May 2012 LADC Newsletter
To view the May 2012 LADC Newsletter, click here: May 2012 LADC Newsletter.
Dues Notices
All LADC members should have received thier 2012 LADC dues notice in December of 2011; reminder notices were sent out on March 4th. Because we still are working on our online payment feature, we were not able to set up dues payments via the online system. We hope to resolve this for next year. Thank you for your continuing membership in support of the LADC. If your dues are not paid by April 1st, you will incur a $25.00 late fee.
Associate Skills Set Seminar No. 4
The LADC’s new mini-CLE series for associates has been a resounding success, drawing 20 or more registrants to Lucy’s for each of the first three sessions. Continuing to offer one every other month, we will have two this summer. The next one is Friday, June 22 at Lucy’s. The two-hour CLE will feature Crystal Domries, Michael Mims, and Kathleen Simon on the topic “Transition from Law School to Law Practice: The Skills and Pointers We Wish We Had Known.” We are very pleased that many associates are attending these seminars and joining the LADC. We appreciate the leadership and planning of Sarah Kirkpatrick (Bradley Murchison, Shreveport), Carla Dillon (Jones Walker, Baton Rouge) and Sarah Stogner (Carver Darden, New Orleans). Please note the time change for the June meeting: 3-5 on Friday afternoon with a social hour to follow.
To register, click here: Register for Associate Skills Set Seminar No. 4.
2012 Trial Academy and Sizzlin' Summer Seminar
Registration is now open for the LADC Trial Academy on Aug. 2-4. This is great trial training for our members who have not had much trial experience.
The always popular Sizzlin’ Summer Seminar will be held at the Windsor Court on Friday, Aug. 17. Speakers will be announced and registration will open in late May. Please mark your calendar.
LADC Election Results 2012
The 2012 election results are in, and the new officers and directors are as follows:
The new secretary-treasurer is E. Phelps Gay of Christovich & Kearney. Phelps joins the other LADC officers who move up one office: President Tom Buck; President-Elect Skip Philips; First Vice President Marta-Ann Schnabel; Second Vice President Bobby Gilliam; and Immediate Past President Ben Mayeaux.
The directors are as follows:
Dist. 1 (New Orleans and surrounding area): New directors: Jimmy Holmes (Christovich & Kearney); Mickey deLaup (deLaup & Enright); and Sarah Stogner (Carver Darden). Joining the current directors, who are Valerie Matherne, Tim Hassinger, and John Baay.
Dist. 2 (Baton Rouge and surrounding area): New directors: Laranda Moffett Walker (Phelps Dunbar) and Mac Womack (Taylor Porter) . Joining the current directors, who are David Bienvenu and Glenn Farnet.
Dist. 3 (Lafayette and surrounding area): New director: Jennie Pellegrin (Laborde & Neuner). Joining the current director Kenny Oliver.
Dist. 4 (Lake Charles and surrounding area). New director: Robert Landry (Scofield Gerard). Joining the current director Chris Ieyoub.
Dist. 5 (Alexandria and surrounding area). New director: Mark Watson (Stafford, Stewart & Potter). Joining the current director Greg Englesmen
Dist. 6 (Shreveport and surrounding area). New directors: Joe Stamey (Stamey & Miller); Price Barker (Cook Yancey); and Vicki Warner (Barham, Warner, Stroud & McKay). Joining the current director Reginald Abrams.
Dist. 7 (Monroe and surrounding area). New director: Thomas M. Hayes, IV (Hayes Harkey). Joining the current director Jay Adams.
To Ron Sholes, who has completed his term as an officer, and the following directors who have completed their terms, the LADC expresses appreciation for their service: Dan Dorsey, Tara Mason, Victor Gregoire, Gracella Simmons, Michael Juneau, John Simpson, Sarah Kirkpatrick, Michael Lowe, and Wm. Timothy Allen.
The LADC: Who We Are
The LADC is a nonprofit organization intended to bring together by association, communication and organization, lawyers who devote a substantial amount of their professional time to the handling of civil litigation and whose representation in such cases is primarily for the defense; to provide for the exchange among the members of this Association of information, ideas, techniques of procedure and court rulings relating to the handling of litigation in an effort to enhance the knowledge and improve the skills of defense lawyers; to elevate the standards of trial practice in this area and, in conjunction with similar associations in other areas, to develop, establish and secure court adoption or approval of a high-standard code of trial conduct and courtroom manners; to support and work for the improvement of the adversary system of justice in our courts; to work for the elimination of court congestion and delays in civil litigation; and in general to promote improvements in the administration of justice and to increase the quantity and quality of service and contribution which the legal profession renders to the community, state and nation.
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