From the Executive Director

• Jurisdiction: Georgia,United States
• Citation: Vol. 28 No. 1 Pg. 0014
• Publication year: 2022
• Pages: 0014
• topic: Business of Law,Contracts,Corporate / Commercial,Labor Law,Civil Procedure,Public Sector Law

From the Executive Director No. Vol. 28 No. 1 Pg. 14 Georgia Bar Journal August, 2022

DAMON E. ELMORE

Executive Director State Bar of Georgia damone@gabar.org

A New Bar Year

Summer means the beginning of a new year for the State Bar. In June, our new officers were installed, and we have some new faces on our Board of Governors. President Sally Akins has completed her committee assignments and our fiscal year started on July 1.

We are pleased with the way our Annual Meeting turned out thanks to the support of hundreds of our fellow members, solid planning by our Meetings Department and other team members, and because of perfect weather. Future meetings will have a tough act to follow, but we are up to the challenge.

At the Annual Meeting, I provided an update about the work that had our attention from an operational perspective as we concluded the previous Bar year with our focus on several major projects and a recent unauthorized access event that held the majority of our time, our resources and our effort.

There were a few, specific matters we believed the Board and our members were interested in having a specific update on. That includes: our work related to long-term financial planning; a brief update on our ICLE department; next steps in the process related to our Coastal Georgia office; and the most recent details...