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December 2010

Chancellor Announces Appointment of Jake T. Henry as Admissions Director

December 22, 2010

Chancellor Jack M. Weiss has announced the appointment of Jake T. Henry III as Director of Admissions for the LSU Law Center.  Since 2007, Henry has held the position of Associate Director of Admissions at the University of Florida Levin College of Law, where he was integrally involved in the application and admissions process, including off-campus and minority recruitment and faculty and alumni participation in the student recruitment process. “Mr. Henry brings a wide range of experience and knowledge to his new position at the Law Center.  I have every confidence that he will be an outstanding leader of the…
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Students Donate to Ryan LoProto Endowed Scholarshp

December 21, 2010

For several years, LSU Law students have organized and participated in an annual Barrister’s Bowl football game to raise money to support the Make a Wish Foundation.  This past spring, the students raised $2,000 in excess of their targeted goal. The Bowl committee donated the funds to the Law Center in support of the Ryan LoProto Endowed Scholarship.  This is the second year that the students have provided funds to support the Scholarship. Ryan was an LSU Law student who tragically died in Spain when studying abroad in 2005.  The scholarship was established in his memory by friends and family. Pictured from left…
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Alumni and Friends Invited to Audit Special Course on Legal Issues Surrounding the BP Oil Spill

December 7, 2010

The LSU Law Center invites alumni and friends to join with LSU law students in exploring the legal issues posed by the BP Oil Spill.  Because of the overwhelming public interest in this litigation and its certain persistence over the next decade, the Law Center will open registration to alums and friends on an “audit-only” basis. Law 5730 Federal Natural Resources and Public Land Law (2) will be taught by Chancellor-Emeritus John Costonis, the Judge Albert Tate and Rosemary Neal Hawkland Professor of Law.   Interested parties may apply through the LSU Law Office of Admissions and Student Records as…
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