Professionalism Page

• Publication year: 2022
• Pages: 0062

Professionalism Page No. Vol. 28 No. 2 Pg. 62 Georgia Bar Journal October, 2022

Thirty Years of the Award-Winning Law School Orientations on Professionalism

The Commission thanks all of the lawyers and judges—including the 140 lawyers and judges and one law school graduate who served as group leaders—for helping to make the 2022 Law School Orientations on Professionalism a great success!

BY KARLISE Y. GRIER

In 1992, Dana Miles, while serving as chair of the State Bar of Georgia Committee on Professionalism, became the architect of the Law School Orientations on Professionalism. During 1992 and 1993, Miles reported on the progress of the Committee's work on the orientations to the Chief Justice's Commission on Professionalism. On Nov. 2, 1992, Miles reported that the committee had divided responsibilities for its project of making a professionalism presentation at each of the four Georgia accredited law schools' orientations.^[1] Those divisions were (1) law school coordination (getting in touch with deans and faculty members), (2) program development and (3) attorney identification and recruitment. Miles further announced that he would be calling on members of the commission and the bench and bar to participate in the orientation programs.

During another meeting on June 4, 1993, Miles reported to the commission that the committee was in the final stages of planning the Orientation on Professionalism programs as a part of orientation at the law schools. Miles also credited Professor Roy Sobelson with the development of the hypotheticals to be used in the breakout groups at these programs. Miles further announced that the committee was actively recruiting lawyer volunteers to serve as small group leaders.

The first Law School Orientations on Professionalism program in Georgia was held in the fall of 1993. Shortly, thereafter, by the commission's Nov. 19, 1993, meeting the American Bar Association Commission on Partnership Programs announced that it had selected the State Bar of Georgia Orientations on Professionalism as the recipient of the 1994 ABA/In-formation America Client Relations Project Award. Miles accepted the award at the ABA Midyear Meting in Kansas City in February 1994. In addition, the Nov. 19, 1993, commission minutes reflected that the committee and the commission continued to receive letters commending the orientations. Sobelson reported that he was finding that first-year law students were bringing up...