Tulane University Law School is the law school

Law school

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 of Tulane University

Tulane University

Tulane University is a private, nonsectarian research university located in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States...

. It is located on Tulane's Uptown

Uptown New Orleans

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 campus in New Orleans, Louisiana

New Orleans, Louisiana

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. Established in 1847, it is the 12th oldest law school in the United States

United States

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.

The law school curriculum offers a complete selection of common law and federal subjects. In addition, Tulane offers electives in the civil law

Civil law (legal system)

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, giving students the opportunity to pursue comparative education of the world's two major legal systems (Louisiana

Louisiana

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 is the only U.S. state

U.S. state

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 to have a civil law, rather than common law, system). Students are permitted to survey a broad range of subject areas or to concentrate in one or more.

Specifically, Tulane Law School's environmental law

Environmental law

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 and sports law

Sports law

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 programs are considered among the strongest nationwide, and its maritime law

Admiralty law

Admiralty law is a distinct body of law which governs maritime questions and offenses. It is a body of both domestic law governing maritime activities, and private international law governing the relationships between private entities which operate vessels on the oceans...

 program is among the best regarded in the world. For more than 20 years, the school has hosted the Tulane Corporate Law Institute

Tulane Corporate Law Institute

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, a preeminent mergers and acquisitions

Mergers and acquisitions

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 (M&A) and corporate law

Corporate law

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 forum.

Campus

The law school's 160000 square feet (14,864.5 m²) building, John Giffen Weinmann Hall, was completed in 1995. Designed to integrate classrooms, a student lounge, a computer lab, faculty offices, and a law library

Law library

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 that contains both national and international collections, the building is centrally located on Tulane’s Uptown

Uptown New Orleans

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 campus. The law school has been on the Uptown campus since 1906, and has been housed in several buildings since then, until the completion of Weinmann Hall. The law school was located in Jones Hall from 1969 until 1995, where scenes for The Pelican Brief

The Pelican Brief (film)

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were filmed.

Next to Weinmann Hall on the 6200 block of Freret Street is the Law Annex, a light gray cobblestone

Cobblestone

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 building that houses the Career Development Office (CDO). The Law Annex was a faculty residence before being converted for its current use. Nearby is the Howard-Tilton Memorial Library, Tulane's main library; the Lavin-Bernick Center, which houses university dining facilities and the university bookstore; the Reily Student Recreation Center (a gym with indoor and outdoor swimming pools, and basketball, squash, and tennis courts); the Freeman School of Business

Freeman School of Business

The Freeman School of Business, at Tulane University, is located in New Orleans, LA. The school offers undergraduate programs, a full-time MBA program and other master's programs, doctoral programs, and many executive-education programs, and consistently ranks among the top business schools...

; the Newcomb Art Gallery; and various other buildings.

The Uptown campus is marked by many large live oak

Live oak

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 trees and historically significant buildings. Architectural style

Architectural style

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s include Richardsonian Romanesque

Richardsonian Romanesque

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, Elizabethan

Elizabethan architecture

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, Renaissance

Renaissance architecture

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, Brutalist, and Modern architecture

Modern architecture

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. The front-of-campus buildings use white Indiana Limestone

Indiana Limestone

Indiana Limestone, also known as Bedford Limestone is a common regional term for Salem limestone, a geological formation primarily quarried in south central Indiana between Bloomington and Bedford....

 or orange brick for exteriors, while the middle-of-campus buildings are mostly adorned in red St. Joe brick. In all, Tulane's Uptown campus occupies more than 110 acre

Acre

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s (0.4 km²), facing St. Charles Avenue

St. Charles Avenue

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 directly opposite Audubon Park, which features the Audubon Zoo

Audubon Zoo

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, and a 1.8 miles (2.9 km) pedestrian trail around a public golf course. The campus is also a short bicycle ride from the Mississippi River

Mississippi River

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 and a 25+ mile bicycling/jogging trail that runs along it. The St. Charles Avenue Streetcar Line

Streetcars in New Orleans

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 makes the campus accessible via public transit. Loyola University

Loyola University New Orleans

Loyola University New Orleans is a private, co-educational and Jesuit university located in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. Originally established as Loyola College in 1904, the institution was chartered as a university in 1912. It bears the name of the Jesuit patron, Saint Ignatius of Loyola...

 is directly adjacent to Tulane, on the downriver side.

Planned improvements

In late November 2008, the university announced a donor-funded project to eliminate the street (McAlister Drive) between the law school and the cafeteria/bookstore, to transform the center of campus "into a vibrant, pedestrian environment." The street has been replaced with a landscaped pedestrian walkway . The project was completed in January 2010. Coincidentally, in late November 2008 the City of New Orleans announced plans to add bicycle lanes to the St. Charles Avenue corridor that runs in front of Gibson Hall

Gibson Hall

Gibson Hall is a building at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. It sits across from Audubon Park.-History:Constructed in 1894, Gibson Hall is the oldest structure on the present Tulane University campus. It faces on to St. Charles Avenue and is the entry landmark to the...

. That work started in August 2009 and should be completed in 2010.

Academic program

The 2012 U.S. News & World Report

U.S. News & World Report

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law-school rankings placed Tulane Law as 47th in the nation overall and 8th in environmental law

Environmental law

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. In terms of academic reputation, the 2012 U.S. News rankings put Tulane at 38th. "The Law School 100" ranks Tulane as 34th, relying on a qualitative (rather than quantitative) assessment. The Hylton law-school rankings, conducted in 2006, put Tulane at 39th. The 2010 Leiter law-school rankings put Tulane at 38th, based on student quality, using LSAT and GPA data. The global financial crisis of 2007-2009 reportedly led to an increase in student selectivity for the class of 2012, as applications to law schools across the nation were estimated to have risen by 5% between 2008 and 2009, including a 15% increase at Tulane Law alone.

To complete the Juris Doctor

Juris Doctor

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 (J.D.) degree

Academic degree

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 program, a student must finish six semesters in residence, 88 credit hours, an upper-level writing requirement, and a 30-hour community-service obligation. The first-year curriculum comprises eight required courses. The first-year legal-research-and-writing program is taught by instructors with significant experience as lawyers and writers, each assisted by senior fellows.

After the first year, all courses are electives, except for a required legal-profession course. All first-year and many upper-class courses are taught in multiple sections to allow for smaller classes. The upper-class curriculum includes introductory as well as advanced courses in a broad range of subject areas, including international

International law

Public international law concerns the structure and conduct of sovereign states; analogous entities, such as the Holy See; and intergovernmental organizations. To a lesser degree, international law also may affect multinational corporations and individuals, an impact increasingly evolving beyond...

 and comparative law

Comparative law

Comparative law is the study of differences and similarities between the law of different countries. More specifically, it involves study of the different legal systems in existence in the world, including the common law, the civil law, socialist law, Islamic law, Hindu law, and Chinese law...

, business law, corporate law, environmental law, maritime law, criminal law

Criminal law

Criminal law, is the body of law that relates to crime. It might be defined as the body of rules that defines conduct that is not allowed because it is held to threaten, harm or endanger the safety and welfare of people, and that sets out the punishment to be imposed on people who do not obey...

, intellectual property

Intellectual property

Intellectual property is a term referring to a number of distinct types of creations of the mind for which a set of exclusive rights are recognized—and the corresponding fields of law...

, taxation, litigation, and civil procedure

Civil procedure

Civil procedure is the body of law that sets out the rules and standards that courts follow when adjudicating civil lawsuits...

, among others.

Tulane Law offers six optional concentration programs

Academic major

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 for J.D. students who wish to receive one certificate of completion in an area. The six are European legal studies, environmental law, international and comparative law, maritime law, sports law, or civil law.

Tulane’s Eason Weinmann Center for Comparative Law, its Maritime Law Center, and its Institute on Water Policy & Law, promote scholarship in comparative, maritime, and environmental law.

Tulane conducts an annual summer school in New Orleans and offers summer-study programs abroad. Tulane also offers semester-long exchange programs with select law schools in a number of countries throughout the world.

In addition to the J.D., the school offers two graduate degrees in law: The Master of Laws

Master of Laws

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 (LL.M.) the Doctor of Laws (S.J.D.) program. The five specialized LL.M. programs are in: maritime law, energy and environmental law, American business law, American law, and international and comparative law. LL.M. students may also pursue a general LL.M., which does not concentrate in any one area.

The law school offers six live-client clinical programs

Legal clinic

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, in the areas of: civil litigation, criminal defense, juvenile litigation, legislative and administrative advocacy, domestic violence

Domestic violence

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 (the Tulane Law School Domestic Violence Clinic

Tulane Law School Domestic Violence Clinic

The Tulane Domestic Violence Clinic is a United States clinical legal-education program with an established record of providing holistic services to survivors of domestic violence and filling important gaps in the existing legal services in the Orleans and Jefferson parishes of New Orleans...

), and environmental law

Environmental law

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 (the Tulane Environmental Law Clinic

Tulane Environmental Law Clinic

The Tulane Environmental Law Clinic is a legal clinic that Tulane Law School has operated since 1989 to offer law students the practical experience of representing real clients in actual legal proceedings under state and federal environmental laws....

). In addition, there is a trial-advocacy program, and third-year students may engage in externship

Externship

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s with federal and state judges, with a local death-penalty project, or with certain administrative agencies. The judicial externships are possible because of Tulane's close proximity to the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, and the Louisiana Supreme Court

Louisiana Supreme Court

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, all of which are in New Orleans. The school was the first in the country to institute a pro bono

Pro bono

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 program requiring that each student complete legally related community service prior to graduation.

Every summer, BarBri

BarBri

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, a national bar exam-preparation company, offers New York Bar Exam

New York State Bar Association

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 and Louisiana Bar Exam

Louisiana Bar Exam

The Louisiana Bar Exam is a three day long examination used to determine whether a candidate is qualified to practice law in the state of Louisiana. The Louisiana exam holds the distinction of being the longest bar exam in the United States, consisting of 21 and a half hours of examination on nine...

 preparation courses at the Tulane Law School. Additionally, a California Bar Exam preparation course is offered when demand warrants it, as it did in 2010.

Strategic plan

In May 2007, Tulane Law announced a Strategic Plan to improve its academic mission. Most notably, the school decided to increase student selectivity by gradually reducing the incoming JD class size from a historical average of 350 students per year to a target of 250 students per year, over a period of several years.

Summer study abroad

Tulane Law School was one of the first five schools in the United States to offer a foreign summer law program. As of 2008, over 4,000 law students from approximately 140 U.S. law schools attended Tulane Law's summer abroad programs, taught by faculty from Tulane, other U.S. law schools, and universities abroad. Through the years, prominent scholars and federal judges

United States federal judge

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 have highlighted Tulane's summer faculty, including Supreme Court

Supreme Court of the United States

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 justices Harry Blackmun

Harry Blackmun

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, Stephen Breyer

Stephen Breyer

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, Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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, Antonin Scalia

Antonin Scalia

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, and William Rehnquist

William Rehnquist

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. In the past, the law school's summer programs have taken place in Amsterdam

Amsterdam

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 in the Netherlands

Netherlands

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; Berlin

Berlin

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 in Germany

Germany

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; Cambridge

Cambridge

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 and London

London

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 in England

England

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; Paris

Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

 and Grenoble

Grenoble

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 in France

France

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; Rhodes

Rhodes

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 and Spetses

Spetses

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 in Greece

Greece

Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....

; and Siena

Siena

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 in Italy

Italy

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.

JD/MBA program

Tulane benefits from having a top law school and a top business school located immediately next to one another, both of which consistently rank among the top 50 in the nation, according to the U.S. News & World Report

U.S. News & World Report

U.S. News & World Report is an American news magazine published from Washington, D.C. Along with Time and Newsweek it was for many years a leading news weekly, focusing more than its counterparts on political, economic, health and education stories...

and the Financial Times

Financial Times

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 (the Finance

Finance

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 department in particular has been ranked among the top 10 in the world on several occasions). This close proximity has facilitated the growth of Tulane's JD/MBA program. In the '06-'07 school year, Tulane boasted of having 25 joint JD/MBA candidates. In March 2007, Tulane announced that it had hired a new business law professor, whose objectives would include "maximiz[ing]...the growth of the Law School's JD/MBA joint degree," and strengthening ties between the law school and Freeman School of Business

Freeman School of Business

The Freeman School of Business, at Tulane University, is located in New Orleans, LA. The school offers undergraduate programs, a full-time MBA program and other master's programs, doctoral programs, and many executive-education programs, and consistently ranks among the top business schools...

. In January 2008, the Tulane JD/MBA Club held a networking event in New York City

New York City

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 with the creator of jdmba.com, an interschool JD/MBA networking website.

Recent JD/MBA graduates have gone on to work for law firms, management consulting

Management consulting

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 firms, investment banks, and in-house legal departments in New York, Houston, New Orleans, Los Angeles, and other cities. The program does not require highly qualified applicants to have significant full-time work experience.

In March 2009, the University announced the designation of a $1.5 million donation to support in perpetuity a JD/MBA professor of national stature at Tulane.

Career prospects

In 2005, Tulane reported to U.S. News & World Report that the median starting salary for its class of 2005 was $135,000. In 2007, the Wall Street Journal reported that the 2005 figure had been based on a student survey that only 24% of the class of 2005 had submitted. In 2007, Tulane reported on its website that the average starting salary for graduates in private practice was $96,356.

Student activities

Student organizations sponsor educational programs and social events throughout the academic year. The law school also periodically hosts social events with the Tulane University School of Medicine

Tulane University School of Medicine

The Tulane University School of Medicine is located in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA and is a part of Tulane University. The school is located in the Medical District of the New Orleans Central Business District.-History:...

 and the Freeman School of Business

Freeman School of Business

The Freeman School of Business, at Tulane University, is located in New Orleans, LA. The school offers undergraduate programs, a full-time MBA program and other master's programs, doctoral programs, and many executive-education programs, and consistently ranks among the top business schools...

.

An active moot court

Moot court

A moot court is an extracurricular activity at many law schools in which participants take part in simulated court proceedings, usually to include drafting briefs and participating in oral argument. The term derives from Anglo Saxon times, when a moot was a gathering of prominent men in a...

 program holds trial and appellate competitions within the school and fields teams for a variety of interschool competitions. The Law School has a chapter of the Order of the Coif

Order of the Coif

The Order of the Coif is an honor society for United States law school graduates. A student at an American law school who earns a Juris Doctor degree and graduates in the top 10 percent of his or her class is eligible for membership if the student's law school has a chapter of the...

. The Student Bar Association

Student Bar Association

Student bar associations are student organizations that exist at many laws schools in the United States. Student bar associations take their name from bar associations, which are professional bodies of lawyers....

 functions as the student government and recommends students for appointment to faculty committees. Over 40 student organizations are active at Tulane, including Tulane Law Women, Black Law Students Association, La Alianza, Asian Pacific American Law Students Association, Environmental Law Society, and several legal fraternities. The Tulane Public Interest Law Foundation raises funds, matched by the Law School, to support as many as 30 students each summer in public interest

Public interest

The public interest refers to the "common well-being" or "general welfare." The public interest is central to policy debates, politics, democracy and the nature of government itself...

 fellowships with a variety of organizations.

Journals published or edited at Tulane Law School include:

• Tulane Law Review
  Tulane Law Review
  The Tulane Law Review, a publication of the Tulane University Law School, was founded in 1916, and is currently published six times annually. The Law Review has an international circulation and is one of few American law reviews carried by law libraries in the United Kingdom.-History:The Law Review...
  
  
• Tulane Environmental Law Journal
  Tulane Environmental Law Journal
  The Tulane Environmental Law Journal is a legal periodical produced and edited by students at the Tulane University Law School. The journal has been recognized as among the top-fifteen environmental law journals. Articles are written by professors, practitioners, and Tulane Law students. It was...
  
  
• Tulane Maritime Law Journal
  Tulane Maritime Law Journal
  The Tulane Maritime Law Journal is the preeminent student-edited law journal in the field of Admiralty and Maritime Law. Published semi-annually, each issue of the Journal includes scholarly works written by academics, practitioners, and students concerning current topics in Admiralty and Maritime...
  
  
• Journal of Law and Sexuality
• Tulane European and Civil Law Forum
  Tulane European and Civil Law Forum
  The Tulane European & Civil Law is a predominantly faculty-run law journal published out of the Tulane University Law School. The Journal's Board of Contributing Editors is made up of 51 scholars from ten European countries and the United States....
  
  (faculty run)
• Tulane Journal of International and Comparative Law
  Tulane Journal of International and Comparative Law
  The Tulane Journal of International and Comparative Law was founded at Tulane University Law School, in New Orleans, Louisiana, as an outgrowth of that institution's historical tradition as a signpost in the academic world for international and comparative law...
  
  
• Tulane Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property
  Tulane Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property
  The Tulane Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property is a student-edited journal of the Tulane University Law School. JTIP examines legal issues relating to technology, including topics such as patents, copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, antitrust, information privacy, computer law,...
  
  
• Sports Lawyers Journal
  Sports Lawyers Journal
  The Sports Lawyers Journal is a law journal edited by Tulane University Law School students and published by the Sports Lawyers Association . The Journal is annually distributed to over 1000 lawyers, professors, law students, and other readers...
  
  , edited by Tulane Law students, published and funded by the national Sports Lawyers Association
• Civil Law Commentaries
  Civil Law Commentaries
  Civil Law Commentaries is an open access publication of the at the Tulane University Law School. It is published online annually and a student-edited publication dedicated to the study of the Louisiana Civil Code and the state's long civilian tradition....
  
  , a publication of the Eason-Weinman Center for Comparative Law

Current

• Michael R. Fontham
  Michael R. Fontham
  Michael R. Fontham is a leading legal author, a law professor, and a practicing attorney and partner at Stone Pigman. He is the author of Trial Technique and Evidence, which is used to teach law students and as a reference guide for litigators. He is also the lead author of Persuasive Written and...
  
   - author of Trial Technique and Evidence, a leading Evidence
  Evidence (law)
  The law of evidence encompasses the rules and legal principles that govern the proof of facts in a legal proceeding. These rules determine what evidence can be considered by the trier of fact in reaching its decision and, sometimes, the weight that may be given to that evidence...
  
   book used by law students and practicing attorneys
• James Gordley - joined Tulane in 2007 after 29 years at Boalt Hall, where he won the UC Berkeley Distinguished Teaching Award
• Oliver Houck - leading environmental law expert, previously served as the General Counsel and Vice-President of the National Wildlife Federation
  National Wildlife Federation
  The National Wildlife Federation is the United States' largest private, nonprofit conservation education and advocacy organization, with over four million members and supporters, and 48 state and territorial affiliated organizations...
  
  
• Edward F. Sherman
  Edward F. Sherman
  Edward F. Sherman served as the 20th dean and is currently the W.R. Irby Chair in Law at the Tulane University Law School. He teaches Civil Procedure and Alternative Dispute Resolution. He was previously the Professor of Law at Tulane...
  
   - served as the 20th dean, from 1996 to 2001; helped Vietnam
  Vietnam
  Vietnam – sometimes spelled Viet Nam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam – is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea –...
  
   write its code of civil procedure
  Civil procedure
  Civil procedure is the body of law that sets out the rules and standards that courts follow when adjudicating civil lawsuits...
  
  

Former

• David Bonderman
  David Bonderman
  David Bonderman is a founding partner of TPG Capital and its Asian affiliate, Newbridge Capital...
  
  , a founder of TPG Capital, one of the largest private equity
  Private equity
  Private equity, in finance, is an asset class consisting of equity securities in operating companies that are not publicly traded on a stock exchange....
  
   investment firms globally
• Charles E. Dunbar
  Charles E. Dunbar
  Charles Edward Dunbar, Jr. , was an attorney who developed the modern civil service system in the U.S. state of Louisiana. He was the first chairman of the Louisiana State Civil Service Commission, having served from 1940-1947.Dunbar was born in McComb, Mississippi, to Charles Dunbar, Sr., and the...
  
  , civil service
  Civil service
  The term civil service has two distinct meanings:* A branch of governmental service in which individuals are employed on the basis of professional merit as proven by competitive examinations....
  
   reformer and Tulane Law School professor from 1916-1941
• James B. Eustis
  James B. Eustis
  James Biddle Eustis was a United States Senator from Louisiana.-Biography:Born in New Orleans, he was the son of George Eustis and Clarice Allain. His father was a lawyer who served as a Chief Justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court...
  
  , U.S. Senator from 1876–1879
• John R. Kramer
  John R. Kramer
  John R. Kramer served as the 19th dean of the Tulane University Law School from 1986 to 1996, and previous to that was an associate dean at Georgetown University...
  
  , served as the 19th dean, from 1986 to 1996; counsel to U.S. Rep. Adam Clayton Powell Jr. (D- N.Y.)
• Cecil Morgan
  Cecil Morgan
  Cecil Morgan, Sr. was a leader of the legislative forces that in 1929 attempted to impeach Louisiana Governor Huey Pierce Long, Jr...
  
  , New York City executive of Standard Oil
  Standard Oil
  Standard Oil was a predominant American integrated oil producing, transporting, refining, and marketing company. Established in 1870 as a corporation in Ohio, it was the largest oil refiner in the world and operated as a major company trust and was one of the world's first and largest multinational...
  
  ; served as dean from 1963–1968
• Lawrence Ponoroff
  Lawrence Ponoroff
  Lawrence Ponoroff is the current dean of the James E. Rogers College of Law at the University of Arizona. He was previously the 21st dean of Tulane Law School from 2001–2009, taking the reins from Edward F. Sherman after having taught at Tulane Law for six years...
  
   - former professor and dean (was 21st dean from 2001 to 2009); appointed by the Chief Justice to the Advisory Committee on Bankruptcy
  Bankruptcy
  Bankruptcy is a legal status of an insolvent person or an organisation, that is, one that cannot repay the debts owed to creditors. In most jurisdictions bankruptcy is imposed by a court order, often initiated by the debtor....
  
   Rules to the United States
• Ferdinand Stone
  Ferdinand Stone
  Professor Ferdinand Fairfax Stone was a longtime law professor at the Tulane University School of Law in New Orleans and an expert in comparative law. A native of Urbana, Ohio, he graduated from Ohio State University, where he obtained both a bachelor's and master's degree before attending Oxford...
  
   - former professor of civil law
• Jonathan Turley
  Jonathan Turley
  Jonathan Turley is an American lawyer, legal scholar, writer, commentator, and legal analyst in broadcast and print journalism...
  
  , second most-cited law professor in the United States
• U.S. Supreme Court Justices: Harry Blackmun
  Harry Blackmun
  Harold Andrew Blackmun was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1970 until 1994. He is best known as the author of Roe v. Wade.- Early years and professional career :...
  
  , Stephen Breyer
  Stephen Breyer
  Stephen Gerald Breyer is an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. Appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1994, and known for his pragmatic approach to constitutional law, Breyer is generally associated with the more liberal side of the Court....
  
  , Ruth Ginsburg, Antonin Scalia
  Antonin Scalia
  Antonin Gregory Scalia is an American jurist who serves as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. As the longest-serving justice on the Court, Scalia is the Senior Associate Justice...
  
  , and Chief Justice William Rehnquist
  William Rehnquist
  William Hubbs Rehnquist was an American lawyer, jurist, and political figure who served as an Associate Justice on the Supreme Court of the United States and later as the 16th Chief Justice of the United States...
  
   during Tulane Law Summer Study abroad.
• Manuel Rodríguez Ramos
  Manuel Rodríguez Ramos
  -Early life and education:He born on January 1, 1908 in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico. His father died when he was barely a year old. In 1930 he became the third president of Phi Sigma Alpha fraternity. In 1931 he and y Manuel García Cabrera with the help of the UPR Law School Dean Rafael Martínez...
  
  , writer, Dean Emeritus of University of Puerto Rico School of Law and Secretary of Justice of Puerto Rico.

Notable alumni

Business

• John Koerner III, JD/MBA-1970, former President and Co-Owner of Barq's Root Beer Inc.
• Jay Lapeyre, JD/MBA-1977, President of Laitram Corp.
• Madeleine Johnson, JD-1984, General Counsel
  General Counsel
  A general counsel is the chief lawyer of a legal department, usually in a corporation or government department. The term is most used in the United States...
  
   of Southwest Airlines Co.
• Marc Firestone, JD-1985, General Counsel of Kraft Foods Inc.
• Peter Schloss
  Peter Schloss
  Peter Schloss, is one of the pioneers of satellite television in Asia and award winning corporate lawyer and interactive media executive in China. A founding member of the senior management team of Star TV, he specializes in cross-border media and internet financing and legal/regulatory issues...
  
  , JD-1985, CEO
  Chief executive officer
  A chief executive officer , managing director , Executive Director for non-profit organizations, or chief executive is the highest-ranking corporate officer or administrator in charge of total management of an organization...
  
   of Broadwebasia
• Wayne Gardner, JD-1986, Senior Tax Counsel, ExxonMobil
  ExxonMobil
  Exxon Mobil Corporation or ExxonMobil, is an American multinational oil and gas corporation. It is a direct descendant of John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil company, and was formed on November 30, 1999, by the merger of Exxon and Mobil. Its headquarters are in Irving, Texas...
  
  
• Michael Barton, JD-1992, MBA (Freeman School)-1985, KPMG
  KPMG
  KPMG is one of the largest professional services networks in the world and one of the Big Four auditors, along with Deloitte, Ernst & Young and PwC. Its global headquarters is located in Amstelveen, Netherlands....
  
   partner (San Francisco), former Louisiana Supreme Court
  Louisiana Supreme Court
  The Supreme Court of Louisiana is the highest court and court of last resort in the U.S. state of Louisiana. The modern Supreme Court, composed of seven justices, meets in the French Quarter of New Orleans....
  
   clerk
• Rod West, JD-1993, MBA (Freeman School)-2005, President & CEO of Entergy
  Entergy
  Entergy Corporation is an integrated energy company engaged primarily in electric power production and retail distribution operations. It is headquartered in the Central Business District of New Orleans, Louisiana.-History:...
  
  
• Ford F. Graham, JD/MBA, Vice-Chairman and President, Miller Petroleum, Inc., and Managing Partner of Vulcan Partners
• John Misso, JD/MBA, Senior Tax Counsel, Shell Oil Co., Houston
• Mike Tannenbaum
  Mike Tannenbaum
  Mike Tannenbaum is a professional American football executive, currently serving as the general manager for the New York Jets of the National Football League.-Cleveland Browns:...
  
  , JD-1995, 37-year-old General Manager of the New York Jets
  New York Jets
  The New York Jets are a professional football team headquartered in Florham Park, New Jersey, representing the New York metropolitan area. The team is a member of the Eastern Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League...
  
  , graduated with Tulane's Sports Law
  Sports law
  Sports law is an umbrella term used to describe the legal issues at work in the world of both amateur and professional sports. Sports law overlaps substantially with labor law, contract law, competition or antitrust law, and tort law. Issues like defamation and privacy rights are also an integral...
  
   certificate
• Paul Friedman, JD/MBA-1996, Senior Vice President at Sony Pictures Entertainment
  Sony Pictures Entertainment
  Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc. is the television and film production/distribution unit of Japanese multinational technology and media conglomerate Sony...
  
  

Government

Governors

• Newton C. Blanchard
  Newton C. Blanchard
  Newton Crain Blanchard was a United States Representative, Senator, and the 33rd Governor of Louisiana. Born in Rapides Parish, he completed academic studies, studied law in Alexandria, Louisiana in 1868, and graduated from the Tulane University Law School in 1870...
  
  , 1870, Governor of Louisiana (D)
• Murphy J. Foster
  Murphy J. Foster
  Murphy James Foster, Sr. , was a Louisiana politician who served two terms as the 31st Governor of Louisiana from 1892 to 1900.Early and personal life...
  
  , 1871, Governor of Louisiana (D)
• Alvin Olin King
  Alvin Olin King
  Alvin Olin King was a Louisiana politician allied with the popular Long faction of the state Democratic Party....
  
  , Governor of Louisiana (D)
• Jared Y. Sanders, Sr.
  Jared Y. Sanders, Sr.
  Jared Young Sanders, Sr. , was a journalist and attorney from Franklin, the seat of St. Mary Parish in south Louisiana, who served as his state's House Speaker , lieutenant governor , the 34th Governor , and U.S. representative...
  
  , 1893, Governor of Louisiana (D)
• Oramel H. Simpson
  Oramel H. Simpson
  Oramel Hinckley Simpson was an American politician from the US state of Louisiana. He became the 39th Governor of Louisiana in 1926, upon the death of his predecessor, Henry L. Fuqua...
  
  , 1893, Governor of Louisiana (D)
• Huey Long
  Huey Long
  Huey Pierce Long, Jr. , nicknamed The Kingfish, served as the 40th Governor of Louisiana from 1928–1932 and as a U.S. Senator from 1932 to 1935. A Democrat, he was noted for his radical populist policies. Though a backer of Franklin D...
  
  , 1915, Governor of Louisiana (D)
• Francis T. Nicholls
  Francis T. Nicholls
  Francis Redding Tillou Nicholls was an American attorney, politician, judge, and a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War...
  
  , Governor of Louisiana (D)
• David C. Treen
  David C. Treen
  David Conner "Dave" Treen, Sr. , was an American attorney and politician from Mandeville, St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana – the first Republican Governor of the U.S. state of Louisiana since Reconstruction. He was the first Republican in modern times to have served in the U.S...
  
  , 1950, Governor of Louisiana (R)
• Bob Wise
  Bob Wise
  Robert Ellsworth "Bob" Wise, Jr. is an American politician. A Democrat, Wise served as the 33rd Governor of West Virginia from January 2001 to January 2005.-Early life:...
  
  , 1975, Governor of West Virginia (D)

U.S. Senators

• Edwin S. Broussard
  Edwin S. Broussard
  Edwin Sidney Broussard I was a United States senator from Louisiana. He was born in the village of Loureauville in Iberia Parish in the sugar-growing country of south Louisiana and attended public schools. He graduated from the Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge in 1896. He taught in the...
  
  , 1901, U.S. Senator (D)
• Robert F. Broussard
  Robert F. Broussard
  Robert Foligny Broussard was both a U.S. representative and a U.S. senator from Louisiana. He was born on the Mary Louise plantation near New Iberia, the seat of Iberia Parish. He attended public and private schools. Broussard attended the Catholic Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., from...
  
  , 1889, U.S. Senator (D)
• Allen J. Ellender
  Allen J. Ellender
  Allen Joseph Ellender was a popular U.S. senator from Houma, Louisiana , who served from 1937 until his death. He was a Democrat who was originally allied with the legendary Huey Pierce Long, Jr.. As Senator he compiled a generally conservative record, voting 77% of the time with the Conservative...
  
  , 1913, U.S. Senator (D)
• John H. Overton
  John H. Overton
  John Holmes Overton was an attorney and Democratic United States representative and U.S. senator from Louisiana...
  
  , 1897, U.S. Senator (D)
• Randall Lee Gibson, U.S. Senator (D), whom Gibson Hall
  Gibson Hall
  Gibson Hall is a building at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. It sits across from Audubon Park.-History:Constructed in 1894, Gibson Hall is the oldest structure on the present Tulane University campus. It faces on to St. Charles Avenue and is the entry landmark to the...
  
   is named after
• David Vitter
  David Vitter
  David Vitter is the junior United States Senator from Louisiana and a member of the Republican Party. Previously, he served in the United States House of Representatives, representing the suburban Louisiana's 1st congressional district. He served as a member of the Louisiana House of...
  
  , 1988, U.S. Senator (R)

U.S. Representatives

• Hale Boggs
  Hale Boggs
  Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. , was an American Democratic politician and a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New Orleans, Louisiana...
  
  , 1937, U.S. Representative, 1941–1943, 1946-1972 (D)
• James "Jimmy" Domengeaux, 1931, U.S. Representative (D)
• Bob Livingston
  Bob Livingston
  Robert Linlithgow "Bob" Livingston Jr. is a Washington, D.C.-based lobbyist and a former Republican U.S. Representative from Louisiana...
  
  , 1968, U.S. Representative, 1977-1999 (R)
• Lewis L. Morgan
  Lewis L. Morgan
  Lewis Lovering Morgan was an American lawyer and politician form the state of Louisiana.He served in the United States House of Representatives from November 5, 1912, to March 4, 1917, from Louisiana's 6th congressional district, which then included part of the New Orleans area...
  
  , 1899, U.S. Representative, 1912-1917 (D)
• James H. Morrison
  James H. Morrison
  James Hobson "Jimmy" Morrison, Sr. , was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from the Sixth Congressional District of Louisiana, who served from 1943 to 1967...
  
  , 1934, U.S. Representative, 1943-1967 (D)
• John Rarick
  John Rarick
  John Richard Rarick was a lawyer who served as a Louisiana state district court judge from 1961 to 1966 in St. Francisville, Louisiana, the seat of West Feliciana Parish, and as a Democratic U.S. representative from the Sixth Congressional District from 1967 to 1975...
  
  , 1949, U.S. Representative, 1967–1975 (D)
• Cedric Richmond
  Cedric Richmond
  Cedric Levon Richmond is the U.S. Representative for Louisiana's 2nd congressional district, which includes most of New Orleans. He is a member of the Democratic Party.-Early life and education:...
  
  , JD-1998, U.S. Representative, 2011- (D)
• Jared Y. Sanders, Jr.
  Jared Y. Sanders, Jr.
  Jared Young Sanders, Jr. , was a prominent Democratic member of the Louisiana House of Representatives, the Louisiana State Senate, and the United States House of Representatives, perhaps best known for his conservative opposition to legendary Governor and U.S...
  
  , 1914, U.S. Representative (D)

Mayors

• Paul Capdevielle
  Paul Capdevielle
  Paul Capdevielle was mayor of New Orleans, Louisiana, from May 9, 1900 to December 5, 1904.Of French descent, he was educated at the Jesuit College of New Orleans, graduating in 1861...
  
  , 1868, Mayor of New Orleans, 1900–1904
• Robert Poydasheff
  Robert Poydasheff
  Robert S. "Bob" Poydasheff is a former mayor of Columbus, Georgia.Poydasheff served as mayor of Columbus from 2003 through 2006, having previously served on Columbus city council from 1994 through 2002. He served with distinction in the United States Army for 24 years, retiring at the rank of...
  
  , Mayor of Columbus, Georgia (2003–2007) (R)
• T. Semmes Walmsley
  T. Semmes Walmsley
  Thomas Semmes Walmsley was Mayor of New Orleans from July 1929 to June 1936. He is best known for his intense rivalry with Louisiana Governor Huey P. Long.- Early life and career :...
  
  , 1912, Mayor of New Orleans, 1929–1936

Judges (of Supreme Courts and Federal Appeals Courts)

• Edward White
  Edward Douglass White
  Edward Douglass White, Jr. , American politician and jurist, was a United States senator, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court and the ninth Chief Justice of the United States. He was best known for formulating the Rule of Reason standard of antitrust law. He also sided with the...
  
  , 1868, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS)
  Supreme Court of the United States
  The Supreme Court of the United States is the highest court in the United States. It has ultimate appellate jurisdiction over all state and federal courts, and original jurisdiction over a small range of cases...
  
  
• Edith Brown Clement
  Edith Brown Clement
  Edith "Joy" Brown Clement is a federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.- Background :...
  
  , JD-1972, U.S. 5th Circuit
• John Malcolm Duhé, Jr.
  John Malcolm Duhé, Jr.
  John Malcolm Duhé, Jr. is a retired senior judge on the New Orleans-based Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. He currently practices law in Lafayette....
  
  , 1957, U.S. 5th Circuit
• Rufus Edward Foster
  Rufus Edward Foster
  Rufus Edward Foster was a United States federal judge.Born in Mathews County, Virginia, Foster received an LL.B. from Tulane Law School in 1895. He was in the United States Army Lieutenant from 1898 to 1899. He was an Assistant U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana from 1905 to 1908...
  
  , LL.B.-1895, U.S. 5th Circuit; also served as 11th dean of the Tulane Law School
• Angel Martín
  Angel Martín
  Angel Martín is a former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico, appointed by Governor Luis A. Ferré in 1971, after having served as Secretary of the Puerto Rico Department of the Treasury, or "Hacienda"....
  
  , 1953, former Associate Justice of the Puerto Rico Supreme Court
• Andrew G.T. Moore, Delaware Supreme Ct
  Delaware Supreme Court
  The Supreme Court of Delaware is the sole appellate court in the United States' state of Delaware. Because Delaware is a popular haven for corporations, the Court has developed a worldwide reputation as a respected source of corporate law decisions, particularly in the area of mergers and...
  
  ; wrote Unocal Corp. v. Mesa Petroleum Co.
  Unocal Corp. v. Mesa Petroleum Co.
  Unocal v. Mesa Petroleum Co., 493 A.2d 946 is a landmark decision of the Delaware Supreme Court on corporate defensive tactics against take-over bids....
  
  and Revlon v. MacAndrews; founded the Tulane Corporate Law Institute
  Tulane Corporate Law Institute
  The Tulane Corporate Law Institute is an annual two-day M&A and corporate law conference that takes place in downtown New Orleans every spring. It attracts the most high-profile lawyers and bankers from around the United States, as well as judges, journalists, and others who follow the dealmaking...
  
  
• Bill Pryor, JD-1987, U.S. 11th Circuit; former Attorney General
  Attorney General
  In most common law jurisdictions, the attorney general, or attorney-general, is the main legal advisor to the government, and in some jurisdictions he or she may also have executive responsibility for law enforcement or responsibility for public prosecutions.The term is used to refer to any person...
  
   of Alabama
• Percy Saint
  Percy Saint
  Percy D. Saint was an lawyer and politician who served as the Louisiana attorney general from 1924 until 1932. He was an intraparty Democratic critic of Governor and U.S. Senator Huey Pierce Long, Jr.-Background:...
  
  , 23rd District Court Judge (1920-1924) and Louisiana Attorney General (1924-1932)
• James D. Simon
  James D. Simon
  James Dudley Simon was a Democratic politician and jurist who capped his career with elected service on the Louisiana Supreme Court from 1955 to 1960.-Biography:...
  
  , 1918, Louisiana Supreme Court
• Elizabeth Weaver, 1965, Michigan Supreme Court
• Jacques Loeb Wiener, Jr., 1961, U.S. 5th Circuit
• John Minor Wisdom
  John Minor Wisdom
  John Minor Wisdom , one of the "Fifth Circuit Four", and a liberal Republican from Louisiana, was a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit during the 1950s and 1960s, when that court became known for a series of decisions crucial in advancing the civil rights of...
  
  , 1929, U.S. 5th Circuit

Other political figures

• James H. "Jim" Brown, 1966, former Secretary of State of Louisiana
  Secretary of State of Louisiana
  The Secretary of State of Louisiana is one of the elected constitutional officers of the U.S. state of Louisiana. The position was created by Article 4, Section 7 of the Louisiana Constitution.The current Secretary of State is Tom Schedler....
  
  
• Buddy Caldwell
  Buddy Caldwell
  James David Caldwell, Sr., or Buddy Caldwell , is the Republican attorney general of the U.S. state of Louisiana. Prior to serving as attorney general, Caldwell was the district attorney for Madison, East Carroll, and Tensas parishes from 1979 to 2008...
  
  , 1973, Attorney General of Louisiana (R)
• Donald Ensenat
  Donald Ensenat
  Donald B. Ensenat is a retired American diplomat. Until his retirement in 2007, he served as United States Chief of Protocol at the United States Department of State.-Personal:...
  
  , 1973, former Chief of Protocol of the United States
  Chief of Protocol of the United States
  The Chief of Protocol is an officer of the United States Department of State responsible for advising the President of the United States, the vice president, and the secretary of state on matters of national and international diplomatic protocol...
  
  
• Albert Estopinal, Jr.
  Albert Estopinal, Jr.
  Albert Estopinal, Jr. , was an attorney and politician from St. Bernard Parish in south Louisiana whose career extended from the 19th to the 20th centuries.-Early life and education:...
  
  , 1890, St. Bernard Parish politician (D)
• Jim Garrison
  Jim Garrison
  Earling Carothers "Jim" Garrison — who changed his first name to Jim in the early 1960s — was the District Attorney of Orleans Parish, Louisiana from 1962 to 1973. A member of the Democratic Party, he is best known for his investigations into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy...
  
  , 1949, New Orleans District Attorney (D), played by Kevin Costner
  Kevin Costner
  Kevin Michael Costner is an American actor, singer, musician, producer, director, and businessman. He has been nominated for three BAFTA Awards, won two Academy Awards, and two Golden Globe Awards. Costner's roles include Lt. John J...
  
   in the Oliver Stone film JFK
  JFK (film)
  JFK is a 1991 American film directed by Oliver Stone. It examines the events leading to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and alleged subsequent cover-up, through the eyes of former New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison .Garrison filed charges against New Orleans businessman Clay...
  
  
• Alexi Giannoulias
  Alexi Giannoulias
  Alexander "Alexi" Giannoulias is an American politician who served as Illinois Treasurer from 2007 to 2011. A Democrat, Giannoulias defeated Republican candidate State Senator Christine Radogno in November 2006 with 54 percent of the vote, becoming the first Democrat to hold the office in 12...
  
  , 2003, former Illinois State Treasurer
  Illinois State Treasurer
  The Treasurer of Illinois is an elected official of the U.S. state of Illinois. The office was created by the Constitution of Illinois.-Current occupant and duties:, the Treasurer of Illinois is Dan Rutherford, a member of the Republican Party...
  
   (D)
• Samuel Lawrason
  Samuel Lawrason
  Samuel McCutcheon Lawrason was an attorney who served two nonconsecutive terms in the Louisiana State Senate from West Feliciana Parish, located north of Baton Rouge, Louisiana...
  
  , LL.D., 1874, state senator from St. Francisville
  St. Francisville, Louisiana
  St. Francisville is a town in and the parish seat of West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 1,712 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Baton Rouge Metropolitan Statistical Area.-Geography:St...
  
   who authored Lawrason Act
  Lawrason Act
  The Lawrason Act is an 1898 measure of the Louisiana State Legislature which permits municipalities in the state to incorporate into towns or cities without specific clearance from the legislature....
  
   of 1898.
• Kenneth McClintock
  Kenneth McClintock
  Kenneth D. McClintock-Hernández is the current Secretary of State of Puerto Rico. Mr. McClintock served as co-chair of Hillary Clinton presidential campaign's National Hispanic Leadership Council in 2008, co-chaired Clinton's successful Puerto Rico primary campaign that year and served as the...
  
  , JD, 1980, 13th President of the Puerto Rico Senate, current Secretary of State
  Secretary of State of Puerto Rico
  The Constitution of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico provides for the position of Secretary of State of Puerto Rico who is first in line to exercise the role of acting Governor when the Governor is temporarily unavailable, whether because of being away from Puerto Rico or due to another temporary...
  
   and Lieutenant Governor of Puerto Rico
• Walter Nixon
  Walter Nixon
  Walter Louis Nixon, Jr. is a former United States federal judge who was impeached by the House of Representatives and removed from office by the Senate....
  
  , 1951, impeached federal judge, subject of Nixon v. United States
  Nixon v. United States
  Nixon v. United States, 506 U.S. 224 , was a United States Supreme Court decision that determined that the question of whether the Senate had properly "tried" an impeachment was a political question, and could not be resolved in the Courts.-Facts:...
  
  
• Terry O'Neill
  Terry O'Neill (feminist)
  Terry O'Neill is an American feminist attorney, professor and activist for social justice. She is president of the National Organization for Women since July 2009, and president of the NOW Foundation and chair of the NOW Political Action Committees.-Education and family:O'Neill graduated from...
  
  , president of the National Organization for Women
  National Organization for Women
  The National Organization for Women is the largest feminist organization in the United States. It was founded in 1966 and has a membership of 500,000 contributing members. The organization consists of 550 chapters in all 50 U.S...
  
   (NOW)
• Roy R. Theriot
  Roy R. Theriot
  Roy R. Theriot, Sr. , was the Democratic state comptroller of Louisiana from 1960-1973. Previously, Theriot was the mayor of Abbeville, the seat of Vermilion Parish in south Louisiana from 1954-1960....
  
  , 1939, Louisiana Comptroller, 1960-1973 (D)
• Todd Schuler
  Todd Schuler
  Todd L. Schuler is an American politician from Maryland and a member of the Democratic Party.-Background:Schuler was born in Baltimore, Maryland on January 20, 1977. His father, Leoanard G. "Bud" Schuler, is a business agent fot Plumbers and Steamfitters U.A., Local 486. His mother, K...
  
  , Maryland State Delegate, current (D)

Academia

• Gail Agrawal, JD/MPH, current Dean of the University of Iowa College of Law
  University of Iowa College of Law
  The University of Iowa College of Law is one of the eleven professional graduate schools at the University of Iowa, located in Iowa City, Iowa. Founded in 1865, it is the oldest law school in continuous operation west of the Mississippi River. The law school was ranked as the 27th best law school...
  
  
• Winston Chang
  Winston Chang
  Winston Hsiao-tzu Chang was a president of Soochow University in Taipei.-Biography:He and his twin brother, John Chang, were born the sons of Chiang Ching-kuo and Chang Ya-juo in Guilin, but took their mother's surname as they were born out of wedlock, although they both were given the generation...
  
  , 1992-1996 former President - Soochow University (Taiwan)
  Soochow University (Taiwan)
  Soochow University is a private university located in Taipei, Taiwan. Although the Soochow University in Taiwan maintains a church and a Methodist minister in residence, it may be considered a secular institution...
  
  ; former chairman - Soochow University College of Law.
• Ethan Yale, JD 1999, Law Professor - University of Virginia School of Law; former Wachtell associate

Arts

• Jonathan Hensleigh
  Jonathan Hensleigh
  Jonathan Blair Hensleigh is an American screenwriter and film director, working primarily in the action/adventure genre of films.-Early life:...
  
  , JD-1985, writer of Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995), Jumanji
  Jumanji (film)
  Jumanji is a 1995 American fantasy-comedy film about a supernatural board game that makes wild animals and other jungle hazards materialize upon each player's move. It was directed by Joe Johnston and is based on Chris Van Allsburg's popular 1981 picture book of the same name...
  
  (1995), and Armageddon (1998)
• Whitney Gaskell
  Whitney Gaskell
  Whitney Gaskell is an American author of seven comedic novels published by Bantam Books. She lives in South Florida with her husband, George Gaskell, and their son....
  
   née Kelly, 1997, novelist

Partners at Vault 100 Law Firms

Atlanta

• Kwame A. Benjamin, JD-2000, Seyfarth Shaw
  Seyfarth Shaw
  Seyfarth Shaw LLP is an American law firm. It has offices in the United States, including Chicago, New York, Boston, Washington, D.C., Atlanta, Houston, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Sacramento, and an office in London, England.- Labor & Employment :...
  
  
• Reagan C. Brown, JD-1997, Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell
• Brian G. Corgan, JD-1979, Kilpatrick Stockton
• Eric J. Hanson, JD-1998, Hunton & Williams
  Hunton & Williams
  Founded in 1901, Hunton & Williams LLP is a US law firm that employs more than 800 lawyers. It has been called "one of the most well-connected legal and lobbying firms in DC." The firm was founded in Richmond, Virginia and has 18 other offices throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia. In...
  
  
• Roth Kehoe, JD/MBA-1996, Hunton & Williams
  Hunton & Williams
  Founded in 1901, Hunton & Williams LLP is a US law firm that employs more than 800 lawyers. It has been called "one of the most well-connected legal and lobbying firms in DC." The firm was founded in Richmond, Virginia and has 18 other offices throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia. In...
  
  
• Catherine D. Little, JD-1991, Hunton & Williams
  Hunton & Williams
  Founded in 1901, Hunton & Williams LLP is a US law firm that employs more than 800 lawyers. It has been called "one of the most well-connected legal and lobbying firms in DC." The firm was founded in Richmond, Virginia and has 18 other offices throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia. In...
  
  
• Patrick W. Macken, JD-2000, Troutman Sanders
  Troutman Sanders
  Troutman Sanders LLP, founded in 1897, is an international law firm with more than 600 attorneys located in North America and Asia.On January 2, 2009, the firm merged with D.C.-based Ross Dixon & Bell, keeping and operating under the name Troutman Sanders...
  
  
• Kristen L. Melton, JD-1999, Alston & Bird
  Alston & Bird
  Alston & Bird LLP, commonly abbreviated , is the largest law firm in Atlanta and the forty-third largest in the United States.-History:...
  
  
• Susan H. Richardson, JD-1991, Kilpatrick Stockton
• Carolyn Peterson Richter, JD-1987, Troutman Sanders
  Troutman Sanders
  Troutman Sanders LLP, founded in 1897, is an international law firm with more than 600 attorneys located in North America and Asia.On January 2, 2009, the firm merged with D.C.-based Ross Dixon & Bell, keeping and operating under the name Troutman Sanders...
  
  
• B. Darrell Smelcer, JD-1982, Hunton & Williams
  Hunton & Williams
  Founded in 1901, Hunton & Williams LLP is a US law firm that employs more than 800 lawyers. It has been called "one of the most well-connected legal and lobbying firms in DC." The firm was founded in Richmond, Virginia and has 18 other offices throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia. In...
  
  
• John Telford, JD-1997, Littler Mendelson
  Littler Mendelson
  Littler Mendelson P.C. is a San Francisco-based law firm. The firm has 52 offices and over 800 lawyers practicing exclusively in the representation of employers in labor and employment law, and has the largest practice in this area in the United States and Venezuela.-History and practice:The firm...
  
  

Bangkok

• Araya Akomsoonthorn, LLM, Mayer Brown
  Mayer Brown
  Mayer Brown is an international law firm head-quartered in Chicago which specializes in commercial transactions and litigation. The firm employs more than 1,600 lawyers, including approximately 875 in the Americas, 425 in Europe and 300 in Asia....
  
  
• Chinnavat Chinsangaram, LLM-1986, White & Case
  White & Case
  White & Case was founded in New York in 1901 and has grown into one of the world's leading global law firms. The firm has since expanded, and has practice groups in emerging markets including Latin America, Central & Eastern Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Asia, as well as in Europe...
  
  
• Yuthana Sivaraks, LLM-1994, Baker & McKenzie
  Baker & McKenzie
  Baker & McKenzie is an international law firm, founded in Chicago in 1949 by Russell Baker and John McKenzie. It is home to more than 3,800 lawyers spread over 70 offices in 42 different countries....
  
  
• Chinachart Vatanasuchart, LLM, Mayer Brown
  Mayer Brown
  Mayer Brown is an international law firm head-quartered in Chicago which specializes in commercial transactions and litigation. The firm employs more than 1,600 lawyers, including approximately 875 in the Americas, 425 in Europe and 300 in Asia....
  
  
• Nipaporn Weskosith, LLM, Mayer Brown
  Mayer Brown
  Mayer Brown is an international law firm head-quartered in Chicago which specializes in commercial transactions and litigation. The firm employs more than 1,600 lawyers, including approximately 875 in the Americas, 425 in Europe and 300 in Asia....
  
  

Boston

• Robert B. Lovett, JD, Cooley Godward Kronish

Charlotte

• Peter James Covington, JD-1980, McGuireWoods
  McGuireWoods
  McGuireWoods LLP is a major U.S. law firm with more than 900 attorneys in 19 offices in the United States and Europe. With the firm's largest offices in Richmond, VA, Charlotte, NC, and Chicago, IL, McGuireWoods has recently experienced a period of rapid growth by opening new offices in London in...
  
  
• Kristin P. Manzano, JD-1992, Alston & Bird
  Alston & Bird
  Alston & Bird LLP, commonly abbreviated , is the largest law firm in Atlanta and the forty-third largest in the United States.-History:...
  
  

Chicago

• Shannon Skinner Anglin, JD-1998, Katten Muchin Rosenman
• Michael L. Coleman, JD-1973, Baker & McKenzie
  Baker & McKenzie
  Baker & McKenzie is an international law firm, founded in Chicago in 1949 by Russell Baker and John McKenzie. It is home to more than 3,800 lawyers spread over 70 offices in 42 different countries....
  
  
• Linda Hoseman, JD-1989, Winston & Strawn
• Jana D. Jobes, JD-1999, Sidley Austin
  Sidley Austin
  Sidley Austin LLP, formerly known as Sidley Austin Brown & Wood LLP, is one of the oldest law firms in the world. It is the sixth-largest U.S.-based corporate law firm with more than 1,650 lawyers, annual revenues of more than one billion dollars, and offices in 17 cities worldwide, with the most...
  
  
• Mona M. Stone, JD-1997, Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell

Cleveland

• Brian A. Bash, JD-1975, Baker Hostetler
  Baker Hostetler
  Baker Hostetler is an American law firm based in Cleveland, Ohio and founded in 1916. One of the firm's founders, Newton D. Baker, was U.S. Secretary of War during World War I and former Mayor of Cleveland....
  
  

Dallas

• Gustav F. Bahn, JD-2000, Alston & Bird
  Alston & Bird
  Alston & Bird LLP, commonly abbreviated , is the largest law firm in Atlanta and the forty-third largest in the United States.-History:...
  
  
• Eduardo S. Espinosa, JD/MBA-1995, K&L Gates
• Barry Y. Greenberg, JD-1988, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld
  Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld
  Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP is a law firm founded in Dallas, Texas, in 1945 by Robert Strauss and Richard Gump. The firm now numbers more than 800 attorneys and advisers in the United States, Europe, the Middle East and Asia...
  
  
• Roxanne Edwards Leucht, JD-2000 Baker & McKenzie
  Baker & McKenzie
  Baker & McKenzie is an international law firm, founded in Chicago in 1949 by Russell Baker and John McKenzie. It is home to more than 3,800 lawyers spread over 70 offices in 42 different countries....
  
  
• Cheryl L. Mann, JD-1995, Baker Botts
  Baker Botts
  Baker Botts L.L.P. is a major United States-based international law firm of around 800 attorneys, with a long, prominent history, significant political connections, boasting more than half of the Fortune 100 companies among its clients. Headquartered in One Shell Plaza in Downtown Houston, Texas,...
  
  
• Garry Miles, JD-1982, Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell
• Michael D. Pegues, JD-1991, Bracewell & Giuliani
  Bracewell & Giuliani
  Bracewell & Giuliani LLP is an international law firm based in Houston, Texas, that began in 1945. The firm has over 470 lawyers, and has United States offices in New York, Washington, D.C., Hartford, San Antonio, Seattle, Dallas, and Austin, and overseas offices in Dubai, and London...
  
  
• Sanford E. Warren Jr., JD-1987 Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld
  Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld
  Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP is a law firm founded in Dallas, Texas, in 1945 by Robert Strauss and Richard Gump. The firm now numbers more than 800 attorneys and advisers in the United States, Europe, the Middle East and Asia...
  
  
• Elizabeth L. Yingling, JD-1991, Baker & McKenzie
  Baker & McKenzie
  Baker & McKenzie is an international law firm, founded in Chicago in 1949 by Russell Baker and John McKenzie. It is home to more than 3,800 lawyers spread over 70 offices in 42 different countries....
  
  

Ft. Lauderdale

• Caryl L. Boies, JD-1987, Boies, Schiller & Flexner
  Boies, Schiller & Flexner
  Boies, Schiller & Flexner L.L.P. is a prominent American law firm founded by David Boies and Jonathan D. Schiller in 1997. In 1999, they were joined by Donald L. Flexner, former partner with Crowell & Moring. In March of 2009, a 27-lawyer firm, located in Miami, named Zack Kosnitzky, merged into...
  
  
• William T. Dzurilla
  William T. Dzurilla
  William T. Dzurilla, formerly William T. D'Zurilla, is an attorney, a partner in the law firm's Fort Lauderdale, Florida office. He was a law clerk for Justice Byron White of the United States Supreme Court from 1982 to 1983...
  
  , JD-1981, Boies, Schiller & Flexner
  Boies, Schiller & Flexner
  Boies, Schiller & Flexner L.L.P. is a prominent American law firm founded by David Boies and Jonathan D. Schiller in 1997. In 1999, they were joined by Donald L. Flexner, former partner with Crowell & Moring. In March of 2009, a 27-lawyer firm, located in Miami, named Zack Kosnitzky, merged into...
  
  ; former U.S. Supreme Court clerk

Germany

• Soenke Becker, Summer Program-1994, Baker & McKenzie
  Baker & McKenzie
  Baker & McKenzie is an international law firm, founded in Chicago in 1949 by Russell Baker and John McKenzie. It is home to more than 3,800 lawyers spread over 70 offices in 42 different countries....
  
  
• Carsten Dau, LLM-2004, Baker & McKenzie
  Baker & McKenzie
  Baker & McKenzie is an international law firm, founded in Chicago in 1949 by Russell Baker and John McKenzie. It is home to more than 3,800 lawyers spread over 70 offices in 42 different countries....
  
  
• Carsten Flasshoff, LLM-1998, Mayer Brown
  Mayer Brown
  Mayer Brown is an international law firm head-quartered in Chicago which specializes in commercial transactions and litigation. The firm employs more than 1,600 lawyers, including approximately 875 in the Americas, 425 in Europe and 300 in Asia....
  
  
• Nils Rahlf, LLM-1995, Morgan Lewis
• Matthias P. Scholz, LLM-1992, Baker & McKenzie
  Baker & McKenzie
  Baker & McKenzie is an international law firm, founded in Chicago in 1949 by Russell Baker and John McKenzie. It is home to more than 3,800 lawyers spread over 70 offices in 42 different countries....
  
  
• Dr. Ulrich Scholz, LLM, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
  Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
  Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP is a global law firm headquartered in London, United Kingdom and a member of the 'Magic Circle' of leading English law firms. It is the second-largest law firm in the world measured by revenues. In 2010-11 it achieved total revenues of £1.14 billion and profits...
  
  
• Thomas Stohlmeier, LLM-1991, Clifford Chance
  Clifford Chance
  Clifford Chance LLP is a global law firm headquartered in London, United Kingdom and a member of the 'Magic Circle' of leading UK law firms. It is one of the ten largest law firms in the world measured by both number of lawyers and revenue...
  
  
• Dr. Klaus von Gierke, LLM, DLA Piper
  DLA Piper
  DLA Piper is a global law firm with 76 offices across 30 countries and more than 4,200 lawyers. As of May 2011, it was the largest law firm in the world by number of attorneys. The firm's global revenues were $1.92 billion in 2009-2010. The firm is composed of two partnerships, DLA Piper...
  
  

Houston

• Shauna Clark, JD-1994, Fulbright & Jaworski
  Fulbright & Jaworski
  The international law firm of Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. is one of the largest law firms in the United States with nearly 1,000 attorneys in over 50 practice areas. The firm was founded in Houston in 1919 by R. C. Fulbright, an attorney working in railway regulation, and J.H. Crooker, a litigator...
  
  
• Lucas T. Elliot, JD-1989, Morgan Lewis
• Scott Fletcher, JD-1989, Jones Day
  Jones Day
  Jones Day is an international law firm founded in Cleveland, Ohio on March 1, 1893, by Judge Edwin J. Blandin and William Lowe Rice. Jones Day is the eighth largest law firm in the world by revenue, and the fourth highest grossing firm in the US with annual revenues of US$1.4 billion...
  
  
• Stephen M. Gill, JD-2001, Vinson & Elkins
• Ann A. Hawkins, JD-1994, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
• Kevin M. Jordan, JD-1988, Baker Botts
  Baker Botts
  Baker Botts L.L.P. is a major United States-based international law firm of around 800 attorneys, with a long, prominent history, significant political connections, boasting more than half of the Fortune 100 companies among its clients. Headquartered in One Shell Plaza in Downtown Houston, Texas,...
  
  
• Allyson Hancock Kinzel, JD-1999, Baker Hostetler
  Baker Hostetler
  Baker Hostetler is an American law firm based in Cleveland, Ohio and founded in 1916. One of the firm's founders, Newton D. Baker, was U.S. Secretary of War during World War I and former Mayor of Cleveland....
  
  
• Eric W. Kristiansen, JD-2000, Baker Hostetler
  Baker Hostetler
  Baker Hostetler is an American law firm based in Cleveland, Ohio and founded in 1916. One of the firm's founders, Newton D. Baker, was U.S. Secretary of War during World War I and former Mayor of Cleveland....
  
  
• Melinda R. Phelan, JD-1994, Baker & McKenzie
  Baker & McKenzie
  Baker & McKenzie is an international law firm, founded in Chicago in 1949 by Russell Baker and John McKenzie. It is home to more than 3,800 lawyers spread over 70 offices in 42 different countries....
  
  
• Tristan E. Propst, JD/MBA-1998, Mayer Brown
  Mayer Brown
  Mayer Brown is an international law firm head-quartered in Chicago which specializes in commercial transactions and litigation. The firm employs more than 1,600 lawyers, including approximately 875 in the Americas, 425 in Europe and 300 in Asia....
  
  
• Rick L. Rambo, JD/MBA-1994, Morgan Lewis
• James L. Rice III, JD-1983, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld
  Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld
  Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP is a law firm founded in Dallas, Texas, in 1945 by Robert Strauss and Richard Gump. The firm now numbers more than 800 attorneys and advisers in the United States, Europe, the Middle East and Asia...
  
  
• Consuella Simmons Taylor, JD-1994, Baker Botts
  Baker Botts
  Baker Botts L.L.P. is a major United States-based international law firm of around 800 attorneys, with a long, prominent history, significant political connections, boasting more than half of the Fortune 100 companies among its clients. Headquartered in One Shell Plaza in Downtown Houston, Texas,...
  
  
• Gerald M. Spedale, JD-1993, Baker Botts
  Baker Botts
  Baker Botts L.L.P. is a major United States-based international law firm of around 800 attorneys, with a long, prominent history, significant political connections, boasting more than half of the Fortune 100 companies among its clients. Headquartered in One Shell Plaza in Downtown Houston, Texas,...
  
  
• Laurence E. Stuart, JD-1995, Baker & McKenzie
  Baker & McKenzie
  Baker & McKenzie is an international law firm, founded in Chicago in 1949 by Russell Baker and John McKenzie. It is home to more than 3,800 lawyers spread over 70 offices in 42 different countries....
  
  
• Neil A. Wasserstrom, JD-1984, Mayer Brown
  Mayer Brown
  Mayer Brown is an international law firm head-quartered in Chicago which specializes in commercial transactions and litigation. The firm employs more than 1,600 lawyers, including approximately 875 in the Americas, 425 in Europe and 300 in Asia....
  
  

Hong Kong

• David T. Zhang, JD-1991, Latham & Watkins
  Latham & Watkins
  Latham & Watkins LLP is a global law firm, one of the largest in the world. Latham currently employs approximately 2,000 attorneys in the United States, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. The firm was started in Los Angeles in 1934 and has extensive Californian roots, but its largest office is now...
  
  

Los Angeles

• Robert S. Crowder, JD-1998, Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell
• Michael S. du Quesnay, JD/MBA-1995, Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP
• David A. Kettel, JD-1985, Venable LLP
  Venable LLP
  Venable LLP is a law firm formerly known as Venable, Baetjer & Howard LLP. The firm is . It was founded in Baltimore in 1900. Today the firm maintains 7 offices throughout the country and includes over 500 attorneys practicing in over covering corporate and business law, complex litigation,...
  
  

Miami

• Frances Gail Faigenblat, JD-1995, Holland & Knight
  Holland & Knight
  Holland & Knight is an international law firm with more than 1,000 lawyers in 17 U.S. offices. Other offices around the world are located in Abu Dhabi, UAE, Beijing, China, and Mexico City, Mexico. Holland & Knight provides representation in litigation, business, real estate and governmental law.-...
  
  
• Jose M. Ferrer, JD-1999, Baker & McKenzie
  Baker & McKenzie
  Baker & McKenzie is an international law firm, founded in Chicago in 1949 by Russell Baker and John McKenzie. It is home to more than 3,800 lawyers spread over 70 offices in 42 different countries....
  
  

Moscow

• Christopher A. Rose, JD-1998, Squire, Sanders & Dempsey
  Squire, Sanders & Dempsey
  Squire, Sanders & Dempsey is an international legal practice with 36 offices in 17 countries. Squire, Sanders & Dempsey International Association does not itself provide, directly or indirectly, any legal or other client services...
  
  

New Orleans

• Victoria M. de Lisle, JD-1992, Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell
• Robert W. Mouton, JD/MBA-1989, Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell

New York

• Jacob J. Amato, JD-1997, III, Sidley Austin
  Sidley Austin
  Sidley Austin LLP, formerly known as Sidley Austin Brown & Wood LLP, is one of the oldest law firms in the world. It is the sixth-largest U.S.-based corporate law firm with more than 1,650 lawyers, annual revenues of more than one billion dollars, and offices in 17 cities worldwide, with the most...
  
  
• Kerry E. Berchem, JD-1991, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld
  Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld
  Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP is a law firm founded in Dallas, Texas, in 1945 by Robert Strauss and Richard Gump. The firm now numbers more than 800 attorneys and advisers in the United States, Europe, the Middle East and Asia...
  
  
• Lawrence B. Brownridge, JD-1980, Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner
  Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner
  Thelen LLP, formerly known as Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner was a bicoastal American law firm formed by two mergers between California and New York-based law firms. The firm peaked at roughly 600 attorneys in 2006, and had 500 early in 2008, with attorneys with offices in eight cities in the...
  
  
• Aydin S. Caginalp, JD-1974, Manatt, Phelps & Phillips
  Manatt, Phelps & Phillips
  Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP is a Los Angeles-based law firm of more than 400 attorneys and other professionals founded in 1965. The firm earned revenues of nearly $260 million in 2010...
  
  
• Jared R. Clark, JD-1995, Bingham McCutchen
  Bingham McCutchen
  Bingham McCutchen LLP is a global law firm with approximately 1,100 attorneys in nine US offices and four international offices. It represents clients in corporate litigation, cross-border restructurings and insolvencies, financing and securities, structured finance and capital markets, government...
  
  
• Michael A. Cohen, JD-1999, Kirkland & Ellis
  Kirkland & Ellis
  Kirkland & Ellis LLP is an international law firm with headquarters in Chicago, known for its profitability and its litigation, bankruptcy, intellectual property and private equity departments. Kirkland & Ellis is currently ranked as the ninth most prestigious law firm in the United States by...
  
  
• Robert S. Frenchman, JD-1993, Bracewell & Giuliani
  Bracewell & Giuliani
  Bracewell & Giuliani LLP is an international law firm based in Houston, Texas, that began in 1945. The firm has over 470 lawyers, and has United States offices in New York, Washington, D.C., Hartford, San Antonio, Seattle, Dallas, and Austin, and overseas offices in Dubai, and London...
  
  
• Robert Goldstein, JD-1995, Schulte Roth & Zabel
  Schulte Roth & Zabel
  Schulte Roth & Zabel is an American law firm and one of the top 100 largest law firms by revenue. The firm was founded in New York City in 1969 and launched in London offering American and English law capabilities in 2002. The firm also has an office in Washington, D.C...
  
  
• Andrew W. Hammond, JD-1997, White & Case
  White & Case
  White & Case was founded in New York in 1901 and has grown into one of the world's leading global law firms. The firm has since expanded, and has practice groups in emerging markets including Latin America, Central & Eastern Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Asia, as well as in Europe...
  
  
• Tracy Kimmel, JD-1992, King & Spalding
  King & Spalding
  King & Spalding LLP is an American law firm with 125 years of service. It was founded in Atlanta, Georgia in 1885 by Alexander C. King and Jack Spalding. The firm has expanded nationally, with offices in Austin, Charlotte, Houston, New York, San Francisco, Silicon Valley, and Washington, D.C...
  
  
• Perla M. Kuhn, MCL-1961, Hughes Hubbard & Reed
  Hughes Hubbard & Reed
  Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP , founded in 1888, is a law firm headquartered in New York City.The firm's history dates back to the late 19th century when it counted among its partners former Chief Justice of the United States Charles Evans Hughes.Hughes Hubbard was recently ranked first among law firms...
  
  
• Dan A. Kusnetz, JD-1982, Schulte Roth & Zabel
  Schulte Roth & Zabel
  Schulte Roth & Zabel is an American law firm and one of the top 100 largest law firms by revenue. The firm was founded in New York City in 1969 and launched in London offering American and English law capabilities in 2002. The firm also has an office in Washington, D.C...
  
  
• Colleen E. Laduzinski, JD/MBA-2000, Jones Day
  Jones Day
  Jones Day is an international law firm founded in Cleveland, Ohio on March 1, 1893, by Judge Edwin J. Blandin and William Lowe Rice. Jones Day is the eighth largest law firm in the world by revenue, and the fourth highest grossing firm in the US with annual revenues of US$1.4 billion...
  
  
• Thomas Lane, JD-1991, Winston & Strawn
• Michael R. Littenberg, JD-1990, Schulte Roth & Zabel
  Schulte Roth & Zabel
  Schulte Roth & Zabel is an American law firm and one of the top 100 largest law firms by revenue. The firm was founded in New York City in 1969 and launched in London offering American and English law capabilities in 2002. The firm also has an office in Washington, D.C...
  
  
• Gregory M. McKenzie, JD-1990, Kelley Drye & Warren
• Stephanie J. Meltzer, JD-1994, Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft
• Patrick S. Menasco, JD-1994, Steptoe & Johnson
  Steptoe & Johnson
  Steptoe & Johnson LLP is an international law firm recognized for representation of clients before governmental agencies, advocacy in complex litigation and arbitration, and advice in guiding business transactions...
  
  
• David H. Midvidy, JD-1990, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
  Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
  Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and Affiliates , founded in 1948, is a prominent law firm based in New York City. With over 2,000 attorneys, it is one of the largest and highest-grossing law firms in the world. Forbes magazine calls Skadden "Wall Street's most powerful law firm"...
  
  
• R. King Milling, JD-1996, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe
  Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe
  Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP is an international law firm founded in San Francisco. Orrick traces its roots back to 1863, making it the oldest continuously-operating law firm in San Francisco, and the second-oldest privately-held company in San Francisco after Levi Strauss & Co....
  
  
• Christopher Moore, JD-2000, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
• Sean A. O'Neal, JD-2000, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
• Charles Parsons, JD-1998, Proskauer Rose
  Proskauer Rose
  Proskauer Rose is one of the largest law firms in the United States, with twelve offices in the United States and around the world...
  
  
• Anthony A. Pastor, JD-1999 Ropes & Gray
• Christopher L. Pennington, JD-1994, Proskauer Rose
  Proskauer Rose
  Proskauer Rose is one of the largest law firms in the United States, with twelve offices in the United States and around the world...
  
  
• Bernie J. Pistillo, JD-1981, Shearman & Sterling
  Shearman & Sterling
  Shearman & Sterling LLP is a law firm headquartered in New York City with 20 offices located in major financial centers around the world founded in 1873. It is well known for both its litigation and transactional capabilities, especially in International Arbitration, Capital Markets, Finance, and...
  
  
• Richard A. Presutti, JD-1996, Schulte Roth & Zabel
  Schulte Roth & Zabel
  Schulte Roth & Zabel is an American law firm and one of the top 100 largest law firms by revenue. The firm was founded in New York City in 1969 and launched in London offering American and English law capabilities in 2002. The firm also has an office in Washington, D.C...
  
  
• Christopher Price, JD-1985, Goodwin Procter
  Goodwin Procter
  Goodwin Procter LLP is a prominent law firm based in the United States, consisting of 850 attorneys serving clients in Boston, Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles, New York City, Silicon Valley, San Diego, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C....
  
  
• Gianni P. Servodidio, JD-1993, Jenner & Block
  Jenner & Block
  Jenner & Block is a U.S. law firm with offices in Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, and Washington, DC. Approximately 450 attorneys serve a wide range of clients in corporate litigation, business transactions, and in the public sector. Jerold S. Solovy was the longtime Chair of the firm, but on Sept...
  
  
• Cynthia R. Shoss, JD-1974, Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP
• Waajid Siddiqui, JD/MBA-1991, Hogan & Hartson
• Raymond Simon, JD-1985, White & Case
  White & Case
  White & Case was founded in New York in 1901 and has grown into one of the world's leading global law firms. The firm has since expanded, and has practice groups in emerging markets including Latin America, Central & Eastern Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Asia, as well as in Europe...
  
  
• Alan J. Stone, JD-1987, Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy
  Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy
  Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP is a United States law firm headquartered in New York City. It also has offices in Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, London, Frankfurt, Munich, Tokyo, Hong Kong, São Paulo, Singapore and Beijing.Milbank is a global law firm, with approximately 550 lawyers who...
  
  
• Walter B. Stuart, JD-1973, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
  Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
  Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP is a global law firm headquartered in London, United Kingdom and a member of the 'Magic Circle' of leading English law firms. It is the second-largest law firm in the world measured by revenues. In 2010-11 it achieved total revenues of £1.14 billion and profits...
  
  
• Marc J. Veilleux, JD-1988, K&L Gates
• Jedd H. Wider, JD-1992, Morgan Lewis
• John M. Woods, JD-1980, Thacher Proffitt & Wood

Norfolk

• James P. Naughton, JD-1980, Hunton & Williams
  Hunton & Williams
  Founded in 1901, Hunton & Williams LLP is a US law firm that employs more than 800 lawyers. It has been called "one of the most well-connected legal and lobbying firms in DC." The firm was founded in Richmond, Virginia and has 18 other offices throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia. In...
  
  

Paris

• Ann G. Baker, JD-1981, Morgan Lewis
• Christian Belloin, LLM-1980, Hughes Hubbard & Reed
  Hughes Hubbard & Reed
  Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP , founded in 1888, is a law firm headquartered in New York City.The firm's history dates back to the late 19th century when it counted among its partners former Chief Justice of the United States Charles Evans Hughes.Hughes Hubbard was recently ranked first among law firms...
  
  
• Thomas McDonald, JD-1974, White & Case
  White & Case
  White & Case was founded in New York in 1901 and has grown into one of the world's leading global law firms. The firm has since expanded, and has practice groups in emerging markets including Latin America, Central & Eastern Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Asia, as well as in Europe...
  
  

Philadelphia

• Andrew P. Schmutz, JD/MBA-1996, Greenberg Traurig
  Greenberg Traurig
  Greenberg Traurig LLP and Greenberg Traurig PA is an international law firm based in Miami, Florida.The firm has approximately 1,800 attorneys and governmental professionals in 32 locations in the United States, Europe and Asia. Its founding office is in Miami, Florida with its largest office in...
  
  
• A. Christopher Young, JD-1989, Pepper Hamilton

Phoenix

• J. Alex Grimsley, JD-1991, Bryan Cave
  Bryan Cave
  Bryan Cave LLP is an international law firm with twenty-one offices worldwide, headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, USA.- Overview :The international law firm Bryan Cave LLP dates back to 1873 in St. Louis. Founded in 1873 in St. Louis as King, Phillips and Stewart, the firm became Stewart, Bryan,...
  
  

Richmond

• R. Mason Bayler Jr., JD-1995, Troutman Sanders
  Troutman Sanders
  Troutman Sanders LLP, founded in 1897, is an international law firm with more than 600 attorneys located in North America and Asia.On January 2, 2009, the firm merged with D.C.-based Ross Dixon & Bell, keeping and operating under the name Troutman Sanders...
  
  
• Eugene E. Mathews III, JD-1993, McGuireWoods
  McGuireWoods
  McGuireWoods LLP is a major U.S. law firm with more than 900 attorneys in 19 offices in the United States and Europe. With the firm's largest offices in Richmond, VA, Charlotte, NC, and Chicago, IL, McGuireWoods has recently experienced a period of rapid growth by opening new offices in London in...
  
  
• Janet P. Peyton, JD-1995, McGuireWoods
  McGuireWoods
  McGuireWoods LLP is a major U.S. law firm with more than 900 attorneys in 19 offices in the United States and Europe. With the firm's largest offices in Richmond, VA, Charlotte, NC, and Chicago, IL, McGuireWoods has recently experienced a period of rapid growth by opening new offices in London in...
  
  

San Diego

• Anthony M. Stiegler, JD-1986, Cooley Godward Kronish

San Francisco Bay Area

• Gary L. Benton, JD-1984, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman
  Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman
  Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP is an international, full-service law firm with strengths in the energy, financial services, real estate and technology sectors and offices located throughout the United States and the world, including key financial centers such as New York, London, Tokyo and...
  
  
• Alec Y. Chang, JD-1990, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
• Scott P. Spector, JD-1974, Fenwick & West

Seattle

• Trilby C. E. Robinson-Dorn, JD-1997, K&L Gates

Taipei

• William E. Bryson, JD-1984, Jones Day
  Jones Day
  Jones Day is an international law firm founded in Cleveland, Ohio on March 1, 1893, by Judge Edwin J. Blandin and William Lowe Rice. Jones Day is the eighth largest law firm in the world by revenue, and the fourth highest grossing firm in the US with annual revenues of US$1.4 billion...
  
  
• H. Henry Chang, JD-1987, Baker & McKenzie
  Baker & McKenzie
  Baker & McKenzie is an international law firm, founded in Chicago in 1949 by Russell Baker and John McKenzie. It is home to more than 3,800 lawyers spread over 70 offices in 42 different countries....
  
  
• Bobby W. F. Huang, LLM-1991, MCL-1992, JD-1994, Baker & McKenzie
  Baker & McKenzie
  Baker & McKenzie is an international law firm, founded in Chicago in 1949 by Russell Baker and John McKenzie. It is home to more than 3,800 lawyers spread over 70 offices in 42 different countries....
  
  
• David T. Liou, LLM-1980, Baker & McKenzie
  Baker & McKenzie
  Baker & McKenzie is an international law firm, founded in Chicago in 1949 by Russell Baker and John McKenzie. It is home to more than 3,800 lawyers spread over 70 offices in 42 different countries....
  
  

Tokyo

• Motonori Araki, LLM-1988, Morrison & Foerster
• Kenichi Nakayama, LLM-1990, Baker & McKenzie
  Baker & McKenzie
  Baker & McKenzie is an international law firm, founded in Chicago in 1949 by Russell Baker and John McKenzie. It is home to more than 3,800 lawyers spread over 70 offices in 42 different countries....
  
  

Washington, D.C.

• Shauna E. Alonge, JD-1979, Crowell & Moring
  Crowell & Moring
  Crowell & Moring is an international law firm headquartered in Washington, D.C., with offices in Irvine, New York City, Los Angeles, Anchorage, San Francisco, London and Brussels, and around 450 lawyers....
  
  
• M. Miller Baker, JD-1984, McDermott Will
• Thomas C. Bogle, JD-2001, Dechert LLP
• Alan T. Dickey, JD-1996, Patton Boggs LLP
• Alan M. Fisch, JD-1994, Kaye Scholer
• Bryant E. Gardner, JD-2000, Winston & Strawn
• Darrin L. Glymph, JD-1993, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe
  Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe
  Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP is an international law firm founded in San Francisco. Orrick traces its roots back to 1863, making it the oldest continuously-operating law firm in San Francisco, and the second-oldest privately-held company in San Francisco after Levi Strauss & Co....
  
  
• Pamela S. Kane, JD-1994, Howrey
• Michael J. McManus, JD-1975, Drinker Biddle
• Vanessa Richelle Wilson, JD-1994, Dewey & LeBoeuf
  Dewey & LeBoeuf
  Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP is a prominent global white shoe law firm, headquartered in New York City. Originally founded in 1909, the firm currently has over 2400 lawyers spread throughout 26 offices in 15 countries on 4 continents, and is known primarily for its corporate, insurance, litigation, tax and...
  
  
• Josh Romanow, JD, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman
  Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman
  Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP is an international, full-service law firm with strengths in the energy, financial services, real estate and technology sectors and offices located throughout the United States and the world, including key financial centers such as New York, London, Tokyo and...
  
  
• Lisa K. Rushton, JD-1994, Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP
• Ugo Colella, JD-1996, Patton Boggs LLP
• Jennifer Ancona Semko, JD-1998, Baker & McKenzie
  Baker & McKenzie
  Baker & McKenzie is an international law firm, founded in Chicago in 1949 by Russell Baker and John McKenzie. It is home to more than 3,800 lawyers spread over 70 offices in 42 different countries....
  
  
• Robert H. Shulman, JD-1979, Howrey
• Stephen M. Spina, JD-1996, Morgan Lewis
• Jay T. Taylor, JD-2000, McDermott Will
• D. Jean Veta, JD-1981, Covington & Burling
  Covington & Burling
  Covington & Burling LLP is an international law firm with offices in Beijing, Brussels, London, New York, San Francisco, Silicon Valley, San Diego, and Washington, DC. The firm advises multinational corporations on significant transactional, litigation, regulatory, and public policy matters...
  
  
• Matthew K. White, JD-1997, McDermott Will

Popular culture references

• In The Pelican Brief
  The Pelican Brief (film)
  The Pelican Brief is a 1993 legal crime thriller based on the novel of the same name by John Grisham. Directed by Alan J. Pakula, the film stars Julia Roberts in the role of young law student Darby Shaw and Denzel Washington as Washington Herald reporter Gray Grantham...
  
  , Julia Roberts
  Julia Roberts
  Julia Fiona Roberts is an American actress. She became a Hollywood star after headlining the romantic comedy Pretty Woman , which grossed $464 million worldwide...
  
   plays the role of a precocious 24-year-old Tulane Law student.
• In JFK
  JFK (film)
  JFK is a 1991 American film directed by Oliver Stone. It examines the events leading to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and alleged subsequent cover-up, through the eyes of former New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison .Garrison filed charges against New Orleans businessman Clay...
  
  , an Oliver Stone
  Oliver Stone
  William Oliver Stone is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. Stone became well known in the late 1980s and the early 1990s for directing a series of films about the Vietnam War, for which he had previously participated as an infantry soldier. His work frequently focuses on...
  
   film, Tulane Law School graduate Jim Garrison
  Jim Garrison
  Earling Carothers "Jim" Garrison — who changed his first name to Jim in the early 1960s — was the District Attorney of Orleans Parish, Louisiana from 1962 to 1973. A member of the Democratic Party, he is best known for his investigations into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy...
  
   was played by Kevin Costner
  Kevin Costner
  Kevin Michael Costner is an American actor, singer, musician, producer, director, and businessman. He has been nominated for three BAFTA Awards, won two Academy Awards, and two Golden Globe Awards. Costner's roles include Lt. John J...
  
  .
• In the sitcom Frank's Place
  Frank's Place
  Frank's Place is an American comedy-drama series which aired on CBS for 22 episodes during the 1987-1988 television schedule. The series was created by Hugh Wilson and executive produced by Wilson and series star Tim Reid.-Plot:Set in New Orleans, Frank's Place chronicles the life of Frank Parrish...
  
  , Bubba Weisberger (played by Robert Harper
  Robert Harper (actor)
  Robert Harper is an American actor. He is perhaps most well known for his role as Sharkey in Once Upon a Time in America. He has also portrayed Charlie Gereson in Creepshow and Bubba 'Si' Weisberger in the CBS sitcom Frank's Place...
  
  ) was a graduate of Tulane Law School.
• In Taking Back Our Town (a 2001 Lifetime movie), Myndy Crist played Tulane Environmental Law Clinic (TELC)
  Tulane Environmental Law Clinic
  The Tulane Environmental Law Clinic is a legal clinic that Tulane Law School has operated since 1989 to offer law students the practical experience of representing real clients in actual legal proceedings under state and federal environmental laws....
  
   supervising attorney Lisa LaVie (Jordan) in a drama about a TELC case.
• The 2009 documentary “Abode” features footage of a TELC student's oral argument before the Louisiana Public Service Commission
  Louisiana Public Service Commission
  Louisiana Public Service Commission is an independent regulatory agency which manages public utilities and motor carriers in Louisiana. The commission has five elected members chosen in single-member districts for staggered six-year terms...
  
  .
• The TELC's work was featured in the 2000 documentary “Green.”
• PBS
  Public Broadcasting Service
  The Public Broadcasting Service is an American non-profit public broadcasting television network with 354 member TV stations in the United States which hold collective ownership. Its headquarters is in Arlington, Virginia....
  
  ’s series “Now” featured TELC’s work in its July 15, 2005 episode, “Formula for Disaster."
• CBS
  CBS
  CBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of...
  
  ’s series “60 Minutes II
  60 Minutes II
  60 Minutes II was a weekly primetime news magazine television program that was intended to replicate the "signature style, journalistic quality and integrity" of the original 60 Minutes series.It aired on CBS on Wednesdays, then later moved to Fridays at 8 p.m...
  
  ” featured TELC’s work in its March 24, 2000 episode “Justice for Sale?”
• PBS’s series “Frontline” featured TELC’s work in its November 23, 1999 episode, "Justice for Sale"

External links

• Tulane University Law School
• ABA School Data

See also

• Civil Law Commentaries
  Civil Law Commentaries
  Civil Law Commentaries is an open access publication of the at the Tulane University Law School. It is published online annually and a student-edited publication dedicated to the study of the Louisiana Civil Code and the state's long civilian tradition....
  
  
• Tulane Corporate Law Institute
  Tulane Corporate Law Institute
  The Tulane Corporate Law Institute is an annual two-day M&A and corporate law conference that takes place in downtown New Orleans every spring. It attracts the most high-profile lawyers and bankers from around the United States, as well as judges, journalists, and others who follow the dealmaking...
  
  
• Tulane Environmental Law Clinic
  Tulane Environmental Law Clinic
  The Tulane Environmental Law Clinic is a legal clinic that Tulane Law School has operated since 1989 to offer law students the practical experience of representing real clients in actual legal proceedings under state and federal environmental laws....
  
  
• Tulane Journal of International and Comparative Law
  Tulane Journal of International and Comparative Law
  The Tulane Journal of International and Comparative Law was founded at Tulane University Law School, in New Orleans, Louisiana, as an outgrowth of that institution's historical tradition as a signpost in the academic world for international and comparative law...
  
  
• Tulane Law School Domestic Violence Clinic
  Tulane Law School Domestic Violence Clinic
  The Tulane Domestic Violence Clinic is a United States clinical legal-education program with an established record of providing holistic services to survivors of domestic violence and filling important gaps in the existing legal services in the Orleans and Jefferson parishes of New Orleans...
  
  
• Tulane Maritime Law Journal
  Tulane Maritime Law Journal
  The Tulane Maritime Law Journal is the preeminent student-edited law journal in the field of Admiralty and Maritime Law. Published semi-annually, each issue of the Journal includes scholarly works written by academics, practitioners, and students concerning current topics in Admiralty and Maritime...