Attorney's Office
Bill Morrison
Brian Pearce
US Attorney's Office
Dispute Resolution Section
Chair
Gregory T. Presmanes
Bovis, Kyle, Burch & Medlin, LLC
From the Board
We asked the Atlanta Bar Association Board of
Directors "What book is on your nightstand?"
Vice Chair/Chair-Elect
Erika Birg
Nelson Mullins Riley &
Scarborough LLP Jim Blitch, Blitch Law PC
The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed Our Minds,
by Michael Lewis
Secretary/Treasurer
Eileen Thomas
Eileen Thomas, LLC Craig Cleland, Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C.
Midnight’s Children, Salman Rushdie. A novel about India's transition
from British colonialism to independence and the partition of India
as seen through eyes of the protagonist Saleem Sinai. Postcolonial,
magical realism, historical fact, fiction, beautifully blended. Voted
the “Booker of Bookers.” Brilliant.
Lincoln in the Bardo, George Sanders. This novel starts with the
death of Abraham Lincoln’s beloved 11-year-old son, Willie, who
died in Feb. 1862, and the grief-stricken president’s visits to the crypt
in Georgetown where Willie was interred. The Bardo is the Tibetan
Buddhist word for the transition between death and rebirth. Lincoln’s
grief over Willie and over the losses of the Civil War. Characters living
and dead. Heartbreak as the human condition. Beautiful.
Thunder in the Mountains, Daniel Sharfstein. A history of two lives
and two nations clashing in the Nez Perce War in the 1870s in post-
Reconstruction Oregon—Gen. Oliver Otis Howard, for whom Howard
Univ. is named, and Chief Joseph, the remarkable leader of the
Nez Perce tribe. Tragic, poignant, compelling. A painful reminder
that we live on and own lands taken by violence.
Book of Common Prayer (Episcopal). Awe inspiring since 1549.
Immediate Past Chair
Halsey G. Knapp Jr.
Krevolin Horst LLC
Members-At-Large
John Allgood
Ford & Harrison, LLP
Terrence Lee Croft
Croft ADR
Taylor T. Daly
Nelson Mullins Riley &
Scarborough LLP
Dean R. Fuchs
Schulten Ward Turner & Weiss, LLP
Joyce F. Glucksman
Joyce F. Glucksman, P.C.
Jennifer Grippa
Miles Mediation & Arbitration
Services, LLC
Joyce B. Klemmer
Smith Gambrell & Russell, LLP
Frank A. Lightmas Jr.
The Law Offices of Frank A.
Lightmas Jr., LLC
Kenneth G. Menendez
Ellis Funk, P.C.
Elder Law Section
Chair
Linda S. Pacer
Pacer Law LLC
Vice Chair/Chair-Elect
Sarah Siedentopf
The Law Offices of Sarah
Siedentopf, LLC
Caren Cloud, Truancy Intervention Project Georgia
Stay Up With Me, Tom Barbash
Steve LaBriola, Fellows LaBriola, LLP
Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder and One Man’s Fight
for Justice, by Bill Browder. It’s a good read written largely in real time
as if made through diary entries. Browder was a hedge fund manager
traveling between London and Russia after the fall of the Soviet Union. He
grew the largest portfolio of foreign investors in Russia. The book chronicles
Browder’s foray into the Russian market, post-Soviet Union, and the cor-
ruption uncovered during Putin’s rise to power. Browder’s model evolved
into purchasing undervalued companies believed to be the victim of
internal corruption. He then became a whistleblower to the Russian
government. When the stockholders, officers and directors of the Russian
company held power outside of Putin’s sphere of influence, the corruption
Secretary/Treasurer
Kevin O’Sullivan
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