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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…

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…

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…

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…

(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…

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.…

Atlantans woke this morning to the news that at 5:30 AM a hit and run tractor trailer caused a chain reaction accident on I-285 southbound in DeKalb County near Ponce de Leon Avenue. It hit a Ford Focus, knocking it into a Toyota Camry. Those drivers got out of their cars, apparently to inspect damage,…

The following article was published as my President’s Column in the October 2011 issue of the Georgia Bar Journal. 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…

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…

I’m pleased to note that my friend Teresa Roseborough is returning from New York to Atlanta next month to become General Counsel of Home Depot, Inc. Teresa was on the short list for appointment to the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals in the Clinton administration, and was frequently mentioned as a prospect for the U.…