LSU Law News
October 2014
Law Students Compete at National Pretrial Competition
October 30, 2014The LSU Law Center’s National Pretrial Competition team of Ben Aguiñaga, Ahmed Mohamed, Scott Ogden, and Alexandra Porubsky, placed sixth overall and won fourth place best defense brief at their competition, which was held October 16-19 at Stetson University College of Law in Gulfport, FL. LSU Law was one of 16 law schools that competed. The pretrial team writes a brief in support of a pre-trial motion. This year’s case file dealt with the need for additional discovery in a Fair Labor Standards Act case. The team argued its motion and held a supplementary evidentiary hearing in support of the…
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LSU Law Ties for First Place at Saluki Invitational Jury Trial Competition
October 30, 2014LSU Law Center's Saluki Invitational Jury Trial Competition team: Robert Ross, Sarah Massoud, Vivian Jeansonne, Lance Neyland, Angelina LaCour, Coach Lindsay Jarrell-Blouin ('12) and Dan Farris. The LSU Law Center’s Saluki Invitational Jury Trial Competition team of Dan Farris, Vivian Jeansonne, Angelina LaCour, Sarah Massoud, Lance Neyland, and Robert Ross, tied for first place at the Saluki Invitational Jury Trial Competition, which was held October 23-25 at the Southern Illinois University School of Law in Carbondale, IL. Team member Dan Farris also took home the competition’s Best Oralist award. The Saluki Competition required students to conduct a full voir dire…
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Peebles and Stanford Win 2014 Robert Lee Tullis Moot Court Competition
October 30, 2014The Honorable Richard Bourgeois, Mary Margaret Peebles, Honorable James J. "Jim" Brady ('69), Professor Michael Coenen and Stephen Stanford at the 2014 Tullis Competition. Mary Margaret Peebles and Stephen Stanford are the winners of the 2014 Robert Lee Tullis Moot Court Competition. The competition was held October 23 in the Robinson Courtroom. Named in honor of the former Dean Emeritus of the Law Center, the Robert Lee Tullis Moot Court Competition has been a tradition of honor at LSU Law since the 1930s. Participation is open to the second-year class; this year, nearly 40% of the 2L class participated in…
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World Treaty Library
October 30, 2014The Law Library is pleased to announce the addition of a new database: World Treaty Library. This HeinOnline collection brings together works from Rohn, Dumont, Wiktor, and Martens to create the richest collection of world treaties ever available, covering the time period from 1648 to the present. All together it includes more than 160,000 treaty records. Now for the first time, patrons will be able to search across all the major treaties in the world in this one database. Connection
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Class of 2015 Celebrates Hats ‘n Canes
October 29, 2014The Class of 2015 celebrated the annual Hats ‘n Canes celebration on Saturday, October 25. The graduating class gathered on the front steps of the Old Law Building sporting black hats and carrying canes, as Chancellor Jack Weiss toasted the class using the cane of the Law School’s first dean, Joseph Kelly.
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LSU Law Alum To Give Presentation on International Careers
October 29, 2014Dan Stigall (’00) will give a presentation to LSU Law students on International Careers on Monday, November 3 at 3:00 p.m. in room 110.
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Chancellor Appoints Diversity Task Force
October 24, 2014In response to an expression of concern from the President of the Black Law Students Association and another student, Chancellor Jack Weiss announced yesterday the appointment of a broadly based task force that will consider and make recommendations to the faculty and the Administration on means by which the Law Center can help all students, including minority students, succeed, foster camaraderie, and promote better understanding of one another's cultures and experiences. The task force will include students, Law Center faculty and staff, and graduates of the Law Center.
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Jeffrey K. Coreil (’09) to Receive the 2014 American Inns of Court Sandra Day O’Connor Award for Professional Service
October 24, 2014Jeffrey Coreil ('09) has been selected to receive the prestigious Sandra Day O’Connor Award for Professional Service by the American Inns of Court. Jeffrey K. Coreil (’09), an associate with NeunerPate, has been selected to receive the prestigious Sandra Day O’Connor Award for Professional Service by the American Inns of Court. The annual award honors an American Inn of Court member in practice for ten or fewer years for excellence in public interest or pro bono activities. “I was extremely honored to learn that my colleagues nominated me for this award, and I was speechless when I was selected. And,…
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Tax Foundation Archive Publications
October 21, 2014The Law Library is pleased to announce the addition of a new database: Tax Foundation Archive Publications. The Tax Foundation, which was founded in 1937, collects data and publishes research studies on federal and state tax policies. This HeinOnline resource includes more than 980 titles, such as Tax Watch, Facts & Figures on Government Finance, Library Bulletin, IRET Publications, Civic Guides, and many more. Connection
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Parole Assistance and Reentry Clinic Students Obtain Early Release for Clients
October 21, 2014LSU Law students in the Parole Assistance & Reentry Clinic successfully obtained early release for the clients they represent before the Louisiana Board of Pardons, Committee on Parole. Registration in this clinic for spring 2015 is now open for 3L’s.
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LSU Law Students Achieve State’s Highest Passage Rate on July 2014 Bar Exam
October 17, 2014LSU Law Center students achieved the state’s highest passage rate among all examinees on the latest Louisiana State Bar Exam, according to results released October 17 by the Committee on Bar Admissions of the Supreme Court of Louisiana. The results are for test takers who sat for the statewide Bar examination in July 2014. Of all LSU Law test takers in July, 81.50% successfully passed the exam. Among LSU graduates taking the bar exam for the first time, 85.81% passed.
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LSU Law Center Announces Alumni Leadership for Chancellor’s Council and Annual Fund
October 13, 2014The LSU Law Center has announced the alumni leadership for the 2014-15 Chancellor’s Council and Annual Fund, two of the Law Center’s philanthropic initiatives. J. Rock Palermo III (’92) will serve as the Chair of the LSU Law Center Chancellor’s Council program, and R. Patrick “Pat” Vance (’75) will serve as Co-Chair. Annual Fund Chair Amy Lambert (’96) and Co-Chair Timothy Daniels (’85) are enlisting fellow LSU Law graduates from across the state to help increase alumni participation in annual giving.
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Civil Mediation Clinic Provides Opportunities to Develop Dispute Resolution and Negotiation Techniques
October 9, 2014The Civil Mediation Clinic (CMC) is an intensive program that trains second and third year law students in dispute resolution techniques and negotiation theory in order for them to mediate live cases for members of the public. During the semester, the students must devote 150 hours of their time in class sessions, discussions, exercises, writing assignments, mediation simulations (three per student) and actual mediations at Baton Rouge City Court and the Clinic facilities. The mediation simulations are a minimum of one-hour long, are videotaped, uploaded to the Panapto video-editing software, and strenuously critiqued by the instructor, whose comments are displayed…
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Clinics & Field placement Opportunities: Spring 2015 Notice to all 2L's and 3L's
October 8, 2014SPRING SEMESTER – 2015 3L’s register October 13th and 2L’s register October 14th Please note that the Clinics and Field placements WILL NOT be requiring student applications for the Spring 2015 semester. Instead you will register for the Clinic or Field placement of your choice when you register for other classes. So, we encourage you to register quickly in order to have a better chance of being admitted into the Clinic or Field placement of your choice. There will be a limited number of spaces available in each course. If the course is over-enrolled, the professors have the option of…
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LSU Law Clinic to Offer Legal Services to Sexual Assault Survivors
October 7, 2014A new collaborative effort between the LSU Law Center and the Sexual Trauma Awareness and Response (STAR) organization will establish a new law clinic focused on civil needs of sexual assault survivors. The grant to the LSU Law Center was announced on October 6, and the new program will assist survivors in the Capital Region.
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State Reports: A Historical Archive
October 6, 2014The Law Library is pleased to announce the addition of a new database – State Reports: A Historical Archive. State Reports provides researchers with a convenient state-by-state bibliographic guide to published court reports for all 50 states and links to the full-text of the state reports in HeinOnline when available. Connection
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