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Robin Frazer Clark of Atlanta Installed as State Bar of Georgia President-Elect
Atlanta – Robin Frazer Clark of Atlanta was installed as president-elect of the 42,000-member State Bar of Georgia on June 4 during the organization’s annual meeting at Myrtle Beach, S.C. Clark will be sworn in as the 50th president of the State Bar of Georgia in June 2012, becoming only the second woman to hold that office.
A solo practitioner, Clark represents individuals in matters involving personal injury and employment, automobile and tractor-trailer wrecks, premises safety, elevator and escalator cases, product safety, medical malpractice, legal malpractice and sexual harassment.
Clark is a graduate of Vanderbilt University and the Emory University School of Law and was admitted to the Bar in 1988. A past president of the Georgia Trial Lawyers Association, she moves into her new role with the State Bar having served on the Board of Governors, the Executive Committee and, for the past year, as secretary.
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The State Bar of Georgia, with offices in Atlanta, Savannah and Tifton, was established in 1964 by Georgia’s Supreme Court as the successor to the voluntary Georgia Bar Association, founded in 1884. All lawyers licensed to practice in Georgia belong to the State Bar. Its more than 42,000 members work together to strengthen the constitutional promise of justice for all, promote principles of duty and public service among Georgia’s lawyers, and administer a strict code of legal ethics.