This Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C. memorandum discusses a new Georgia law that effectively overturns a recent Georgia Supreme Court decision requiring employers to use a Georgia-licensed attorney to file answers to garnishments. Among other changes, the new law allows employers to use a Georgia-licensed attorney, in-house staff or other third-party vendors to file answers to garnishments. The new law takes effect on February 8, 2012. For more information on the Georgia Supreme Court decision effectively overturned by this law, see Legal Update, Constangy: Attorneys Must Sign Garnishment Answers, Georgia State Bar Says.