News from the Southern University Law Center

 

August 10, 2009

Southern University Law Center Fall Semester Opens August 13

Baton Rouge, LA— Associate Justice John L. Weimer, III, of the Louisiana Supreme Court and Louisiana State Bar Association President Kim M. Boyle will address the 2009 incoming class of 255 entering students at the annual Law Center Orientation at 10 a.m., Thursday, August 13, in 129-130 A. A. Lenoir Hall.

Chancellor Freddie Pitcher, Jr., SBA president Raushanah Hunter, and the rest of the Law Center family will greet the new students, who will participate in the Student Orientation on Professionalism, conducted by the LSBA Committee on the profession.

Elected to the Louisiana Supreme Court in 2001, Justice Weimer now serves a full ten-year term after being elected unopposed in 2002.  A member of the Louisiana judiciary since 1995, Justice Weimer served as Judge pro tempore of the 17th Judicial District Court, Division D; was elected judge for the 17th Judicial District Court, Division A, in 1995 and re-elected in 1996 without opposition, and was elected judge of the 1st Circuit Court of Appeal, District 1, Division B, in 1998.

Boyle, a partner in the employment law practice group of Phelps Dunbar L.L.P. in New Orleans, was sworn in as the 69th LSBA president on June 12, 2009.   Boyle's practice includes representing employers in employment related claims, such as retaliation and discrimination claims as well as workplace harassment. She also handles Equal Employment Opportunity Commission charges and other administrative complaints through the administrative and judicial process.

LSBA Committee representative Barry H. Grodsky, will give an introduction and overview of the orientation before the students attend breakout sessions conducted by volunteer alumni members of the bar.

General orientation for first-year evening students will begin at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, August 13. Orientation will continue with skills sessions at 9 a.m. Friday, August 14, at the Law Center. Registration will be held 9 a.m.- noon and 1:30-6:30 p.m., Monday, August 17, in the Law Center atrium. Classes will begin on Tuesday, August 18.

For more information, contact the Office of Records and Enrollment Management, (225) 771-5340; 1-800-552-5106 (in state) or 1-800-537-1135 (out-of-state). The fall semester textbook list is available on the Law Center website, www.sulc.edu.

 

 

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