Leigh Schrope
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2392 North Decatur Road, Decatur, GA 30033
About Leigh Schrope
Practice Areas
- Criminal Law
Education
- Emory University School of Law, Atlanta, Georgia, 2003Juris Doctor
- Honors: With Honors
- Honors: Bankr. Dev. J.: Managing Editor, 2002-2003; Staff Writer, 2001-2002
- Honors: Emory Public Interest Committee: Individual Donor Co-Chair; Summer Grant Recipient.
- Honors: Emory Criminal Law Society: Founding Member.
- Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2000B.A., Bachelor of Arts
- Honors: cum laude
- Honors: Community Action Council of Tulane University Students: Board Member; project coordinator for a tutoring project in inner-city New Orleans
Classes and Seminars
- Panel Member, GPDSC Appellate Training, 2012
- Presenter, Transition into Law Training: Nuts and Bolts of Appeals. July 2007
- Faculty, Fundamentals of Public Defense Workshop. January 2007
- Faculty, Appellate Defender Training. October 2006
- Faculty, Honors Program Training. September 2006
- Presenter, The 2006 Spring Juvenile Law Seminar and Child Advocate Awards: Juvenile Delinquency Appeals. May 2006
- Presenter, Appellate Nuts and Bolts Seminar: Appellate Nuts and Bolts. May 2006
- Faculty, Georgia Public Defender Standards Council Evidence Seminar. March 2006
- Faculty, Fundamentals of Public Defense Workshop. January 2006
Qualifications
Bar Admissions
- U.S. District Court Northern District of Georgia
- U.S. Court of Appeals 4th Circuit
- Superior Courts of the State of Georgia
- U.S. Court of Appeals 11th Circuit
- Georgia Court of Appeals
Other Affiliations
- Member of the State Bar of Georgia
- Member of the Georgia Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
- Member of the Juvenile Law Committee (June 2006-December 2007); Secretary (August 2007-December 2007); Lawyers Challenge for Children Subcommittee Chair (July 2006-June 2007)
Past Positions
- Appellate Division of the Georgia Indigent Defense Counsel, Intern
- Emory Criminal Law Society, Founding Member
- Duane Morris, LLP
- Wargo & French, LLP, Associate
- Juvenile Appeals Attorney at the Georgia Public Defender Standards Council (“GPDSC”)
Articles
Published Works
- Sarah Gerwig Moore & Leigh S. Schrope, Hush Little Baby, Don’t Say a Word: How Seeking the “Best Interests of the Child” Fostered a Lack of Accountability in Georgia’s Juvenile Courts, 58 Mercer Rev. 531 (Winter 2007)
- James C. Bonner, Jr., Carl Greenberg, Steven Phillips, Jimmonique Rodgers, Steven Scarborough & Leigh Schrope, The Best Practices for Preserving Objections to Jury Instructions Under HB 197 (the New OCGA 17-8-58), circulated to the Georgia Association of Criminal Defense Attorneys (2007)
Office Info
Other Colleagues
- Criminal Law
- Criminal Law
Nearby Lawyers
- Criminal Law
- 1.5 miles away
- 4.1 miles away
- 1.4 miles away
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