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LSU PAUL M. HEBERT LAW CENTER NEWSLETTER Law Center’s ABA Site Inspection Visit Set for April 2002

he American Bar Association’s Section on TLegal Education and Admissions to the Bar will send a Site Inspection Team to the Law Center in April 2002 to assess the state of the Law Center’s compliance with the ABA’s Standards for Legal Education, the basis upon which formal ABA accreditation is determined. Such teams, which are typically assembled from deans, librarians, clinicians, law professors, and judges or practitioners, report to the Section’s Accreditation Committee, which makes the ultimate determination on the law school’s status.

Presentation of a Special Distinguished Service Award to Stephen Perry by Chancellor John J. Costonis at the 2001 The Law Center welcomes the site visit as an National Alumni Board Meeting. (April 27, 2001) opportunity to obtain the views of disinterested experts on the Law Center’s progress since the ABA’s last site visit, which occurred in 1994. That Two Exciting New Roles for LSU Law Center visit called the Law Center’s accreditation into question. Reflecting on the dismal state of the Proclaimed by State Law Center’s finances over the preceding 15 years, the 1994 visit report resulted in findings he importance of the LSU Law Center’s mis- ment to improving higher education in that the Law Center flunked the ABA’s three most sion of producing the state’s most outstanding Louisiana. T fundamental sets of standards—those pertaining lawyers is beyond dispute. But Steve Perry, Chief “The Law Center plays a phenomenally impor- to the adequacy of the Law Center’s physical of Staff of the Governor’s Office, has challenged tant role in this flagship vision,” Perry advised. plant, its library, and its financial resources. the Law Center to assume leadership roles in two “We can never pretend to have a front-rank new missions as well: namely, securing LSU see ABA Site Inspection page 5 Southern flagship institution without a preemi- A&M’s flagship status in the state and beyond, nent law school.” and, transforming the state’s economy. Perry noted that dramatic progress was Inside >>> In his April 27, 2001 remarks to the Law Center’s “absolutely” within the Law Center’s grasp National Alumni Board, Perry declared that LSU because legal education “is an area in which we not only must regain the excellence tarnished by quickly can have a powerful impact. It does not a quarter-century of distressed budgets, but that 2 Law Center’s J.D./B.C.L. Joint Degree have the huge capital costs of engineering or it should position itself to challenge the Program Approved basic sciences. With [the state’s] basic resource University of North Carolina over the next five investment and with the caliber of the people > Law Center Reforms Legal Writing years as the Southeast’s premier public universi- we now have, with the Law Center’s Alumni Program ty. Perry made these statements at the Law Board, with changes in fund raising and reach- Center’s Board meeting following its passage of > Law Center Welcomes New Faculty a resolution commending him for his commit- see Exciting New Roles page 5 3 Renovation ...Revitalization . . . Rebirth 4 PEOPLE 6 RECEPTIONS AND EVENTS John Breaux 8 REUNIONS Named 9 CLASS NOTES > In Memoriam Distinguished 10 UPCOMING EVENTS Alumnus 11 Full Text of Stephen Perry’s Remarks of the Year

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Law Center’s J.D./B.C.L. Joint Law Center Reforms Legal Writing Degree Program Approved Program he State Board of Regents for- [the problems] other programs are “ hey don’t know how to write,” is perhaps the most Tmally approved the Law encountering,” Gordley reasoned. Tfrequent complaint made by lawyers about graduat- Center’s joint degree program in “Students so trained will have an ing law students. May 2001. With the prior approvals advantage both in finding jobs and The Law Center has taken vigorous steps to meet this of the LSU Board of Supervisors in practicing law as the world criticism and, in the process, to bring excellence to a and of the American Bar becomes more global. The extra Legal Writing Program that has been severely underfund- Association in hand, the Law credential [the B.C.L. degree] is Grace Barry ed and understaffed for decades. Center will institute the program important because it tells the effective Fall 2001 for all students world what the student has in fact Just three years ago, three legal writing associates struggled to offer one- presently in the Law Center and been trained to do. Those at the point credit courses in each of the first-year semesters to more than 300 those to be admitted in the future. LSU Law Center who designed this students, and an appellate advocacy program, assisted by adjunct instruc- program deserve the congratula- tors, to a first-semester, second-year class of another 200 students. The The joint degree program is the tions and support of the Board of effort was a legal writing program in name only because the three only one of its kind in the United Regents.” instructors could not possibly provide a student group this large with the States and, with the bi-jural Civil intensive, individual attention needed to develop the students’ writing, Next November, the Law Center and Common Law program of research, and advocacy skills. The instructors, who lacked faculty rank will celebrate the inauguration of McGill Law School (Montreal, and were among the poorest paid in American law schools, were scat- the program by organizing a Canada), one of only two such tered throughout the Law Center’s 1936 building in cramped and unattrac- Canadian/LSU Law Center Bi- joint degree programs in the tive quarters. Not surprisingly, this state of affairs met with the disappoint- Juralism Conference. The dual world. Under the program, all Law ment and anger of the students, who felt acutely disadvantaged by their degree programs of LSU and Center students will receive both sub-par training. McGill will be jointly assessed by the Juris Doctor (J.D.) and the invited conferees from Canada and It’s a different picture today, and will be even brighter tomorrow. Bachelor of Civil Law (B.C.L.) from Louisiana. Canadian partici- degrees in recognition of a seven- Next fall, five writing instructors under the direction of a full-time Legal pants will include members of semester curriculum divided Writing Director (who will also have a Legal Writing section) will be Canada’s Supreme Court and Bi- among a first year of mixed Civil teaching approximately 230 first year students. With less than 40 students Jural Commission, the deans of the and Common Law courses and a per instructor, the program will feature the intense one-on-one exchange Ottawa, Toronto, McGill, and succeeding program of study in and editing of student work that are staples of the nation’s best programs. Montreal law faculties, and distin- The program, moreover, will be offered entirely in the students’ first year, which courses must be selected guished comparativists of these from a menu of Advanced Civil in one two-credit course per semester. Appellate Advocacy will no longer and other faculties in Canada and be offered as a competition, but rather taught as a course in persuasive Law, Advanced/Common Law, abroad. Louisiana participants will writing. A unified syllabus and problem-set will be used in all Legal Global Law and Legal Theory, and include members of the LSU law Writing sections. Public Law options. faculty, members of the state and Legal writing instructors will become full-time faculty (non-tenure track), James Gordley, Professor of Law, federal judiciary, and representa- and, depending upon experience, will be titled as Assistant, Associate, or University of California at Berkeley tives of the Louisiana Law Institute [Full] Professors of Professional Practice. They will qualify for multiyear and an internationally distin- and Bar. contracts after an initial trial year, and will earn salaries comparable to guished student of comparative Early planning has also begun for those of peer institutions. The Program’s Interim Director will be law, was asked by the Regents to a similar conference involving rep- Associate Professor of Professional Practice Grace Barry. She will have serve as its outside reviewer of the resentatives of Central and South recourse to a three-person Faculty Advisory Group, Professors Corbett, joint degree program. He conclud- American law schools, judiciaries, Murchison, and Church. In those aspects of the program bearing upon ed that the program afforded a and bars. This conference, which issues of Legal Bibliography and Information Technology, she will collab- “unique opportunity.” will occur in 2002, will be jointly orate with Professor Herbert Cihak, who joined the faculty as Law Library “LSU has the resources in place to sponsored by the LSU Law Center Director in May 2001. The Law Center’s ongoing renovation project will train its students in both common and the Inter-American Bar provide the Legal Writing staff with a suite of six attractive offices and a law and civil law without facing Association. <<< conference room. Future Law Center graduates may yet mangle a sentence or two. But theirs will be a Legal Writing Program that will engender pride in the entire Law Center community—students, faculty, and alumni alike—while equipping them with a powerful set of professional skills to commence law practice. <<<

Law Center Welcomes New Faculty

Michael McAuley Christopher M. Pietruszkiewicz Clarence W.Edwards Associate Professor Assistant Professor

B.A. 1974, University of London, King’s College, B.C.L., B.S., 1989, University of Scranton, J.D., 1992, Loyola 1977, McGill University, D.E.A., 1979, Université de University School of Law, LL.M., 1997 Georgetown Paris 2 University Law Center Prior to joining the LSU Law Center faculty in 2001, Prior to joining the LSU Law Center faculty in 2001, McAuley was a senior trusts attorney at Appleby Professor Pietruszkiewicz was an adjunct professor at Spurling and Kempe in Bermuda (1998-2001) and the George Mason University School of Law in practiced in Montreal and London (1979-1998). Arlington, Virginia, teaching Corporate Tax. McAuley is a member of the Bar of Quebec, Canadian Pietruszkiewicz was employed as a trial attorney in Bar Association, and International Bar Association the Civil Trial Section of the Southern Region for the where he is currently vice-chair of its Discrimination United States Department of Justice-Tax Division since & Gender Equality Committee. He has lectured in 1997. Prior to working at the U.S. Department of legal history, property and trusts at a number of Justice, Pietruszkiewicz was an attorney and advisor to Canadian universities, is an academician of the the United States Department of Education in International Academy of Estate and Trust Law, and is Washington, D.C. from 1992 to 1997. <<< a member of many other professional organizations. On the Move 3 Renovation . . . Revitalization . . . Rebirth

pril 3, 2001 marked the groundbreaking guests. He stated, “I am pleased to be present repair, gutting the auditorium in the Old Law Aceremony for the $11.6 million state-fund- at the rebirth of the Law Center. The buildings Building, and construction in the 1969 build- ed renovation of the Law Center’s 1936 and need renovation; time has taken its toll. ing of an administration suite on the fourth 1969 buildings. After decades of neglect and Chancellor John Costonis has revitalized the floor and an escalator from the ground floor deterioration, the Law Center building exteri- culture of this law school. He has built sup- to the Daggett Courtyard. ors will be restored and its interiors trans- formed into first-class facilities. Slated for completion in 2002, the renovation will create . . . the Law Center building exteriors will be restored and an environment that will greatly enhance stu- its interiors transformed into first-class facilities. dent life. . . . the renovation will create an environment Representatives from the Governor’s Office, the LSU System, the Law Center Alumni that will greatly enhance student life. Board, the Student Bar Association, Group Contractors, Inc., Gill Industries, Ltd., Meleton- port in the legal community; he has earned To learn about naming opportunities for the Bacque’ Group, faculty, staff, and students the support of the professors; he has the sup- Law Center Renovation Campaign, contact were welcomed by Chancellor John Costonis port of Governor Foster. We are poised to see Jody Kennard, Executive Director of External and thanked for participating in the important the Law School rise.” Relations and Communications, at 225/578- celebration. 8645 or [email protected] <<< Phase I of the renovation is currently under- Charles S. Weems, president of the Board of way with exterior building cleaning and Supervisors and 1968 Law grad, addressed the

Law Center Groundbreaking Ceremony, left to right: Glenn Morris, Scott Simoneaux, Bob Hairford (SBA President), Cheney Joseph, Gordon Gill, John deGravelles, Greg Vincent, John Costonis, Pierce Meleton, Charles Weems, William Jenkins, and Mark Drennen.

Discarded law auditorium chairs; it’s begun!

Renovation of the future administrative suite. 4 LSU PAUL M. HEBERT LAW CENTER NEWSLETTER

2001 Commencement Speaker Honorable Catherine D. “Kitty” Law Students Take Firsts in Moot Kimball Court Competitions

“ adies and gentlemen, this is your Recognized as Members of the he LSU Paul M. Hebert Law Fifteen teams from 12 law schools ffffL future. You are destined and Order of the Coif were: William TCenter held the Robert Lee participated in the competition. you will be the next generation of Raley Alford III, Kelly Brechtel Tullis Moot Court Finals on Awards were granted for the best judges, legislators, governors; the Becker, Renee Zeringue Berard, February 22, 2001. The competi- overall competitors, the best brief, next leaders of our state and our Taylor Stephen Carroll, Allison tion, named in honor of the late and the best orator. Dayne nation.” Louise Duncan, James Houssiere Dean Emeritus of the Law School, Freeman placed fifth in the best Dupuis, Jr., Mark Joseph provides advanced development of orator competition. Todd A. Rossi So stated the Honorable Catherine Fernandez, Andrew Christopher appellate advocacy skills for third- and Mark A. Marionneaux coached D. “Kitty” Kimball, Associate Justice Fertitta, Charles Glasscock year students who excel in the team. of the Supreme Court of Louisiana Fitzgerald, Mary Ashley Bell Frey, Appellate Advocacy. The semifinal- and 1970 graduate of the LSU Law The Law Center’s National Moot Amy Leigh Garrity, Joseph Ignatius ists for the 2001 competition were Center in her address to the Law Court Team also took first place, Giarrusso III, Philip Thomas Appellant, Brian C. Shartle & Philip School’s 228 candidates for the Juris winning best brief overall at Hackney, Jaime Elise Hurley, R. Sims and Apellee S. Dale Cronin Doctor degree at their commence- regionals. Coached by Professor James Edward Lapeze, Charles & Sacha A. St. Amant. The winners ment ceremony on May 24, 2001. John Devlin, the 2000-2001 team Donald Marshall III, Sharon Lynn were S. Dale Cronin and Sacha A. consisted of Scott Hawkins, Charlie Chancellor John J. Costonis Berle Morris, Kenneth L. Roche III, St. Amant. This year’s judges were Chauvin, and Maleshia Brown. presided and Perry Segura, past Martha Elizabeth Rundell, Philip Honorable Luther F. Cole, chairman, LSU Board of Ritchey Sims, James Edward Appell Associate Justice (retired), Supreme The LSU Law Center’s Supervisors, conferred degrees. Slaton, Tiffany Cecelia Sues, and Court of Louisiana; Honorable Environmental Moot Court Team Shelley Marie Sullivan. <<< Melvin A. Shortess, Chief Judge advanced to the quarter finals of (retired), Louisiana First Circuit the competition in White Plains, Court of Appeal; and Honorable New York in February 2001. The Robert D. Downing, Louisiana First team, consisting of Louise Circuit Court of Appeal. The prob- Morrison, Wes Raborn, and Kristi lem this year was written by Husher, advanced after the initial Professor Randall Trahan and con- round involving more than 50 cerned reasons for disinherison of teams. Charles Ellis served as the a forced heir. team’s coach. The judges selected the LSU law team’s brief as the Following the competition, a Outstanding Appellant’s Brief. The reception was held at the LSU PACE Environmental Law Review Faculty Club to honor the year’s will publish the brief in an upcom- participants and all previous Tullis ing issue. winners. Mr. Victor Sachse III (‘55) presented Chancellor Costonis with The Philip C. Jessup International a silver cup that had been given to Moot Court Competition was rep- Dean Tullis by the first graduating resented well by LSU law for the Members of the Order of the Coif 2001 class of the Law Center in 1908. 2001 competition. LSU members included Greg Bordelon, Peter The Law Center’s Tax Moot Court Derouen, Kim Ramsey, and Keith Team took home the First Place Grant. The team prepared both Champion Overall Competition at respondents and applicants memo- the 30th Annual Albert R. Mugel rials and held oral pleadings at the National Moot Court Competition Eastern District Courthouse in New held at the State University of New Orleans. The problem concerned York at Buffalo School of Law such international law issues as February 22-24, 2001. Team mem- law of the sea, use of force, and bers consisted of Dayne Freeman, sovereign boundary delimitations. Betty Raglin, and Leslie Strahan. <<< Freeman, Raglin, and Strahan wrote the brief and Freeman and Raglin gave the oral presentation.

Commencement 2001

Hargrave Honored at Louisiana Law Review Banquet

pproximately 100 guests attend- Amy Lewis Champagne, Louisiana Aed the annual Louisiana Law Law Review Associate, was present- Review Banquet held March 30, ed with the Vinson & Elkins 2000- 2001 at the Camelot Club in Baton 2001 award for the best student Rouge. The Baton Rouge law firm article. Her paper will appear in a Jones-Walker sponsored the event. future issue of the Louisiana Law Review. Membership certificates Law Review’s Volume 61 Editor-in- were presented to William Raley Chief, Mark Fernandez, served as Alford, III, Allison Louise Duncan, master of ceremonies and Chancellor William Reed Huguet, Marianne John Costonis addressed the group. Moot Court Reception Rabalais, and Amy Leigh Garrity. Professor Wendell Holmes was the <<< keynote speaker and W. Lee Hargrave was the guest of honor. On the Move 5

LSU Law Center Awarded the “Key” of the 13th Circuit! Chancellor Emeritus he LSU Law Center was awarded LSD (up 45 percent from last year’s Tthe “Key” of the 13th Circuit for numbers) as well as LSU Law’s Hawkland Awarded the American Bar Association-Law commitment to continued involve- Student Division in March at the ment in the ABA through the Law Honorary Degree spring conference in San Antonio, Student Division. Bordelon was hancellor Emeritus and Boyd Professor of Law Texas. Bob Hairford, SBA presi- also presented with an individual CWilliam Hawkland was the recent recipient of dent, Greg Bordelon, ABA repre- award for his commitment to fur- an honorary Doctor of Laws by the University of sentative, and Chuck Cusimano, ther integrate LSU law students Minnesota. The honorary degree recognizes indi- candidate-liaison positions repre- into the ABA-LSD. LSU Law has viduals who have achieved acknowledged emi- sented the Law Center. not previously won a key and was nence in cultural affairs, in public service, or in a one of four out of a total of 13 Greg Bordelon was presented with field of knowledge and scholarship. Hawkland schools to receive it. <<< the Bronze Key for LSU Law’s came to the LSU Law Center as chancellor in increased membership in the ABA- 1979 and resigned as chancellor in 1989. He received his B.S. and his J.D. from the University of Minnesota. <<<

ABI awards Medal of Excellence to Law Center Senior

LSU Paul M. Hebert Law Center Website (www.law.lsu.edu)

Chancellor Costonis presents the American Bankruptcy Institute Medal of Excellence to Law Center Senior Kenneth L. Roche, III. Roche received the annual award from the ABI, a national organization of bankruptcy professionals, in recognition of his top score in Professor Jason Kilborn’s Bankruptcy course in Fall 2000. Roche was chosen from among all students enrolled in bankruptcy-related courses at the Law Center The LSU Paul M. Hebert Law Center website offered during academic year 2000-2001. The Law Center congratulates Roche for his has been designed to serve as the Law outstanding performance! Center’s principal communication vehicle. <<<

Exciting New Roles...continued from page 1 ing out to the private sector and the initiatives. It must be there in intel- alumni, the vision of what this Law lectual property related fields.” He Center can be is greater than anyone added that Louisiana’s links in ABA Site Inspection...continued from page 1 dreamed of even five years ago.” Central and South America are pro- The Law Center looks forward to the upcoming site visit as an opportunity found. “If we are going to be a Perry then observed that Louisiana to reflect on its vision, its strengths and weaknesses, and the steps it must center of international commerce, now views its funding of higher take to achieve its vision in view of both. The vehicle for this exercise is an [the Law Center has] to be an inter- education as an investment in trans- institutional Self-Study, required of all law schools as a component of the nationally distinguished center in forming the state’s economy from accreditation process. A retreat is envisaged next winter in which the Law the study of civil law systems.” its former near-total reliance on Center faculty, students, LSU System officials, and members of the bench industry, agriculture, and energy Perry concluded with the observa- and bar will participate in the self-study’s formulation. production to an information-based tions that “the Law Center cannot The 2002 Site Inspection Team Chair will be Rick Matasar, whose current economy dominated by the digital effect these changes by itself. We deanship at the New York Law School was preceded by deanships at the sciences, technology, and the bio- will assist the Law Center by University of Florida and Chicago-ITT/Kent Law Schools. Other team mem- logical and biomedical sciences. increasing its resources and rein- bers will be named shortly. Dean Matasar’s selection was welcomed by forcing its vision of [an expanded] “LSU A&M,” Perry stated, “will be Chancellor Costonis, who described him as “one of the most innovative and strategic mission. If we can deliver the driving force in health care and thoughtful legal educators in America today.” and if the Law Center’s research, including such areas as Administration can deliver, the In a preparatory visit to the Law Center in May 2001, Matasar previewed gene therapy and cutting edge progress we seek both in higher the Law Center’s library, physical plant, and finances, the three areas that molecular biology. If we are going education and in the state’s econo- were the trouble spots for the 1994 team. At a faculty dinner during this to be that type of preeminent my lies fully within our grasp.” visit, he stated that while he obviously could not speak for his eventual Site research institution, our Law Center Team, his impression from this preview is that the LSU Law Center “is one must be there with [LSU A&M]. It The full text of Perry’s remarks appears on page 11 of this newsletter. <<< of perhaps five or six law schools in the nation today that not only can must be at the forefront of health progress quickly from Point A to Point B, but from Point A to Point D.” <<< law. . . and in our digital sciences 6 LSU PAUL M. HEBERT LAW CENTER NEWSLETTER Receptions and Events >>>>

Chancellor’s Council Dinner at Hemingbough

emingbough’s Hemstead Hall provided a spectacular atmosphere for Hthe Chancellor’s Council Black Tie Dinner held April 20, 2001 at Hemingbough in St. Francisville. The dinner honored all members of the year 2000 Chancellor’s Council, a group of alumni and friends who con- tribute $1,000 or more annually in unrestricted funds to the Law Center. Chancellor John Costonis, his wife Susan, Alumni Board President John deGravelles and wife, Jan, and Cliffe F. Laborde, President of the Chancellor’s Council and wife, Margaret, greeted guests on the terrace outside Hemstead Hall. Kelley Smith Toney and the Campanile Quartet provided classical and modern instrumental music. The 150 guests enjoyed each others’ compa- ny, an elegant dinner, and shared their enthusiasm for the LSU Law John W. deGravelles, president of the 2000 National Alumni Board and wife, Jan, Center. Chancellor John J. Costonis and his wife, Susan, and 2000 President of the Chancellor’s Chancellor Costonis greeted the guests, thanked them for their generous Council, Cliffe F. Laborde and his wife, Margaret. support, and welcomed them to this celebratory event. In his remarks to the guests, Laborde acknowledged the donors to the nine professorships established in the year 2000-2001: The James Carville Professorship, Holt B. Harrison Professorship, Frank L. Maraist/LADC Professorship, C.E. Laborde Professorship, Sam D’Amico Professorship, Ernest and Iris Eldred Professorship, Harvey Peltier Professorship, Louis B. Porterie Professorship, and the G. Frank and Winston Purvis Professorship. <<<

Chancellor’s Council members Pat Ottinger and his wife, Cheryl, and Cliffe E. Laborde and Claudia Lipton at the Chancellor’s Council Dinner.

Chancellor’s Council members and spouses enjoy the Chancellor’s Council Dinner at Hemingbough on April 20, 2001. Left to right: Diane McKernan, Jerry McKernan, Milton Womack, Margaret Womack, Charles McCowan, and Mary McCowan.

Bill McClendon and wife, Genie, Molly and Shelby McKenzie, Holt B. and Anne Harrison, Susan Costonis, Chancellor John J. Costonis, and David and Linda Cohn enjoy Hemingbough.

E. Theodore Laborde and Clare Laborde Condon at the Chancellor’s Council Dinner.

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Perdido Alumni Reception

ore than 100 LSU Law Center alumni and their families and friends Mgathered at a special reception at the Baton Rouge Bar Association Conference held at Perdido Beach, Alabama in April. The event was co- sponsored by Sweeney and Miller Law Firm of Baton Rouge and the LSU Law Center. The event provided a great opportunity to relax after a day West Group representative, of continuing education courses and to catch up on Law Center activities. Brian Muth, and Chancellor <<< John Costonis at Sandestin Sounds of the Beach Alumni Reception Sandestin, Florida—Louisiana State Bar Association

he annual LSU Law Center Alumni Party at the Sandestin Golf and TBeach Resort was held in June in conjunction with the Louisiana State Bar Convention. The sounds of the beach and the Harmon Drew Super Susan Galligan, Catherine Maraist, Group attracted over 500 LSU law alumni. Many alumni contributed their Frank Maraist, time and effort to make the party a success. West Group sponsored a Susan Costonis, Tom limbo contest and a hula hoop contest. The Grand Prize was a Palm Pilot Galligan, Katherine Spaht, and Susan won by Brad Schlotterer from Lemle & Kelleher in New Orleans. A spe- Davis at the cial thanks to West Group for generously sponsoring the event. <<< Sandestin Alumni Reception

Baton Rouge Bar Association Officers Sworn In John Breaux Named Distinguished Alumnus of the Year n January, the following LSU The Young Lawyers Section is Law Center graduates were chaired by Joe Mengis (‘92). He is I enator John Breaux, LSU Law serves on two other Finance sworn in as officers of the Baton assisted by Melissa Cresson (‘96), Class of 1967, native of subcommittees: Health Care, and Rouge Bar Association: secretary-treasurer. The 2001 S Crowley, Louisiana, and a leader Taxation and IRS Oversight. Council includes A. Edward in national politics, has been Wade Shows (‘75) Hardin, Jr.(‘97), Kelsey Kornick, Senator Breaux is the ranking president named the LSU Law Center’s (‘97), and Lisa Prater, (‘97). YLS Democrat on the Special Distinguished Alumnus of the Leo Hamilton (‘77) past-chair is Keely Scott (‘95). Committee on Aging. He has Year for 2000. Breaux will be president-elect Deborah Gibbs, chair, Family Law used this position to highlight recognized at the LSU Law David A. Hamilton (‘74) section; Jeff Wittenbrink (‘87), the importance of protecting and Center’s Distinguished Alumni secretary chair-elect, and Lorraine Andresen strengthening Social Security, Breakfast to be held November Mathile Abramson (‘88) McCormick (‘93), secretary-treas- Medicare, and other programs 10, 2001. treasurer urer. <<< that are essential to the health Amy E. Counce (‘81) Senator Breaux was elected to and well-being of older past president the House of Representatives in Americans. 1972 at the age of 28. At the As a member of the Committee Directors at Large time of his election, he was the on Commerce, Science and youngest member in the U.S. Greg Bodin (‘88) Transportation, Senator Breaux Congress. Senator Breaux repre- Michael Ferachi (‘89) has taken a leadership role on a sented the 7th District of wide variety of issues, including Jay Jalenak (‘90) Louisiana for 14 years before telecommunications, consumer being elected to fill Senator protection, fisheries, shipping, Russell Long’s seat in 1986. tourism, and aviation. He is now Senator Breaux is widely recog- the ranking Democrat on the nized as a leader in the Senate. Subcommittee on Science, In 1993, his Democratic col- Technology and Space. The leagues elected him to serve as Senator also serves on four addi- Chief Deputy Whip, a position tional subcommittees: Aviation, he has held for three congres- Communication, Oceans and sional terms and will continue to Fisheries, and Surface hold through the 107th Transportation and Merchant Congress. Marine. A senior member of the Finance Senator Breaux is a graduate of Committee, Senator Breaux Southwestern Louisiana serves as the ranking Democrat University in Lafayette and the of the Subcommittee on Social LSU Paul M. Hebert Law Center Security and Family Policy. He in Baton Rouge. <<< 8 LSU PAUL M. HEBERT LAW CENTER NEWSLETTER Reunions >>>>

A Tradition Begins. . . Class Reunions

he LSU Law Center has begun a Treunion program to reconnect with and create a sense of commu- nity among its alumni. We encour- age you to join us at your reunion. We will communicate with you throughout the year regarding your reunion activities. > The Classes of 1951, 1961, 1976, 1981, and 1991 will hold their reunions Friday, October 5, 2001. More information will be Standing left to right: Mary Banister (widow of D. Ross Banister), Virginia deGravelles, Mina Armentor, mailed in August regarding Minos Armentor, Catherine Martin (widow of Julian “Big Skipper” Martin), Sarah Bolton, George specifics. Bolton, Richard A. Kent, Jr. Seated are Ursula Kent and Charles deGravelles at the 1936 reunion. Class Reunions 1951 LSU Faculty Club 1961 Home of Ben R. Miller, Sr. 1976 Baton Rouge City Club 1981 De La Ronde Hall 1991 TBA > The Class of 1971 will hold its 30th reunion September 14, 2001. The class will meet at the Baton Rouge Country Club the evening of September 14 and a

brunch will be held on Saturday, The LSU Law Center Class of 1936 held September 15, at Winston Rice its 65th reunion April 21 at the home of and Barbara Gay’s Plantation (St. Gwynette Carley. Participating in the cel- ebration were, left to right: Richard Kent, Louis Plantation). Jr., Minos Armentor, Chancellor Costonis, Charles deGravelles, John deGravelles, Check the LSU Law website for and George Bolton. details! www.law.lsu.edu <<<

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Jane H. Barney (‘93)—named Robert J. David, Jr.(‘92)— Alicia Hoover-Richards (‘94) Jeffrey W.Koonce (‘94)— partner in the litigation practice named a shareholder at Onebane, —appointed as the chair for the named partner in the commercial group of the Baton Rouge office of Bernard, Torian, Diaz, McNamara Louisiana Trial Lawyers Association transaction practice group of Phelps Dunbar LLP. & Abell. He represents employers Medical Malpractice Section for Adams & Reese LLP Baton Rouge in labor and employment law 2000-2001. Hoover—Richards also office. Jose Canseco (‘84)—currently matters. was appointed to the Louisiana MD Technologies’ chief executive Gene W.Lafitte (‘52)—named State Bar Association officer. The company is a high- John W.deGravelles (‘74)— chair of the New Orleans, Interprofessional Committee con- tech Baton Rouge company that named a Fulbright Scholar and Louisiana firm of Liskow & Lewis sisting of physicians and attorneys. develops practice management awarded the prestigious Fulbright and received the 2001 American software for physicians. The prod- scholarship to teach law courses Jay Jalenak (‘90)—recipient of Inns of Court Professionalism uct Med Topia Mobile is a device, at the Aristotle University of the fifth Judge Keogh Memorial Award for the Fifth Circuit. Judge similar to a palm pilot, which will Thessaloniki School of Law in Award given in honor of the late Patrick E. Higginbotham of the allow a doctor to access patients’ Thessaloniki, Greece. The Judge Keogh. Recipients are cho- U.S. Court of Appeals presented medical history, order tests, assem- Fulbright Scholars Program is sen by the Young Lawyers Section the award on May 1, 2001 at the ble bills and forward them to the sponsored by the U.S. Department Council based on the charitable Fifth Circuit Judicial Conference in insurance company as well as of State’s Bureau of Education and and pro bono activities of the New Orleans. sending prescriptions to the phar- Cultural Affairs and grants awards nominee and the nominee’s Patrick Regan Richard (‘93) macy with the tap of the screen. to outstanding scholars to partici- involvement with the association. —named partner in the business pate in university lectures, David Clark (‘95)—accepted a Mary Terrell Joseph (‘70)— practice group of the Baton Rouge advanced research, and other edu- one-year teaching position as an named to the board of directors of office of Phelps Dunbar LLP. cational activities in foreign coun- interim professor at University of Hollins University. Joseph is cur- tries. During the fall semester of Michael H. Rubin (‘75)— Florida. This honor is only offered rently with McGlinchey Stafford in 2001, deGravelles will teach named president-elect, Louisiana to those finishing in the top 10 Baton Rouge. courses in International Maritime State Bar Association, June 2001- percent of the LL.M. program at Law and the American Judicial John M. Kantrow (‘90)— 2002. <<< University of Florida’s Law School. System. named a member of Cozen and Send Class Notes and photo- Kevin C. Curry (‘94)—was O’Connor’s Chicago office. Judge Robert Downing (‘75) graphs to: certified as a tax law specialist and Kantrow was formerly a partner at —elected to the 1st Circuit Court estate planning and administration Blatt, Hammesfahr & Eaton in Bunnie Cannon of Appeal. Previously, Downing Chicago. Kantrow was also named LSU Paul M. Hebert Law Center specialist by the Louisiana Board served as judge with the 19th secretary of the Illinois State Bar Office of External Relations and of Legal Specialization. Judicial District Court. Association’s Maritime Law Section Communications Council. 210 Law Center Baton Rouge, LA 70803-1000 [email protected]

In Memoriam 4444444444444444444 A Final Salute to Two LSU JOIN US FOR THE LSU LAW CENTER REUNION WEEKEND 2001! Law Grads and Army Colonels October 5, 2001 —taken from the Morning Advocate April 25, 2001 and April 29, 2001. to Honor the Classes of U.S. District Judge Lansing L. Mitchell (‘37), often known to 1951 his colleagues as “The Colonel,” died Tuesday, April 24, 2001. Mitchell was appointed to the federal bench by 1961 President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1966 after a career as an admiralty lawyer. He also worked as an FBI special agent, *1971 served in World War II in the Army and retired from the Army reserve with the rank of colonel. 1976 Carlos Spaht (‘31), the senior member of the Baton Rouge Law Firm Kantrow, Spaht, Weaver & Blitzer died Sunday, 1981 April 29, 2001 at the age of 94. Spaht practiced law for more 1991 than 70 years. He began practicing in 1931 and continued until 1941 when he was called into active Army service. He For more information, contact Bunnie Cannon rose to the rank of colonel in World War II and was sent to Asia. When he returned from the war, Governor Jimmie LSU Paul M. Hebert Law Center Davis appointed him state district judge in Baton Rouge in Office of External Relations and Communications 1946. He was elected to the post without opposition in 210 Law Center 1948. Spaht unsuccessfully ran for Governor in 1952. When Baton Rouge, LA 70803-1000 the election was over, John McKeithen, the winner, named 225/578-8452 him his executive counsel. Spaht went on to serve on the [email protected] LSU Board of Supervisors and the State Ethics Board. <<< *The Class of 1971 will reunite September 14, 2001. 10 LSU PAUL M. HEBERT LAW CENTER NEWSLETTER Upcoming Events >>>>

2001 September 14 1971 Reunion—Baton Rouge Country Club September 15 1971 Reunion—St. Louis Plantation, White Castle October 4 LSU Law Center Board of Trustees Dinner—Pennington 6 p.m. October 5 LSU Law Center Board of Trustees Meeting—Pennington 8 a.m. Contintental Breakfast begins at 7:30 a.m. Free Continuing Legal Education Class Reunions (1951, 1961, 1976, 1981, 1991) 1951 LSU Faculty Club 1961 TBA 1976 Baton Rouge City Club 1981 De La Ronde Hall 1991 TBA November 9 All Alumni Reception—De La Ronde Hall 6-10 p.m. November 10 Distinguished Alumnus Breakfast—De La Ronde Hall 8 a.m. John Breaux honoree November 12 Supreme Court Swearing in Ceremony Reception— The Monocle on Capitol Hill November 13 Supreme Court Swearing in Ceremony— U.S. Supreme Court, Washington D.C. 2002 January 15-17 Chancellor’s Duckhunt April 3-6 Baton Rouge Bar Conference—Perdido Alumni Reception TBA April 11 LSU Law Center Board of Trustees Dinner— Mike Anderson’s Side Porch April 12 LSU Law Center Board of Trustees Meeting Chancellor’s Council Dinner—Hemingbough June 27-30 LA State Bar Conference—Sandestin Florida *LSU Law Center Alumni Party* TBA

If you have questions regarding the above events, contact Bunnie Cannon, 225/578-8452, or email [email protected] <<<

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Stephen Perry, Chief of Staff, Office of the Governor The LSU Law Center: Its Role in Louisiana Higher Education and in the Transformation of Louisiana’s Economy

«««««« LSU will be the driving force in health care and research, including such areas as gene he Foster Administration has committed to supporting therapy and cutting edge molecular biology. If we are going to be that type of preeminent T exciting developments at the Law Center and in Louisiana research institution, our Law Center must be there with it. It must be at the forefront in higher education generally. health law, medical law, areas of ethics, and in our digital sciences initiatives. It must be there Part of this task has been redefining what Louisiana can be. We in intellectual property-related fields. know that Louisiana for many years has accepted being mediocre. Louisiana is in a unique position right now with the emerging markets in Central and But, we believe that we have the potential to be tremendously better South America. New Orleans, Houston, and Miami are going to compete for dominance at a wide range of areas frankly than we have been. over these markets. Our links in Central and South America are profound. If we are going One of these areas is post-secondary education. We believe that within five to seven years LSU to be a center of international commerce, we It’s our belief that post-secondary education can draw equal to the University of North have to be an internationally distinguished drives the economy. If you look at every pro- Carolina at Chapel Hill. That is our goal. center in the study of civil law systems. We gressive society, every diverse economy, and look to the Law Center to fulfill this role. every rich cultural and artistic environment, The Law Center plays a phenomenally impor- each has one common denominator: a power- tant role in this flagship vision. We can never In addition to exercising leadership in interna- ful post-secondary education system. pretend to have a front-rank Southern flag- tional law and civil law, intellectual property, ship institution without a preeminent law and health sciences law, the Law Center must Over the last 15-20 years, the funding of school. And that means on a level with the provide other services to the state. The Louisiana Louisiana’s universities, including our graduate University of North Carolina Law School. Law Institute is, of course, a tremendous service. and professional schools, has declined precipi- Within the next ten years, we will need a Can we get there? The answer is absolutely. tously causing a brain drain in the state, hin- recompilation of our Statutes. A Constitutional We can get there because the law is an area in dering the flow of intellectual capital into Convention is likely within five years. The Law which we quickly can have a powerful impact. Louisiana, and damaging the reputation and Center’s guidance and involvement is indis- Legal education does not have the huge capi- performance of our economy. pensable for the success of these efforts. tal cost of engineering and basic sciences. The world that we live in is radically different With basic resource investment and with the As we sought to identify areas in which we than it was 30 years ago. The tone for ca-liber of people we have now, with the Law can truly be outstanding, the one element that Louisiana’s economy, for example, was shaped Center’s Alumni Board, with changes in fund leapt off the page was that we can achieve by the aftermath of the Industrial Revolution, raising and reaching out to the private sector national excellence in law. And so we made a the advent of the oil and gas industry, and the and the alumni and graduates, the vision of commitment. When Chancellor Costonis came development of modernized agriculture. But what this Law Center can be is greater than down and was going through all of his inter- the 21st century offers a different universe. It’s anyone dreamed of even five years ago. views with alumni and other community and a knowledge-driven economy. The university government leaders, he asked some very Something radically different is happening in is the one place where knowledge is manufac- pointed questions. Were we willing, he asked, Louisiana with our university investment. And tured, discovered, disseminated, taught, and to commit to the financial and legislative sup- it is directly related to what we need from the applied. port required to make the Law Center a source Law Center in this new 21st century world, of pride for all Louisianans? I will tell you that The university and the health of universities which will be driven by knowledge and dis- in those interviews we made that commitment, will determine whether or not Louisiana is covery and science. We are making a $25 mil- and I think we have delivered on it. going to be competitive in the 21st century. lion initiative this year, the largest of its kind in the history of the United States in the tech- Today, the Law Center is ready to explode. Louisiana has found itself in a position where nology-driven digital sciences field, to redefine And, we have tremendously high expectations LSU’s position as the state’s flagship university Louisiana’s economy as an information econo- of the Law Center. We honestly believe that if is in peril. LSU has got to be a major regional my. This investment will be followed next year we can just have patience and stay the and national flagship university if Louisiana is by a similar investment for biological and bio- course, the Law Center and this entire univer- going to be successful as a society, as an econ- medical sciences. We know that much as the sity will achieve the excellence and provide omy, and as a culture. energy and agriculture industries and manufac- the boost to the state’s economy that we How do you determine whether a university is ture dominated the 20th century, the 21st cen- demand from them. successful? Obviously, funding is a driving tool tury is going to be dominated by digital sci- We have and will continue to extend support as it provides the resources to attempt to ence, technology, and the biological and bio- to the Law Center. There is nowhere in the achieve excellence. But the truth is, as you medical sciences. United States where a state prospers and its look across the programs that universities Louisiana’s premier Law Center and what we flagship universities lack. So our commitments offer in quality of faculties and quality of lead- hope to be one of the premier law centers in to the Law Center and other LSU units are ership, dramatic changes need to be made. We the United States must have driving power in going to be enduring. We are going to ensure began looking five years ago, and changes intellectual property. It must also have driving that they endure, and we are looking forward began to take place in leadership of many of power in health and medical sciences law. We to new programs and new plans coming out the universities and systems in Louisiana. We expect this of the Law Center. We agreed three of the Law Center. believe that LSU right now has the finest lead- years ago with the Board of Regents and oth- ership in its history in the persons of its presi- ers that we would put incremental invest- Really what we seek is no less than a change dent and its A&M, its Agricultural Center, and ments in the Law Center as we ratchet up stu- in the culture of the LSU Law Center. The Law its Law Center chancellors. dent body quality and admission standards, Center cannot effect these changes by itself. We will assist the Law Center by increasing its In trying to determine what level of excel- restrict admissions, invest in faculty and resources and reinforcing its vision of a new lence LSU is going to achieve, we know that infrastructure and in retention of our star strategic mission. And, I think we are on the we cannot truly be a preeminent Southern faculty, and recruit a great national faculty. way. If we can deliver, and if the Law Center university without a preeminent Law Center. As the most important health care provider Administration can deliver in the three years To that end, and in the face of tight state and research entity in the state, the LSU Health ahead, the progress we seek both in higher budgets, we made commitments to the Law Sciences Center enjoys a commanding role in education and in the state’s economy lies fully Center and to Chancellor Costonis to do some managing health care. In concert with this within our grasp. things that hadn’t been done in years. And, new role, the Law Center must both develop a we are about to ratchet this support up premier law and medicine program and coor- Stephen Perry, Chief of Staff, Office of the Governor another notch this year. Edited Remarks to the LSU Law Center National Alumni Board dinate this program with emerging programs at April 27, 2001 the Health Sciences Center.

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U.S. Supreme Court to Honor LSU Law Graduates— Apply NOW

LSU Law Center alumni are invited to become members of the nation’s highest court.

The 2001 LSU Law Center group admission to the Bar of the Supreme Court of the United States will be held Tuesday, November 13, 2001.

Space is limited to 50 participants and applicants must have been members of their state bar for at least three years to be eligible for admission.

For further information, contact Susan Davis Director of Alumni Relations 225/578-8644 or email: [email protected]