Georgia Trial Objections Quick Reference Card

A specialist in evidence, technology and the law, and family law (domestic relations), Sydney A. Beckman practiced law for fifteen years before taking a full-time position in legal education. While practicing law, Professor Beckman served as a municipal judge pro tem for three years and occasionally as a visiting family law magistrate. Professor Beckman currently serves as the editor of the Logic Maps Series published by West Academic and has authored many articles and books on evidence and family law. Professor Beckman lectures frequently around the country on the use of technology in the classroom. Beckman holds an AV rating by Martindale-Hubbell.

Ronald Carlson, Fuller E. Callaway Chair of Law Emeritus, has been a member of the University of Georgia School of Law faculty since 1984, specializing in the areas of evidence, trial practice and criminal procedure. He assumed partial retirement in 2001, but continues to teach courses during the spring semester. A prodigious scholar and lecturer, Mr. Carlson has written numerous books on evidence, trial practice and criminal procedure as well as scores of articles in prominent law reviews. He has lectured at CLE seminars across the country and frequently leads seminars for judges and lawyers in Georgia. He also informs the public about the law and legal issues through his widely distributed commentary in the media on high-profile cases. Carlson earned his bachelor's degree at Augustana College, his law degree at Northwestern University and his master of laws degree at Georgetown University. He worked as a lawyer and U.S. Commissioner prior to joining the University of Iowa law faculty. He taught at Iowa for eight years before joining the law faculty at Washington University in St. Louis, MO, where he remained until accepting an offer to join UGA. He has received numerous awards, including the Georgia Trial Lawyers Association Lifetime Achievement Award, the ALI-ABA's Harrison Tweed Award for Special Merit in Continuing Legal Education, the Roscoe Pound Foundation's Richard S. Jacobson Award and the Federal Bar Association's highest honor, the Earl W. Kintner Award for Distinguished Service to the Federal Bar Association.