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Hurricane Katrina: the Legal Impact While Others Try to Service Everyone Under the Sun October 2006 Volume 12 Number 2 Hurricane Katrina: The Legal Impact While others try to service everyone under the sun. We ensure Georgia lawyers have it made in the shade. If there’s one thing insurance companies should have learned, it’s that if you try to be all things to all people, you’re going to get burned. That’s why, over the past few years, so many of them have left the state —and left their clients high and dry. At the same time, Georgia Lawyers Insurance Company has been solid, stable and continues to provide the best service, rates and advice for lawyers and law firms in the state. In fact, our aim is nothing less than to be the best, and the best name means premium coverage. So if you’re ready for an insurance company that provides the personal service you deserve and writes policies that best fit your needs, call the brightest company around. 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The selection of your exchange company is crucial to the success of your exchange. LandAmerica provides unparalleled financial security, IRS-tested documentation and the services of highly skilled exchange professionals covering all 50 states. Let the experts at LandAmerica make capital gains taxes less taxing for you. Security of Funds Sound Documentation Superb Professionals John LaMarca, CPA LandAmerica 1031 Exchange Services 5 Concourse Parkway, Suite 1425 Atlanta, GA 30328 770-325-2759 www.landam.com/1031 ©2006. LandAmerica is a registered trademark of LandAmerica Financial Group, Inc. October 2006 Volume 12 Number 2 14 GBJ Legal Departments 14 6 From the President Pandemic Preparation 8 From the Executive Director in the Workplace by Donald W. Benson 10 From the YLD President 44 Bench & Bar 22 50 Office of the General Responding to the Hurricanes Counsel 22 by Anthony H. Barash 52 Lawyer Discipline 54 Law Practice Management 28 56 Casemaker Georgia’s Legal Community Responds to Hurricane Katrina 60 Section News by Johanna B. Merrill 62 Professionalism Page 66 In Memoriam 32 68 Book Review The Newton County 70 CLE Calendar Courthouse at Covington: Notices The Grand Old 76 Courthouses of Georgia 78 Classified Resources 34 by Wilber W. Caldwell 80 Advertisers Index 34 Delivering on the Promise of Equal Justice 62 by Phyllis J. Holmen 38 The Committee on Civil Justice: Addressing the Legal Needs of Georgia’s Poor by Caren Henderson 42 68 Notice of Expiring BOG Terms To honor Morris Dees for a lifetime of public service, Skadden and The University of Alabama School of Law announce The Morris Dees Justice Award. THE WINNER WILL BE ANNOUNCED OCTOBER 2, 2006. www.MorrisDeesAward.com SELECTION COMMITTEE Morris Dees, Honorary Chair Co-Chairs Robert C. Sheehan Dean Kenneth Randall Executive Partner, Skadden University of Alabama School of Law Members Mary Bauer, Director, Immigrant Justice Project Susan Butler Plum, Founding Director, Skadden Professor Jesse Choper, Boalt Hall Fellowship Program Professor Bryan Fair, University of Alabama Theodore M. Shaw, Director-Counsel and School of Law President, NAACP Legal Defense and Marcia D. Greenberger, Co-President of the Education Fund National Women's Law Center Tisha Tallman, Regional Counsel, Atlanta Office Robert Grey, President, American Bar Mexican American Legal Defense and Association, 2004-2005 Education Fund Marjorie Press Lindblom, Co-Chair, Lawyers Vaughn C.Williams, Partner, Skadden Committee for Civil Rights Under Law The award ceremony will take place in New York City on November 16, 2006. The Morris Dees Justice Award is sponsored by THE UNIVERSITY OF & ALABAMA SCHOOL OF LAW Editorial Board Quick Dial Marcus D. 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From the President by Jay Cook Photo by Hollis Ellison United We Stand, Divided We Fall esop’s ancient moral lesson, united we stand, again we’ve been told that many people don’t understand what we mean when we say “independent” judiciary. divided we fall, from “The Four Oxen and the The founders referred to the judiciary as the “least dangerous branch,” not because they wanted it weak, Lion” fable, rings especially true today, as we but rather because they wanted it to operate independ- A ent of political agendas, insulated from special interest in the legal community watch—often frustrated and bewil- pressures and protected from capricious voters. Sandra Day O’Connor recently said, “Judicial inde- dered—as attacks escalate on pendence does not happen all by itself. It’s tremendously the American judiciary. “Together we have hard to create and it’s easier than most people imagine to Although judicial independ- established one strong voice.
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