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Next Bar Meeting Announcement

Members, please join us for our next bar meeting on Friday, March 2nd.  Ken Kendrick, Esq., of Henning Mediation & Arbitration Service (HMA) will be our guest speaker.  Mr. Kendrick will be presenting a program designed to help you improve your negotiation skills in mediation.  The program will cover preparation for mediation, negotiating items important to the client, confidentiality and ethics in mediation, as well as how to improve the mediation outcome.  HMA has agreed to provide a FREE one hour CLE credit for those who attend.  For more information on Henning Mediation & Arbitration Service check out their website at: http://www.henningmediation.com/index.php.  We hope to see you there!   

Guest Speaker Lectures on Pharmaceutical Product Liability

The RBA would like to thank Mr. Gil Gainer with the Law Firm of Toliver & Gainer, LLC for being our guest speaker at our February 3rd bar meeting.  Mr. Gainer, whose practice areas include pharmaceutical product liability, educated us on the link between Acetaminophen and liver failure.  For more information on this interesting topic, please visit the firm's website at http://www.toliverandgainer.com/Articles/Acetaminophen-and-Liver-Failure.shtml. 

 L to R: Mike Nation, Sam Crowe, Gil Gainer, Russel Moore.

Rockdale County Bar Association Board of Directors Elected for 2012

Elections for the Board of Directors were held at our last meeting on November 4, 2011.  Michael Nation and Russel Moore V were reelected to serve as President and Vice-President respectively.  Samuel J. Crowe was also reelected and will be serving as the Bar’s Treasurer for another year. 

Additionally, a new position was filled.  Randa Hafez of the Rockdale County District Attorney’s Office has been selected to serve as the Web/Communications Officer for 2012.  Amongst other things, Randa will help manage the RBA web site and keep up-to-date the content of the site (photographs, schedules, news, events, etc.).  Thanks again to Randa for volunteering her valuable time to assist the RBA!

A Busy Year!

The Rockdale County Bar Association has had a busy year both with benefits to our members as well as outreach to the community.

For member benefits, we have had 4 bar luncheons in which our members were able to obtain CLE credits as well as meet and comingle with each other. At the February 4^th bar meeting, we had John Monroe visit and give a CLE presentation on the Second Amendment and the revamping of Georgia’s gun laws. In March, we had our own Thua Barlay inform us on the new death tax and trust laws and how they affect our practice.  In June, Georgia State Law Professor Paul Milich presented a CLE course on HB 24 which addresses Georgia’s new rules of evidence. Finally, and at our last bar meeting in August, our own Clerk of Superior Court, Ruth Wilson, and Cole Thaler with Georgia Legal Services met with us to discuss Pro Se Filers in Rockdale County, the resources currently available for those filers as well as what resources might be coming in the future.

As to our community outreach, we have made generous donations to Rockdale CASA the Court Appointed Special Advocates who help, on a volunteer basis, to protect our youth here in Rockdale, the new Georgia Revolution soccer team, whose addition will hopefully expand resources available to RYSA; as well as the John Strauss memorial plaque.

Finally, thank you to all those who donated to Judge Nation’s portrait and frame. We have reached our goal and could not have accomplished that without a great Bar.  Thank you also to Wales Barksdale who hosted the April get together at his farm.  A great time was had by all!