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Associate Vice Chancellor
for Student Affairs
Professor of Law
rwhite@sulc.edu
(225) 771-3811
Courses taught:
Contracts; Corporations; Equity; Professional
Responsibility; Conflict of Laws
Professor White joined the law
faculty in 1993 and was named associate vice
chancellor for student affairs in 2003. He has
extensive legal experience in labor law as
supervisor of labor relations for General Motors
Cadillac Motor Car Company in Detroit, Michigan. He
held several positions of increasing responsibility,
including assignment to the GM Corporate National
Labor Relations staff. After leaving GM, Professor
White worked at Dykema Gossett, one of Michigan’s
largest law firms, which is responsible for much of
GM’s outside litigation.
He is a member of the Governing
Council of the Louisiana State Law Institute,
Michigan Bar Association, American Bar Association,
the Baton Rouge Citizens Advisory Council, the
National Honor Society of Business Scholars, and the
National Honor Society of Secondary Schools. He is
also the pastor and founder of Jesus Christ is Lord
Ministries.
Professor White attended Southern
University Laboratory School, where he graduated
magna cum laude and accepted an academic
scholarship to Southern University A&M College.
Professor White went on to graduate from Southern
University magna cum laude and first of 330
graduates, with a Bachelor of Science degree in
business management. He earned his master of
business administration degree, as a graduate of
high distinction, from Wayne State University and
his juris doctor degree cum laude from
Wayne State University Law School in Detroit,
Michigan.
An article White wrote for the
SULC Law Review, The Typical Cost
Reimbursement Lawyer Employment Contract: A Conflict
of Interest in General, A Prohibited Transaction
Specifically and How to Protect the Rights of
Clients, 30 S.U. L. Rev. 33 (2002), has been
cited by American Jurisprudence in the legal
encyclopedias Trials and Proof of Facts, as follows:
1 Am. Jur. Trials Interviewing the Client §
1; 1 Am. Jur. Trials Setting the Fee § 93;
31 Am. Jur. Trials Defending Lawyers in
Disciplinary Proceedings § 633; 46 Am. Jur.
Proof of Facts 2d Reasonableness of Contingent
Fee in Personal Injury Action § 1; 69 Am. Jur.
Trials Ethics in Adversarial Practice §
411.
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