Lessons From the Coroner

Kenneth Anthony (Civil, 1999) shares a story about seizing the moment.

I recently had what I can only describe as a surreal conversation with our local coroner. Surreal is the only word I can think of to approach the feeling I had while engaged in the telephone conversation with this elected official when the impact of what he had just said sunk in. < Read >

A Day in the Life of a Juror

Thomas J. Welk (Civil ,1995) writes about serving as a juror.

On November 29, 2001 I had the opportunity and the privilege to serve as a juror in a simple criminal case. As a lawyer, this experience made me much more sensitive to the experience of jurors. < Read >

NBTA Member Juggles American Practice with Life and Work in Greece John W. deGravelles (Civil , 1999) receives a Fulbrite scholarship to teach law school in Thessaloniki, Greece.

How can a full time practicing trial lawyer live and work in another county for five months and keep his litigation practice going? "That's what I agonized over," said John W. deGravelles, a partner in the Baton Rouge, Louisiana civil litigation firm of deGravelles, Palmintier, Holthaus and Fruge and a member certified by NBTA as a civil trial advocate since October of 1995. < Read >

Back to School

Mark A Dubois ( Civil, 1995) writes about becoming a law professor.

A great philosopher has said that an unexamined life is not worth living. Yet it's often hard (if not impossible) when we are involved in the day to day battles of a busy trial practice to step back and take a moment to look at the "why" as well as the "what" of our professional lives. < Read >

Oral, Public, Adversarial Trials

James H. Manahan writes about teaching in Chile for a semester.

I just returned from Valdivia, Chile, where I taught a semester of criminal law at the Austral (Southern) University Law School. Chile is changing its criminal justice system to be more like ours in the United States. < Read >