Clyde C. Tidwell Endowed Professor of Law
Trichard@sulc.edu
(225) 771 – 4900 ext. 223

Courses taught: Torts, Sports Law, Louisiana Mineral Rights, and Civil Procedure

Education:   B.A.1972, Louisiana State University
                    J.D. 1975, LSU Paul M. Hebert Law Center; Moot Court Board, Alternate
                    Finalist Tullis Moot Court Competition, Board of Governors Student Bar Association

A former law clerk for the Honorable Charles A. Marvin of the Louisiana Second Circuit Court of Appeal, Professor Thomas E. Richard practiced law for sixteen years prior to joining the Law Center faculty in 1992. He has participated as a speaker or panelist at numerous continuing legal education seminars on torts, sports law, and professionalism.

Professor Richard is a co-author of Tort Law: The American and Louisiana Perspectives, Vandeplas Publishing, 2008, which has been supplemented annually. His writings on tort law and professionalism appear in the Southern University Law Review and the Louisiana Institute on Mineral Law, and he contributed an article to the Encyclopedia of American Civil Liberties, New York: Routledge, 2006.

In addition to having served as a member of various committees and boards of the Louisiana, American, and local bar associations, Professor Richard is a member of the Louisiana State Law Institute, a fellow of the Louisiana Bar Foundation, a former officer of the Dean Henry George McMahon American Inn of Court, a member of the Sports Lawyers Association, and the Louisiana Chapter of Association Henri Capitant.