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Requests I Made That Were Ignored:
James R. Westbury, Jr.’s mailbox opened the email below. He never answered it. His last email to me was May 1, 2026, at 12:08 PM. As of October 17, 2026. Times are Eastern.
| Date sent | What I asked | Opened | Who answered instead |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 2026 5:10 PM | That he retract his May 1 letter, on twelve listed items, within 72 hours. Read the demand | May 6, 2026, 6:30 PM | No one. His client’s next word came May 21, 2026, from GMA’s General Counsel, Rusi C. Patel, asking that I “direct future substantive communications concerning these matters through Mr. Westbury.” |
The other three emails addressed to him (May 12, May 13 and May 15, 2026) drew only delivery notices from his firm’s mail server, not read receipts, so they are not listed here.
Complaints Filed Against James R. Westbury, Jr.:
On May 15, 2026, I filed a grievance against James R. Westbury, Jr. with the State Bar of Georgia’s Office of the General Counsel. Its receipt came at 11:29 AM. On May 19, 2026, at 4:32 PM, the State Bar’s Response mailbox confirmed receipt. What came back, as of October 17, 2026: a June 30, 2026 letter from Adrienne D. Nash, Grievance Counsel, stating that I had “failed to satisfy the elements that would sustain a referral of this matter to the State Disciplinary Board.” Read the grievance and its dismissal.
James R. Westbury, Jr.’s Clearance:
On June 30, 2026, at 4:24 PM, the State Bar of Georgia dismissed that grievance. The letter was signed by Adrienne D. Nash, Grievance Counsel, for the Office of the General Counsel, with James R. Westbury, Jr. copied. It was one of six letters closing my grievances that the Bar sent between 4:23 PM and 4:35 PM that afternoon. Read how Adrienne D. Nash cleared him.
What the dismissal says, word for word. Adrienne D. Nash, Grievance Counsel, June 30, 2026:
“After review of the materials that you have submitted and the arguments that you advance, it is the determination of this office that you have failed to satisfy the elements that would sustain a referral of this matter to the State Disciplinary Board. None of the rules cited by you, nor any other rules of the Georgia Rules of Professional Conduct, appear to have been violated by Mr. Westbury in this matter based on the record available to us and your own submissions.
Violations of the Georgia Rules of Professional Conduct must be proven by a “clear and convincing evidence” standard, which while not at the level of “beyond a reasonable doubt” is more than a mere preponderance of the evidence. Upon review of the information, we determined that there is insufficient evidence presented that Mr. Westbury’s conduct rose to the level of violating the Georgia Rules of Professional Conduct; therefore, our office must dismiss the grievance.”
The grievance was closed at the first review, inside the Bar’s own Office of the General Counsel, and never sent to the State Disciplinary Board. The man it was about had sat on the Bar’s Board of Governors from 2002 to 2008. As of October 17, 2026, 109 days after the dismissal, neither Russell D. Willard nor Damon E. Elmore has answered my September 14 question about whether a conflict check was done.
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