Inside this issue:

• Making the Grade
• Charting the Expansion of Charter Schools into Baton Rouge
• Attorney Spotlight: 
  Joseph J. Cefalu III
• What I’ve Learned: Brian L. Williams
• Law Day
• Book Review:
  Cashed Out

Law Day: May 1, 2018

Inside this issue:

• Bring-Your-Own-Device, with caution
• Attorney Spotlight:
  Luke Williamson & Jennifer Moisant
• Uncle Sam’s cruel joke
• Mock Trial:
  Where the legal profession’s fire is first sparked
• Book Review:
  Carnival in Louisiana
• 2018 Mock Trial Competition: February 23 & 24, 2018

• Letter from the president: 
  Consider Yourself One of Us
• Gail's grammar: 
  Absolute Adjectives
• Book Review: 
  The Cemeteries of New Orleans: A Cultural History
• Judicial Interview:
  Judge Tarvald Smith
• Q & A with Rodd Naquin
• What I've Learned: Frank L. Maraist

• Letter from the president: 
  Getting Along
• Gail's grammar: 
  Starting a Letter
• Judicial Interview: 
  Magistrate Judge Erin Wilder-Doomes
• Legal Analysis in a Mixed Jurisdiction
• In Memoriam:
  E. Wade Shows
• When You Wish Upon a Holiday Star
• NOVEMBER BAR LUNCHEON 

• Letter from the president: 
  Gratitude in grief
• Gail's grammar: 
  Quotation marks
• Attorney spotlight: 
  Michael Schillage 
• A breach from within 
• Time travel taxation
• In memoriam:
  James E. Toups Jr.
• Interview:
  LSU Law Dean Thomas
  "Tom " Galligan Jr.
• Belly Up: Oct. 27 

• Letter from the president: 
  Finding the time
• Gail's grammar: 
  Avoid outdated rules
  of punctuation
• Attorney spotlight: 
  J. Richard Williams 
• Enjoy fall with less stress
• What I've learned:
  Walter R. Krousel Jr.
• Louisiana's non-unanimous
  jury system
• BAR LUNCHEON: Sept. 12 

• Letter from the president: 
  Young lawyers are essential
• Gail's grammar: 
  Hyphenating adjective phrases
• Attorney spotlight: John H. Fenner 
• When fishing becomes trespassing
• Expungements and criminal
  justice reform
• BAR LUNCHEON:
  June 14 (organized by the YLS)

• Letter from the president: 
  Keeping the rule of law alive 
• Gail's grammar: 
  Improve your writing 
• Attorney spotlight: Hanna Thomas 
• Understanding the
  high functioning alcoholic
• Breaking the seal of confession
• What I've learned:
  Interview with Frank Gremillion

• Letter from the president: 
  Spring cleaning 
• Gail's grammar: forgo and forego 
• Attorney spotlight: Hayden A. Moore
• Lack of clear title delays flood recovery
• U.S. Supreme Court allows post trial
  probing of jury deliberations in cases
  involving overt racial bias
• The deportation of John Lennon
• Mindfulness: Not just for relaxation

• Letter from the president: 
  Getting to know you
• Gail's grammar: recurs and reoccurs 
• Attorney spotlight: Eric E. Kjeldsen
• Caring for the displaced dead 
• Take a deep breath
• A matter of mental health
• In memoriam: Louis D. Curet