Date: June 25, 2026
From: The complainant
To: ADA Coordinator John Shiptenko (johns@gabar.org)
To / Cc: General Counsel Russell D. Willard; Deputy General Counsel William D. NeSmith III; Deputy General Counsel Andreea Morrison; Assistant General Counsel Leigh Burgess; Grievance Counsel Adrienne Nash; Chief Operating Officer Sarah Coole; HR Director Sandra Dixon; Executive Director Damon Elmore; Governmental Affairs Director Jennifer McNeely; President Christopher P. Twyman; Immediate Past President Ivy N. Cadle.
Subject: RE: Grievance Filed June 17, 2026 – Your June 18 Acknowledgment, and the Outstanding Record as of June 25
Attachments: Outstanding matters table (as of June 25, 2026).
Transcript (redacted):
John,
On June 18 you replied to the grievance I filed against you the day before. One word. “Received.”
You are the respondent in that grievance. You are also the only person at the Bar who has acknowledged it. No one else has responded.
Your reply reached no one but me. I have restored the recipients.
The grievance you acknowledged is one of seven matters I have open with this office. The table below is the full record as of today, June 25, 2026. The filing dates are the Bar’s. The acknowledgments are the Bar’s. The dispositions are the Bar’s. There are none.
The reconsideration of the dismissed grievance had a deadline. The Bar set it for June 15. Ten days have passed with no ruling. The dismissal still states that no rebuttal was received. On April 21 this office admitted in writing that the rebuttal was received, misclassified, and left out of the file. Both of those statements cannot be true. One of them is still on the record.
I am asking for one thing. A written status on each of the seven matters above, or a written statement that none has issued. Either answer goes in the file. Silence past a deadline the Bar set itself is also an answer, and it goes in the file too.
I have been waiting since January. I write every one of these letters with voice software because I cannot use my hand. You found one word in a day. The disposition is five months late. I am keeping the count, and so is everyone now copied here.
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What this shows: The complainant replied to the one-word “Received” acknowledgment, restored the recipients the respondent had dropped, and asked for a written status on each of seven open matters, noting the June 15 reconsideration deadline had passed with no ruling.
What this does not show: This is the complainant’s own email; it contains no Bar response to the status request.