A bill offered by a Macon legislator would strip the Georgia Supreme Court of the authority to set educational qualifications for Bar applicants who are already admitted in another state. Paul Kilpatrick, speaking for the Board of Bar Examiners, said that under the bill, “Georgia’s standard would be reduced to the lowest standard in the United States.”
State Rep. Bobby Franklin, a Macon businessman sponsored HB 150 at the request of Sara Larios, a rather attractive Rules Committee aide who Franklin said prodded him to introduce the bill. Larios said she passed the California bar exam but could not take the exam in Georgia because she graduated from a non-accredited online law school. She later applied for a waiver to take the Georgia test but was turned down. See Fulton County Daily Report article (subscription required).

The Shigley Law Firm represents plaintiffs in wrongful death and catastrophic injury cases statewide in Georgia, and in other states subject to the multijurisdictional practice and pro hac vice rules in each state. Ken Shigley was designated as a “SuperLawyer” in Atlanta Magazine and one of the “Legal Elite” in Georgia Trend Magazine. He is a Certified Civil Trial Advocate of the National Board of Trial Advocacy, Chair of the Southeastern Motor Carrier Liability Institute and former chair of the Georgia Insurance Law Institute. He particularly focuses on cases arising from truck wrecks and accidents (tractor trailers truck wrecks, semi truck wrecks,18 wheeler truck wrecks, big rig truck wrecks, log truck wrecks, dump truck wrecks).