Professor William R. Corbett
LSU Law Center
Professor William R. Corbett is the Frank L. Maraist Professor of Law and the Wex S. Malone Professor of Law at LSU Law Center, where he teaches and writes primarily in the area of Labor and Employment Law, but he also teaches Torts. He is a Fellow of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers. Professor Corbett served as Interim Dean at LSU Law Center during fiscal year 2015-2016, and served as Vice Chancellor from May 1997 to January 2000. He was honored by the Louisiana Bar Foundation as the 2013 Distinguished Professor. He received his B.A. from Auburn University and his law degree from the University of Alabama, where he was Editor-in-Chief of the Alabama Law Review and a member of the Order of the Coif. He also received the M. Leigh Harrison Award presented to those graduating in the top 5 percent. He joined the law faculty at LSU in 1991, after practicing in Birmingham, Alabama with Burr & Forman. Professor Corbett has served as Executive Director of the Louisiana Association of Defense Counsel for the last 22 years. Prior to that, he served for several years as Executive Director, and then as faculty advisor, of the Louisiana Judicial College.

Mr. Alexander J. Debruge
Kullman Firm
Alexander Debruge has practiced law exclusively in the labor and employment field since being admitted to the bar in 2023. His practice at The Kullman Firm focuses on representing public and private employers nationwide in the full range of labor and employment issues including union matters, FLSA wage and hour litigation, and employment discrimination suits brought under state and federal law. He is admitted to practice in all Louisiana state and federal courts as well as the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

Ms. Kathleen C. Gasparian
Gasparian Spivey Immigration
Kathleen Gasparian is the founding partner of Gasparian Spivey Immigration in New Orleans. She serves on the Board for the New Orleans Chapter of the Federal Bar Association, Mess Arts, and as an Adjunct Professor of Immigration Law at Loyola University, New Orleans. She has been recognized by Gambit, New Orleans Magazine, Super Lawyers, and City Business for her expertise as an immigration attorney.

Mr. Gregory T. Juge
Supervisory Trial Attorney
United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
http://www.eeoc.gov
Gregory T. Juge earned his bachelor’s degree as the Outstanding Scholar in Economics from Tulane University in 1988, where he graduated summa cum laude. He received his law degree from the Columbia University School of Law in New York City in 1991. Mr. Juge worked in the field of employment defense at the law firms of Jones Walker and McCalla Thompson before opening a solo practice in 1993. Four years later, in 1997, he joined the EEOC as a Senior Trial Attorney, where he handled individual and class cases involving discrimination and harassment on the basis of age, disability, race, national origin, religion, retaliation, and sex. Mr. Juge tried an Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) case which resulted in a federal jury award of $1,291,000 against DuPont Corporation and a same-sex harassment suit against Boh Bros. Construction, which resulted in a federal jury verdict of $451,000. The Boh Bros. verdict led to an en banc decision by the Fifth Circuit in 2013 which has had significant impact in the field of LGBT litigation, recognizing the applicability of the sex-stereotyping theory of liability under Price Waterhouse to the same-sex harassment context and reaffirming the breadth of the Supreme Court’s Oncale decision. Mr. Juge served as a Supervisory Trial Attorney for the Commission from 2011 to 2022, when he became Assistant Regional Attorney. Mr. Juge was lead counsel for EEOC for five years in the class action nationwide race discrimination suit against Bass Pro Shops, which resulted in a $10,500,000 settlement and a landmark Fifth Circuit decision on “pattern or practice” litigation. Mr. Juge also litigated one of the EEOC’s first cases dealing with the issue of transgender discrimination, which led to a favorable arbitration decision — recognizing transgender coverage under Title VII — and which was settled through a Consent Decree, presaging the Supreme Court’s 2020 LGBT decision in Bostock v. Clayton County. Mr. Juge published an article on the Bostock decision in 2020 in the Louisiana State Bar Journal and has presented on employment discrimination issues at CLE seminars for over 30 years.

Ms. Elaine D. Kimbrell
Ware Immigration
https://www.david-ware.com/
Elaine Kimbrell is the Owner and Managing Attorney of Ware | Immigration, a WBENC-Certified Women’s Business Enterprise. She earned her J.D. from Loyola University New Orleans and a B.A. in International Affairs from George Washington University. Elaine discovered her passion for immigration law while working for U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu and joined Ware | Immigration in 2006, where she now specializes in employment-based immigration, advising universities and private employers across industries such as healthcare, energy, and accounting. A member of AILA and NAFSA, and a past Chair of AILA’s Midsouth section, Elaine is a frequent speaker on immigration topics and is committed to delivering exceptional legal solutions to clients.

Ms. Kathlyn G. Perez
Founder
Perez Law LLC
Kathlyn Perez is the founder of Perez Law LLC in New Orleans. Licensed in Louisiana and Texas, Kathlyn advises employers on compliance and employee relations issues, provides workplace training, and conducts impartial workplace investigations. Kathlyn holds the Association of Workplace Investigators (AWI-CH) credential and regularly serves as an outside investigator in sensitive and high-stakes matters. Before founding her firm, she was a shareholder at Baker Donelson, where she defended businesses in all types of employment and commercial litigation.

Hon. Joseph H. L. Perez-Montes
U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana
Magistrate Judge Perez-Montes earned his his J.D. from Tulane Law School with highest honors, having served as a managing editor of the Law Review. After law school, he clerked for Chief U.S. District Judge Dee Drell before joining the Gold Law Firm in Alexandria. There he practiced primarily in employment and labor law, although his practice included other areas like criminal defense and municipal administration defense. Judge Perez-Montes was appointed as a U.S. Magistrate Judge in December 2015. He has taught employment and business law courses aat LSUA, Northwestern State University, and Tulane Law School.

Mr. Amiel J. Provosty
The Kullman Firm
Amiel Provosty is a Labor Law Specialist, certified by the Louisiana Board of Legal Specialization, and Chairperson of the LSBA’s Labor Relations and Employment Law Section. He practiced as an NLRB field attorney for 12 years before entering private practice. At The Kullman Firm, he represents and advises employers across the nation in a wide variety of union and labor matters, as well has in matters involving OSHA, complex and class-based employment litigation under the FLSA and WARN Acts, and other litigation and administrative processes. He is admitted to practice in all Louisiana state and federal courts, as well as the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, and has appeared in federal courts in Delaware, Florida, New York and Texas.

Mr. Peter Theis
United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Peter Theis is a senior trial attorney with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, where he represents the Commission in civil rights litigation alleging unlawful employment practices. Prior to joining the Commission, Peter was a staff attorney with the Louisiana Fair Housing Action Center, a nonprofit civil rights organization dedicated to eradicating housing discrimination. Before coming to Louisiana, Peter worked as counsel for the Center for Appellate Litigation (a public defender organization based in New York), as a lecturer-in-law at Columbia Law School, and law clerk in the Staff Attorney’s Office of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.