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Event Date
4-22-1989
Abstract
Robert MacCrate, immediate past president of the American Bar Association and keynote speaker for the Law Day 1989 observance at the Law School, April 22, cautioned that lawyers' "preoccupation with the bottom line" risks a loss of professional identity. Dean Rusk was sworn into the Georgia State Bar. Distinguished Service Award awarded to Verner Chaffin as well as Ed and Virginia Killorin.
A full summary of this event was published in the Advocate Magazine Volume 24, Issue 2, Spring 1989 on page 12: https://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/advocate/vol24/iss2/1/
Repository Citation
McCrate, Robert, "Access to Justice" (1989). Law Day Lectures. 50.
https://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/lectures_pre_arch_lectures_lawday/50
A recording of this speech from the University of Georgia Law Library archival collection was digitally preserved from audio cassette tape to digital in 2023 and made publicly available in 2024. Digitization, metadata creation, and increased discoverability of this record was made possible thanks to a grant from the Georgia Historical Records Advisory Council. The primary archival object is a digitized audio cassette recording of McCrate's speech.