Bench & Bar
| Jurisdiction | Georgia,United States |
| Citation | Vol. 28 No. 4 Pg. 0038 |
| Pages | 0038 |
| Publication year | 2023 |
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Stites & Harbison, PLLC, announced that the Friends of Disabled Adults and Children (FO-DAC) elected Lewis Perling to its Board of Directors. FODAC is a nonprofit organization created in 1986 to enhance the quality of life for those who are mobility-impaired due to any physical disability, illness or injury. FODAC provides refurbished home medical equipment and services for adults and children with disabilities. The group's programs include home medical equipment, home modifications, vehicle modifications, computer refurbishing and assistive technology.
Hon. Alison W. Toller, chief juvenile judge of the Northeastern Circuit, received the Judge Tommy Day Wilcox Award at the Council of Accountability Court Judges conference in October 2022. Toller became the presiding judge of Hall County Family Treatment Court in 2015 and then implemented the Dawson County Family Treatment Court in 2019. Both court programs have been recognized as model Family Treatment Courts in Georgia. Judge Tommy Day Wilcox was the first accountability court judge in Georgia and presided over the Macon Drug Court. In his honor, the Judge Tommy Day Wilcox Award goes to the nominee that received the highest overall score statewide.
The Leadership Council on Legal Diversity (LCLD) named Baker Donaldson a Compass Award winner. This award recognizes those law firms and corporations showing a strong commitment to building more diverse organizations and a more inclusive legal profession. LCLD is one of the nation's leading organizations promoting diversity and consists of more than 430 corporate chief legal officers and law firm managing partners who have dedicated themselves to creating a truly diverse U.S. legal profession.
Elizabeth Green Lindsey, shareholder at Davis, Matthews & Quigley, P.C., was named president-elect of the National Board of Trial Advocacy (NBTA), a nonprofit organization devoted to improving the quality of trial advocacy and aiding the public in selecting proven, tested and experienced legal representation. NBTA offers board certification in a variety of civil and criminal areas of legal practice including family trial law. The mission of NBTA is to inform and educate the public concerning legal representation by board-certified specialists.
Thomas Kennedy Sampson & Tompkins LLP announced that founding partner Thomas G. Sampson Sr. was inducted into the American College of Trial Lawyers (ACTL) in February 2022. Founded in 1950, ACTL is an honorary professional association composed of experienced trial lawyers in the U.S. and Canada, which strives to maintain and improve the administration of justice, ethics in the profession and the standards of trial practice. Membership in the college cannot exceed one percent of the total lawyer population of any state or province.
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Swift, Currie, McGhee & Hiers, LLP, announced the elevation of Kelly Chartash, Gillian Crowl-Parrish, Alex McDonald, Lauren Meadows, Alexander Mikhalevsky and Kori Wagner to partner. Chartash focuses her practice on third-party insurance coverage disputes, automobile litigation and premises liability. Crowl-Parrish practices in the areas of commercial litigation, trucking litigation, catastrophic injury, wrongful death, insurance coverage, premises liability and bad-faith litigation. McDonald's practice focuses on the area of civil litigation with an emphasis on the defense of individuals, businesses and insurance carriers in personal injury, auto mobile accident, product liability, construction, premises liability and insurance coverage litigation. Meadows practices in the commercial litigation and insurance coverage group and represents insurance companies and their insureds in personal injury, construction and premises liability litigation. Mikhalevsky focuses his practice on arson and...
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