ERATH – Former attorney general Richard Ieyoub is now part of the long list of honorable members of the Living Legends, which is an Acadian Museum of Erath induction to recognize the people who have helped define the cajun culture of Louisiana.
LAKE CHARLES – Change is inevitable and 3rd Circuit Court of Appeal Chief Judge Ulysses Gene Thibodeaux has seen plenty of it in his years spent on the bench.
Six Calcasieu Parish residents filed suit against their big-box department store employer alleging civil rights violation in an alleged ongoing pattern of discrimination spanning more than two decades. Jennifer Cormier, Phyllis Hazel, Rosetta King, Pamela Henderson-McWain, Eula Webb Willis and Wilson Goodley sued Wal-Mart, headquartered in Benton, AR, in the U.S.
NEW ORLEANS – The full extent of the controversy surrounding legacy lawsuits, in which lawsuits are filed against primarily oil producers over environmental damage, is being examined in a multi-part series by reporters David Hammer and Mike Perlstein that began airing on WWL-TV in New Orleans on July 8.
Leigh Ann Schell and Melissa Landry NEW ORLEANS – An annual survey ranking states based on the perception of their legal climates was released today finding Louisiana has the second worst perception in the country.
Brown LAKE CHARLES - A plaintiff represented in part by Provost Umphrey attorney Darren Brown recently reaped a $17.5 million verdict in his benzene suit against several oil giants.
A $15.3 million verdict in St. Landry Parish in July over a gas explosion topped all December 2010 Louisiana jury verdicts, according to the Louisiana Jury Verdict Reporter, which tracks verdicts rendered in the state.
