LSU Law News
November 2019
LSU Law professor participates in 2019 International Legal Education Conference in China
November 27, 2019LSU Law Professor Robert Lancaster (seated in the front row, seventh from the left) at the 2019 International Legal Education Conference in the Pacific Rim at Shandong University of Technology School of Law in Zibo, China. Professor Robert Lancaster recently participated in the 2019 International Legal Education Conference in the Pacific Rim at Shandong University of Technology School of Law in Zibo, China. The conference included members of law faculty from schools in the U.S., Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, the Russian Federation and China. Lancaster, who serves as Director of Clinical Legal Education at LSU Law, lectured about clinical legal…
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Your Gifts at Work: Hannah Mayeaux
November 27, 2019As Hannah Mayeaux prepares for fall finals and her last semester at LSU Law next spring, she’s already looking forward to returning to her native Lake Charles to take up medical malpractice cases in state court on behalf of plaintiffs at The Townsley Law Firm. “I like medical malpractice because you’re always going to continue learning something new and you’re always going to be in court, which I really love,” says Mayeaux. Though she doesn’t have to stress about finding a job after graduation—and is grateful to be taking a job at a firm she’s already familiar with after clerking…
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LSU Law National Moot Court team has strong showing at Memphis regional
November 26, 2019The LSU Law Tom Fore Phillips National Moot Court Team had a strong showing regional round of the National Moot Court Competition held at the University of Memphis over the weekend. The team—consisting of third-year students Michael Maldonado, Indigo Diekmann and Katelyn Bayhi—won all its preliminary round matches and beat Cumberland Law School in the quarterfinals. The team came within an inch of going to New York for the national finals, losing to the host school and eventual regional champion, University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law, in the semi-finals. LSU Law thanks all of those who helped…
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LSU Law alumnus and retired judge draws on his 56-year legal career to write a novel based in Baton Rouge
November 25, 2019In the 23 years since 1963 LSU Law graduate Anthony Graphia retired as a family court judge, he’s had plenty of time to reminisce and reflect on his more than 50-year legal career. Now, Graphia has drawn on his experiences as an attorney, prosecutor and judge to pen “The Eagle & The Hawk,” a fiction novel that’s based in Baton Rouge in the 1970s. “The stories are based on cases I handled or knew of,” says Graphia, a Baton Rouge native. “When I sat down to write, I thought it was easiest to write an autobiographical fiction book.” The novel…
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Thanksgiving Day Holiday Closure
November 25, 2019The Law Library will close at 10:00 p.m. on Wednesday, November 27, 2019 and will remain closed through Saturday, November 30, 2019 for the Thanksgiving Day holiday. The Law Library will reopen on Sunday, December 1, 2019 at 9:00 a.m.
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Five LSU Law alumni included in ‘Business Report’ Forty Under 40 class of rising young professionals
November 22, 2019LSU Law alumni are well represented on this year’s Forty Under 40 list of the Baton Rouge area’s rising young professionals who “play a key role in making the Capital Region a better place to call home." This year's Forty Under 40 list, compiled and published annually by Business Report, includes LSU Law alumni Ryan Chenevert (’12), Francisca Comeaux (’11), Druit Gremillion Jr. (’11), Erin Kilgore (’07) and Jill Kindler ('11). Chenvert, a partner at Fletcher, Roy & Chenevert LLC, tells the magazine his most fulfilling professional moment has been “helping to recover over $1 million for women and Hispanic…
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LSU Law faculty, students thank Professor Bill Crawford for 53 years of service at his last class
November 22, 2019As Professor Bill Crawford was wrapping up the final class of his 53-year career at LSU Law on Wednesday morning, dozens of faculty and staff members streamed into the classroom to applaud and thank the retiring professor. “No one has ever been more dedicated to your—the students’—wellbeing than our friend Bill Crawford,” Dean Tom Galligan told the Louisiana Torts class, who presented Crawford with a signed and framed portrait they had taken with the professor days earlier. “It’s been a wonderful class. It’s been a wonderful 53 years,” said Crawford, who was clearly surprised by the gesture from his colleagues…
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Lives and careers of late LSU Law Professors Pascal, Yiannopoulos celebrated at Louisiana Supreme Court
November 19, 2019The lives and careers of late LSU Law Professors Robert A. Pascal and Athanassios N. Yiannopoulos were celebrated at a panel discussion at the Louisiana Supreme Court on Nov. 13 that featured two LSU Law professors and two alumni. “It was a glorious event that honored two of LSU Law’s most distinguished professors,” says LSU Law Professor Paul Baier, who was among the four panelists at the event. Also on the panel was LSU Law Professor Olivier Moréteau, along with Loyola University New Orleans College of Law Professors Dian Tooley-Knoblette (a 1980 LSU Law graduate) and James Etienne Viator (a…
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Extended Library Hours
November 15, 2019Beginning Monday, November 18th through Sunday, December 15th, the Law Library will be open until midnight each night for the exam period. Check the Library Hours page for full details. During the exam period, the Law Library will only be open to currently enrolled law students at both LSU and Southern after 5:00 p.m. including weekends. Law students must present valid identification. Best of luck students on your upcoming exams!
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LSU Law alumnus Judge Harlin D. Hale receives Norton Judicial Excellence Award
November 12, 2019Judge Harlin DeWayne “Cooter” Hale was at a doctor’s appointment with his wife when he got a phone call from the director of the American Bankruptcy Institute notifying him he would be the recipient of the 2019 Judge William L. Norton, Jr. Judicial Excellence Award. “I told my wife, ‘I hope this doesn’t mean they think I’m not going to make it,’” jokes Hale, a 1982 LSU Law graduate who has been a judge at the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Texas since 2002. “It’s not something I ever expected to receive,” Hale continues. “In years…
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LSU Law professor releases his first children's book
November 6, 2019The story follows the girls through their first year of school, where their interests begin to diverge as they make different friends and get interested in different activities. After Carly becomes angry about the changes and insists they need to have the same haircuts and do the same things because they have the same DNA, the story concludes with another lesson from their mother about how DNA “is just the beginning” and that shared DNA doesn’t mean they’re the same person. “The lesson I want children to take away is that our DNA and genes are the framework for who…
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