LSU Law News
October 2008
Parker Joins LSU Law Center as New CFO
October 29, 2008Stephen A. Parker has joined the LSU Law Center as chief financial officer. Previously, he worked at Baton Rouge Community College, where he served as executive director for finance. In that role, he served on the college's Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Steering Committee, helping gain SACS accreditation for BRCC in 2004. He also implemented several new services that benefitted faculty, staff and students, including automatic funds verification, web tuition payment, direct deposit for financial aid refunds and a one-stop shop for copying/printing/ID services.Parker has also worked for the Louisiana State Department of Education as management and budget administrator…
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November 2008 Faculty/Staff News Items
October 29, 2008LSU Law Professor Paul R. Baier presented his model of an Honors Law course, which he has taught for more than a decade at LSU Law, at the National Collegiate Honors Council's annual conference in San Antonio, Texas. Baier also successfully represented Secretary of State Jay Dardenne in the U.S. Supreme Court. Along with LSU Law alumna Celia Cangelosi, Baier opposed a stay application filed with Justice Antonin Scalia by the Libertarian Party, which challenged a ruling by the Fifth Circuit keeping the Libertarian Party off the November Presidential election ballot because of its failure to comply in a timely…
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Hester and Miller Added to Law Center’s Young Alumni Leadership Council
October 20, 2008LSU Law Center Chancellor Jack M. Weiss announced the appointment of Christopher H. Hester, an associate at Watson, Blanche, Wilson and Posner in Baton Rouge, and Jennie Jackson Miller, an associate in the Corporate/Securities section of Andrews Kurth LLP's Houston office, to the LSU Law Center's Young Alumni Leadership Council (YALC). The YALC is made up of 22 members—two each from the last 11 graduating classes of the Law Center. The Council advises the Chancellor and the Law Center on matters of policy of particular concern to recent graduates. The Council also assists the Law Center in the recruitment and…
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LSU Law Wins First Place at the LSBA Mock Trial Competition
October 20, 2008The LSU Law Center team of Megan Donohue, LaToya Jordan, William Murray and Mackenzie Smith won First Place at the LSBA Mock Trial Competition held in Baton Rouge at the Middle District of Louisiana Courthouse on October 18, 2008. In addition to the team success, Ms. Jordan won the award for "Best Attorney" given to the top individual advocate in the tournament.
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Law Center Team Wins First Place at National Pretrial Competition
October 15, 2008The LSU Law Center team of Megan Donohue, LaToya Jordan, Adam Savoie, and Celeste White won first place at the inaugural National Pretrial Competition held at Stetson University College of Law.The event was sponsored by Stetson's College of Law and The Florida Bar Young Lawyers Division.Other schools competing included Baylor Law School, Faulkner University's Thomas Goode Jones School of Law, Florida Coastal School of Law, Mississippi College School of Law, Regent University School of Law, and South Texas College of Law.LSU Law Professor Todd Bruno, a graduate of Stetson's 2008 Teaching Advocacy Skills Program, served as coach of the team."In…
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LSU Law Students Achieve State’s Highest Passage Rate on July 2008 Bar Exam
October 10, 2008LSU Law Center students achieved the highest passage rate among all examinees on the latest Louisiana State Bar Exam, according to results released today by the Committee on Bar Admissions for the Supreme Court of Louisiana. LSU Law students continued their traditional first place passage rate, with 78.2 percent of examinees receiving passing scores on the July 2008 administration of the Bar. In all, 165 LSU Law Center students took the exam and 129, or better than three out of four, successfully passed the Bar. "We are proud of our graduates' hard work and of the solid preparation LSU Law…
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LSU Law Center Faculty to Speak at Civil Code Celebration
October 6, 2008- LSU Law Center Professor Alain Levasseur and Librarian Vicenc Felieu will be featured speakers at the bicentennial celebration of the "Digest of the Civil Laws Now in Force in the Territory of Orleans (1808)," Wednesday, Oct. 15, at the Louisiana Supreme Court Building. The event will be from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. in the fourth-floor Formal Conference Room of the Supreme Court Building, located at 400 Royal Street in New Orleans.A book signing by Levasseur and wine and cheese reception will immediately follow the program until 8:30 p.m. Music will be performed by violinist James Brown.Levasseur, Hermann Moyse…
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LSU Law Team Takes First in National Pretrial Advocacy Competition
October 6, 2008The LSU Law Center team of Megan Donohue, LaToya Jordan, Adam Savoie, and Celeste White won First Place at the National Pretrial Advocacy Competition hosted by Stetson University College of Law on October 2-4, 2008. In addition to team honors, LSU Law students swept the four individual awards that were given at the competition. Savoie won Best Advocate in the Final Round and the Semifinal Round, Jordan won Best Advocate in Preliminary Round 1, and Donohue won Best Advocate in Preliminary Round 2.
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Seventy Students Make Chancellor’s List for Spring 2008
October 3, 2008Seventy students were named to the Spring 2008 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.The following students were named to the Chancellor's List:Abbeville - Blair Amber Broussard, Megan Elise DonohueBaton Rouge - Robert Chase Abendroth, Rudolph Charles Boeneke III, Lani Denise Boyd, Brian Mathew Chustz, Brandi Bayles Cole, David Alan Conachen, Marie Elizabeth Curry, Heather Ann D'Antonio, Melissa Trosclair Daigle, Michael Jason Debarros, Joshua Allen Decuir, Terrence Joseph Donahue Jr., Andy Joseph Dupre, Sarah Anne Eilts, Grant Joseph…
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