Law School
Louisiana State University, J.D., 1981
Law School Graduation Year
1981
College
Louisiana State University, B.S., magna cum laude, 1977
Memberships
New Orleans, Louisiana State, Fifth Circuit, Federal and American (Co-Chair, Securities Arbitrations Subcommittee, Securities Litigation Committee) Bar Associations; Louisiana Bankers Association; Association Henri Capitant (Vice President, 1986-1988); Louisiana Association of Defense Counsel.
Biographical
Order of the Coif; Phi Kappa Phi; Phi Eta Sigma; Omicron Delta Kappa. Member, 1979-1980, and Executive Editor, 1980-1981, Louisiana Law Review. Author: Developments in the Law, 1990-1991—Obligations, 52 La. L. Rev. 707 (1992); Developments in the Law, 1989-1990—Obligations, 51 La. L. Rev. 361 (1990). Co-Author: with Vanessa Richelle, Extrajudicial Dissolution of Agreements and the Specter of Commercial Vigilantism, 57 La. L. Rev. 601 (1997); with Vanessa Richelle, The 'New and Improved' Claim for Unjust Enrichment-Codified, 56 La. L. Rev. 663 (1996); with Edward B. Poitevent, II and Vanessa Richelle, Recent Developments on the Outer Continental Shelf, 47 Inst. Oil & Gas L. and Tax (1996) (reprinted by Matthew Bender & Co., Inc.); with Kent A. Lambert, Developments in the Law, 1993-1994—Obligations, 55 La. L. Rev. 597 (1995); with Kent A. Lambert, Developments in the Law, 1992-1993—Obligations, 54 La. L. Rev. 763 (1994); with Debra J. Hale, Developments in the Law, 1991-1992—Obligations, 53 La. L. Rev. 917 (1993). Law Clerk to The Hon. Henry A. Politz, Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit, 1981-1982. Lecturer, Contracts, Sales and Leases, Civil Law Seminar, and Trusts, Loyola University School of Law, 1983—. Arbitrator, NASD Dispute Regulation, Inc.
Military
1st Lt., U.S. Army and Louisiana Army National Guard, 1978-1983