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Requests I Made That Were Ignored:
John J. Shiptenko’s mailbox has returned no read receipt on any of my emails, as of October 17, 2026. So no request can be listed here as opened and ignored by his own mailbox. John J. Shiptenko usually writes back. The gap is in what the answers say, not in whether they come: the timeline and The Receipts show each one. His last email to me was October 8, 2026, at 5:33 PM, closing my October 7 request.
Complaints Filed Against John J. Shiptenko:
On June 17, 2026, at 7:19 PM, I filed a grievance against John J. Shiptenko by email, the route he offered on June 16, addressed to him and Adrienne D. Nash with fifteen State Bar officers and staff copied. What came back: on June 18, 2026, at 8:05 AM, his own reply, “Received.” Then a June 30, 2026 letter from Jeffrey W. DeLoach, State Disciplinary Board, finding “no basis for this grievance to be forwarded to the State Bar Disciplinary Board”, sent from the no reply mailbox with Shiptenko copied. Read the filing.
John J. Shiptenko’s Clearance:
On June 30, 2026, at 4:23 PM, the State Bar dismissed that grievance, signed by Jeffrey W. DeLoach, Chair of the State Disciplinary Board, in a single paragraph. It was one of several matters closed that same day, each in a one paragraph letter. Read the dismissal.
What the dismissal says, word for word. Jeffrey W. DeLoach, Chair, State Disciplinary Board, June 30, 2026:
“I thoroughly reviewed the eight-page narrative description of your grievance against Mr. Shiptenko, as well as the seven pages of exhibits submitted in support of the grievance. Based upon a review of this record, I find no basis for this grievance to be forwarded to the State Bar Disciplinary Board for investigation of violations of Rules 8.4(a)(4) or any other Georgia Rule of Professional Conduct. As a result, this grievance is dismissed.”
That is the whole letter: three sentences. The email that carried it was copied to John J. Shiptenko.
The dismissal came at the screening gate, the first threshold a grievance has to pass. No investigation was opened. A screening dismissal means that, taking every fact in the complaint as true, the Bar decided the conduct was not even worth examining. Guilty or not, the Bar’s position is that these actions are not worth a look.
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