LSU Law News
March 2025
West Study Aids
March 29, 2025As you prepare for exams, be sure to take a look at the West Study Aids. This database will provide unlimited online access to hundreds of study aids, treatises, and audio lectures. The study aids collection enables you to add your own notes and highlights, which are saved to your account. You can also access multiple-choice practice questions to help you prepare for exam questions. You will need to create a West Academic account. This is different from your Westlaw account.
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LSU Law 2L Daniel Philipose wins 2025 Dean’s Cup Moot Court Competition
March 27, 2025(from left to right) Michael Ferachi ('89), LSU Law Dean Alena Allen, Daniel Philipose, Claire Milburn, Hon. James D. Cain, Jr., and Hon. Jerry Edwards, Jr. Second-year LSU Law student Daniel Philipose was declared the victor of the Dean’s Cup Moot Court Competition on Monday, March 24. He faced off against fellow 2L Claire Milburn to earn the coveted foot-tall solid crystal Dean’s Cup trophy. "It was an honor to compete in and win this year's Dean's Cup competition,” said Philipose “I couldn't have done it without the support of my family, friends, and the faculty here at LSU Law.”…
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U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Bernice Donald (ret.) to deliver LSU Law Rubin Visiting Professor of Law Lecture on Tuesday, April 8
March 27, 2025Hon. Bernice Donald (ret.), U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals LSU Law will welcome the Hon. Bernice Donald, who retired from the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in 2023, to the LSU campus on Tuesday, April 8 for her delivery of the 2025 Judge Alvin B. and Janice G. Rubin Visiting Professor of Law Lecture. Her lecture, entitled “Can the Rule of Law Protect Us in Times of Challenge and Uncertainty?”, will take place at 5:30 p.m. in the Abell Conference Room of the Lod Cook Alumni Center on the LSU campus. The event is free…
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Fowler, Treadway win Spring 2025 Client Legal Interviewing & Counseling Competition
March 25, 2025(from left to right): Courtney Fowler, LSU Law Professor Jack Harrison ('04), Brandi Barze ('18), Charles Watkins ('12), and KayLyn Treadway. LSU Law Students Courtney Fowler and KayLyn Treadway won the 2025 Client Legal Interviewing & Counseling Competition on Tuesday, March 18 held in the McKernan Auditorium at the LSU Paul M. Hebert Law Center. LSU Law alumni Brandi Barze (’18), Partner, Keogh Cox & Wilson, LSU Law Professor Jack Harrison (’04), and Charles Watkins (‘12), Regional Attorney, Louisiana Department of Health judged the final round of competition. Fowler and Treadway bested fellow third-year law students Drake Brignac and Connor…
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49 LSU Law students selected for 2025-26 Board of Advocates
March 25, 2025Forty-nine members of the LSU Law Class of 2026 have been selected for the 2025-26 Board of Advocates, the Law Center’s student honor organization dedicated to the promotion and development of oral and written persuasive advocacy skills. Rising third-year law students are selected to membership on the Board of Advocates based on a holistic application that looks at a student’s success in LSU Law’s many different internal and external advocacy competitions, teams, and other skills development opportunities. The Board of Advocates is the result of a merger of the former Moot Court and Trial Advocacy Boards. The Board of Advocates…
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Trio of LSU Law alumni among Louisiana Bar Foundation’s 2024 Distinguished honorees
March 19, 2025The Louisiana Bar Foundation will recognize LSU Law alumni Hon. Cynthia T. Woodard (ret.) (’81), Glenn Armentor (’77), and Frank Neuner, Jr. (’76) as three of four 2024 Distinguished Honorees at the 39th Annual Fellows Gala on April 11. Woodard will be honored as the 2024 Distinguished Jurist. She graduated from the LSU Paul M. Hebert Law Center in 1981 and practiced law at McKeithen, Wear, Ryland & Woodard prior to being elected to the bench in 1996. Woodard served as a District Judge for Division A of the Third Judicial District Court serving Lincoln and Union parishes for 21…
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LSU Law honors scholarship benefactors, recipients at annual Scholarship Reception
March 12, 2025As LSU Law Dean Alena Allen greeted scholarship benefactors and recipients at The Club at Union Square on Tuesday, Feb. 25, she reminded everyone of the important reason why the Law Center hosts its Scholarship Reception each year. “We are here because we all believe in the power of a legal education and in the power to change lives with a law degree,” Allen said. “So many of our donors have done exactly that, and so many of our students are inspired to do the same.” Over the past five years, LSU Law has awarded a total of $3.6 million…
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Slam Dunk: LSU Law team nets Fordham National Basketball Negotiation Competition Championship in NYC
March 12, 2025When Toronto, Canada-native Joshua Silverman traveled to Baton Rouge three years ago to take a tour of the LSU Paul M. Hebert Law Center as a prospective student, one aspect of the visit immediately inspired him. “One of the things that really stuck out to me was that wall of signs that commemorates all of the advocacy teams from LSU Law that have won a national championship,” recalled Silverman, now in his second year of studies at LSU law. “And I still remember turning to my father and the recruiter and saying, ‘I’m going to win a national championship here.’”…
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‘Profoundly fulfilling’: LSU Law student David Gonzalez recounts his experience coaching a national championship advocacy team
March 12, 2025Coaching the LSU Law Fordham National Basketball Negotiation Competition team was an incredibly rewarding experience. As the Director of External Dispute Resolution Competitions for the Board of Advocates, I oversee team selection, facilitate tryouts, coordinate team placements, and provide strategic guidance throughout the competition process. When I was presented with the opportunity to coach this team, I was both honored and excited. As a passionate basketball fan, the prospect of merging my legal knowledge with the dynamics of sports negotiation was particularly compelling. One of the initial challenges was the unexpected timing of the competition. Unlike the previous year, when…
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LSU Law Professor Keith Hall selected to deliver the Deans of Oil and Gas Practice Lecture at nation’s leading energy law conference
March 12, 2025(from left to right): Professor Emeritus Patrick Martin, Professor Keith Hall, and Kristi McCarthy, Chair of the Advisory Board for the Institute for Energy Law
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LSU Law hosting international legal conference to celebrate the Bicentennial of Louisiana Civil Code of 1825 on March 20-21
March 11, 2025Legal scholars from across Louisiana and around the world will gather at LSU on Thursday and Friday, March 20-21, to celebrate the bicentennial of the Louisiana Civil Code of 1825 and explore its academic significance. Hosted by LSU Law and coordinated by its Center of Civil Law Studies, “The Louisiana Civil Code of 1825: Content, Influences and Languages; Past and Future” conference will feature more than 30 presentations and discussions by leading experts on the Louisiana Civil Code, alongside national and international scholars. “The adoption of Louisiana Civil Code of 1825 solidified our state’s unique civil law heritage for at…
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LSU Law announces 2025 Distinguished Alumni Awards honorees
March 10, 2025LSU Law announces 2025 Distinguished Alumni Award honorees LSU Law is proud to announce the esteemed group of alumni and friends who will be honored for their contributions to the LSU Paul M. Hebert Law Center and legal profession at the 2025 Distinguished Alumni Awards celebration on Thursday, May 8, in the South Stadium Club at Tiger Stadium. Six of the seven Distinguished Alumni Awards honorees were selected by the LSU Law Alumni Board of Trustees via a nomination, review, and ranking process, and LSU Law Dean Alena M. Allen selected the Dean’s Philanthropic Award honoree. “Our Distinguished Alumni Awards…
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