GEORGIA LEGAL SERVICES adds to local staff

September 16, 2021 - Georgia Legal Services Program recently announced the addition of two new staff members to its legal team at its Savannah Regional Office. Harris R. Mason joined the firm as the Housing Attorney, and will handle various types of housing cases, with emphasis on Landlord-Tenant matters. Mason is a graduate of Young Harris College with a degree in Business and Public Policy. He received his J.D. in 2018 from the University of Georgia School of Law. While in law school, Mason was a research assistant for Professor Hillel Y. Levin, served as president of OUTlaw, and was communications director for the Working in the Public Interest Conference. Mason clerked for the Alapaha Judicial Circuit’s Superior Courts and worked most recently as an associate at Silver & Archibald in Athens. He is currently serving as a board member for the Stonewall Bar Association of Georgia.

Zuhra Aziz also joins the firm as the 2021-2022 Aaron L. Buchsbaum Fellow. She earned her earned her law degree in May 2021 from Emory University Law School. She studied at Emory at Oxford and holds a bachelor’s degree in Biology from Emory University. Zuhra has always had a passion for public service and human rights, which led her to pursue many public interest opportunities during her career in higher education. In law school, she enjoyed her time as a Student Attorney for many of Emory’s legal clinics such as the International Humanitarian Law Clinic, Turner Environmental Law Clinic, and the Barton Juvenile Defender Clinic. Ms. Aziz is fluent in Farsi, Spanish, and Urdu.