What are your immediate career plans?
I will be joining Liskow & Lewis as a litigation associate in their Lafayette office.
Please tell us about the organizations and activities you participated in at LSU Law, including any awards or honors you received.
During law school, I served as a Senior Editor for the Louisiana Law Review, a member of the John R. Brown Admiralty Moot Court team, Executive Treasurer for SBA for two years, and a member of the Board of Advocates.
My Admiralty moot court team placed as quarterfinalists in this past year’s competition. My partner, Will Mathews, and I placed as semifinalists in the 2021 Tullis Moot Court competition. We also received the award for Best Brief: Second Place. I received the award for Best Oral Advocate: First Place.
Additionally, I externed at the United States District Courts for the Western and Middle District of Louisiana.
I graduated Magna Cum Laude and received seven CALI awards during my time at LSU Law. My Louisiana Law Review comment will be published in the upcoming volume.
Please tell us about any LSU Law faculty, classes, or other experiences that were particularly impactful on your legal education.
The professors that had the most impact on my law school experience are Professors Tom Galligan, Melissa Lonegrass, and Marlene Krousel.
I was lucky to have Professor Galligan on two occasions, and both are some of my most fond experiences at the Law Center. He has a way of captivating a classroom with witty jokes, bygone baseball facts, and hilarious stories that somehow related to maritime law. I’m honored to say that I am in the process of co-researching and writing a Law Review paper with Professor Galligan.
Professor Lonegrass was of tremendous help in providing me guidance with the intricacies of my Law Review comment topic by serving as my faculty advisor.
Professor Krousel was the professor for my first law school class, and she always thought of her students first. She provided me with significant instruction and encouragement to improve my legal research and writing skills.
Last, I would be remiss not to mention Professor Dean Sutherland and Philip Smith for all their time and effort dedicated to coaching me for the Admiralty Moot Court team. They helped refine my legal research and writing skills as well as my oral advocacy skills. For that, I am endlessly grateful.
What are your fondest memories from your time at LSU Law?
I’ll forever cherish the time I spent with my classmates I now call friends. From attending Law Review draft parties to being stranded in airports trying to get to a Moot Court tournament, I greatly appreciate the time I spent making life-long memories with the same people with who I endured law school with.
What advice would you give to students entering law school who aspire to become an Order of the Coif member when they graduate?
The old cliché “it’s a marathon, not a sprint” applies with full force to law school. Don’t let one event or grade in law school stand in the way of any goals you set for yourself. Being continuously diligent in your work ethic will pay off. Take that from someone who LSU Law accepted off the waitlist.
