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STATE BAR OF GEORGIA • CITY OF BROOKHAVEN • GIRMA / GALLAGHER BASSETT

April 20, 2026: I sent the first two emails challenging the April 10 dismissal

State Bar of Georgia · ADA Access Diary · Day 1 of 25

I sent the first two emails challenging the April 10 dismissal. A 6:39 PM filing to the General Counsel and grievance counsel requested supervisory review and correction, arguing the dismissal rested on a false "no rebuttal" premise. An 8:21 PM email addressed the signing attorney, Deputy General Counsel Andreea N. Morrison, directly.

What had to be true

For the Bar to dismiss for "no rebuttal," the rebuttal had to be absent from the file when the signing attorney reviewed it. For me to prove the premise false, the Bar's own intake system had to have acknowledged receipt of the submissions, which it had (Feb 3 and Feb 20 auto-acknowledgments from Response@gabar.org).

What I argued

  • The dismissal's factual premise is contradicted by the Bar's own intake system. "The Bar Office's own system says otherwise."
  • The Bar acknowledged delivery of both submissions; the Feb 20 auto-reply named the matter at the moment of receipt.
  • "You signed a letter stating that did not happen."
  • An attorney who signs a dismissal stating no rebuttal was received, when the office acknowledged it, "has made a statement that is not true."
  • The same office enforces the honesty rules against the lawyers it investigates; "the signature is the responsibility."
  • The request is narrow and procedural: "I am not asking the Office to decide the merits in this email. I am asking the Office to correct the record."
  • Specific corrections demanded: confirm receipt in writing, associate the submissions with the file, "Withdraw or supersede the April 10 dismissal," conduct a fresh screening review, and preserve all intake/routing records.

What the Bar said

None on this date.

What it cost

I described reconstructing a record the Bar's own system had already confirmed: "I have spent my own time, my own money, and physical reserves I do not have to reconstruct a record your Office's own system already confirmed." He disclosed disability and active medical care while doing so.

Read the full story on the State Bar page. See the record in the document room.

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