🎉Huge congratulations to Collin R. Melancon, who was sworn in today as the 2025-26 YLD Chair!
🌟 Kristen D. Amond, we can’t thank you enough for your hard work and dedication as our 2024-25 YLD Chair!
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🎉 Congratulations, Edward J. Walters, Jr., on being sworn in today as the 2025–26 LSBA President!
👏Thank you so much, Patrick A. Talley, Jr., for your incredible hard work, dedication, and leadership throughout the past bar year as the 2024–25 LSBA President! #LSBA2025
Welcome to the profession, new Bar members! Newly admitted attorneys were sworn in on 10/16/23 at the Bar Admission Ceremony at the Pontchartrain Convention & Civic Center in Kenner, Louisiana. #yourLSBA
15 years celebrated! The LSBA’s YLD hosted a Wills for Heroes event in Lake Charles with SWLA Bar Association attorney volunteers. 56 wills and other estate planning documents were provided to first responders! Learn more at https://t.co/MHpJHKJdEC @LSBA_President
The LSBA was honored to receive the 2023 Harrison Tweed Award today at the ABA Annual Meeting in Denver, CO for the LSBA's creation of innovative Legal Help Access Points to significantly expand access to legal services in underserved areas of the state. @aba#yourlsba
Congratulations to all of the award recipients and honorees recognized during General Assembly at the 2023 LSBA Annual Meeting/Jont LJC/LSBA Summer School. #LSBA2023#yourLSBA
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Wrapping up the first meeting of the 2023-24 LSBA Young Lawyers Division Council and looking forward to a dynamic bar year! Follow #yourLSBA to see more
from this amazing team of Young
Lawyers! #LSBA2023
We look forward to working with our 2023-24 LSBA Board of Governors! Follow #yourLSBA to see all the amazing things they're bringing to the new bar year! 🎉 #LSBA2023
As the 2022-23 bar year comes to a close, we thank Stephen I. Dwyer and congratulate him on a job well done! We now welcome Shayna L. Sonnier as our 2023-24 LSBA President and look forward to everything she brings to the LSBA in the new year! #LSBA2023#YourLSBA
Through charitable projects that give back to our communities, like the Secret Santa Project, attorneys can fulfill the Code of Professionalism’s direction that we should “work to protect and improve the image of the legal profession in the eyes of the public.” #yourLSBA#Santa
Gov. John Bel Edwards has signed a proclamation declaring October 24-29, 2022, as “Pro Bono Week,” honoring the work of Louisiana’s pro bono community! The pro bono community’s tireless efforts and dedication make access to justice a reality for all. Thank you. #yourLSBA
Kicking off the 62nd Bi-Annual “Bridging the Gap” seminar! The CLE aims to acquaint recent law school graduates with many of the practical aspects of a law practice, discussing useful information that hopefully will serve new lawyers well throughout their legal careers. #yourLSBA
Congratulations to the approximately 305 newly admitted attorneys sworn in at today’s Bar Admission Ceremony!! LSBA President Stephen Dwyer and YLD Chair Dani Borel presented welcome remarks on behalf of the Bar Association. Welcome to the profession, new Bar members! #yourLSBA
The LSBA held its annual Memorial Exercises to honor deceased members of the Bench and Bar on Monday at the Louisiana Supreme Court. There was a poignant special eulogy for retired Justice Jack C. Watson, who served from 1979-1995, presented by his son Wells Watson. #yourLSBA
Finalizing the 2022-2023 LSBA Committee appointments today! Thank you to all the LSBA members who have signed up to serve the legal community through committee membership, you'll be making a significant contribution to our profession and the community. #yourLSBA
The latest issue of “Bar Briefs” is available online! Topics include a wrap up of the June House of Delegates Meeting, LASC updates, sections focusing on Access to Justice and Diversity, and more! Read the full issue at: https://t.co/wqYwvfpEU0.
The June/July issue of the Louisiana Bar Journal is available online! Featured articles include a one-on-one with Stephen I. Dwyer, 82nd LSBA President: “On ‘Attempting the Summit,’ Literally and Figuratively.” https://t.co/SuBj3Vk2Ft
Congratulations to Stephen I. Dwyer, sworn in as the 82nd president of the Louisiana State Bar Association! And congratulations to the newly inducted members of the 2022-2023 LSBA Board of Governors! #LSBA2022#yourLSBA