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IN THE MATTER OF ATKINS

253 Ga. 319 (1984)

320 S.E.2d 146

IN THE MATTER OF ATKINS. SUPREME COURT DISCIPLINARY NO. 323.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided September 13, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Omer W. Franklin, Jr., General Counsel State Bar, Joe David Jackson, Assistant General Counsel State Bar, for State Bar of Georgia.

PER CURIAM.

Ben S. Atkins was charged by the State Bar of Georgia as having violated Standard 43 of Bar Rule 4-102 in Part IV (Discipline) of the Rules and Regulations for the Organization and Government of the State Bar of Georgia. Standard 43 provides "a lawyer shall not handle a matter which he knows or should know that he is clearly incompetent to handle without associating with him a lawyer who he reasonably believes to be competent to handle it. A violation...

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