Letters sent to two Lafayette hospitals on Wednesday are requesting the withdrawal of COVID vaccine mandates for staff and employees....

Fourth Judicial District Court Judge Sharon Marchman will face a hearing of the Judiciary Commission of Louisiana Nov. 22-24 over...

Now more than ever, Louisiana’s working coast needs the help of its citizens. For generations, the energy industry has served as the...

The recent decision issued by the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in favor of oil and gas defendants fighting unfounded coastal...

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has ruled that a lawsuit filed in state court by several Louisiana parishes and the State...

Lawsuits filed in state court by Plaquemines and Cameron parishes to force oil and gas companies to clean up millions of dollars of...

Chevron USA, Exxon Mobil Corp., and others will get another chance at moving lawsuits by Louisiana parishes seeking billions for coastal...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The question of whether lawsuits blaming big oil companies for loss of vulnerable Louisiana coastal wetlands will be...

NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA– United States Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that GENETTA ISREAL (“ISREAL”), age 53, of Houston, Texas, pled...

The Civil Justice Reform Act of 2020 has been called the most relevant package of legal reforms in Louisiana since the 1990s. People...

With the first jury trial in over 16 months set to take place on Tuesday, two Orleans Parish Criminal Court judges, along with all of...

Baton Rouge criminal court Judge Beau Higginbotham, who claims he was unlawfully passed over for a seat in civil court despite his...

Baton Rouge City Court candidate Carson Marcantel will stay in the race after a state judge Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit that sought to...

A Fifth District Court of Appeals panel has rekindled a New Orleans attorney’s federal lawsuit that challenges the mandatory dues policy...

Citing the far-reaching implications of Fieldwood Energy LLC's second bankruptcy in three years, a federal judge said Friday he wants to...

When children are victims in, say, a car wreck and are awarded substantial damages by the court, judges generally appoint someone to...

Shane Guidry, the Louisiana oilman and major GOP political donor, needed help. On a Saturday night in late January, Guidry’s adolescent...

Louisiana lawyers could soon be freed from mandatory membership in the State Bar Association, after a pair of federal court rulings that...

Should Bar Associations be Able to Use Mandatory Dues for Lobbying? What do volunteer dental hygienists, civics classes, and midwives...

What do volunteer dental hygienists, civics classes, and midwives have to do with the legal profession? It’s not a trick question. The...