Quote Originally Posted by gilmore View Post
In Georgia attorneys are called "Colonel," being officers of the court, though it is old fashioned epithet rarely used in seriousness. It is wickedly fun, however, to see the puzzlement and discomfort of Yankee lawyers new to Georgia addressed in this way in court.

An attorney friend once told me he was puzzled and confused when the judge before whom he was appearing kept addressing the opposing counsel as "Mr Speaker," when his name was Murphy. Later he learned he had gone up against the Speaker of the Georgia House of Representatives.
Good for Georgia!

T.