Professor Andrea B. Carroll
LSU Law Center
Family Law
Andi Beauchamp Carroll is the Associate Dean for Student & Academic Affairs and the Donna W. Lee Professor of Family Law at the LSU Law Center. Before joining the LSU Law faculty, Professor Carroll clerked for The Honorable W. Eugene Davis of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. She subsequently worked as an associate at the Dallas law firm of Baker Botts, L.L.P., handling appellate litigation. In 2003, Professor Carroll returned home to LSU Law, where she has been teaching and writing about family law, community property, and property for nearly two decades. Professor Carroll is the author of more than a dozen books and articles in her field. She has recently been published in the Cambridge University Press and her Tulane article on civil law property was honored as outstanding scholarship at the Stanford-Yale Junior Faculty Forum. Professor Carroll is active in law reform in Louisiana, as a Member of the Council of the Louisiana State Law Institute and the Institute’s Children’s Code, Adult Guardianship, Surrogacy, and Property Committees. She has led successful legislative reforms in the areas of child relocation, spousal support, surrogacy, and community property reimbursement rights. As Reporter of the Law Institute’s Marriage and Persons Committee, Professor Carroll continues to work to improve the law related to marriage and the family.
LSU Law Center
Family Law
Andi Beauchamp Carroll is the Associate Dean for Student & Academic Affairs and the Donna W. Lee Professor of Family Law at the LSU Law Center. Before joining the LSU Law faculty, Professor Carroll clerked for The Honorable W. Eugene Davis of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. She subsequently worked as an associate at the Dallas law firm of Baker Botts, L.L.P., handling appellate litigation. In 2003, Professor Carroll returned home to LSU Law, where she has been teaching and writing about family law, community property, and property for nearly two decades. Professor Carroll is the author of more than a dozen books and articles in her field. She has recently been published in the Cambridge University Press and her Tulane article on civil law property was honored as outstanding scholarship at the Stanford-Yale Junior Faculty Forum. Professor Carroll is active in law reform in Louisiana, as a Member of the Council of the Louisiana State Law Institute and the Institute’s Children’s Code, Adult Guardianship, Surrogacy, and Property Committees. She has led successful legislative reforms in the areas of child relocation, spousal support, surrogacy, and community property reimbursement rights. As Reporter of the Law Institute’s Marriage and Persons Committee, Professor Carroll continues to work to improve the law related to marriage and the family.
Professor John M. Church
LSU Law Center
Torts
Professor John M. Church is the Joe W. Sanders Alumni Association Professorship and Allen L. Smith, Jr. Professorship Associate Professor of Law at LSU Law Center. He also serves as Director of the Apprenticeship Program at the Law Center. Professor Church teaches Torts, Products Liability, Toxic Torts, Wine Law, Intellectual Property, and Antitrust Law. He has a master’s degree from the University of Illinois and a law degree from the University of Colorado, where he was a Harlo Fellow, the Case Note Editor of the University of Colorado Law Review and was inducted into the Order of the Coif. Prior to joining the Law Center faculty in 1991, Professor Church clerked for Judge Robert H. McWilliams of the U.S. Tenth Circuit, and practiced law in Denver. He serves as the Law Center’s representative to the Board of Governors of the Louisiana State Bar Association and is active in local and state bar activities. He is one of the founding board members of the Louisiana Civil Justice Center, an organization dedicated to the provision of legal services to those in need. In 2019, he received the Distinguished Professor Award from the Louisiana Bar Foundation. He is the co-author of Tort Law: The American and Louisiana Perspectives and Louisiana Tort Law. He focuses most of his writing in the area of food and wine regulation, tort law and toxic torts.
LSU Law Center
Torts
Professor John M. Church is the Joe W. Sanders Alumni Association Professorship and Allen L. Smith, Jr. Professorship Associate Professor of Law at LSU Law Center. He also serves as Director of the Apprenticeship Program at the Law Center. Professor Church teaches Torts, Products Liability, Toxic Torts, Wine Law, Intellectual Property, and Antitrust Law. He has a master’s degree from the University of Illinois and a law degree from the University of Colorado, where he was a Harlo Fellow, the Case Note Editor of the University of Colorado Law Review and was inducted into the Order of the Coif. Prior to joining the Law Center faculty in 1991, Professor Church clerked for Judge Robert H. McWilliams of the U.S. Tenth Circuit, and practiced law in Denver. He serves as the Law Center’s representative to the Board of Governors of the Louisiana State Bar Association and is active in local and state bar activities. He is one of the founding board members of the Louisiana Civil Justice Center, an organization dedicated to the provision of legal services to those in need. In 2019, he received the Distinguished Professor Award from the Louisiana Bar Foundation. He is the co-author of Tort Law: The American and Louisiana Perspectives and Louisiana Tort Law. He focuses most of his writing in the area of food and wine regulation, tort law and toxic torts.
Professor William R. Corbett
LSU Law Center
Labor & Employment Law
Louisiana Civil Procedure & Evidence
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.
LSU Law Center
Labor & Employment Law
Louisiana Civil Procedure & Evidence
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.
Hon. Jeffrey S. Cox
Louisiana Second Circuit Court of Appeal, Division C
Criminal Law
Judge Jeff Cox has been elected to serve as Judge for the Louisiana Second Circuit Court of Appeals. He has previously served as District Judge for Bossier and Webster Parishes in Division C. Judge Cox is a past partner with the law firm of Mills, Turansky & Cox, P.C., where he specialized his practice in the area of Estate Planning, Wills, Successions, Elder Care law-type issues and business-type issues. Judge Cox has served as an Assistant District Attorney for Bossier/Webster Parishes where he prosecuted crimes against the elderly, crimes against juveniles, white-collar crimes, felonies and misdemeanors. Judge Cox received his Bachelor of Science Degree in Finance from Louisiana Tech University, his Masters of Business Administration Degree from Louisiana State University in Shreveport, his Juris Doctorate degree with magna cum laude honors from Southern University Law Center, and his Legal Law Masters in Taxation from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas.
Judge Cox was selected as the 2020 Louisiana State University-Shreveport Distinguished Alumni. He was inducted into the Southern University Law Center Hall of Fame in 2014 and included on the Southern University Judicial Wall of Fame in 2016. He currently serves on the Louisiana Law Enforcement Commission, Advisory Board for the Bossier Parish Community College Criminal Justice Program, and the Dean’s Advisory Committee for the College of Business Administration at Louisiana Tech University. Judge Cox served as King of the Krewe of Justinian for the 2020 Mardi Gras Season and has served as a Duke in 2007. He has served on the Board of Directors for the Volunteers for Youth Justice, served as Bossier District Chairman for the Norwella Council of the Boy Scouts of America, and is a past instructor at Bossier Parish Community College for the Notary Preparation Class. Judge Cox currently assists with training of cadets at the Bossier Sheriff’s Training Academy, State Troopers Academy, the Wildlife and Fisheries Academy, and instructs Law Enforcement Officers all over the State of Louisiana on legal concepts. Judge Cox regularly teaches on legal concepts to area lawyers for their Continued Legal Education requirements. Judge Cox has been a long-time member of the Shreveport-Bossier Military Affairs Council. Judge Cox has served as President and a Board Member for the Caddo Council on Aging RSVP Program; 2nd Vice-President, Secretary and Board Member of the Bossier Council on Aging; former Legal Counsel for the Ark-La-Tex Chapter of the National Stroke Association; and a Board Member of the Shreveport-Bossier Tax and Estate Planning Council. Judge Cox has served on the Board of Directors and is the Past Chairman of
the Shreveport Bar Association Pro Bono Project. Judge Cox has also served as a Louisiana State Delegate to the American Bar Association National Conference of State Trial Judges and has served on the Executive Council of the Louisiana District Judges Association. Judge Cox currently writes a monthly article for The Best of Times Magazine. He has written this column for over 20 years providing legal awareness to the community on a wide range of legal topics. He has contributed articles to City Lights Magazine, the Bossier Press Tribune, and the Minden Press Herald. Judge Cox is a Master member of the Harry V. Booth and Henry Politz American Inns of Court and is a member of the American, Louisiana, Shreveport, Bossier, and Webster Bar Associations.
Judge Cox is married to Susan Cox. They have two children, Gabrielle and Stephen, who are both attorneys.
Louisiana Second Circuit Court of Appeal, Division C
Criminal Law
Judge Jeff Cox has been elected to serve as Judge for the Louisiana Second Circuit Court of Appeals. He has previously served as District Judge for Bossier and Webster Parishes in Division C. Judge Cox is a past partner with the law firm of Mills, Turansky & Cox, P.C., where he specialized his practice in the area of Estate Planning, Wills, Successions, Elder Care law-type issues and business-type issues. Judge Cox has served as an Assistant District Attorney for Bossier/Webster Parishes where he prosecuted crimes against the elderly, crimes against juveniles, white-collar crimes, felonies and misdemeanors. Judge Cox received his Bachelor of Science Degree in Finance from Louisiana Tech University, his Masters of Business Administration Degree from Louisiana State University in Shreveport, his Juris Doctorate degree with magna cum laude honors from Southern University Law Center, and his Legal Law Masters in Taxation from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas.
Judge Cox was selected as the 2020 Louisiana State University-Shreveport Distinguished Alumni. He was inducted into the Southern University Law Center Hall of Fame in 2014 and included on the Southern University Judicial Wall of Fame in 2016. He currently serves on the Louisiana Law Enforcement Commission, Advisory Board for the Bossier Parish Community College Criminal Justice Program, and the Dean’s Advisory Committee for the College of Business Administration at Louisiana Tech University. Judge Cox served as King of the Krewe of Justinian for the 2020 Mardi Gras Season and has served as a Duke in 2007. He has served on the Board of Directors for the Volunteers for Youth Justice, served as Bossier District Chairman for the Norwella Council of the Boy Scouts of America, and is a past instructor at Bossier Parish Community College for the Notary Preparation Class. Judge Cox currently assists with training of cadets at the Bossier Sheriff’s Training Academy, State Troopers Academy, the Wildlife and Fisheries Academy, and instructs Law Enforcement Officers all over the State of Louisiana on legal concepts. Judge Cox regularly teaches on legal concepts to area lawyers for their Continued Legal Education requirements. Judge Cox has been a long-time member of the Shreveport-Bossier Military Affairs Council. Judge Cox has served as President and a Board Member for the Caddo Council on Aging RSVP Program; 2nd Vice-President, Secretary and Board Member of the Bossier Council on Aging; former Legal Counsel for the Ark-La-Tex Chapter of the National Stroke Association; and a Board Member of the Shreveport-Bossier Tax and Estate Planning Council. Judge Cox has served on the Board of Directors and is the Past Chairman of
the Shreveport Bar Association Pro Bono Project. Judge Cox has also served as a Louisiana State Delegate to the American Bar Association National Conference of State Trial Judges and has served on the Executive Council of the Louisiana District Judges Association. Judge Cox currently writes a monthly article for The Best of Times Magazine. He has written this column for over 20 years providing legal awareness to the community on a wide range of legal topics. He has contributed articles to City Lights Magazine, the Bossier Press Tribune, and the Minden Press Herald. Judge Cox is a Master member of the Harry V. Booth and Henry Politz American Inns of Court and is a member of the American, Louisiana, Shreveport, Bossier, and Webster Bar Associations.
Judge Cox is married to Susan Cox. They have two children, Gabrielle and Stephen, who are both attorneys.
Mr. Ron C. Henderson
Louisiana Department of Insurance
Insurance Law
RON C. HENDERSON serves as Deputy Commissioner with the Office of Consumer Advocacy & Diversity for the Louisiana Department of Insurance. He also oversees the Senior Health Insurance Information Program (SHIIP) which assists over 70,000 Medicare beneficiaries in the state of Louisiana. With over 23 years of work experience in the insurance industry, Mr. Henderson’s expertise provides proven success, placing emphasis on insurance compliance and government regulations, along with consumer education.
Prior to becoming Deputy Commissioner with the Office of Consumer Advocacy & Diversity, he served as Deputy Commissioner of the Licensing and Compliance Division where he successfully oversaw elevens years of its operations. Currently, he serves on various committees within the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC).
Ron is a 1999 graduate of Southern University Law Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and was admitted to practice law in April of 2000. He is a graduate of Southern University at New Orleans (SUNO) in New Orleans, Louisiana where he holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Criminal Justice.
He is a member of the National Bar Association and the Louisiana State Bar Association
Louisiana Department of Insurance
Insurance Law
RON C. HENDERSON serves as Deputy Commissioner with the Office of Consumer Advocacy & Diversity for the Louisiana Department of Insurance. He also oversees the Senior Health Insurance Information Program (SHIIP) which assists over 70,000 Medicare beneficiaries in the state of Louisiana. With over 23 years of work experience in the insurance industry, Mr. Henderson’s expertise provides proven success, placing emphasis on insurance compliance and government regulations, along with consumer education.
Prior to becoming Deputy Commissioner with the Office of Consumer Advocacy & Diversity, he served as Deputy Commissioner of the Licensing and Compliance Division where he successfully oversaw elevens years of its operations. Currently, he serves on various committees within the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC).
Ron is a 1999 graduate of Southern University Law Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and was admitted to practice law in April of 2000. He is a graduate of Southern University at New Orleans (SUNO) in New Orleans, Louisiana where he holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Criminal Justice.
He is a member of the National Bar Association and the Louisiana State Bar Association
Ms. Tammy L. Jump
Bienville Parish District Attorney Office
Criminal Law
Tammy Jump has been an Assistant District Attorney for the Second Judicial District since October of 2000. The Second JDC includes Bienville, Claiborne and Jackson Parishes. She is currently the only full-time assistant in the district. She was appointed First Assistant District Attorney in October 2010. She has prosecuted over 8,000 cases including drug cases, violent crimes, domestic cases, crimes against children and homicides. She is Director of the Bienville Parish Truancy and Assessment Center, the ADA Legislative Liaison and the Elder Abuse Liaison to the Louisiana District Attorney’s Association, Domestic Violence Prevention Commission representative for the LDAA, a member of the Coordinated Community Response Teams for the Domestic Abuse Resistance Team for both Claiborne and Bienville Parishes and she’s on the advisory board for the Claiborne Parish Office of Community Services. Tammy has been teaching legal updates with Judge Harmon and Ms. Jean Drew and Judge Jeff Cox in numerous parishes throughout the state for over fifteen years. Tammy is a legal instructor at the Bossier Parish Sheriff’s Training Academy, the Louisiana State Police Academy and the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Academy.
Bienville Parish District Attorney Office
Criminal Law
Tammy Jump has been an Assistant District Attorney for the Second Judicial District since October of 2000. The Second JDC includes Bienville, Claiborne and Jackson Parishes. She is currently the only full-time assistant in the district. She was appointed First Assistant District Attorney in October 2010. She has prosecuted over 8,000 cases including drug cases, violent crimes, domestic cases, crimes against children and homicides. She is Director of the Bienville Parish Truancy and Assessment Center, the ADA Legislative Liaison and the Elder Abuse Liaison to the Louisiana District Attorney’s Association, Domestic Violence Prevention Commission representative for the LDAA, a member of the Coordinated Community Response Teams for the Domestic Abuse Resistance Team for both Claiborne and Bienville Parishes and she’s on the advisory board for the Claiborne Parish Office of Community Services. Tammy has been teaching legal updates with Judge Harmon and Ms. Jean Drew and Judge Jeff Cox in numerous parishes throughout the state for over fifteen years. Tammy is a legal instructor at the Bossier Parish Sheriff’s Training Academy, the Louisiana State Police Academy and the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Academy.
Professor Melissa T. Lonegrass
LSU Law Center
Successions, Donations & Trusts
Obligations & Contracts
Professor Melissa Lonegrass is the Harriett S. Daggett-Frances Leggio Landry Professor of Law, Bernard Keith Vetter Professor of Civil Law Studies, and Wedon T. Smith Professor in Civil Law. Professor Lonegrass earned her J.D. from Tulane Law School, where she graduated first in her class. Before joining the LSU Law faculty in 2008, Professor Lonegrass worked as an associate at the New Orleans firm of Irwin Fritchie Urquhart & Moore LLC, specializing in civil defense, with an emphasis on pharmaceutical and medical device defense. Professor Lonegrass has taught numerous civil law courses at the Law Center, including Western Legal Traditions, Obligations, Sales and Real Estate, Security Devices, and Successions, Donations & Trusts. Her scholarship focuses on Louisiana civil law, comparative legal methodology, landlord-tenant law, and contract law. She recently co-authored a textbook on Louisiana’s law of sale and lease, and has published articles in the Tulane Law Review, the Louisiana Law Review, the University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review, and the Loyola Chicago Law Journal. From 2016-2018, Professor Lonegrass was appointed as a Scholar-in-Residence of the Louisiana Bar Foundation, and in 2019, she was elected as an Academic Fellow of the American College of Real Estate Counsel. Professor Lonegrass is active in law reform in Louisiana, serving as a member of the Council of the Louisiana State Law Institute, as the reporter of the Institute’s Landlord-Tenant Committee and the Notaries Committee, and as a member of many other committees, including the Committee on Successions and Donations.
LSU Law Center
Successions, Donations & Trusts
Obligations & Contracts
Professor Melissa Lonegrass is the Harriett S. Daggett-Frances Leggio Landry Professor of Law, Bernard Keith Vetter Professor of Civil Law Studies, and Wedon T. Smith Professor in Civil Law. Professor Lonegrass earned her J.D. from Tulane Law School, where she graduated first in her class. Before joining the LSU Law faculty in 2008, Professor Lonegrass worked as an associate at the New Orleans firm of Irwin Fritchie Urquhart & Moore LLC, specializing in civil defense, with an emphasis on pharmaceutical and medical device defense. Professor Lonegrass has taught numerous civil law courses at the Law Center, including Western Legal Traditions, Obligations, Sales and Real Estate, Security Devices, and Successions, Donations & Trusts. Her scholarship focuses on Louisiana civil law, comparative legal methodology, landlord-tenant law, and contract law. She recently co-authored a textbook on Louisiana’s law of sale and lease, and has published articles in the Tulane Law Review, the Louisiana Law Review, the University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review, and the Loyola Chicago Law Journal. From 2016-2018, Professor Lonegrass was appointed as a Scholar-in-Residence of the Louisiana Bar Foundation, and in 2019, she was elected as an Academic Fellow of the American College of Real Estate Counsel. Professor Lonegrass is active in law reform in Louisiana, serving as a member of the Council of the Louisiana State Law Institute, as the reporter of the Institute’s Landlord-Tenant Committee and the Notaries Committee, and as a member of many other committees, including the Committee on Successions and Donations.
Professor Tracy L. M. Norton
LSU Law Center
Professionalism in the AI Era
Tracy L. M. Norton joined the LSU Law faculty in 2022 and is the Erick Vincent Anderson Professor of Professional Practice. Prof. Norton is an accomplished legal educator and scholar whose significant contributions to the field of legal communication and pedagogy include published works and influential presentations on a variety of pressing issues such as the application of artificial intelligence in law practice and legal education; the transition to online teaching before, during, and after the pandemic; and the challenges and opportunities presented by generational shifts in the legal profession. She began introducing technology into the law school classroom in 1998 with her pioneering self-paced legal citation tool, the Interactive Citation Workstation, housed on Lexis+. Through her scholarly work and advocacy for effective teaching strategies over the past 27 years, Prof. Norton has left an indelible mark on the landscape of legal education – both nationally and internationally -- with her forward-thinking approach to pedagogy and law practice. She has taught at Touro University School of Law in New York, South Texas College of Law in Houston, and Texas Tech University School of Law in Lubbock. She currently researches and writes about using generative artificial intelligence within the bounds of the Model Rules of Professional Conduct.
LSU Law Center
Professionalism in the AI Era
Tracy L. M. Norton joined the LSU Law faculty in 2022 and is the Erick Vincent Anderson Professor of Professional Practice. Prof. Norton is an accomplished legal educator and scholar whose significant contributions to the field of legal communication and pedagogy include published works and influential presentations on a variety of pressing issues such as the application of artificial intelligence in law practice and legal education; the transition to online teaching before, during, and after the pandemic; and the challenges and opportunities presented by generational shifts in the legal profession. She began introducing technology into the law school classroom in 1998 with her pioneering self-paced legal citation tool, the Interactive Citation Workstation, housed on Lexis+. Through her scholarly work and advocacy for effective teaching strategies over the past 27 years, Prof. Norton has left an indelible mark on the landscape of legal education – both nationally and internationally -- with her forward-thinking approach to pedagogy and law practice. She has taught at Touro University School of Law in New York, South Texas College of Law in Houston, and Texas Tech University School of Law in Lubbock. She currently researches and writes about using generative artificial intelligence within the bounds of the Model Rules of Professional Conduct.
Professor Sally Brown Richardson
Tulane University Law School
Property Law, Sales & Leases
Sally Brown Richardson is the A.D. Freeman Professor of Civil Law at Tulane Law School. She received her undergraduate degree from Georgetown University and is a summa cum laude graduate of the LSU Law Center.
Professor Richardson specializes in property law, community property law, and comparative law. She is the author of the textbook Community Property in the United States and has written extensively on Louisiana community property and property law. She currently serves as the Reporter for the Louisiana State Law Institute’s Property Committee and has served at the national level as a Reporter for a Uniform Law Commission on property law issues. In 2021, Professor Richardson was elected to membership for the American Law Institute.
Before joining the Tulane Law faculty, Professor Richardson practiced at Skadden, Arps in Washington, D.C., clerked on the U.S. Fifth Circuit for the Honorable W. Eugene Davis, and worked on the legislative and communications staff for former-U.S. Senator Mary L. Landrieu.
Tulane University Law School
Property Law, Sales & Leases
Sally Brown Richardson is the A.D. Freeman Professor of Civil Law at Tulane Law School. She received her undergraduate degree from Georgetown University and is a summa cum laude graduate of the LSU Law Center.
Professor Richardson specializes in property law, community property law, and comparative law. She is the author of the textbook Community Property in the United States and has written extensively on Louisiana community property and property law. She currently serves as the Reporter for the Louisiana State Law Institute’s Property Committee and has served at the national level as a Reporter for a Uniform Law Commission on property law issues. In 2021, Professor Richardson was elected to membership for the American Law Institute.
Before joining the Tulane Law faculty, Professor Richardson practiced at Skadden, Arps in Washington, D.C., clerked on the U.S. Fifth Circuit for the Honorable W. Eugene Davis, and worked on the legislative and communications staff for former-U.S. Senator Mary L. Landrieu.
Clare S. Roubion
Louisiana Legal Ethics, LLC
Ethics
Clare Roubion is a 2014 graduate of the LSU Law Center. Clare Roubion is engaged in a limited law practice and in law-related consulting, principally in the areas of legal ethics, lawyer discipline, and judicial discipline. Her practice includes handling disciplinary matters before the Louisiana Supreme Court, the Louisiana Attorney Disciplinary Board and the Louisiana Judiciary Commission, legal malpractice cases, lawyer disqualification motions and lawyer fee disputes.
Louisiana Legal Ethics, LLC
Ethics
Clare Roubion is a 2014 graduate of the LSU Law Center. Clare Roubion is engaged in a limited law practice and in law-related consulting, principally in the areas of legal ethics, lawyer discipline, and judicial discipline. Her practice includes handling disciplinary matters before the Louisiana Supreme Court, the Louisiana Attorney Disciplinary Board and the Louisiana Judiciary Commission, legal malpractice cases, lawyer disqualification motions and lawyer fee disputes.
Michael H. Rubin
McGlinchey Stafford
Security Devices
Mike Rubin is a veteran appellate lawyer who has handled hundreds of appeals in state and federal courts, including before the U.S. Fifth, Seventh, and D.C. Circuit Courts of Appeal, on a wide variety of issues affecting the entire Gulf region. As a trial litigator, Mike has handled ground-breaking cases in the areas of finance and secured lending and major multimillion-dollar commercial transactions, as well as trials of national importance concerning federal voting rights, bankruptcy, environmental law, and constitutional issues. Mike served as an adjunct professor at the LSU, Southern, and Tulane law schools for 40 years teaching courses in security devices and ethics. He is a prolific writer; his numerous legal publications on real estate, finance, and ethics have been cited as authoritative in state and federal courts around the country and have been used in law schools across the nation. A nationally known speaker and humorist who has given over 500 major presentations throughout the USA as well as in Canada and England, Mike also is an author of legal thrillers that have won national awards and have been translated and sold internationally.
McGlinchey Stafford
Security Devices
Mike Rubin is a veteran appellate lawyer who has handled hundreds of appeals in state and federal courts, including before the U.S. Fifth, Seventh, and D.C. Circuit Courts of Appeal, on a wide variety of issues affecting the entire Gulf region. As a trial litigator, Mike has handled ground-breaking cases in the areas of finance and secured lending and major multimillion-dollar commercial transactions, as well as trials of national importance concerning federal voting rights, bankruptcy, environmental law, and constitutional issues. Mike served as an adjunct professor at the LSU, Southern, and Tulane law schools for 40 years teaching courses in security devices and ethics. He is a prolific writer; his numerous legal publications on real estate, finance, and ethics have been cited as authoritative in state and federal courts around the country and have been used in law schools across the nation. A nationally known speaker and humorist who has given over 500 major presentations throughout the USA as well as in Canada and England, Mike also is an author of legal thrillers that have won national awards and have been translated and sold internationally.
Professor Heidi Howat Thompson
LSU Law
Legal Writing Trends & Updates
For over 25 years, Heidi Howat Thompson has taught legal research, writing, and analysis courses at the LSU Paul M. Hebert Law Center, where she graduated Order of the Coif and was a member of the Louisiana Law Review. She earned her undergraduate degree in Accounting from LSU. Thompson served as a research attorney for the Louisiana First and Second Circuit Courts of Appeal and as an attorney in private practice before becoming a full-time professor. She currently serves on The Redbook’s Board of Editorial Advisers and formerly served on the Kaplan Louisiana Bar Review faculty. Thompson has enjoyed the privilege of writing and presenting on topics related to legal writing before local and national audiences—including judges, attorneys, state agencies, private firms, and other law professors. She has also authored the Louisiana Practitioner Rules for Citation to Legal Authorities—a set of uniform citation rules—which can be used by law students, practitioners, and judges when citing to legal authorities in Louisiana court documents. Thompson enjoys teaching and serving her students, law school, and the local community. She is also an avid tennis player.
LSU Law
Legal Writing Trends & Updates
For over 25 years, Heidi Howat Thompson has taught legal research, writing, and analysis courses at the LSU Paul M. Hebert Law Center, where she graduated Order of the Coif and was a member of the Louisiana Law Review. She earned her undergraduate degree in Accounting from LSU. Thompson served as a research attorney for the Louisiana First and Second Circuit Courts of Appeal and as an attorney in private practice before becoming a full-time professor. She currently serves on The Redbook’s Board of Editorial Advisers and formerly served on the Kaplan Louisiana Bar Review faculty. Thompson has enjoyed the privilege of writing and presenting on topics related to legal writing before local and national audiences—including judges, attorneys, state agencies, private firms, and other law professors. She has also authored the Louisiana Practitioner Rules for Citation to Legal Authorities—a set of uniform citation rules—which can be used by law students, practitioners, and judges when citing to legal authorities in Louisiana court documents. Thompson enjoys teaching and serving her students, law school, and the local community. She is also an avid tennis player.
