Monday from a n o pponent who says she can do a better job from t he bench .

The c hallenge came f rom Mary He len Moses , a n a ttorney who entered the public spot l igh t in her role a s co- c ounsel in t he e ffort to bloc k t he e xpansion of t he Gl ynn County Jail in downtown Bruns wick . Moses said changes need to be made to make t he court s ystem more e ffi cie nt and trans parent to a l l evia te the curren t b ackl og of cases.

Six wee ks out from the Nov . 2 e lection, Williams, 63, and Moses, 57, spoke to a c rowd of abo ut 60, mos tly s enio r s , a t a c andidates' forum on S t . Simons Island hosted by Residents United for Plan ning and Action, a n onprof i t, grassroot s community a ction group . The Brunswick Judicia l Circuit incl udes Glynn, Appling, Camden, J eff Davis and Wayne coun ties .

Both c andidates g ave a five minute opening speech that highlighted their p ersonal and professio nal b a ckgrou nds and e xplained why they deci ded to run for t he j udges hip .

Wi l liams , a longtime resident of Glynn County with 20 years of j udicial experience, tal ked a bout her role i n bringing drug court s to t h e circuit ln 1998 .

She c i ted an a udit , which said drug courts saved the s tate $1 69 mi l l ion during a three- ye ar p eriod and tha t every doll ar spent on drug courts saved $7 .

" I n t:he drug c our t p rogram, what you try to do i s give people a way to l earn how t o s tay clean and s ober and away from dru gs, " Wi l liams said. " You try to get lifestyle changes you try to get t hem to have a job, safe housing, get education and G. E . D. s and give back to the c ommuni ty, a nd end up beinq taxpayers instead of tax users, and ho pef ully change lives."

Meanwhil e , Mosc.s , ¥ihu .s -:ud.Pd al I r.e lnl •/ers1ty o h-~~O"rg ;_ a s~ ~ ' or r,aw and the Georgetown Univers ity Law Cen ter and h as more tnan"'"'32- years of expor .tence representing plaintiff s and def endants before federal and state tria l and appel lat e c ourts, said her time p r a cticing i n places across the country from New York to Florida gi ves h er i nsight i nto how to i mp rove t he l oca l court s.

''We need to institute some kind of t e chnology to make our court s more u s er fri.endl y a nd give t hem more transpar ency about where cases are going and how they are g e tting t here," s aid Moses, a Glynn County r esident since 1999, who has also taught law .

Moses voiced conce rns wi t h t he way drug courts a re handled . Particularl y , she

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took issue with " t h e lack of discretion" that ma ndatory sen tencing a nd minimum b a il i mpose s.

" Judges are generall y supposed to exercise discretion in terms of set ting bond and i n t e rms o f s e n t encing ," Moses said.

"A rigid rule to be followed is not appropriate ."

Wi l1 iams d efended Lhe manda tory minimum sentenc es a nd s tress e d t hat t hey only app l y for t hose who refuse the option for treatment or someone dealing drugs .

That approach, Williams a rgued, creates an "env iro nment to make drug addict s want to come into our system and get t he hel p tha t t hey need."

To see mo re of The Brunswick News o r to s ubscribe to the newsp aper, go to htlp : //www . t heb runswickn ews . c om/ . Copyright {c) 2010, The Brunswick News , Ga . Distributed by McC latchy- Tribune Information Services . For more i nformation about the conLent services offered by McClatchy-Tribune I nformation Services (MCT) , visit www . mctinfoservices . com, e - mail services@mclinfoservices . com, or c a l l 866-280-5210 (outsi d e t he Unit ed States, call +1 312- 222-4541 ) .

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Jefferies Group Inc . announced today that Michael J . Sharp has been named Executive Vice Pr esiden t , General Cou nsel , a nd Secretary. He wi l l a ssume t hese positions f or bot h Jefferies Gr o up, Inc . a nd i ts principal operating subsidiary, Jefferjes & Compa ny, Inc . effective November 26, 2010 . Mr . Sharp will replace Lloyd H. Feller, who will retire at the end of the year followi ng eight years of service in t he posit i on .

"Lloyd Feller has pla yed an integral role in wha t has been a very dyna mic period in o ur i ndustry during wh ich our firm experie nced significant growth and developmen t . Hi s contribut ions are many, and we deeply appreciate his tir eless efforts , " c ommented Richard B. Handler, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer o f Jefferies . "We are very p leased to welcome our new partner, Mike Sharp, who b rings a wealt h of experience and knowledge to Jefferies at this critica l time of o ngoing gro wth and change for our firm and our ind ustry. Il ls extensi ve and varied backg round in the securities, i nvestme nt banking and broke r -de a ler cornmuniLies will be inva luable to our capita lizing on futu r e opportunities," a dde d Mr . Handler .

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honor a nd pleasure for all of us a t Jefferies . His wisdom a nd counsel supported our strategy and our a ctions, a nd we thank him for a ll h e has given us, " said Brian P. Friedman, Chairman, Executive Committee . "We welcome Mike Sharp to J efferies and look forward to continuing to build our firm with his guidance and leadership."

Mr. Sha rp joins J efferies from Wi l merHale, where he had been a partner in t he Securities Departmen t since March 2009 and focused on secur iti es litigat ion and e nforcement matters relaLed to t hat fi rm's broker-dealer and financial - services practices . Prior to that, Mr . Sharp spent 12 years at Citigroup, where he served as General Counsel f or Global Wealth Management , Consumer nanking and Glob al Cards .

Mr . Sharp has been involved i n nearly a l l aspects of the financial-services i ndustry . After earning his MBA from Cornell University, Mr . Sharp t raded US Treasury Bonds and related instruments for seven years bef ore gelLing hi ~ I f rc•I'Tl 'hr) un.: vE'r: " t y of ~ r-rJr ·-~ i a ;..uw ~- :riJol , wheo ~e he set;ved as Editor-.in-Chief..., of t he L.)w Kev i l'W. l:"Oi lowing a clerkship on the US Co urt o f Ap pea ls for the Eleventh Circuit , Mr. Sharp was a litigation associ ate at Cr ava th, Swaine & Moore for five years before joining Citigroup .

Jefferies, a global securiti es and inves tment banking f i rm , has served companies and their investors for more than 48 year s . Jeff e ries & Compan y , [ nc . is the pri n cipal us operating subsidiary of Jeffe ries Group, I n c . ( NYSE : JEF : www . j c fferies. com ) , a nd Jefferies International Li mited is t h e princi pal UK operating s ubsidiary . Jefferies International Limited, a UK- i ncorporated company, is authorised and regulated by the UK Financial Ser vices Authority .

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positions f o r both J eff eri es Group, Inc . and its princ ipal oper a t i ng s ubsi d i a r y, J e f feries & Company, Inc. effective November 26, 20 10. Mr. Sharp wi l l replace Lloyd H. Fel ler , who wi l l retire at t he end of the year f oll owi ng e ight years of service in t h e posi tion .

''Lloyd Fell er has Rl ~yed a n integr al r ole in wh a t has b~en a very dynamic period in our i ndust ry d u ring which our firm experie n ced significant g r owt h a nd devel opmen t . Hi s contributions a re man y, and we deeply appreci a t e his t i rel ess e f forts," commented Richard B. Handler , Chair man and Chi ef Executive Of ficer of Jef feries. "We are very p l eased t o welcome our new partner , Mi ke Sharp, wh o b rin gs a we alth of experi ence and knowl edge to Jefferies a t thi s c ritical time of o n going growt h and chan ge f or our firm a nd our industry. His ext ensi ve and varied background i n the securiti es, i n vestment banking and broker- d eal er communi ties will be inval u a b l e to our c apit a l i z i ng o n f utu r e opportuniti es," added Mr. Ha ndl er.

" Wor king with Lloyd Fel ler t hese past e ight years has been an excepti onal honor and p l easure for a ll of us a t Jefferies. Hi s wis d om ~ndcounsel supported o u r s t r a t egy and our act i o ns , a nd we t hank him for a l l he has given us," said Brian P. Friedman, Chairman , Executive Committee. "We welcome Mike Sharp to J eff e ries and l ook forward to continuing to buil d our f i rm with his g uidance and l eadership . "

Mr . Sharp j o i ns J e f fer ies f rom WilmerHale, where he had been a partne r in t he Securities Department since Ma rch 200 9 and f ocused on securities litigation and enforcement ma t t ers related to t h a t f i r m's broker- dealer a nd f inan c i a l-services practices. Prior t o that , Mr . Sharpspent 12 y ear s at Ci t i g roup, whe re he served as General Counsel for Global We a lth Management, Consumer Banking and Global Cards .

J e f feries, a g l obal securi t ies and inves t ment banking f i rm, h as served compani es a nd t heir i n vestors for mo r e than 48 year s . J e f f eries & Company, Inc . i s t he prin c ipa l US oper ati ng s ubsidiary of Jeff eri esGroup, Inc . (NYSE : J EF : www.jeff eri es.com), a nd Jef feries I n t~r na tio na l Li mi t ed i s t he p rincipal UK operating subsidiar y . J efferi es Int ernationa l Limited, a OK-incor porated company, is a u thorised a nd regula t ed by t he UK Financial S ~rvic es Au thority.

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Georgia Equality announced today some of Its eodorsel11e(lts in the Nov. 2 election, saying it 3 would make I'T'()re eodorsel11e(lts in the near future. t>Neets l~ t the protessionals at HLM • "The endorsed candidates below have demonstrated their support of the LGBT community 1 2S(l3irt~nttm and they need your support now," said Jeff Graham, executive director of Georgia EQuality, ·- Suitt ISO in a press release about the endorsements. H L M Dm tur. GA )00)0 4F •"'A N CrA• G •.:ou ,, 404·1 !6· 1ll0 ';~.. .~ a 4 ~ ...... , .. _. •-..-- 'lo i\"W,hlmof'ntop.Saxby Chambliss investigating 'AU faggots Joan Garner: District 6 · Fulton County Commission hUp:/fwww.gametforcommissioner.com Must Die' btog comment • Anti-gay Pastor (ddie Long accused of "I am honored and humbled to have the early support of Georgia Equality, which serves an ln-.:>ortant coercing men into having sex function tor the LGBT community and for the community at large; says Gamer in a statement, who Is • Sellate to vo te on 'Doo't Ask., Don't Tetr repeal running for the seat currently held by Nancy Boxitl, who after 23 years oo the Coomissioo has announced tO> Atlanta POlice resv<>nd to recent gay·r<'lated includes 12 years of d~rect service to Fulton County, on the boards of the Atlanta-Fulton County Public shooungs library, the Library's Foundation and on the fulton County Arts Council (on which she continues to >> Chaz Bono talks about coming out as trans in serve). As tong ago as 1989 she served on the transition team for Mayor· elect Maynard Jackson, who later public eye appointed Garner a senior adviser on gay and lesbian issues; In doing so, he set a precedent of gay » Sen ~te Vote expected on repeal of military gay community input directly at the mayoral leveL Recently, she advised Mayor Kasim Reed's transition ban efforts. » Atlanta Police LGBT advisory board meets, questions raised about second gay liaison "One of the reasons I entered this race is to ensure that this dive~ community continues to prosper,· Gamer said in the release, "and that it does so with the active participation of people from all walks of Atlanta Police LGBT advisory board meets, que •.. life across District 6 and beyond. I look forward to accomplishing that in partnership with Georgia Carrie, at its base, the Eagle raid was actually part Equality.· of an (allegedly) poL .. By Todd Vierling A Washington, DC, native, Gamer has been in Atlanta since 1978, making her horne in various National Organtzation fo•· Marriage rally dWar... It'S funny Georgia h as gay pnde every year. But ne~hborhoods across the district. She now resides in the historic Old fourth Ward ne~hborhood with her partner of 11 years. Georgia wont allow gays 2 . .. By Cook Gamer defeated Keisha Waites in a runoff for this seat in the Democratic primary and faces no Editorial: Roy Barn es for governor Republican opposition on Nov. 2. She wilt become the first openly gay Fulton County Commissioner. I will be voting for John Monds. Mr. Monds is the only pe

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Stacey Evans: State House District 40

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· 1am thrilled to receive the endo~ment of Georgia Equality and I'm proud to stand with them as we wori< toward equality for all Georgians," Evans said in a statement. Evans was born and raised in Ringgold, Ga., and was the first person 111 her family to graduate from college and earned both her undergraduate and law degrees from the of Georgia. Stacey is a litigation attorney with Bryan Cave Powell Goldstein and lives in Smyma with her husband, Andrew.

She is chair of the Georgia High Mock Trial Competition and is a merroer of the Board of Directors of Communities In Schools Marietta/Cobb County and the Cobb Library foundation. She is also a state committee rnerriler of the Democratic Party of Georgia, a member of the Cobb County Democratic Party and the Cobb County Democratic Women, immediate Past Chair of Georgia's WIN List, a past president of the Young Democrats of Georgia, and a former Board merriler of Red Clay Democrats. Latest photos She is a mernber of LEAD Atlanta Class of 2007, the Georgia State Bar Young Lawyers Division Leadership Academy Class of 2007, and the Atlanta Women·s Foundation Destiny Fund Class of 2006. In 2004, Stacey was recognized by the Atlanta Business Chronicle in its article, "Up and Comers/Under 40 and Rising: 50 Fart:'Wt'll Flux East Atlanta Strut of Atlanta's Most Promising Young Stars• and is a member of the Class of 2008 of Outstanding Atlanta.

"Stacey is running for office because Georgia families deserve a Legislature that puts them first and shares their priorities to protect and create jobs and Improve the State's education and transportation . systems and She promises to make these her priorities in the Legislature," the press release states. Ia Darshun Kendrick: State House District 94 Click here for all our photos ...

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ADV ERTISEMENT Dar'shun Kendrick was born In Atlanta and raised in South DeKalb County. She attended DeKalb County public schools and graduated from Towers High School in Decatur in 2000 at the top of her class. During that time. she interned part· time for then·Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney at her district office in downtown Decatur. After . "' ·, from Towers, She attended Oglethorpe University on a partial scholarShip and double maj ored in political science and corrmunfcatfons, graduating cum laude in 2004.

She attended the University of Georgia School of Law and obtained her law degree from that university m May of 2007. She passed the Georgia bar in November of 2007 and began wori

Recently She has been working with Lithonia city council merroers and local business owners to revitalize the Lithonia Business Association. Additionally She wori

~~Stefflni Bethea: State Senate District 106~~

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~~Steffini Bethea attended the University of Houston where She majored in biology and has lived in Gwinnett County for more than 10 years.~~

She worked over 10 years in pharmaceutical sales, culminating as a manager of multiple sales territories in the Metro Atlanta area. In 2004 she went into business full time with her husband, Dr. Sheldon Bethea, and opened Chirofit Wellness in Snellville. Together they have been guest speakers on health and fitness issues and participate In numerous corrrnunity and national programs. "As joint owner of a small business, Steffini has a unique understanding of the hard work and dedication it takes to build a business and the need to have support for entrepreneurs," according to the press release.

~~Bethea lives in the Dogwood Plantation neighborhood In Snellville. She has four children, Yasi 18, Andrew 16, Nilou 12, and Sara· Elisabeth 5.~~

She served as president of the League of Women Voters of Gwinnett County and was a research intern at the State Capitol. She is also an active Public Policy Committee member for the National Coalition of 100 Black Women. She was an elected delegate to the Presidential Nominating Convention in Denver in 2008. She and her family are members of New Mercies Christian Church in Lilburn.

~~Georgia Equality supports these Incumbents:~~

~~John Eaves: Chairman Fulton County Commission~~

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"I am honored to receive the Endo~nt of Georgia Equality. As a county and a state, we are strengthened by our diversity, and I will continue to do all I can to support the LGBTQ conmunity, ·· said Eaves In a statement.

As chairman of the Fulton County Commission, Eaves chairs a commission comprised of seven members who govern the county. Fulton County is comprised of 14 municipalities and is the most populated county

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~~in Georgia, serving as home to an estimated population of I. 1 million residents. The 2010 operating bud~et Is $908 million.~~

He is a graduate of Morehouse · wit~ a major in mathematics and earned a maste(s degree in Religion from Yale University and a doctorate in Educatlooal Administration from the Univernty of South Carolina.

Prior to becoming chairman of the fulton Coonty Commission, Eaves served as Senior Program Officer of the Southern Education Foundation. For seven years Eaves ted the Atlanta Regional Office of the Peace Corps as a regional manager. Under his leadership, the Atlanta office moved up from the rank of 10th In volunteer recruitment to fourth.

While attending Morehouse College, he was a program coordinator and big brother for Volunteers for Youth, an organf~atlon that paired college athletes with middle school youth. He also registered people to vote, volunteered in local political campaigns, was a coach tutor and a counselor for Upward Bound at Clark College, now Clark Atlanta University.

~~Mike Jacobs: State House District 80~~

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During the 2010 legislative session, state Rep. Jacobs authored and passed a stronger anti· bullying statute and was instrumental in passing legislation that will allow gay and lesbian couples to make medical decisions for their partners. Jacobs also sponsored a successful amendment that allows partners who are named In an advance medical directive the rightS to hospital visitation and to ride along in an ambulance in an emergency. For these efforts, Georgia Equality awarded Mike Its Allen Thornell Political Advancement Award earlier this year.

~~Jacobs has pledged to fight any effort to ban adoptions by gay and lesbian couples. "I will not hesitate to stand in front of that train," he said.~~

~~"M1ke, a Republican, has been a stalwart ally of the LGBT com"OOnity," according to the press release.~~

He is serving his third term in the Georgia House of Representatives. His committee assignments are Insurance, Judiciary, MARTA Oversight, and Rules. He Is the VICe Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee and chairs one of its two subcommittees.

Jacobs received his taw degree, magna cum laude, from the Umver$ity of Georg•d School of Law, where he served as Executive Articles Editor of the Georgia Law Review. Mike earned his bachelof s degree from Georgetown University.

~~He and his wife, Evan, live In northern DeKalb County between Brookhaven, Chamblee and Dunwoody. They have lwo children and are expecting their third in February.~~

~~Stephanie Stuckey Benfield: Sate House District 85~~

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Stephanie Stuckey Benfield currently represents House District 85, which Includes neighborhoods in Avondale Estates, Candler Road, Columbia Drive, F'ernbank, Forest Hills, Knollwood, Midway, Oakhurst, South Decatur, Wadsworth and Winona Park.

Stephanie was a partner and family law practitioner In the Decatur law firm of Stuckey and Manheimer, LLC until the birth of her son In 2002, when she took a break from the taw to be a stay-at·home mom. Prior to starting her own practice, she was a public defender. She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Georgia in 1989 and graduated cum laude from the University or Georgia SchOol or Law m 1992.

Her father, Billy Stuckey, represented the 8th District of Georgia for 10 years in the U.S. Congress, and her grandfather, Williamson Sylvester Stuckey, served In the Georgia Legislature and founded the Stuckey·s candy store chain which is still a family owned and operated business.

She is married to Robert H. Benfield, Jr., a local trial attorney. They are active members of Glenn Memorial United Methodist Church on the Emory cillf1)us where they were manied. She and her husband are the proud parents of a 4-year old son, Robert, and a 20·month old daughter, 8everly.

~~Curt Thompson: State Sentate District 5~~

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~~Curt Thompson Is a life-tong resident of Gwinnett County. Born in De~~

At ShilOh High, Curt was a National Merit Scholar. He went to American University in Washington, D.C., majoring In International Studies and Broadcast Journalism. After graduating, Curt went to taw school at Georgia State. He passed the Bar in 1993 and has practiced taw since then, representing government employees (including firefighters and police) and service workers. Curt currently practices law in Tucker servmg a variety of business and private clients with a focus on administrative and corporate taw.

~~~son has been active m civic affairs as varied as his neighborhood garden club, petitioning for speed bumps, and opposition to~~

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He has long been involved in the Gwlnnett County chapter of the Democratic Party of Georgia. He ran for office in 2002 and won for the then ne'My·created District 69. In 2004 he ran for the state Senate, Districts. In both campaigns his rressase to voters was, 'Your Voi~e Countsr

~~State Sen. Thompson Is a mentler of numerous conmfttees In the Georgia Senate including the Committees for Appropriations, Special Judiciary, Economic De-.lelopment and Defense and Military Affa•rs.~~

He currently serves as the president of the Gwinnett Village Commmity Improvement Association; the group's goal is to form a community Improvement district to promote revitalization efforts in the Jimmy Carter Blvd .• Indian Trail, and Buford Highway corridors. He hOsts an open· Invitation monthly gathering called the ..Citizen Advisory Forum,· allowing mentlers of his conmuntty and others to comnmicate with him d"ectly, regarding Issues W.lch most matter to them. In addition, Thompson has learned to speak SpaniSh to help better serve the SpaniSh speaking members of his district.

~~Steve Henson; State Senate District 41~~

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~~State Sen. Steve Henson ts a Democrat representing State Senate District 41 since 2003 and formally represented Senate District 55 from 1991 ·1999.~~

He holds the position of Secretary of the Special Judiciary Committee. He IS atso a mentler of the Agriculture and Consumer Affairs, Natural Resources and the Environment, and Health and Human SeiVlces Corrmittees. Sen. Henson has the distinction of being the past Chair of the DeKalb Democratic Party.

A OeKalb resident for over 30 years, Henson graduated from the University of Georgia with a Bachelors degree In Economics. He Is a vocational administrator and teacher at Henson Training Institute and an officer a.nd mentler of numerous comrunlty and civic organizations such as: Tucker Jaycees. Stone Mountain Exchange Club, DeKalb lung Association, league of Women Voters, PRISM, Georgia Advisory Council tor the Mentally Ill, Georgia Epilepsy Board and others.

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Senators propose King& Spalding in Atlanta who is currently gia Attorney General Michael J. Bowers. d efense casc:s and defended the board of representing Gov. Sonny Perdue in a chal who succeeded Dolton. directors and chairman of the Cobb Elec three names kngc to the new li:dt!ral health care reform Former Gov. Zell Miller appointed Cohen tric Membership Corporation in a member for federal bench IJw: Atlanta auorney William U Norwood as the stale's ritsl chief state administrative derivative: suit a lleging board mismanage· llJ o( Pope, McGiamry. Kilpatrick. 1\.lorri law judge. In rhat post, Cohl!n fonnc:d the mc:nt. bn:ach of fiduciary duty and self Bench, rrom page 1 son & Norwood; and H. Arthur McLa ne. Office of State Administrutiv.: 1-lt!arings, enrichment. That suit was setth.:d in 2001!. rejected all but on~ ~1ft he recommendations a senior judge in the Superior Court of the which conducts licc:nsing and rc:gulatory Dt:spitc the settlement, the mc:mber for the North.:rn District bench made hy a Southern Judicial Circuit in Valdosta, com hc:arings for most of t.he state's agcncic:s. plaintiffs appealt!d the case to the Gcorgia Democratic nominating commiuee hcad· mittee members con firmed last spring. Cohc:n also served on Miller's staff as exec Court of Appeals in 200'J. alleging that the c:d by McKenna Long & Aldridge partner Isakson's appointees are Ronald l.. Carl utive counsel and as c.hief of staff during EMC board had violated the: sctllement and former U.S. Rep. Gcwrgc W. MDuddy" son, a prulcssora1 the Univer>tty ol Gc:orgia Miller's second term. order rc({Uiring the board to make its elec Darden, the Daily Report learned while Sehoul ul Law in Athens; Marietta attor Sine" joining Troutman Sandc:rs, Cohen tion prCJccss more democratic. T he Court of conducting mon: than a dozen interviews ney Robert D. lngram of Moore Ingram oftc:n has received appointments as a special Appeals rulc:d in favor of tho.: member plain forth is story with pct1ple familiar with what Johnson & Steele, a formcrprcsident of the a~sis tant attorney general- both in Repub tiffs. The case currently is awaiting a ruling has been-and remains - a largc!ly secret State Bar of Gt!orgia ;md a member of the: lican and Democratic administrations- to on a writ of certiorari by the! Stale Suprt!me process. slate Judicial Qualifications Commission; handle litigation on behalf of the stattl. Court. Chambliss and Isakson have: largely t<~kc:n and Statc:sboro atto rney and former State In that role, Cohcn has argued success· Before his election as president to the charge of recommending candidates for Bar prc:sidcnt James 8. - Jimmy" Franklin fully for the Slate before the U.S. Supreme State Bar. Tate st!rvcd as tht! State Bar's federal judicial seats in Georgia since the of Franklin, Taulbee. Rushing. Snipes& Cuurt in Padue v. Ktmny A .. winning a treasurer and was appointed hy the Geor Office of White Hou.~e Counsel told thc two Marsh, Carlson told the Daily l?eport car· reversal carlit!r this year of a 2006 ruling hy gia Supreme Coun to the Bar Disciplinary Republican s.:nators that President Barack licr this year. U.S. Senior DistrictJudge Marvin H. Shoob Board's lnvc~t i gat ive l'ancl. which he later Obama doesn't intend to put forth any in Atlanta that attorneys who sued the slate ch.aired. Tate also was elected by the fed nominations in the state that they oppose:. to st!curc major rdorms of the: foster care eral judges of the: Northcm District to the sources with knowledge of the nominating Nominating judges systc:m should be awarded a $4.5 millio n Federal Dt:l'ender Board. which ove;:rsecs process tell the Daily Rep()rt. traditionally has been a bonus-on top of $6 million in fees and t he fl! dcntl public dcfcndt!rs· office, where NominatinRjudgcs traditionally has heen function of each state's cxpenst!s-for thdr work on the long-run he also sc:rved a term as president. a function of each statc:'s ~cnators. with senators, with responsibility ning and often contentious case. A s a Tate graduated from tbc Univc:n>ity of rcsponsibility usually assigned to the sena usuallyassigned to the special assistant anorney g~ncral. Cohen South Carolina School of Law in 191:17 after tor who sh:.rc:s a political party affiliation senator who shares a political also dt:fc:ndcd tht! stale: against constitu· earning an undt!rgraduate degree from the with the presidc:nt. party affiliation with the tionalchallc:tlSCS to the state's controversial Gcorgiehool, he workc:d for "orphan" statt!s that has no Dc:mocraticscn of a handful of states that has 10 defend the constitutionality of the state U.S. Scn. Sam Nunn and, later, for Darden. ators. Shortly after Ohama's election. the no Democratic senators. voter photo I D law placed him on the oppo then a U.S. rcprt!scntativc:. as Darden's prt!SS Democrats in Georgia's U.S.I-Iouse dclcgu· site side of the counsel table from current secrc:tary. tion tried to a:.sumc control of rccomm~.:n Democratic gubernatorial candidate Roy Walk..:r. who turns 50 on Friday. has dations for fcd~.:ral judicial post~ hy forming For the! two remaining open federal judi E. Barnes ir1 2007. Barnes. on behaH uf a been a U.S. magistrate judge in Atlanta a comrniuec 10 vc:t and recommend candi cial slot> on the Northern District bcnch, ruhon County voter who was disabled and since January 2000, a post to which she was datt!S to the White House:. Cohen. Walker the senators· commiuee scoured sevc:ral lacked a valid photo I U. sued the state and appointed hy a vote nfthc Northern District and ·nttc wen: not on a li>t the Democratic lists of candidatcs that Darden's commit the Stale Elt!ction Board, clitiming that the judges. When Walker wa~ appointed U.S. committee wnt to the Whit.: House iu 200'J, tee had interviewed for multiple posts, s.:t law's n.:quircmcms effectively stripped her magbtrulc ~ she bccaruc the nr ~t t\.a'n"k according to t ht! newspaper's sources. tling on Walker. who was interviewed hut Of hcr right 10 VOl C. Afriean-Amcric;ul 10 sit o n tho: federal Darden did not return calls from tht! did not make the Democratic eomonitt.:c·s In 2004, Cohen- as a special assistant bench in Georgia. Daily·R.;port for this story, but the nt!wspa short list. according to the Daily Rt

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"In the l i tera t ure o n • ' new gove r nanc e '' f orms of r egulation, t he b lur rin g of tradi tional bounda rie s i s a pervasive but larg ely impli cit the me . Th i s Ar t i cle ma ke s t his theme e xp l icit, and a r g ues tha t t he ~a pa ci t y to b lur boundar ies i s one of new g overna n ce's s ignat ure strengt hs, " sci e n t ist s wr itin g i n t he j o u rnal Wi s consin La w Review report .

"Ne w go ver nanc e r egu lat ion frequently blurs the roles of regulat o ry actor s , t h e s tages o f r e guJati on, the modes o f r e gul a t ion, t h e functions o f a regu latory r e gime; a nd the s t ruc tur e of the r e gula tory r e gime . The Ar tic le a pp l i es thi s l e ns to a serie s o f c a se studi e s , a nd demonstr a tes how i nd ustry a ttempt s a t preemptive s elf-reg u latio n h a ve c reate d o ppo rtu nitie s whe r e new go ver nan ce forms o f r egulat ion c o uld ha ve eme rged ," wr o te J . M. Sol omon a nd col leag ues, Univ ersi t y o f Ge org ia .

The resea rchers c oncluded : "Tur ning p rescr ipt ive, t his Ar tic le call s a t tention to the p oli tic al a n d s trate gic dynamics a r o und a ttemp ts to regula te new domai n s , and c a lls o n po licyma ker s a nd schola rs to embrace the blur red bound arie s of new governance a pp roa c hes a s a pos s ible a p p r oach that c ombines t he besl o f s t ate - centere d a nd self - r egulatory for ms of governance."

Solomon a nd colle agues pub lis hed the ir study in Wi s con sin Law Re view (Ne w Governance, Pree mptiv e Se l f -regu lat i o n , And The Blurring Of Boun daries In Regulator y Theory And Pr act ice. Wi s consin La w Revj c w, 2010; (2 } :591-625 ) .

~~Addi tiona l informa tion can b e ob tain e d by con tac ting J . M. So l omon, Univercity nf r;~ ~r1ia, ~ ·~10 ·t ~ aw , P..•te;, , GA 30602 , USA.~~

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~~ATHENS , Ga., Sept . 23 --Th e University of Georgia i ssued t he foll owing n e ws r e l e ase :~~

The Univer sit y o f Georgia School o f La w' s Dean Rus k Cen ter presents ''Tackling t h e Crisis: An EU Perspective on Financia l Investigations and the Fight Against Fraud," fea t uring financi al crimes exper t Andrea Vonegoni who wi ll d eliver t h is lecture on Oct . 4 a t 12: 30 p. m. in t he Larry Walker Room of Dea n Rusk Hall .

Venegoni has ext e nsi ve experience in both i n terna tional a nd Eu ropea n l aw and speci a lizes i n economic a nd monetar y c r imes. He i s cur ren tly a n a tional detached exp ert a t t he Europea n Anti-Fraud Office in Brussel s , Belgi um, where he serves as a legal adviser. His work f ocuses on admi n i s tra tive i nvestigati ons i nvolvi ng a llegations a ffecting t he European Union budget and cases concerni n g serious financial misconduct o f EO o f ficia l s .

Pr eviousl y , he was an international prosecut o r i n t he criminal d i vision of t he Un ite d Nations Interi m Administration Miss ion i n Kosovo 's Department of Justi ce . Wh i l e there, Venegoni prosecuted high -profile corruption c ases investiga t ed b y i n ternational and loc a l pol ice f orces .

'' We are honored t o host s uch a d isting uished g ues t as Mr. Ve n egoni and t o exp l ore t he fight a gainst fra ud, '' Director of t h e Dean Rus k Center C . Donald Joh n son said . " It is a serious problem a f f ecti ng many nations t h a t needs to b e a ddressed, a nd I am con fident t hat he wi l l provide us a l l wi t h u nique insights as wel l as potentia l s o l u tions to t his wide-spread p r oblem. " For a n y q uery wi t h respect t o t his arti c l e o r any othe r cont e n t requirement, please contact Ed i tor a t htsyndication@h i ndus t antimes . com

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Whitfield native gets 4-H Welcome to our online comments feature. To join the discussion, you must first register with Disqus Green Jacket Award and verify your email address. Once you do, your (http: II daltondailycitizen.com comments will post automatically. We welcome your thoughts and your opinions, including /local/x1327127127/Whitfield unpopular ones. We ask only that you keep the native-gets-4-H -Green-Jacket conversation civil and clean. We reserve the right to Award) remove comments that are obscene, racist or abusive and statements that are false or unverifiable. Repeat offenders will be blocked. You Submitted ~~t'te~L~£a 4·H Foundation may flag objectionable comments for review by a (http://daltondailycitizen.com) moderator. Georgia 4-H recently honored the 2010 Green Jacket Award recipient, Randy Nuckolls, at the 68th Annual Georgia 4-H State Congress.

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Nuckolls, a partner in the Washington, D.C., office of the McKenna, Long & Aldridge law firm, Post as ... represents clients on public policy matters and has served for many years as the Washington counsel for the University of Georgia. He is a former Whitfield County 4-H'er from Tunnel Hill. Showing o comments He served as a Rock Eagle 4-H Camp counselor in the 1970s. Sort by Oldest first Subscribe by email ..; Subscribe by RSS Nuckolls has continued his support of Georgia 4-H since moving to Washington after graduating from the University of Georgia School of Law. His comments powered by DISOUS exemplary record includes his service of nearly 25 years on the Georgia 4-H Foundation Board of Trustees, which he has made a priority in spite of residing in the Washington area. During his stint as foundation chair, Nuckolls led Georgia 4-H to new levels of accountability and fund development.

He served as legislative counsel for former U.S. Sen. Herman Talmadge and was later chief counsel and legislative director for former U.S. Sen. Sam Nunn. He has remained involved in many Georgia activities, serving on the boards of the Georgia Agribusiness Council and the State Bar of Georgia. He served as president of the Georgia State Society in Washington and as chairman of the Atlanta-based Society of International Business Fellows. He currently serves on the Board of Visitors of the School of Public and International Affairs at UGA.

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Nuckolls has served on all four Georgia 4-H Gala committees and has been a champion in Washington for not only 4-H but all of Cooperative Extension, the UGA College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, and the University of Georgia. He has received UGA's College of Agriculture Distinguished Alumni Award and the state and national award from the Cooperative Extension Agents professional society for his support of cooperative extension agents and programs.

Nuckolls is a personal donor to the Georgia 4-H Foundation, and he recently crafted and presented proposals in Washington resulting in the receipt of significant federal dollars to enhance the 4-H Centers on Jekyll Island and Tybee Island. His interest in Georgia 4-H has continued through his support of the Georgia 4-H Washington intern program by helping place interns in jobs on Capitol Hill and by raising funds to support the 4-H intern program.

Nuckolls is married to former Whitfield County 4-Her Suzanne Griffin, also of Tunnel Hill. Randy and Suzanne have two children -Emily, a UGA graduate now working as alumni director of UGA's Warnell School of Forestry, and Caroline, a senior at New York University in New York City.

The state winner in the Georgia 4-H Citizenship Project receives a scholarship named in honor of the Green Jacket Award winner. Past recipients of the Georgia 4-H Green Jacket Award include Gov. Sonny Perdue and Commissioner Mike Beatty of the Georgia Department of Community Affairs.

As a program of the UGA College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Cooperative Extension, Georgia 4-H is part of the nationwide Extension network and serves nearly 156,000 youth in Georgia each year.

The mission of Georgia 4-H is to assist youth in acquiring knowledge, developing life skills and forming attitudes that will enable them to become self-directing, productive and contributing members of society. This mission is accomplished through "hands on" learning experiences focused on agricultural and environmental issues, agriculture awareness, leadership, communication skills, foods and nutrition, health, energy conservation and citizenship.

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@ Sign up for daily Welcome Guest ... - GA- Wire - State news - Politics - Wire 1\ e-mail news alerts Sign In I Become a Member Corrmenls 16) 1 Recomnend COl 1 Saturday. Sop 25, 2010 1'/J-S /13 • Roy Barnes mixes Southern charm, 0 SMARE r:i e ;,·; ... shrewd intellect A_!t ' YA~OO' I Ci E·Matl By SHANNON MCCAFFREY- Associated Press Writer .... Pnnl ATLANTA -- Roy Barnes learned life lessons helping out at his father's general Text Size: store in Mableton. It was a spot where locals gathered to talk about the issues of the day as they picked up shoes. tractor parts and animal feed in what was a mostly ru-al encla~~e of south Cobb Colrty.

It was where Barnes teamed to spin a yarn. And also where he became hooked on politics. Barnes has gone on to an adult life largely spent in plblic office. Now. eight years after voters turned Nm out as go~~ernor after a single term. the 62-year-old Democrat is angling for a comeback.

It's a tough order under any circumstances - the last Your Future? Georgia go~~erno r to win re-election after being ousled was Eugene Talmadge in 1946. And Democrats seem to ha11e the wind in their face this MASTER IT! elecuon year. In a Republican-lea111ng state like Georgia College in Macon Georgia that makes the climb even steeper. FREE Groduate Open House To win. Barnes must run not just against GOP Thomas Jefferson Bldg- Oleny St opponent Nathan Deal but against the national Democratic Party establishment and President Barack Obama. whose approval ratings in Georgia trail the national a~~erage . Tues. Sept. 28- 6 or 7 p.m. (478) 752-4278 • gcsu.edulmasterit With his rumpled hair and folksy drawl, Barnes can turn on the backslapping Southern charm. But he's also a stvewd trial lawyer and politician. And while he calls himself a "poor of' country lawyer." Barnes -who's been a banker. a lawyer and a politician - is alSo a millionaire.

He has a net worth of S16.6 million. ~areer bu i ldercom · Ol.i!GK J0f3 SEARCH "I'm a capitalist ttvough and through, and I make no apologies for that," he says, adding that he also believes people "should pay their fair share" in taxes. Enter Keyword(s): Enter a City:

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Barnes blazed through his undergraduate stud1es and went straight into the Un111ersity of Georgta Law School. In college he was a Republican. saying he was turned off to the state's ruing Democratic Party by then-Gov Lester Maddox's hardtine segregationist views.

~~After earning his taw degree. Barnes returned to Cobb County and took a JOb as a prosecutor in the Cobb County DistriCt Attorney's Office. He married his first love. Marie, a school teacher.~~

Barnes was elected to the state Senate 1n 1974 at 26. the yot.ngest person to sefiiE! in the chamber. He became known as smart and ambitious. In the mid 1960s, Barnes and four of Ns state Senate coUeagues became known as the Gang of Five. They angered top officials by bypassing the traditional seniority

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Listening in L& t A USA at Today article about how new media such as cell phones and Internet so cial networking sites are redefining the concept of eavesdropping quoted ~l n~~ t1~!t~1i ~ l~nH • W. Keith Campbell, professor and department ., . ~-~""'~ " . - h-; d~ !t"'rr~SiWM;e,s-S"'miilt head of the social psychology program. "It's a generational and cultural change," said Photos from left: Timothy Campbell. "That old image of sticking your ear Adams is a professor and to a keyhole- we don't need to do it anymore. UGA welcomes new faculty percussion area chair in the Our personal lives are much more open." Below is an alphabetical listing of new Office of Faculty Affairs, which acts as a Hodgson School of Music. Shanta Dhar is one of two new Oil seep tenured and tenure-track faculty who have liaison between the university and the USG 'arrived at the university this semester. board of regents on matters related to faculty fema~e assistant professors An MSNBC article joining the chemistry focusing on the nature of They are in departments spread across appointment, promotion and tenure. department this fall. Gary the Gulf of Mexico oil spill 13 schools and colleges plus the Faculty of For more information about that office, Baxter Is a professor of equine l A Engineering. see the Key Links section of the Provost's medicine and director of the quote UGA marine scientist Samantha Joye. NBC. The information was supplied by the Office website: provost.uga.edu. Veterinary Teaching Hospital. "What we found today is not a natural seep," Joye said. "The near shore Tunothy Adams Ellen Evans Stephanie Lunden Jessica Mueller Rodell sediments contained grayish muddy clay and a Professor, Hugh Hodgson Associate Professor, Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor, thin layer of orange-brown oil at the surface. School of Music Kinesiology English Management Oil seeping naturally would create an oily stain throughout the sediment cores, but these Sophia Tambudzai Anong Vanessa Ezenwa Cody Marrs Valija Cynthia Rose samples only had oil at the top. ·The oil obvi Assistant Professor, Housing Assistant Professor, Odum Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor, Lifelong ously came from the i:op, not the bottom." and Consmner ~conomics School of Ecology English Education, Administration and Policy Extinction predictions Berrak. 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JieHe Assistant Professor, Small Assisrapt Pro essor, Hugh Joshua Bynwn Assistant Professor, Animal Medicine Hodgson School ofMusic Assistant Professor, Hugh Banking and Fmance Hodgson School of Music Aliki Jrini Nicolaides ChanMin Kim Spector it}e Wttstrtngton J)ost Sara Bryant Holland Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor, Jon Calabria Assistant Professor, Lifelong Education, Educational Psychology and Assistant Professor, Banking and Finance Administration and Policy Insttuctional Technology Vine finds Environment and Design An article in The Washington Post about how J;Jrian Hopkinson Darius Parke Omston Darcey Dickinson Terris the recent excess carbon in the Earth's atmo John Campbell Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor, Healili sphere may explain the current bumper crop Assistant Professor, T ull School of Marine Programs International Affairs Policy and Management of poison ivy quoted Jacqueline Mohan, an School of Accounting assistant profe$SOr at UG& Odum School of Miriam]acobson Roberto Perdisci Amrit Tiwana Ecology. 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~~GS U' s law school ranked No. 1 in value~~

~~National Jurist magazine, a publication a imed at law schooJ students, ranked the College of La w a t Georgia State University No . 1 in va lue, up f rom its fourth-place ranking last year.~~

~~Brigham Young Un iversi ty ' s J . Reub en Cl ark Law School ranked second, unchanged from l ast year, while the University of Louisvill e' s Louis D. Brandeis School o f Law ranked third .~~

The Unjversity of Georgia School of Law, the only o t he-r schooJ. from the Pe ach State to make t he list, r anked 15th . The magazine based i ts s election on Bar passage rates, tuition cos ts, average stude nt debt after g raduati on and post-graduation employment rates . PERALTE PAUL

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~~Some ticket scof flaws wi ll be given amnesty~~

Re sponding to a computer virus t h a t a t t acked Atlanta 's Municipal Court systems thi s summer, any unpaid parki ng tickets i ssued by t he Atlanta Police Department between July 17 and Sept . 14 will be gra nted amne sLy for late fees if p a id by De c . 31 .

However, t his order does not apply to parking tickets iss ued by PARKa tlanta, t he city's c ontracted parking enforcement u nit . Tickets issued e lec tronically by PARKatlanta's enf o r cement personnel were n ot affected and PARKa t lanta ' s payment systems have been a nd a rc functioning properly, city officials say .

So , late fees on PARKatla nta tickets remain valid a nd wil l conti nue to be enforced . To determi ne whether a parking citation was issued by the APD o r by PARKatlanta, log on to ht tp: //atl anlaga . gov/government/courts/samp leparkingtickets 11 - 1~-0 .aspx . ERN IE SUGGS

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~~Business development g roup wins award~~

~~A coalition o f Gwinnett County g overnme nts and businesses has won international acclaim for i ts economic development e fforts .~~

Partnership Gwinne Lt t his week wi l l acce p t the Interna tional Economic Development Council ' s Award of Excellence f or best multi-year economic development program for a community of more than 500, 000 people.

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~~The i nter national group's chairman sai d Partnership Gw innett i s a t the f orefront o f the eco n omic d evelopment profession a nd its p ractices c a n be replicated elsewhere.~~

The par t nership focuses on marke ting coun ty assets li ke s chools, roads and parks to compan ies t hat might relocate here. It has marke t ed Gwinnett County a nd metro Atla nta overseas and in this nation 's Rust Belt.

~~Though it doesn ' t take full credit, the partnership rece ntly announced Gw i n nett County had seen mo r e t han 9, 200 ne w j obs from 112 business r eloca tions and expansions since 2007 .~~

~~Led by the Gwinnett Cha mber of Commerce, Partners hip Gwinnett i s a coalition o f 1 60 g ov ernmen t s and businesses.~~

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~~Savannah attorney Toby Buttimer killed in Statesboro wreck~~

By Jan Skutch Created 2010-09-29 00:18 Summary: Savannah attorney Edward M. "Toby" Buttimer Jr. was killed Monday night in a two-car wreck near Statesboro, a Georgia State Patrol official said Tuesday. Jan Skutch

~~Savannah attorney Edward M. "Toby" Buttimer Jr. was killed Monday night in a two-car wreck near Statesboro, a Georgia State Patrol official said Tuesday.~~

The 42-year-old attorney was driving a 2009 Toyota Corolla south on Lakeview Road in Bulloch County about 7:45p.m. when his car was struck in the passenger's side by a 2006 Nissan Exterra driven by Tammy Ann Johnson, 49, of Gwinn, Mich., said Craig Minor, chief communications officer with the GSP Post 45 in Statesboro.

Visitation: 5 p.m.-7 p.m. Thursday at Sacred Heart Catholic Church, 1707 Bull St. Rosary: 6 p.m. Thursday at Sacred Heart Funeral Mass: 11 a.m. Friday at Sacred Heart Burial: Catholic Cemetary Fairhaven Funeral Home, Hubert C. Baker Chapel.

~~Buttimer was partially ejected from his car, Minor said.~~

~~His father, attorney Edward M. Buttimer, said Tuesday his son was returning to Savannah after an appointment with a client when the wreck occurred.~~

~~An autopsy was scheduled Tuesday, Buttimer said.~~

~~Johnson was taken to East Georgia Regional Medical Center in Statesboro, where her condition was unavailable Tuesday.~~

~~Blood tests and charges are pending, Minor said.~~

~~Minor said the wreck is being investigated by the GSP's Specialized Collision Reconstruction Team 4.~~

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~~Those teams investigate all prosecutable fatalities, he said.~~

~~That report, which he said will be quite detailed , will take some time to complete, he said.~~

~~"It can be months before their report is ready," Minor said.~~

~~Toby Buttimer was a 1986 graduate of Benedictine Military School and a 1991 graduate of Armstrong Atlantic State University.~~

~~He earned his law degree in 1995 from the University of Georgia law school.~~

~~He practiced law with his father in The Buttimer Law Firm, handling real estate and business matters.~~

~~He was a past president of the Ancient Order of Hibernians, Monsignor Daniel J. Bourke, Division One.~~

~~He had a 10-year-old son, Conor. Fairhaven Funeral Home, Hubert G. Baker Chapel, will handle funeral arrangements. ------r Edward M. "Toby" Buttimer Jr. 11 1 r· Mapping -- 1 1 Show Map: : o I_~~

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