LSU Law News
January 2009
Update Your Directory Information Today
January 30, 2009Many of you may have already been contacted via email to update your information for our new LSU Law Alumni Directory. The directory will contain complete listings of all alumni from LSU Law, including e-mail addresses, professional, and personal biographical information.The Law Center has entered into an agreement with Harris Connect, LLC to update contact information, search for lost alumni, and produce the directory. The directory will be produced as a service to the Law Center, while Harris will offer the directories to LSU Law alumni for purchase. In the next week or so, you should receive a postcard from…
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Unsolved Civil Rights Murder Cases Examined in Pugh Institute Symposium
January 29, 2009Collaboration was the central theme of the recent "Cold Case Justice Initiative," or CCJI, symposium presented by the LSU Law Center's George W. and Jean H. Pugh Institute for Justice. Syracuse University Law Professors Paula C. Johnson and Janis L. McDonald—directors of the Cold Case Justice Initiative—spoke to LSU Law Center students, faculty, and staff about their interdisciplinary project involving law and journalism students investigating unsolved civil rights murders in the South. In order for the initiative to be successful, both Johnson and McDonald stressed the importance of collaboration between everyone from students to law enforcement officials. Solving an unsolved…
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February 2009
January 29, 2009Paul Baier’s play, Father Chief Justice: Edward Douglass White and the Constitution, was performed on Wednesday, Feb. 4, at Loyola University's Nunemaker Auditorium, Monroe Hall. The play featured Chief Justice (Ret.) Pascal Calogero, Justice (Ret.) Harry Lemmon, Judge Robert Downing, Judge Mary Ann Vial Lemmon, Judge Fredericka Wicker, and other notables. Ken Murchison is a visiting fellow at Cambridge University's Clare Hall while on sabbatical for the spring semester. Clare Hall is a college for advanced study at the university. Emily Saleh recently joined the staff of the LSU Law Center as associate registrar and institutional research analyst. She previously…
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Three Law Center Alums to be Honored by Louisiana Bar Foundation
January 29, 2009The Louisiana Bar Foundation will honor three LSU Law Center alums at its 23rd Annual Fellows Gala on Friday, April 17, at the W Hotel New Orleans. Alums to be honored are Louisiana Supreme Court Justice Bernette J. Johnson, Distinguished Jurist; Baton Rouge attorney Edward J. Walters, Jr., Distinguished Attorney; and Law Center Vice Chancellor Cheney J. Joseph, Jr., Distinguished Professor.The Louisiana Bar Foundation's Annual Fellows Gala is held every spring. Recognition is given to those individuals who, by reason of his or her professional activities, have distinguished themselves in their chosen profession and have brought credit and honor to…
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More Than One Hundred Students Make Chancellor’s List for Fall 2008
January 26, 2009Chancellor Jack M. Weiss has announced the names of 121 students who have earned academic honors for Fall 2008. The students were named to the Chancellor's List at the LSU Law Center. Students with 13 or more hours earned and a semester grade point average of 80 or 3.2 or better receive the honor. Notation of this honor is posted on the student's academic transcript.The following students were named to the Chancellor's List:Alexandria - Alan Whittington StewartAmite - Anthony Joseph LascaroBaton Rouge - Bradley Joseph Aldrich; Susan Marie Bartlett; Kristen Elizabeth Bell; Richard Allen Bond; Clinton Mathew Bowers; Jared Patrick…
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Twenty-one Students Sworn Into Clinical Legal Education Program
January 22, 2009East Baton Rouge Parish Family Law Court Judge Pamela Baker helped swear in 21 LSU Law students to the school's Clinical Legal Education Program during a recent ceremony. Students sworn into the program have studied at the Law Center for two years and will now be able to practice law through the clinic student practice rule, or Louisiana Supreme Court Rule XX. The rule requires that a student take an oath prior to acting as a student attorney. As part of the clinic, the students will represent either children in juvenile proceedings, individuals facing immigration consequences, or mediate for families…
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Pugh Institute for Justice Hosts Cold Case Justice Initiative
January 14, 2009Paula C. Johnson and Janis L. McDonald, both Syracuse University Law Professors, will speak on Tuesday, January 27, at the LSU Law Center about the Cold Case Justice Initiative. The initiative is an interdisciplinary project with Law and Journalism students investigating unsolved civil rights murders in the South. The event, presented by the Law Center's George W. and Jean H. Pugh Institute for Justice, will be held in Room 110 of the Law Center from 12:40 p.m. to 2:10 p.m. Students are encouraged to attend, as is the general public. The Cold Case Justice Initiative was established in early 2007…
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LSU Law Graduate Sworn in as La. Supreme Court’s First Female Chief Justice
January 14, 2009Catherine D. "Kitty" Kimball, a 1970 graduate of the LSU Law Center and the first woman in the history of the state to be elected to the Louisiana Supreme Court, was sworn in as Chief Justice of the state Supreme Court on January 12. She is the first woman to hold that position. "We at the Law Center are beaming with pride that Justice Kimball has been sworn in as Louisiana's first female 'Chief,'" said Chancellor Jack Weiss. "Justice Kimball possesses both the judicial skills and the administrative acumen to be a great chief justice. In addition, and perhaps above…
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