Out of Office. A running log of the State Bar of Georgia’s away messages, and what landed the same day. I am noting the timing. I am not claiming a reason.
April 21, 2026.
On a Monday night I asked the State Bar of Georgia to recuse the Deputy General Counsel handling my matter, and I copied her boss. She read it 47 minutes later. By the next evening, her office was “out of office.”
The request went to Deputy General Counsel Andreea Morrison, asking the Office of the General Counsel to reconsider a dismissal and to recuse her from it. I copied the General Counsel.
She read it 47 minutes later. No away message came back. A read receipt did. So at that hour she was at her desk and the mailbox was open.
| When (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| Apr 20, 8:21 PM | I email the Office of the General Counsel a reconsideration and recusal request, copied to the General Counsel. |
| Apr 20, 9:08 PM | Morrison reads it. A read receipt comes back. No away message. |
| Apr 21, 6:45 PM | On my next email, the away message fires: out until April 27. |
By the next evening, this arrived:
“I am currently out of the office . I will respond to your message when I return to the office on April 27.”
That is the entire message. No backup contact, the way her colleagues’ away messages name one. A promise to respond on April 27. When April 27 came, the reply did not. The next substantive answer arrived two weeks later, from someone else, on different points.
Here is the part that is hard to explain as routine. An away message fires on the first email it receives from a sender. Mine did not trigger one when I sent the recusal request. A later email did. Which means the away message was switched on somewhere in between, after the recusal request to her boss had already been read.
I am not going to tell you why. I am going to keep a log. Here is where it stands.
Read the record: the full State Bar of Georgia record, and this day on the Timeline.
Status: the away message ran through the stated April 27 return; the promised reply did not follow.
Patterns on this page: out-of-office, read-no-answer. Each is a recurring pattern in the State Bar record. I am noting the timing, 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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