Date, Time, and Location:

Friday, September 6, 2024

8:15 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

State Bar of Georgia Conference Center

(with a virtual Zoom Option)

Program Description:

On September 6, 2024, from 8:15 a.m. – 5:00 p.m., the Chief Justice’s Commission on Professionalism will host a hybrid in-person and virtual low-cost CLE event entitled Diminished Capacity, Ethics, and Professionalism: How to Effectively Advocate For and Communicate With Individuals With Diminished Capacity. The Early Bird Registration Fee for the CLE through August 16, 2024, is $80, which will include breakfast and lunch for in-person attendees, and the cost for Georgia attorneys to maintain the CLE hours on their CLE transcript for in-person and virtual attendees. The CLE has  been approved for 6 CLE credit hours, including 1 professionalism CLE hour and 1 ethics CLE hour. This CLE will discuss ways to effectively, ethically (under Rule 1.14 of the Georgia Rules of Professional Conduct) and with professionalism interact with individuals with diminished capacity, including clients, witnesses, other parties and colleagues. Mr. Kevin Tanner, the Commissioner for the Georgia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities, will provide opening remarks. Registration for the CLE will open August 1, 2024. For more information or to register, visit https://cjcpga.org/09-06-24_cjcp_cle_re_diminished_capacity/.

Program Fees:

Early Bird Registration	August 1 – August 16, 2024	$80
Regular Registration	August 16 – August 31, 2024	$95
Late and Walk-In Registration	September 1 – September 6	$150

CLE Information:

The CLE has  been approved for 6 CLE credit hours, including 1 professionalism CLE hour and 1 ethics CLE hour.

The Commission will report Georgia attorney CLE attendance and pay the requisite CCLC to the State Bar of Georgia’s Commission on Continuing Legal Competency for the CLE to remain on a Georgia attorney’s CLE transcript. The Commission will not apply to any state other than Georgia for CLE course approval. If an attorney seeks CLE credit from another state, the attorney will need to do so on your own. The Commission will provide a Uniform Certificate of Attendance, at the request of an attorney.

Program Chair: Lauren Shubow, Public Defender, Atlanta Circuit Public Defender’s Office

Program Vice Chair: Brenda Woodard, General Counsel, Georgia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities

Planning Team Members:

Emma Brown-Bernstein, Assistant Public Defender, Fulton County Public Defender’s Office

Catherine Ellis , Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW)

Susan Walker Goico, Managing Attorney, Disability Integration Project, Atlanta Legal Aid Society

Karlise Y. Grier, Executive Director, Chief Justice’s Commission on Professionalism

Hon. Bedelia C Hargrove, Chief Judge, DeKalb County Probate Court

Hon. Sarah S. Harris, Judge, Bibb County Probate Court

Dara “Chinny” Law, Partner, Ramos & Law

Pat Longan, Professor, Mercer University School of Law

Suparna Malempati, Professor, Atlanta’s John Marshall Law School

Hon. Russ McClelland, Chief Judge, Forsyth County State Court

Hon. Constance Russell, Judge, Atlanta Judicial Circuit Retired)

Staff Support and Questions:

Karlise Y. Grier

Zaria Page

Chief Justice’s Commission on Professionalism

(404) 225-5040