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Recent News About Tulane University Law School
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Trailblazing alumna Judge Karen Wells Roby (L’87) honored for lifetime of service in law
For a life dedicated to making the profession better, Judge Karen Wells Roby (L’87), a U.S. Magistrate Judge for the Eastern District of Louisiana and a stalwart supporter of Tulane Law, has received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Greater New Orleans Louis A. Martinet Legal Society. -
Judge Terri Fleming Love to Serve as Chief Judge of Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal
Judge Terri Fleming Love to Serve as Chief Judge of Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal. -
Taylor Porter is Pleased to Welcome New Attorneys to the Firm
Taylor Porter is Pleased to Welcome New Attorneys to the Firm. -
George Strickler, longtime civil rights attorney and law professor, dies in New Orleans
A former Tulane Law School professor who spent the better part of his life working to end racial and gender discrimination around the South has died at his New Orleans home after a long illness. -
New Orleans hit with free-speech lawsuit over social media policy
Two New Orleans employees have filed a federal lawsuit against Mayor Latoya Cantrell and the city administrative officer over New Orleans’ social media policy, arguing that it unconstitutionally restricts their free-speech rights. -
FLANAGAN PARTNERS LLP: Flanagan Partners names new partners
Flanagan Partners LLP is pleased to announce that Camille Gauthier and Anders Holmgren have become partners in the firm. -
JACKSON LEWIS PC: Jackson Lewis Augments Employee Benefits Capabilities with Addition of Stacey C.S. Cerrone in New Orleans
Jackson Lewis P.C., one of the country’s preeminent workplace law firms, is pleased to announce Stacey C.S. Cerrone has joined the firm’s New Orleans office as a Principal. -
GOLD WEEMS BRUSER SUES & RUNDELL: Briggs and Headrick join Firm as Associates
Gold Weems is pleased to announce that R. Morgan Briggs and Connor C. Headrick have joined the Firm as Associates. -
FORMAN WATKINS & KRUTZ LLP: Firm Welcomes New Associates in Jackson & New Orleans Offices
Forman Watkins & Krutz is pleased to announce the additions of Taylor Herring White and Margaret McLaughlin to the Firm. -
Flanagan Partners founder receives law school promotion
Thomas Flanagan has been promoted to adjunct professor of law at Tulane University. -
Longtime Lafayette judge is fondly remembered
LAFAYETTE—He was known as the judge who was “Firm but fair.” -
Boat transportation dispute unlikely to affect future maritime cases, professor says
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit has ruled to reverse a district court’s judgment preventing Industrial Maritime Carriers’ in rem action toward an ocean carrier and otherwise affirm the judgment. -
Louisiana Supreme Court rules in dispute over prenuptial agreement
The Louisiana Supreme Court has determined that there is a time-related element involved in the ratification of prenuptial agreements. -
Landry joins state attorneys general urging Trump administration to eliminate DACA
LAFAYETTE – Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry joined nine other attorneys general urging the federal government to eliminate the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA. -
Evangeline Parish ADA resigns amid allegations of misconduct
VILLE PLATTE – Assistant District Attorney Timmy Fontenot resigned last month from his position in the Evangeline Parish District Attorney’s Office. -
Oldest living former president of LSBA: Technology 'dramatically changed the practice of law'
NEW ORLEANS – As the oldest living former president of the Louisiana State Bar Association (LSBA), Bob Wright is pleasantly surprised at how time has changed the legal profession. -
Tulane Law School honors Hall of Fame members
NEW ORLEANS – Tulane University Law School has honored seven of its graduates by inducting them into the school’s Hall of Fame. -
Tulane University Law School’s experiential learning program helps form professional identities
NEW ORLEANS – Tulane University Law School’s newly reorganized experiential learning program will integrate several skill-building offerings under one umbrella to help students gain hands-on training and to shape their professional identities, the school says. -
Judge settles some of the claims over 2005 fatal beating by New Orleans police
NEW ORLEANS — After refusing to dismiss a lawsuit against the city of New Orleans and several police officers for the fatal beating of a man in 2005, a federal judge has decided a number of claims in the suit in favor of the deceased man’s relatives. -
Tulane Law dean contributes to legal education talks at Chinese conference
NEW ORLEANS — Tulane University Law School Dean David Meyer recently returned from Beijing, where he joined university deans from Canada, Australia, Switzerland, Singapore and China as featured guests at the Global Legal Education at a Crossroads conference last month.