On June 18, 2026, ADA Coordinator John J. Shiptenko acknowledged a grievance filed against him in a single word, “Received.” By June 25 it remained, by the complainant’s account, the only response on any of seven matters open with the State Bar of Georgia, none of which had a disposition.
June 8, 2026. When the State Bar of Georgia’s own grievance office had recharacterized my disability requests as pretext, I went over its head. I sent a misconduct, harassment and retaliation ADA complaint to the Bar’s Director of Human Resources and eleven leadership and Board officers, with an immediate-preservation demand. The core of it was…
May 15, 2026. I could not file by myself. The only route ran through a CAPTCHA my assistive technology cannot pass, so filing waited on whenever a family member was free. Access “depended on another person’s schedule, not [my] choice.” When I did file, against two of the Bar’s own deputies, the State Bar of…
On April 21, 2026, Assistant General Counsel Leigh Burgess admitted the State Bar of Georgia had received the complainant’s February submissions and misclassified them, leaving them out of the grievance file before the April 10 dismissal.
April 20, 2026. Ten days after the State Bar of Georgia dismissed my grievance because, it said, no rebuttal had been received, I sent the Office proof that its own intake system had logged my rebuttal twice. Then I asked the obvious question: how do you dismiss a complaint for missing a document your own…
