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Latest Headlines – Lessons Learned by Playing Nice and Wire Fraud in Oil Spill Claims
LLAW has been alerted to two stories this week, highlighting the abuse in the oil spill claims process and the bad precedent this abuse...
Sep 25, 2014
Latest Headlines – Lessons Learned by Playing Nice and Wire Fraud in Oil Spill Claims
LLAW has been alerted to two stories this week, highlighting the abuse in the oil spill claims process and the bad precedent this abuse...
Sep 25, 2014
ADA Litigation: Improving access or just making money?
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is an important tool in the ongoing battle to ensure that disabled citizens have equal access...
Sep 22, 2014
ADA Litigation: Improving access or just making money?
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is an important tool in the ongoing battle to ensure that disabled citizens have equal access...
Sep 22, 2014
The Advocate: District judge faces sanctions for trip, other alleged improprieties
The Louisiana Judiciary Commission finds 18th Judicial District Judge Robin Free “created an appearance of impropriety and placed the...
Sep 19, 2014
Lawyers behaving badly
Some lawyers in Louisiana seem to get away with a lot of dodgy behavior. From their questionable advertising tactics, to the relentless...
Sep 17, 2014
Southeast Texas Record: BP didn’t know what Juneau knew
In the birthplace of Huey Long and Edwin Edwards, you have to expect corruption on a grand scale. Even in Louisiana, however, the...
Sep 10, 2014
ICYIMI: New evidence in oil spill settlement debacle reveals abuse, conflicts of interest
New data and information surfacing about the claims administrator for the Gulf oil spill settlement, Patrick Juneau, raise serious...
Sep 8, 2014
LA asbestos attorneys working to hide evidence of abuse
The first motion to seal in the Garlock Sealing Technologies bankruptcy proceeding was filed on Thursday by Louisiana asbestos attorneys,...
Sep 8, 2014
New evidence released in oil spill settlement debacle leaves another black eye on Louisiana’s legal
New data and information surfacing about the claims administrator for the Gulf oil spill settlement, Patrick Juneau, raise serious...
Sep 5, 2014
TIMES UNION: Kids hurt by litigious society
“Don’t hug the campers.” That was among a handful of things that my 16-year-old son, Nathaniel, was told when he volunteered this summer...
Sep 5, 2014
Daily Comet: Most judges locally and statewide win election unopposed
Nearly two-thirds of Louisiana’s district judge candidates have won their seats unopposed, and critics say that shortchanges voters....
Sep 5, 2014
Release: Few Louisiana Judges Will Be Elected “By the People” This Fall
The vast majority of Louisiana judges will be elected or re-elected to the bench without any input from voters this fall, as revealed in...
Sep 2, 2014
Did Louisiana’s economy actually improve after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill?
A former economic advisor to President Obama recently told the Washington Post that despite gloomy economic forecasts, wages and...
Aug 26, 2014
Letter: Meritless lawsuits cost time, money
In case you missed it, the Baton Rouge Advocate recently published a letter by LLAW Executive Director Melissa Landry on the cost of...
Aug 25, 2014
LLAW’s Melissa Landry in the Monroe News Star: Louisiana lawsuit reform must be priority
Gannett Louisiana columnist Mike Hasten recently posed the question, “What’s the real story about Louisiana’s business atmosphere?” After...
Aug 25, 2014
LA Record: Plaintiffs’ attorneys strategize behind closed doors on BP claims process
NEW ORLEANS – The recent implementation of a new accounting system in the BP Deepwater Horizon settlement has slowed claims payments to a...
Aug 25, 2014
Letter: Meritless lawsuits cost time, money
James Gill’s recent column entirely misses the point regarding the need to reform Louisiana’s legal climate. “Plaintiff” is most...
Aug 20, 2014
SCOTUS Asked to Weigh in on Oil Spill Debacle
Obviously, people and companies should be held responsible for their actions when they harm others. The longstanding principle of “You...
Aug 6, 2014
LABI Releases New Report on Louisiana’s Judicial Climate
The Louisiana Association of Business & Industry (LABI) released a new report on the challenges facing Louisiana’s civil justice system...
Aug 6, 2014
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