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April 21, 2026 – From Assistant General Counsel Leigh Burgess: The Misclassification Admission

Date: April 21, 2026
From: Assistant General Counsel Leigh Burgess
To: The complainant
Subject: FW: [External] Grievance No. [redacted] — Correction of April 10 Dismissal and Request for Recusal

The email, as received, with personal identifiers redacted:

State Bar of Georgia email, April 21, 2026, Assistant General Counsel Leigh Burgess admitting the February 3 and February 20 rebuttal submissions were received but misclassified and not added to the grievance file before the April 10 dismissal (complainant identity and file number redacted).

The load-bearing admission, verbatim:

“As a result of this misclassification, your submissions were not added to the grievance file at that time.”

What this shows: The Bar’s own counsel admitted in writing that the complainant’s submissions had been misclassified and were not added to the grievance file at the time the dismissal issued.