Committees

Class Action Procedure Since Wal-Mart v. Dukes

This CLE provided an update on class-certification jurisprudence in Louisiana in the five years since the 2011 SCOTUS decision in Wal-Mart v. Dukes, 564 U.S. 338 (2011). Dukes clarified the rigorous analysis to be applied in class-cert… Read More »

Practitioners Beware: Fourth Circuit Renders Decision on Premature Filing of Statements of Claim Under the LA Public Works Act

A recent appellate court decision may force construction law practitioners and their clients to change how they preserve their rights on public and private projects.  In Gootee Construction, Inc. v. Dale N. Atkins,[1] the Louisiana Fourth Circui… Read More »

Pro Bono Immigration Practice Resources

It is an open secret that lack of access to counsel is a stain on the country’s immigration system, and the NOBA Immigration Committee is committed to helping solve this problem through pro bono mentoring. A recent Stanford study found that non… Read More »

Life in Solo & Small Law Firms is a Never-ending Game of Chess

Historically, the legal profession has been more adversarial than collaborative. However, both large and small firms are learning about the benefits of collaboration.  Collaboration can cause your solo or small law firm to grow and thrive, and a… Read More »

Important Tax Changes Impacting LA Nonprofits

The New Orleans Bar Association and New Orleans Bar Foundation hosted a successful seminar on the new La. Sales Taxes Changes Impacting Nonprofits on April 20, 2016, to a standing room only crowd at the Pan Am Auditorium in New Orleans… Read More »

2016 Senior Legal Fair

Thirteen volunteer attorneys from NOBA's Young Lawyers Section and the Minorities in the Profession Committee assisted New Orleans' residents with legal questions on Saturday, April 16, 2016, at their senior legal fair held at the AARP Resour… Read More »

Healthcare Bankruptcies and Bankrupting Healthcare

Healthcare-related bankruptcies, both individual consumer and commercial cases have been in the news with more frequency in recent years.  On the consumer side, there have been studies – both before and after the passage and initial implem… Read More »

Defending the "Reptile" Strategy in Insurance Litigation

The "Reptile" approach to litigation has been gaining ground in courtrooms across the country, and is increasingly being employed by policyholder counsel to persuade juries to give big dollar awards and bad faith damages against the insurance industr… Read More »

Medicaid Expansion in Louisiana - an update

Change is in the wind. By executive order earlier this year, Governor John Bel Edwards indicated his intent to expand Louisiana’s Medicaid program by July 1, 2016.  By best estimates, as many as 400,000 adults, many who are gainf… Read More »

Appellate Practice Committee Blog Post

Don’t be so emotional All good writers know that it is a mistake to offer an overblown characterization of the facts.  Nobody likes to be told what to think.  Much better to set forth the facts in a way that any reader will see the… Read More »