State Bar of Georgia Lawyers Serving the Public and the Justice System

Bob Kauffman Installed as Secretary of State Bar of Georgia

June 2, 2012
Contact: Sarah I. Coole or sarahc@gabar.org

Savannah – Robert J. “Bob” Kauffman of Hartley, Rowe & Fowler in Douglasville was installed as secretary of the 43,000-member State Bar of Georgia on June 2 during the organization’s annual meeting.

Kauffman has represented the Douglas Judicial Circuit on the Board of Governors and has served as chair of the Bar’s Cornerstones of Freedom/Communications Committee and as a member of its Executive Committee and Advisory Committee on Legislation. He is also a Fellow of the Lawyers Foundation of Georgia and a past president of the Douglas County Bar Association.

His law practice is concentrated in the areas of commercial real estate transactions, real estate finance and estate planning. Kauffman is a graduate of Western Illinois University and the Walter F. George Law School at Mercer University. He was admitted to the Bar in 1988.