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In recent years we have dealt with increasingly aggressive demands for reimbursement by all manner health insurance and benefit plans when people who are seriously injured recover money from the insurer for the party at fault.
After the injured person’s lawyer fights to get compensation for the client, the health insurance benefit plan to which the … Continue Reading
Grady EMT, going home from work on motorcycle, killed by DUI driver on I-20 in Douglas County
At 5 AM Sunday, a Grady Hospital EMT was killed on his way home from work by an allegedly drunk driver who rear-ended his motorcycle on I-20 near Lee Road in Douglas County.
The EMT, Jason Dale Strickland of Bremen was driving his Harley Davidson west on I-20 near Lee Road. According to media reports, a … Continue Reading
Independent Courts as Economic Infrastructure
The following article appeared in the February 2012 issue of the Georgia Bar Journal.
A third of a century trekking between Georgia courts, first in a single rural circuit and then more or less statewide, has made me a minor connoisseur of courthouses, the most visible physical infrastructure of the judicial system. I have tried cases … Continue Reading
“Tough on crime, smart on crime”
The State Bar of Georgia communications staff will distribute the following article to all Georgia newspapers this week:
Tough on Crime, Smart on Crime
By Kenneth L. Shigley
My first job after law school was as a prosecutor in a rural judicial circuit. Soon after joining the district attorney’s office, I assisted in a death penalty trial for … Continue Reading
Only 81 days remain as State Bar president
A year goes by awfully fast when you’re working two full-time jobs. With only 81 days remaining in my term as State Bar president, I look forward to the ability to just focus on my clients and my law practice. For now, however, I find myself working late into the night to catch up on … Continue Reading
Georgia passes Uniform Interstate Discovery and Depositions Act
The Uniform Interstate Discovery and Depositions Act has finally passed in Georgia. It will make it easier for Georgia lawyers to get subpoenas for depositions, document production and inspection of premises in other states that have enacted the same uniform law, and will make it easier for lawyers in those states to do the same … Continue Reading
Tough on Crime, Smart on Crime
(The following President’s column appeared in the December 2011 issue of the Georgia Bar Journal.)
My first job after law school was as an assistant district attorney in the small town where I had graduated from high school. I was 26 but in blue jeans rather than a suit could have passed for a decade younger. … Continue Reading
40 productive years after quadriplegia
Today’s news in Atlanta includes an article about a man who had 40 years of productive life after an injury that left him a quadriplegic paralyzed from the neck down. Charlie Miller had just graduated from high school when he was shot in 1970. When he was injured he had planned to go to college. … Continue Reading
Virtuous Lawyer is Not an Oxymoron
The following article was published as my President’s Column in the October 2011 issue of the Georgia Bar Journal.
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Virtuous Lawyer is Not an Oxymoron
by Kenneth L. Shigley
President, State Bar of Georgia
James[1] had great unrealized potential. Son of a minister in another Southern state, he won admission to an Ivy League university but washed out … Continue Reading
Forced exercise may help brain rehab
It’s just a hypothesis, but an article about Parkinson’s disease in today’s New York Times may suggest an approach to brain injury rehab. The idea is that forced exercise is more beneficial to the brain than unforced exercise.
First, consider the lowly lab rat. The NYT article report a 2008 study in which rats forced … Continue Reading
