Admitted
1971, Louisiana and U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana; 1975, U.S. District Court, Middle District of Louisiana
Law School
Tulane University of Louisiana, J.D., 1971
Law School Graduation Year
1971
College
Williams College, B.A., cum laude, 1968
Memberships
New Orleans and Louisiana State (Member, Access to Justice Committee, 1997-1998) Bar Associations.
Biographical
Phi Beta Kappa; Order of the Coif; National and International Moot Court Teams. Member, Board of Editors, 1969-1971 and Assistant Editor, 1970-1971, Tulane Law Review. Author: Administrative Practice Under the 1974 Constitution: A 'Silver Anniversary' Review, 62 Louisiana Law Review 185 (2002); A New Day Dawning in Bulgaria, 72 Tulanian 38 (Fall, 2001); Public Law Center Diary: 'Back in the USSR', Loyola Today (Spring, 2000); A Moldovan Journal, 18 Tulane Lawyer 6 (Winter, 1999); The Ethics and Politics of Legislative Drafting, 70 Tulane Law Review 2437 (1996); Democracy on the Danube, 13 Tulane Lawyer 12 (Spring, 1993); The Law School in Fiction and Fact: Alternatives in Legal Education, 35 Loyola Law Review 565 (1989); Book Review, The Lawyer, The Public and The Professional Responsibility, 47 Tulane Law Review 929 (1973). Co-Author: Local Government: How it Works, How to Make it Work for You, (September 1994). Adjunct Faculty: Law and Social Work, Tulane University School of Social Work, 1971-1974; Legislative/Administrative Advocacy, Tulane Law School and Loyola Law School, 1988—. Executive Director, Louisiana Center for the Public Interest, 1974-1978. Executive Counsel to the Mayor, City of New Orleans, 1978-1980. General Counsel, Regional Transit Authority, 1980-1988. Executive Director, The Public Law Center, 1987-2002. Chair, Mayor's Charter Revision Advisory Committee, 1994-1995. Co-Chair, Transition for Mayor-Elect Ray Nagin, 2002.