EMAIL RECEIVED · 2026-05-15
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Mr. ███████:
I am writing as counsel for the State Bar of Georgia in response to your May 14, 2026, correspondence. The State Bar of Georgia disputes your factual assertions, characterizations, and legal conclusions. This includes your allegations of misconduct, institutional impropriety, procedural invalidity, ADA violations, and purported "leadership" or "oversight" failures. Your correspondence contains substantial speculation, hyperbole, and incorrect factual assertions with which the State Bar does not agree.
The State Bar likewise rejects your characterization of ordinary administrative communications, scheduling issues, and internal correspondence practices as evidence of misconduct, bad faith, retaliation, or coordinated institutional action. No inference of wrongdoing should be drawn from these routine administrative matters.
You have now expressly threatened litigation against the State Bar of Georgia and associated persons and have demanded information regarding insurance and liability coverage. Under these circumstances, the State Bar of Georgia will not engage in further substantive correspondence with you concerning your threatened claims or the allegations set forth in your recent communications outside formal legal process.
Accordingly, any further substantive communications with the State Bar of Georgia or its personnel, officers, Executive Committee members, or Board of Governors members concerning your threatened claims, legal allegations, additional requests for insurance or liability coverage information, or related contested matters should be directed exclusively through your attorney. The State Bar of Georgia, its personnel, officers, Executive Committee members, and Board of Governors members will respond only through counsel to any attorney who formally appears on your behalf, or directly to you only if you elect to initiate litigation pro se. Should you elect to proceed pro se, all such communication should be addressed to me. This limitation does not apply to correspondence related specifically to a requested accommodation, or that provides additional evidence or other information directly related to the Office of the General Counsel's consideration of your request for reconsideration, the directions for which have been communicated to you previously and are reiterated below. No other substantive response or correspondence concerning such matters should be expected outside formal legal process.
Nothing in this correspondence should be construed as an admission, waiver, concession, or agreement regarding any factual allegation, legal contention, jurisdictional issue, immunity, privilege, accommodation issue, or procedural matter. All rights, defenses, objections, privileges, immunities, and legal positions of the State Bar of Georgia and any affiliated individuals or entities are expressly reserved.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the State Bar of Georgia will continue to provide reasonable accommodations in its communications and processes, as appropriate and necessary, and the Office of the General Counsel will continue to review and make a determination on your request for reconsideration of your submitted grievance in accordance with any granted accommodations. Requests for accommodations should continue to be directed to Mr. Shiptenko, and any additional evidence or other information directly related to the Office of the General Counsel's review of your request for reconsideration should be directed to Ms. Nash.
However, accommodation-related or reconsideration-related communications do not alter the State Bar's position that it will not engage in substantive discussions regarding threatened claims, contested matters, or legal allegations outside the formal legal process. Mr. Shiptenko will respond appropriately to any request for accommodation. Ms. Nash may respond to any submission of evidence or other information directly related to the review of your reconsideration request as appropriate. Still, you should not expect any response to correspondence sent to her that does not contain either evidence or information directly related to the requested reconsideration. Still, any obligation will be limited to a simple acknowledgment of the receipt of the submission unless you have a question as to the manner of submitting any additional evidence or other information directly related to the reconsideration.
Separate and apart from your threatened litigation and the issues set forth above, grievance counsel assigned to your request for reconsideration will communicate with you upon completion, in accordance with any granted accommodations, of the reconsideration review of your grievance against Mr. ███████.
With best regards,
William D. NeSmith, III | Deputy General Counsel
I am writing as counsel for the State Bar of Georgia in response to your May 14, 2026, correspondence. The State Bar of Georgia disputes your factual assertions, characterizations, and legal conclusions. This includes your allegations of misconduct, institutional impropriety, procedural invalidity, ADA violations, and purported "leadership" or "oversight" failures. Your correspondence contains substantial speculation, hyperbole, and incorrect factual assertions with which the State Bar does not agree.
The State Bar likewise rejects your characterization of ordinary administrative communications, scheduling issues, and internal correspondence practices as evidence of misconduct, bad faith, retaliation, or coordinated institutional action. No inference of wrongdoing should be drawn from these routine administrative matters.
You have now expressly threatened litigation against the State Bar of Georgia and associated persons and have demanded information regarding insurance and liability coverage. Under these circumstances, the State Bar of Georgia will not engage in further substantive correspondence with you concerning your threatened claims or the allegations set forth in your recent communications outside formal legal process.
Accordingly, any further substantive communications with the State Bar of Georgia or its personnel, officers, Executive Committee members, or Board of Governors members concerning your threatened claims, legal allegations, additional requests for insurance or liability coverage information, or related contested matters should be directed exclusively through your attorney. The State Bar of Georgia, its personnel, officers, Executive Committee members, and Board of Governors members will respond only through counsel to any attorney who formally appears on your behalf, or directly to you only if you elect to initiate litigation pro se. Should you elect to proceed pro se, all such communication should be addressed to me. This limitation does not apply to correspondence related specifically to a requested accommodation, or that provides additional evidence or other information directly related to the Office of the General Counsel's consideration of your request for reconsideration, the directions for which have been communicated to you previously and are reiterated below. No other substantive response or correspondence concerning such matters should be expected outside formal legal process.
Nothing in this correspondence should be construed as an admission, waiver, concession, or agreement regarding any factual allegation, legal contention, jurisdictional issue, immunity, privilege, accommodation issue, or procedural matter. All rights, defenses, objections, privileges, immunities, and legal positions of the State Bar of Georgia and any affiliated individuals or entities are expressly reserved.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the State Bar of Georgia will continue to provide reasonable accommodations in its communications and processes, as appropriate and necessary, and the Office of the General Counsel will continue to review and make a determination on your request for reconsideration of your submitted grievance in accordance with any granted accommodations. Requests for accommodations should continue to be directed to Mr. Shiptenko, and any additional evidence or other information directly related to the Office of the General Counsel's review of your request for reconsideration should be directed to Ms. Nash.
However, accommodation-related or reconsideration-related communications do not alter the State Bar's position that it will not engage in substantive discussions regarding threatened claims, contested matters, or legal allegations outside the formal legal process. Mr. Shiptenko will respond appropriately to any request for accommodation. Ms. Nash may respond to any submission of evidence or other information directly related to the review of your reconsideration request as appropriate. Still, you should not expect any response to correspondence sent to her that does not contain either evidence or information directly related to the requested reconsideration. Still, any obligation will be limited to a simple acknowledgment of the receipt of the submission unless you have a question as to the manner of submitting any additional evidence or other information directly related to the reconsideration.
Separate and apart from your threatened litigation and the issues set forth above, grievance counsel assigned to your request for reconsideration will communicate with you upon completion, in accordance with any granted accommodations, of the reconsideration review of your grievance against Mr. ███████.
With best regards,
William D. NeSmith, III | Deputy General Counsel