Two Tiers. How fast the State Bar of Georgia moves when the lawyer is an outsider, and how slowly when the lawyer is one of its own. From the Bar’s own record. I am noting the difference, not assigning a reason.
As of June 26, 2026.
When I complained about a lawyer in private practice, the State Bar of Georgia did what it is built to do. It gave the grievance a case number, sent it to the respondent, and issued a written decision. When I complained about people inside the Bar, none of that happened.
I said it plainly in writing, and I will quote myself:
“There are two tracks here, and they do not move at the same speed. A grievance against a practicing lawyer gets a case number, a reviewer, and a written decision. A grievance against a lawyer who works inside this office has gotten none of it. Forty-two days. No number. No reviewer. No answer or denial.”
So I asked the people copied on my letters a simple question, and I am still asking it:
“Name the rule under which a complaint against a Bar insider sits for forty-two days with no file opened, while a complaint against an ordinary lawyer is given a number and decided.”
The irony
This is the office that enforces the rules of professional conduct on every other lawyer in Georgia. Those rules include conflicts of interest and the duty to respond. Yet when I filed a grievance against one of its own officials, the official named in the complaint is the one who acknowledged it. As I put it:
“Where is the wall. Who in this office is screened off from the matters in which they are named.”
The conduct in this record, a respondent handling the complaint against himself, months with no response, a copy list quietly removed, is the same conduct these rules forbid in everyone else.
What it costs me
The disparity is not abstract. It runs on my time and my health, and I have said so:
“I have been waiting since January. Every one of these letters is written with voice software because I cannot use my hand.”
“I am the one paying for the Bar’s mistakes, non-answers, missed updates, and failure to provide basic ADA access measures. That includes the failure to provide a single point of contact and the decision to leave me managing fourteen separate email addresses just to follow a process the Bar controls.”
One word for it, the one I used:
“The table does not show confusion. It shows disparity.”
Read the record: the full State Bar of Georgia record, and the Timeline.
Status: as of June 26, 2026, seven grievances against people connected to the Bar were open with no disposition; the grievance against an outside lawyer had received a case number and a written decision.
Patterns on this page: two-tier, breaks-its-own-rules, cost-on-the-disabled. Each is a recurring pattern in the State Bar record. I am noting the difference, not asserting a reason.
Corrections: this is built from documents I received. If any fact here is incomplete or inaccurate, identify the page, the sentence, and the supporting document, and I will review and correct the record.
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