Associate Professor of Legal Analysis & Writing

lfowler@sulc.edu
(225) 771-4900 ext. 269

Courses taught : Legal Analysis & Writing I, Legal Analysis & Writing II, Advanced Legal Analysis & Writing, Legal Research

Linda C. Fowler received her Juris Doctor from the LSU Paul M. Hebert Law Center in 1985 where she was a member of the Moot Court Board and was a Robert Lee Tullis Moot Court Competition semifinalist. Fowler served as a law clerk to Judge John V. Parker of the United States District Court, Middle District of Louisiana, 1985-1986. She then was an assistant attorney general for four years, prosecuting recusal cases throughout Louisiana with a focus on public integrity, forgery, and vehicular homicide. After she left the Louisiana Department of Justice, Fowler practiced law for six years in the areas of family and juvenile law, personal injury, insurance defense, and administrative law. Later, Fowler taught legal research and writing for over eight years at the LSU Law Center as an Assistant Professor of Professional Practice. While at LSU, Fowler was also Director of the Appellate Advocacy Program for four years.

Fowler joined the faculty at SULC in 2004 and is a member of the Legal Writing Institute and a delegate to the Association of Legal Writing Directors.  Her publications include:

   Cell-Shocked:  Bystander Damages for Viewing An Event Electronically, 58 La. B.J. 242 (2011).

Keeping It Real:  Developing a Culturally and Personally Relevant Legal Writing Curriculum, 10 J. Gender, Race & Just. 67 (2006).

Spoliation:  Tort Liability for Missing Evidence, 53 La. B.J. 427 (2006).

My Best Advanced Legal Writing Class:  “So It’s Like We’re Really Lawyers?” 20 Second Draft 14 (2005).

She has made the following presentations:

Howard University School of Law, Washington, D. C., May, 2008, From Grammar School to Graduate and Law School:  Building to Bridge the Achievement Gap.  Presented: Keeping It Real: Developing a Culturally and Personally Relevant Legal Writing Curriculum.                              

Las Vegas, Nevada, March 2007, Rocky Mountain Regional Legal Writing Conference.  Presented:  Keeping It Real: Developing a Culturally and Personally Relevant Legal Writing Curriculum.

Atlanta, Georgia, June 2006, Legal Writing Institute Biennial Conference.  Presented:  Keeping It Real:  Developing a Culturally and Personally Relevant Legal Writing Curriculum.

Presented “Five Fundamental Questions:  The Who, What, Where, When, and How Much Models for Teaching Legal Research Print Sources” at the Great Lakes Legal Writing Consortium at the University of Dayton Law Center, Dayton, Ohio, May 20, 2005.