Memorandum

To:	Sheila Collins
From:	William L. Martin, III
Subject:	Pro Se Parties Representing Corporations
Date:	July 7, 1998

Recently I returned a record to the Superior Court of Henry County because Mr. Jeff Goolsby was trying to represent his corporation pro se. S96A1507 Eckles d/b/a Atlanta Technology Group v. Atlanta Technology Group, Inc. established the principal that pro se individuals could no longer represent corporations in the State of Georgia in courts of record or cases on appeal. The Supreme Court's opinion stated the applicability of the Court's holding would effect those cases in which the appeal was filed on or after the date of the publication of the Court's opinion in the advanced sheets. That date was June 5, 1997.

Mr. Goolsby filed his notice of appeal on May 1, 1997. I, incorrectly, assumed that the notice of appeal would have been filed after the date of publication in the advanced sheets. I temporarily forgot the fact that Henry County is often very late in transmitting their records to us.

I do not believe we will have many situations in the future that have such a time lag between the filing of notice of appeal and sending the record to our Court, however, in the future please check for the date of the notice of appeal in situations where we have pro se's representing corporations.