Gordon James was honored as the 2002 Distinguished Attorney award winner by the Louisiana Bar Foundation at its annual gala in New Orleans on April 22, 2022. Pictured alongside Gordon are the other awards recipients, Distinguished Professor Dian Tooley-Knoblett of Loyola College of Law, the Calogero Justice Award winner, East Baton Rouge Parish District Attorney Hillar C. Moore, III, and Distinguished Jurist, the Honorable Carl Barbier of the Louisiana Eastern District Court.
Louisiana runs three separate adoption procedures for three different situations: intrafamily adoption for relatives with custody, stepparent adoption within that same framework, and adult adoption under an entirely different Civil Code track.
Louisiana requires most malpractice claims to go through a medical review panel before a lawsuit can be filed. Here is how the panel process works, how it protects your deadline to sue, and what the damages cap does and does not cover.
Louisiana pays four distinct categories of workers' compensation wage benefits, each with its own duration rules. Here is how TTD, PTD, SEB, and PPD actually work, and how long each one can last under La. R.S. 23:1221.
