by Helen Hamlin, health coach Are you living in the place between non-sick and healthy? There is a huge gap between these two places. If you are “non-sick” it is just a matter of time before you begin to travel…

by Judge Alan C. Harvey
DeKalb County Magistrate Court

It is my pleasure to have been appointed by Chief Magistrate Judge Berryl Anderson to serve as the judge overseeing the criminal division of the DeKalb County Magistrate Court. There is one issue I want to bring to the attention of private counsel who practice in our court. On a regular basis attorneys are not following two requirements of rule 7.1 of the Uniform Rules for Magistrate Courts. That rule states:

7.1. Notification of representation
No attorney shall appear in that capacity before a magistrate court until he has entered an appearance by filing a signed entry of appearance form or by filing a signed pleading in a pending action. An entry of appearance shall state (1) the style and number; (2) the identity of the party for whom the appearance is made; and (3) the name and current office address and telephone number of the attorney; and in criminal cases, the home telephone number of the attorney.

by Charles B. Hess, MPA, JD

Have you heard that the Northwest Georgia Regional Hospital (NWGRH) in Rome is closing? They are scheduled to close their doors on June 30. Patients in that facility not able to be treated with community-based services at that time will be transferred to other regional hospitals, including Atlanta, or to Central State Hospital in Milledgeville.

by Jody L. Peskin
peskinhoalaw.com

My father was a merchant with a small chain of clothing stores in little towns across north Georgia. He made a good living selling work boots and overalls as we four kids grew up, each of us graduating from a local private school and heading off to college. But though we went off to summer camp yearly, there were rarely family vacations. Those few family trips that did occur involved packing up the car and driving 12 hours to visit the grandparents in Florida. My father rarely had time to take off or travel, unless it was business related. He and my mother did go on occasional buying trips to New York, and they’d go to the big annual Shoe Show at the Houston Astrodome. Even then, I recall my father always having to be near a phone (no cells back then) and check each store for the day’s receipts, handle any unexpected situations via phone, and pray a lot that there were no fires, robberies, or burst pipes to ruin the merchandise. He also knew that how he managed the business would affect all those employees who worked for him. It was a great responsibility.

by Helen Hamlin, health coach
www.helenhamlin.tsfl.com

I was recently invited to write an article for the DeKalb Bar News to address the real life challenges that legal practitioners may struggle with on a daily basis in regard to maintaining or regaining personal health and wellness. Many of you may occasionally experience fatigue, headaches, exhaustion, brain fog, lack of stamina and any number of other issues that are causing you not to function at your very best.

by Jody L. Peskin peskinhoalaw.com Just in case you weren’t feeling too old today: The people who are starting college this fall were born in 1992. 
 They are too young to remember the space shuttle blowing up. 
 Their lifetime…