This year, the Georgia Innocence Project (GIP) is celebrates its 10th anniversary fighting wrongful convictions in Georgia and Alabama. GIP is a non-profit organization that performs complicated work to achieve one simple but profound goal: to free innocent people from…

It is with great sadness that we inform you of the passing of Emily J. Adams, mother of DeKalb County Superior Court Judge Gregory A. Adams. Mrs. Adams was 84 years old at the time of her death. A graduate…

The DeKalb Bar Association is sponsoring the 2012 Take Back the Night Run on April 28, 2012 to benefit the DeKalb Rape Crisis Center. As part of our sponsorship we have 15 free race entries that we will raffle off…

It is with great sadness that the DeKalb Bar Association informs our members of the death of one of this organization's staunchest members and a past president. Michael Sheffield passed away on Sunday, Feb. 20, 2011 due to heart complications.…

by Amy Daldry

Cindy Harris

Let me formally introduce you to Cindy Harris, who has taken on the distinguished-sounding job title of executive director of the DeKalb Bar Association as well as the unglamorous job of keeping a group of attorneys on task. The job of executive director was aptly described by Katie Wood in her farewell article to Aubrey Jones as “a bit like herding cats.” After meeting with Cindy, I am confident that the DBA board has found us a great herder – er, director.

Cindy Harris comes to the DBA with a wealth of experience in managing people and organizing events. Having coordinated events for more than 16 years, she is savvy at interviewing vendors, negotiating vendor contracts, hiring and supervising employees, maintaining accounts payable and receivable, gathering and organizing data, as well as performing general office management duties.

Several new filing fee and cost increases in the State and Magistrate Courts of DeKalb County took effect May 17, 2010.

It is with great sadness that we report the passing of one of our own, W. Fred Orr II, who passed on May 4. Fred was a native child, born in Atlanta on July 5, 1941, and attended the Atlanta public schools. He was an honor graduate of Brown High School, and active in school athletics and activities. Fred attended Emory University, majoring in Political Science, was admitted to the Emory University School of Law after three years of college, and after only one year of law school, he was awarded a Bachelor of Arts in Law. In 1965 he was awarded a Bachelor of Laws degree from Emory Law School. Mr. Orr was a member of the Emory Law Review, then known as the Journal of Public Law, and the Phi Delta Phi legal fraternity. He was admitted to the State Bar of Georgia in December 1964, while still in law school.