Archive for the ‘In Recess photos’ Category


Freedom in fabric

As a staff lawyer for the Georgia Resource Center, Kirsten A. Salchow works on capital defense cases and seeks serendipity after hours. She makes quilts from her own patterns and favorite fabrics.


The laws of dog training

When Peter R. Spanos, 62, gives the German command to heel—fuss—to Eli, his 6-year-old German shepherd, a beloved family pet morphs into a competing, working dog, trained to track, protect and to obey. Read the full story »


On a journey for a cure

Meredith Shearer and members of her synagogue, calling themselves “The Boobulahs,” participated in an in-town two-day walk to raise money for breast cancer charities. The team raised more than $50,000 after walking 20 miles the first day and 10 miles the next.


In Recess: Fitness – Elizabeth Pelypenko competes in foil

When Elizabeth Pelypenko competes in foil, she has a few blinks to size up her opponent and figure out a strategy.


In Recess Fitness: Bike ride across Israel

Robert Port rides his bike in the annual Israel Ride, a group trek to promote peace, partnership and environmental protection.


In Recess Fitness: Sweating with the firm

Taylor English Duma stages semi-weekly boot camp for lawyers and staff. From the Daily Report, June 10, 2010.


In Recess: Fitness – Dawn Smith

Her fellow fitness camp buddies call her “Grandma,” but not because she’s old or in any way infirm. Dawn R. Smith, 47, who for five years was deputy director of the Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers Foundation and last month returned to private practice, can run and work out with the best of them since joining her in-town fitness group known as Fitwit, which also runs a foundation to boost the physicality of inner city youth.


Civil litigator scales five of the seven summits

David N. Schaeffer, 53, partner and civil litigator at Holland Schaeffer Roddenberry Blitch and the president of the Atlanta Bar Association, has scaled five of the seven summits. His latest trek took him to Antarctica.


PHOTOS: Going on safari

Megan E. Boyd, an associate at Mozley, Finlayson & Loggins, went on a 10-day excursion to Africa with her husband.


Legal power player

Sole practitioner Clifford Steele pulls off a hat trick of playing in three amateur leagues at the age of 64.