Professor
Trichard@sulc.edu
(225) 771-4900 ext. 211

Courses taught: Torts; Security Devices; Sports Law

Professor Thomas E. Richard joined the law faculty in 1992 as an instructor and became a full professor in 2003. He is frequently called upon as a continuing legal education lecturer on torts reform, sports law, and professionalism.

A former clerk for the Honorable Charles A. Marvin of the Second Circuit Court of Appeal from 1975-76, Richard was a general civil practitioner for 16 years in the areas of insurance defense, workers’ compensation litigation, successions, personal injury litigation, admiralty and maritime law, real estate and oil and gas title examination, oil and gas litigation, corporate litigation, and timber contract litigation.

Among his numerous professional affiliations, he is a Louisiana Bar Foundation fellow, a member of the Louisiana State Bar Association Professionalism and Quality of Life Committee, the Dean Henry George McMahon American Inn of Court, and the Sports Lawyers Association, and on the board of trustees for the Louisiana Mental Health Advocacy Services, and the American Bar Association Committee on Alternative

Dispute Resolution. Prof. Richard has served on the board of directors for the Lafayette Parish Bar Association, Acadiana Legal Services Corporation, and the Lafayette Volunteer Lawyers Project.

He earned a bachelor’s degree (1972) and the juris doctorate (1975) from Louisiana State University. In law school, Richard was a member of the Moot Court Board, an alternate finalist in the Tullis Moot Court Competition, on the dean’s list, and a member of the Board of Governors for the Student Bar Association.