Law School
Louisiana State University, J.D., 1975
Law School Graduation Year
1975
College
Amherst College, B.A., 1972
Memberships
Louisiana State Bar Association(Past President); Bar Association of the U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit (Past President); American Academy of Appellate Lawyers; American Law Institute; American College of Real Estate Lawyers (Treasurer); American College of Mortgage Attorneys; American College of Commercial Finance Attorneys.
Biographical
Phi Kappa Phi; Omicron Delta Kappa; Order of the Coif. President, Southern Conference of Bar, 2001-2002. Member, Anglo-American Real Property Institute, 2002—. Articles Editor, Louisiana Law Review, 1974-1975. National Gold Medal Award Winner, Foundation for Improvement of Justice, Inc., 1987. Adjunct Professor, Louisiana State University Law School, 1976—. Books: Louisiana Secured Transactions, L.S.U. Law School, 12th Edition, 2002. Co-Author, West's Louisiana Code of Civil Procedure Pleadings & Judicial Forms Annotated, 1975-1983. Contributing Writer, The Law of Distressed Real Estate, Clark Boardman; the Louisiana Environmental Handbook , Lawyers Cooperative Publishing, 1992. Member, Editorial Board and Co-Author: Louisiana Appellate Practice Handbook , Lawyers Cooperative Publishing Company, 1986—. Author and co-author of numerous law review articles, including: Labor Negotiations: Do Any Rules of Ethics or Professionalism Really Apply?, ALI-ABA, Employment and Labor Relations Law for the Courporate Counsel and The General Practitioner, 2003; Breaching the Protective Privity Wall: Expanding Notions of Real Estate Lawyers' Liability to Non-Clients, The ACREL Papers, ALI-ABA 2002; From Screens and Walls to Screams and Walls: A Selective Look at Screening Among The Various Ethics Rules and Cases and A Consideration of Some Unanswered Questions, The Acrel Papers, Fall, 2001, ALI-ABA; Lease Financings in Louisiana, 59 Louisiana Law Review 1999, Vol. 59, page 846; Ruminations on the Louisiana Private Works Act, 58 Louisiana Law Review 570, 1998; Ruminations on Suretyship, 57 Louisiana Law Review 565, 1997; Better Appellate Brief Writing in Brief, 8 Practical Litigator 65 (1997); Ruminations on Security Devices, 56 La.Law Rev. 641 (1996); The Ethics of Negotiations: Are There Any? 56 La.Law Rev. 447 (1996); Developments in the Law 1993-1994: A Faculty Symposium, Security Devices, 1994; Recent Developments in the Law - Security Devices, 53 Louisiana Law Review 969 (1993); Notice of Seizure