Nearly two-dozen visiting professors from across the United States will converge at the LSU Paul M. Hebert Law Center for LSU Law’s annual Apprenticeship Week on Jan. 2-6, 2024.
Among the visiting faculty are LSU Law alumni Mark Menezes (’81), president and CEO of the United States Energy Association (USEA), and Maryam Brown (’00), president of Southern California Gas Company (SoCalGas), who will team up to teach a course on Energy Policy and Climate Change.
Apprenticeship Week is held each year during the week before the start of the spring semester. Master lawyers and judges from across the nation volunteer to lead abbreviated courses in a variety of specialized topics, such as Sports Law and Video Game Law. The program is offered free for participating students to gain focus, task-oriented training.
Menezes has been leading the USEA since May. The Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit promotes energy development by expanding access to safe, affordable, sustainable, and environmentally acceptable energy in partnership with the U.S. government. Menezes has previously served as deputy secretary of the U.S. Department of Energy, as well as chief counsel of energy and environment for the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce. As chief counsel, he oversaw the passage of the historic Energy Policy Act of 2005.
Brown has led SoCalGas since March 2019. Prior to that, she was vice president of federal affairs for Sempra Energy, parent company of SoCalGas. She has also previously served as chief counsel of energy and environment for the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce, as well as senior energy and environment counsel for two U.S. House speakers.
For complete details on LSU Law 2024 Apprenticeship Week visit law.lsu.edu/apprenticeship/. Complete course offerings and visiting faculty include:
- Energy Regulatory Law / Faculty: Gordon D. Polozola (’95), partner, Kean Miller; Carrie Tournillon, partner, Kean Miller; and Randy Young, partner, Kean Miller
- Mergers & Acquisitions Workshop / Faculty: Caroline Blitzer Philips (’96), partner, Vinson & Elkins
Maryam Brown (’00), president of Southern California Gas Company (SoCalGas).
- Complex Litigation and Antitrust / Faculty: Stacie Lambert deBlieux (’04), principal, Salim Beasley, LLC
- Serving the Public and the Profession / Faculty: Rachael Mills, access to justice projects counsel, Louisiana State Bar Association; and Marta-Ann Schnabel, shareholder, O’Bryon & Schnabel, PLC
- Managing the Personal Injury Case / Faculty: J. Cullens (’94), partner, Walters, Thomas, Cullens, LLC, and Abboud Thomas (’93), partner, Walters, Thomas, Cullens, LLC
- Making Your Case. What Makes Judges Read and Hear What Lawyers Say / Faculty: Kristen D. Amond (‘16), Mills & Amond, LLP, and U.S. District Judge Susie Morgan, Eastern District of Louisiana
- Sports Law/NIL Experience / Faculty: David Fleshman (’11), partner, Breazeale, Sachse & Wilson, LLP, and Ashley Clare-Kearney Thigpen, associate AD/diversity, equity & inclusion, LSU
- Video Game Law / Faculty: J. Michael Monahan (’93)
- Community Development and Tax Policy / Faculty: Joel Boussert, general counsel, Stonehenge Capital
- Construction Law / Faculty: Jeffery Boudreaux (’00), partner, Kean Miller, and Kelsey Kornick Funes (’97), partner, Phelps Dunbar, LLP
- Legal Communication / Faculty: Parker Layrisson (’02), principal, Parker Layrisson Law Firm, and Ebony Morris, Foley & Mansfield, LLP
- Higher Education Law, Policy and Practice / Faculty: Ryan R. Brown, general counsel, Lincoln Memorial University
- The Law of Emergencies: Natural Disasters, Climate Crises, Pandemics, and Beyond / Faculty: Danielle Aymond, Baker Donelson