The Comparison. How other agencies and other state bars handle the same kind of request, next to how the State Bar of Georgia handled mine.
As of June 26, 2026.
California and North Carolina publish a Bar ADA grievance route and name their ADA Coordinators. Georgia publishes neither, and wrote to me that it is “not required to have a published ADA Coordinator.”
The California State Bar publishes an ADA complaint procedure and lists its ADA Coordinator, Andrey Chua. North Carolina publishes a Title II notice and names its coordinator, Martha A. Fletcher, with a phone number. Georgia publishes no ADA grievance route, no response-time structure, and destroys dismissed grievance records after one year.
Peer bars show this is not impossible. It is a choice. When Georgia gave me none of it, I had to keep asking, and then the asking itself was treated as the problem.
The irony
This is the body that sets and enforces the standard of professional conduct for every lawyer in Georgia. On disability access, it publishes less than the bars next door, and says it is not required to.
What it costs me
“I write every one of these letters with voice software because I cannot use my hand.”
Sources: calbar.ca.gov/accessibility; ncbar.gov ADA procedures; gabar.org; Georgia Bar Rule 4-224.
Read the record: the full State Bar of Georgia record, and the Timeline.
Status: as of this writing, Georgia had not published an ADA grievance route or a public ADA Coordinator.
Patterns on this page: breaks-its-own-rules, cost-on-the-disabled. Each is a recurring pattern in the State Bar record. I am noting it, not asserting a reason.
Corrections: this is built from documents I received. If any fact here is incomplete or inaccurate, identify the page, the sentence, and the supporting document, and I will review and correct the record.
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