State Bar of Georgia · ADA Access Diary · Day 2 of 25
The Bar responded for the first time. Assistant General Counsel Leigh Burgess wrote admitting the submissions had been received and misclassified. The same day, I sent four emails splitting the matter into tracks: a merits/reconsideration letter, a separate ADA Title II letter, a direct letter to the signing attorney, and an institutional-notice letter to the Bar President.
What had to be true
For Burgess to admit misclassification, the submissions had to have arrived, been routed somewhere other than the grievance file, and remained outside the file when the dismissal issued. For me to separate the ADA track, I had to treat the Bar's own access obligations as distinct from the respondent's merits.
What I argued
- The Bar's April 21 response left the dismissal in place; "A forward is not a correction."
- Demanded the Bar state whether it would "withdraw or supersede the April 10 dismissal."
- Asked whether a corrective instruction had been sent to the respondent and whether the signing attorney would recuse.
- Raised the Bar's own Title II obligations and its non-response to the six enumerated accommodation requests, attaching a WCAG audit of the Bar's public web properties.
- Set a cure window: "The cure window closes on May 5, 2026."
What the Bar said
Burgess admitted the central fact. "As a result of this misclassification, your submissions were not added to the grievance file at that time." (This single sentence becomes the load-bearing admission for the rest of the matter.)
What it cost
I had to re-draft and re-transmit the same matter across four separate letters in one day to keep the ADA track, the merits track, the signatory question, and the institutional-notice question from being collapsed or ignored. I noted my silence on my medical circumstances had been maintained until forced to raise it.
The documents from this day
- I demanded ADA accommodations and an independent path to file my grievance
- I told the lawyer who signed the dismissal that it was issued on an admitted intake error
- I notified the Bar President that the dismissal rested on an admitted intake defect
Read the full story on the State Bar page. See the record in the document room.