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Darrell Sutton Serve the Bar Earn August 2019 Volume 25, Number 1 From the President— GEORGIA BAR Continuing to Listen: #ShapeTheBar Legal Trailblazer: Judge Rachel Pruden Herndon JOURNAL Legal—Do’s and Don’ts When Handling a Product Liability Matter in Georgia 2019 State Bar Annual Meeting Coverage 57TH STATE BAR PRESIDENT DARRELL SUTTON SERVE THE BAR EARN CREDITCLE GEORGIA BAR JOURNAL LEGAL ARTICLES Earn up to six CLE credits for having your legal article 6 published in the Journal. Contact [email protected] for more information. HIGH SCHOOL MOCK TRIAL Coach a team or judge a trial for the High School Mock 3 Trial program and receive up to three hours of CLE credit. Contact [email protected] for opportunities. GEORGIA LAWYERS HELPING LAWYERS Volunteer and complete online training to be a peer 2 in the Georgia Lawyers Helping Lawyers program and earn up to two CLE hours during your training. Visit www.georgiaLHL.org for more information. 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MASON 34 2019-20 State Bar of Georgia Officers, Executive Committee and Board of Governors Members 36 Hodges’ Final Remarks to the Board of Governors HON. KENNETH B. HODGES III 40 Remarks of Darrell Sutton to the Board of Governors DARRELL SUTTON 44 Sutton Sees Opportunities in Bar’s Challenges LINTON JOHNSON 48 Meet the New Executive Director of GLSP: Rick Rufolo ASHLEY G. STOLLAR 50 What a Year! The Transition Into Law Practice Program Looks Back MICHELLE E. WEST 54 Dynamic Social Justice Advocacy CLE Presented at Annual Meeting JACQUELINE F. BUNN AND AVARITA L. HANSON GETTYIMAGES.COM/ALLKINDZA 56 Supreme Court of Georgia DO’S AND DON’TS WHEN Term Clerk Program ASHLEY G. STOLLAR The HANDLING A PRODUCT LIABILITY MATTER IN 58 Serving Those Who Served: Legal GEORGIA / 16 An Interview with Marshall-Tuttle Arthur J. Park Awardee Norman E. Zoller CHRISTOPHER PITTS 2019 AUGUST 3 72 GETTYIMAGES.COM/SPAXIAX GBJ | In Every Issue 5 Editor’s Letter 66 Office of the General Counsel 79 Pro Bono Star Story Do I Have to Share My Alina Lee 6 From the President Doughnut? Laura Coats 10 From the YLD President Paula Frederick 14 From the Executive 82 Attorney Wellness Director 74 Law Practice Management The Loneliness Crisis 62 Bench & Bar Planning to Take Charge: LaKeisha R. Randall 67 Attorney Discipline Getting Ready for Georgia’s 72 Legal Tech Tips Solo & Small Firm Institute 84 Writing Matters 88 In Memoriam Natalie R. Kelly Voice and Tone in Legal Writing 90 CLE Calendar David Hricik and Karen J. Sneddon 76 Pro Bono 92 Notices Pro Bono Record Restriction 86 Professionalism Page 96 Classified Resources Clinics Get People Back to Work Chief Justice’s Commission on 96 Advertisers Index Mike Monahan Professionalism Issues Revised Professionalism CLE Guidelines 78 Member Benefits Karlise Y. Grier and Leslie E. Stewart Making Sure You Know Your Member Benefits Sheila Baldwin 4 GEORGIA BAR JOURNAL EDITOR’S LETTER The August Issue Our August 2019 issue of the Georgia Bar the brave and deserving veterans and active Journal is a celebration of the past, where duty members of our country’s military. members of the Bar have supported the Our legal article this month, “Do’s and causes that matter to Georgia’s citizens Don’ts When Handling a Product Liability and attorneys, and a look forward to the Matter in Georgia” by Arthur J. Park, fo- Bar’s bright future under its new leader- cuses on helpful and practical tips for prac- ship, who officially took office at the 2019 titioners on both sides of a case. Park shares Annual Meeting. his wealth of experience in the defense of This month’s features include an in- product liability cases and the pursuit of depth look at the 2019 Annual Meeting. We subrogation claims for insurers in order to ON THE COVER have the pleasure of outgoing Bar President help other attorneys narrow the issues in Pictured on the cover is 2019-20 President Darrell Ken Hodges’ final remarks to the Board of question and avoid the pitfalls of this com- Sutton, wife Meredith, and Governors, highlighting the wonderful plex field of law. their children Louise (4) and accomplishments of the Bar’s leaders and Any publication that serves the legal Wilson (2). members over the last year. We also hear community would be remiss not to ad- PHOTO BY REBECCA ENSLEIN from our new Bar President, Darrell Sut- dress some of the struggles faced by those ton, about the foundation of optimism and in the legal profession.
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