Professor William R. Corbett
LSU Law Center
The Most Comprehensive Summary of Recent Developments in Labor and Employment Law
Professor William R. Corbett holds the Frank L. Maraist, Wex S. Malone, Rosemary Neal Hawkland, and Cheney C. Joseph Professorships at LSU Law Center, where he teaches and writes primarily in the area of Labor and Employment Law, but he also teaches Torts and Louisiana Civil Procedure. 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 25 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
The Most Comprehensive Summary of Recent Developments in Labor and Employment Law
Professor William R. Corbett holds the Frank L. Maraist, Wex S. Malone, Rosemary Neal Hawkland, and Cheney C. Joseph Professorships at LSU Law Center, where he teaches and writes primarily in the area of Labor and Employment Law, but he also teaches Torts and Louisiana Civil Procedure. 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 25 years. Prior to that, he served for several years as Executive Director, and then as faculty advisor, of the Louisiana Judicial College.
Hon. Donna Phillips Currault
United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana
Employing Your Best Settlement Strategies
The Honorable Donna Phillips Currault serves as a United States Magistrate Judge for the Eastern District of Louisiana. Before joining the federal bench in June 2020, she was a member of Gordon, Arata LLC, where she handled complex commercial litigation matters including class and collective actions, business disputes, and business torts. She regularly represented employers in claims brought under federal and state anti-discrimination statutes and advised clients on employment agreements and non-competition/non-solicitation issues, prepared policies and handbooks, and conducted training on employment matters.
Judge Currault graduated magna cum laude from Tulane University School of Law in 1989 and was selected for Order of the Coif. While in law school, she was a Managing Editor and member of the Tulane Law Review. She also served as a Senior Fellow for Tulane Law School's Legal Research and Writing program. From 1989-1990, she served as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Morey L. Sear, United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Louisiana.
Judge Currault is a Life Fellow of the Federal Bar and American Bar Foundations and a Fellow of the Louisiana Bar Foundation and Litigation Counsel of America. She is a member of the Tulane Law Review Advisory Board, St. Thomas More Inn of Court, and the Federal Magistrate Judges Association. Judge Currault currently serves as the Fifth Circuit Director for the Federal Magistrate Judges Association. She is a former Director of the Foundation of the FBA, past President of the New Orleans Chapter of the FBA (2021-22), former member of the New Orleans Chapter FBA Board of Directors (2002-2023), past Chair of the FBA's Labor & Employment Section (2015-16), and past Chair of the Louisiana Board of Legal Specialization's Employment Law Advisory Commission. She formerly served as the Code I Bar Examiner and is currently on the Testing Committee for the Louisiana Committee on Bar Admissions.
United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana
Employing Your Best Settlement Strategies
The Honorable Donna Phillips Currault serves as a United States Magistrate Judge for the Eastern District of Louisiana. Before joining the federal bench in June 2020, she was a member of Gordon, Arata LLC, where she handled complex commercial litigation matters including class and collective actions, business disputes, and business torts. She regularly represented employers in claims brought under federal and state anti-discrimination statutes and advised clients on employment agreements and non-competition/non-solicitation issues, prepared policies and handbooks, and conducted training on employment matters.
Judge Currault graduated magna cum laude from Tulane University School of Law in 1989 and was selected for Order of the Coif. While in law school, she was a Managing Editor and member of the Tulane Law Review. She also served as a Senior Fellow for Tulane Law School's Legal Research and Writing program. From 1989-1990, she served as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Morey L. Sear, United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Louisiana.
Judge Currault is a Life Fellow of the Federal Bar and American Bar Foundations and a Fellow of the Louisiana Bar Foundation and Litigation Counsel of America. She is a member of the Tulane Law Review Advisory Board, St. Thomas More Inn of Court, and the Federal Magistrate Judges Association. Judge Currault currently serves as the Fifth Circuit Director for the Federal Magistrate Judges Association. She is a former Director of the Foundation of the FBA, past President of the New Orleans Chapter of the FBA (2021-22), former member of the New Orleans Chapter FBA Board of Directors (2002-2023), past Chair of the FBA's Labor & Employment Section (2015-16), and past Chair of the Louisiana Board of Legal Specialization's Employment Law Advisory Commission. She formerly served as the Code I Bar Examiner and is currently on the Testing Committee for the Louisiana Committee on Bar Admissions.
Ms. Allison A. Jones
Downer, Jones, Marino & Wilhite
McDonnell Douglas Mayhem: Will it Survive and What Happens If it Doesn't
Allison Jones is a prominent civil rights and employment law attorney at Downer, Jones, Marino & Wilhite in Shreveport, Louisiana. Throughout her distinguished career, Jones has settled, mediated, and litigated hundreds of employment law and civil rights cases, several of which garnered national attention. In particular, she is known for her expertise in the field of gender discrimination and gender equality. Among her notable successes, Jones represented the plaintiff in a gender discrimination action jury trial that resulted in the largest jury verdict awarded in the State of Louisiana for gender discrimination ($3,279,000), which was affirmed on appeal. She represented a parent plaintiff group in a Title IX gender equity lawsuit against Caddo Parish School Board that resulted in the allocation of several million dollars to bring the public school system into compliance. Ms. Jones also represented female members seeking access to public restaurant facilities at Southern Trace Country Club in Shreveport, resulting in the Louisiana Supreme Court’s first ruling that gender-segregated dining facilities in public accommodations are unconstitutional. She has also tried many jury trials in both state and federal courts dealing with commercial business transactions and oil and gas lease issues. Since 2015, Jones has served as an instructor for the LSU Law Trial Advocacy Program, and she is a frequent speaker at seminars and has numerous publications in local and state bar journals. She has presented at the Judicial Conference, hosted by the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit for the years of 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2018, and has served as the Program Chair for the Appellate Advocacy Seminar sponsored by the Bar Association of the Fifth Federal Circuit. In addition to these bar association seminars, she is a frequent speaker at the Louisiana State Bar Association and for Sterling Education Services and local organizations. Since 2015, Ms. Jones has served as an instructor for the L.S.U. Law School Trial Advocacy Program. Ms. Jones has been invited to join the Million Dollar Advocates Forum, and she is a currently a Senior Fellow with the Litigation Counsel of America, an invitation only trial lawyer honorary society representing less than one half of one percent of American lawyers. Fellows are selected and invited into the Fellowship after being evaluated for effectiveness and accomplishment in litigation and trial work, along with ethical reputation.
Downer, Jones, Marino & Wilhite
McDonnell Douglas Mayhem: Will it Survive and What Happens If it Doesn't
Allison Jones is a prominent civil rights and employment law attorney at Downer, Jones, Marino & Wilhite in Shreveport, Louisiana. Throughout her distinguished career, Jones has settled, mediated, and litigated hundreds of employment law and civil rights cases, several of which garnered national attention. In particular, she is known for her expertise in the field of gender discrimination and gender equality. Among her notable successes, Jones represented the plaintiff in a gender discrimination action jury trial that resulted in the largest jury verdict awarded in the State of Louisiana for gender discrimination ($3,279,000), which was affirmed on appeal. She represented a parent plaintiff group in a Title IX gender equity lawsuit against Caddo Parish School Board that resulted in the allocation of several million dollars to bring the public school system into compliance. Ms. Jones also represented female members seeking access to public restaurant facilities at Southern Trace Country Club in Shreveport, resulting in the Louisiana Supreme Court’s first ruling that gender-segregated dining facilities in public accommodations are unconstitutional. She has also tried many jury trials in both state and federal courts dealing with commercial business transactions and oil and gas lease issues. Since 2015, Jones has served as an instructor for the LSU Law Trial Advocacy Program, and she is a frequent speaker at seminars and has numerous publications in local and state bar journals. She has presented at the Judicial Conference, hosted by the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit for the years of 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2018, and has served as the Program Chair for the Appellate Advocacy Seminar sponsored by the Bar Association of the Fifth Federal Circuit. In addition to these bar association seminars, she is a frequent speaker at the Louisiana State Bar Association and for Sterling Education Services and local organizations. Since 2015, Ms. Jones has served as an instructor for the L.S.U. Law School Trial Advocacy Program. Ms. Jones has been invited to join the Million Dollar Advocates Forum, and she is a currently a Senior Fellow with the Litigation Counsel of America, an invitation only trial lawyer honorary society representing less than one half of one percent of American lawyers. Fellows are selected and invited into the Fellowship after being evaluated for effectiveness and accomplishment in litigation and trial work, along with ethical reputation.
Mr. Gregory T. Juge
United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Latest Developments from the World of the EEOC
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.
United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Latest Developments from the World of the EEOC
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.
Dr. William T Monroe Jr.
LSU Law Center
AI and the Employment Case: What Works, What Fails, and What You Must Supervise
Will Monroe is Professor of Professional Practice at the LSU Paul M. Hebert Law Center, where he teaches Law Practice Technology and Legal Analytics and Generative AI for Lawyers. He chairs LSU's Learning and Teaching Collaborative and contributes to the Law Profs' AI Sandbox with Professor Tracy Norton. His work focuses on how generative AI tools actually perform in professional practice — where they are reliable, and how to build them into real workflows.
LSU Law Center
AI and the Employment Case: What Works, What Fails, and What You Must Supervise
Will Monroe is Professor of Professional Practice at the LSU Paul M. Hebert Law Center, where he teaches Law Practice Technology and Legal Analytics and Generative AI for Lawyers. He chairs LSU's Learning and Teaching Collaborative and contributes to the Law Profs' AI Sandbox with Professor Tracy Norton. His work focuses on how generative AI tools actually perform in professional practice — where they are reliable, and how to build them into real workflows.
Professor Tracy L. M. Norton
LSU Law Center
AI and the Employment Case: What Works, What Fails, and What You Must Supervise
Tracy L. M. Norton holds the Erick Vincent Anderson Professorship and Professional Responsibility Professorship #6 at the Louisiana State University Paul M. Hebert Law Center. Her scholarship and teaching address the professional responsibility questions raised by generative AI in law practice. Her forthcoming article My Brothers' Keeper: Competence, Generative AI, and the Practitioner Who Opts Out argues that competence now reaches the lawyer who declines to use AI. Her other current work includes The Supervision Gap, on the professional judgment that AI oversight requires, and, with Susan Tanner, an article grounding AI prompt architecture in rhetorical theory. She received the 2026 Association of American Law Schools Technology, Law and Legal Education Section Mentorship Award. She was recently named to the National Law Review's 2026 Top 50 Legal Innovators in Academia, recognized for the Interactive Citation Workbook and its lasting influence on how legal writing programs teach citation.
LSU Law Center
AI and the Employment Case: What Works, What Fails, and What You Must Supervise
Tracy L. M. Norton holds the Erick Vincent Anderson Professorship and Professional Responsibility Professorship #6 at the Louisiana State University Paul M. Hebert Law Center. Her scholarship and teaching address the professional responsibility questions raised by generative AI in law practice. Her forthcoming article My Brothers' Keeper: Competence, Generative AI, and the Practitioner Who Opts Out argues that competence now reaches the lawyer who declines to use AI. Her other current work includes The Supervision Gap, on the professional judgment that AI oversight requires, and, with Susan Tanner, an article grounding AI prompt architecture in rhetorical theory. She received the 2026 Association of American Law Schools Technology, Law and Legal Education Section Mentorship Award. She was recently named to the National Law Review's 2026 Top 50 Legal Innovators in Academia, recognized for the Interactive Citation Workbook and its lasting influence on how legal writing programs teach citation.
Mr. Peter Theis
United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Latest Developments from the World of the EEOC
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.
United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Latest Developments from the World of the EEOC
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.
Hon. Janis van Meerveld
United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana
Employing Your Best Settlement Strategies
Chief Magistrate Judge Janis van Meerveld has served the Eastern District of Louisiana since 2016. She obtained her undergraduate and law degrees from Tulane University, following which she spent 29 years in private litigation practice with Adams and Reese LLP, where she developed a specialization in labor and employment litigation. Since joining the federal bench, Judge van Meerveld has been extremely active in serving numerous bar associations, co-founding and chairing the New Orleans Federal Bar Association's Justice Camp program, co-editing The Advocate magazine, and coordinating legal programming. She regularly presents on harassment, discrimination, and implicit bias, and has won numerous awards and accolades for her CLEs and diversity initiatives. In 2023, she was appointed as the Fifth Circuit representative to the Magistrate Judges Advisory Group to the Administrative Office of the United States Courts. Since 2024, she has served as its Chair.
United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana
Employing Your Best Settlement Strategies
Chief Magistrate Judge Janis van Meerveld has served the Eastern District of Louisiana since 2016. She obtained her undergraduate and law degrees from Tulane University, following which she spent 29 years in private litigation practice with Adams and Reese LLP, where she developed a specialization in labor and employment litigation. Since joining the federal bench, Judge van Meerveld has been extremely active in serving numerous bar associations, co-founding and chairing the New Orleans Federal Bar Association's Justice Camp program, co-editing The Advocate magazine, and coordinating legal programming. She regularly presents on harassment, discrimination, and implicit bias, and has won numerous awards and accolades for her CLEs and diversity initiatives. In 2023, she was appointed as the Fifth Circuit representative to the Magistrate Judges Advisory Group to the Administrative Office of the United States Courts. Since 2024, she has served as its Chair.
Jordan Williams
National Labor Relations Board, Region 15
NLRB Update - What's New and What to Expect
Jordan Williams is a Field Attorney with the National Labor Relations Board in its Region 15, New Orleans office, and an At-Large Member of the LSBA's Labor Relations and Employment Law Section. Jordan has tried multiple cases before administrative law judges and conducted numerous union elections. Prior to joining the Labor Board, Jordan worked for a regional insurance defense firm and a boutique construction litigation firm.
National Labor Relations Board, Region 15
NLRB Update - What's New and What to Expect
Jordan Williams is a Field Attorney with the National Labor Relations Board in its Region 15, New Orleans office, and an At-Large Member of the LSBA's Labor Relations and Employment Law Section. Jordan has tried multiple cases before administrative law judges and conducted numerous union elections. Prior to joining the Labor Board, Jordan worked for a regional insurance defense firm and a boutique construction litigation firm.
