Tilpp: Reflecting, on 2022 as We Look Forward to 2023
| Publication year | 2022 |
| Pages | 0034 |
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The Transition Into Law Practice Program (TILPP) is the mentoring and continuing legal education requirement for most lawyers newly admitted to the State Bar of Georgia.
BY KELLYN O. MCGEE
As we come to the end of 2022, the Transition Into Law Practice Program (TILPP) is taking a look at its accomplishments of the last two years. Some of those accomplishments include new programming for lawyers enrolled in TILPP and ways that we have made the program more efficient.
New TILPP Programming
This year TILPP held its first live programs since March 2020. In August, 268 lawyers attended the Beginning Lawyers Program via Livestream. This program, which provides 6 CLE hours, was traditionally held in February, with attendees in person in Atlanta and at simulcast locations in Tifton and Savannah. This CLE is required for lawyers enrolled in TILPP, excluding prosecutors and public defenders, who have equivalent trainings within their organizations.
Following a welcome by State Bar of Georgia Executive Director Damon E. Elmore, Justice Sarah Hawkins Warren (via video), welcomed the new lawyers to the Bar and discussed civility within the profession. Elmore then explained the structure of the Bar, the role of the Board of Governors and resources available for members. Veronica Rogusky Cox, secretary of the Young Lawyers Division (YLD), welcomed the new lawyers and described the services the YLD provides.
The program continued with Jenny K. Mittelman, deputy general counsel of the State Bar of Georgia, discussing how to manage one's online reputation and how to effectively communicate with clients and colleagues. R. Jayonne Hicks, chair of the Bar's Attorney Wellness Committee, provided insight and personal reflections about managing wellness as a new lawyer and described the committee's offerings. State Bar of Georgia General Counsel Paula Frederick and Jamie McDowell, an associate at Fields Howell LLP, interviewed each other about the common ethics conundrums new lawyers face and how to avoid them. Niv Persaud, founder of Transition Planning & Guidance, LLC, covered the financial considerations of lawyers embarking on their careers. Karlise Y. Grier, executive director of the Chief Justice's Commission on Professionalism, ended the program addressing the role of professionalism for new lawyers.
In October, TILPP...
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