What You Need to Know

• Lawyers receive heartfelt welcome from teary-eyed Justice Sarah Hawkins Warren during May 16 admission ceremony.
• While encouraging 11 newly admitted attorneys to thank those who'd supported them along the way, Warren became emotional speaking of her mother.
• Born to lawyer parents, Warren revealed her mother gave up her legal career to raise the justice and her brother.
• Newly admitted, Fulton County Senior ADA Lashawnda Woods-Roberts related to the sentiments, praising family, classmates and colleagues for their support.

Oral arguments before the Supreme Court of Georgia began with an admission ceremony Tuesday that those in attendance, and those dialed in remotely, are not likely to soon forget.

As 11 attorneys gathered to be sworn in to practice before the high court, Justice Sarah Hawkins Warren welcomed the lawyers with remarks containing a call to action that brought the jurist to tears.

‘Their Investment in You Mattered’

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