Community Honors
New Orleans Magazine, Top New Orleans Lawyers, 2012-2021
Recipient, Camille Gravelle Pro Bono Award, Federal Bar Association, New Orleans Chapter, 2007
Lawdragon 3000 (list of top American lawyers), 2006
Recipient, Gambit Magazine, Forty-Under-Forty Award, 2002
Recipient, Louisiana State Bar Association, President’s Award, 2001
Recipient, City Business Magazine, Power Generation Award, 2000
Recipient, Gillis Long Poverty Law Center Public Service Award, 1997
Community Service
Lawyer Disciplinary Committee, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana
Member, 2016-2017
Chairperson, 2010-2016
City of New Orleans Ethics Review Board
Executive Administrator and General Counsel, 2018-present
General Counsel, 2015-2018
Associate Executive Director, Louisiana Association of Defense Counsel, 2009-present
Member, American Law Institute, 2003-present
Legal Analyst, Various National, State, and Local Media, 1998-present
Reporter, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana Committee on Revising Attorney Disciplinary Procedures, 2009-2010
Board Member, Louisiana Organization for Judicial Excellence, 2004
Instructor, Louisiana State Bar Association Diversionary Ethics School, 1999-2000
Member, Louisiana State Bar Association Codes of Conduct Committee, 1998-2000
Member, Louisiana State Bar Association Quality of Life Task Force, 2015-2018
Member, Federal Criminal Justice Act Panel, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana (panel of attorneys accepting appointments to represent indigent defendants in federal prosecutions), 1991-present
Member, Louisiana State Bar Association Professionalism Committee, 1997-2006
Member, Louisiana State Bar Association Board of Governors, 2007-2009
Board Member, Orleans Parish Indigent Defender Program, 2006-2007
Reporter, Louisiana State Bar Association Ethics 2000 Committee, 1999-2004
Reporter, Louisiana State Law Institute Emancipation Committee, 2004-2008
Reporter, Louisiana State Law Institute Tutorship Procedure Committee, 2000-2009
Reporter, Louisiana State Law Institute Interdiction Committee, 1996-2002
Member, Louisiana Supreme Court Committee on the Prevention of Lawyer Misconduct, 1999-2003
Member, Louisiana State Law Institute Criminal Law Committee, 2006-2009
Interim Host, It’s the Law, Cox Cable Television New Orleans and Jefferson Produced by New Orleans Bar Association, December 1999-2000
Louisiana State Bar Association, Ethics Advisory Committee, Member, 2000-2003, Reporter, 1997-2000
Council Member, Louisiana State Law Institute, 1997-2000
Louisiana Attorney Disciplinary Board, Hearing Committee Member, 1998-1999, Hearing Committee Chairperson, 1999-2003
Louisiana Supreme Court Bar Admissions Advisory Committee, Member, 1997-1999, Chairperson, 1999-2001
Director, Pro Bono Criminal Law for Civil Lawyers (two-day CLE seminar training civil lawyers to undertake pro bono criminal cases), 1995-2002
Advisory Editor, Tulane Law Review, 1993-2009
Member, Board of Directors, Louisiana Capital Assistance Center (public-interest organization defending capital cases for indigent clients), 1996-2006
Appointed Counsel, Orleans Parish Criminal District Court (pro bono representation of indigent defendants in first- and second-degree murder prosecutions), 1991-2008
Evaluator, American Bar Association, Central European Law Initiative, March 1999 (evaluated code of legal ethics for the Republic of Armenia)
Loyola University and College of Law Service
Faculty Advisor, Loyola College of Law Honor Board, 2002-present
Director, University of Vienna International Program, 2013-present
Loyola College of Law Petitions Committee, Chair, 2015-present
Loyola College of Law Skills and CLE Committee, Member, 2015-present
Loyola College of Law International Programs Committee
Member, 2010-201
Chair, 2011-2012
Faculty Advisor, Loyola Law Review, 1997-2003, 2006
Faculty Advisor, Order of the Barristers, 1998-2003
Faculty Advisor, Loyola Intellectual Property Law Quarterly, 1996-2002
Faculty Advisor, Loyola ATLA Chapter, 1997-2002
Law School Representative, Loyola University Senate, 1997-1999
Loyola Law School Dean Search Committee
Chairperson, 2001-2002
Member, 2000-2001
Chairperson, Loyola Law School Law Clinic Committee, 2005-2007
Chairperson, Loyola Law School Faculty Unification Committee, 2004
Chairperson, Loyola Law School Library Director Search Committee, 2000-2001
Member, Loyola Law School By-Laws Committee, 2000-2001
Member, Loyola Law School Pre-Admissions Committee, 1998-1999
Member, Loyola Law School Tenure Guidelines Committee, 1998-1999
Member, Loyola Law School Library Committee, 1997-1998, 2013-2015
Member, Loyola Law School Skills Committee, 1997–1998
Member, Loyola Law School Curriculum Committee, 1996-1997
Member, Loyola Law School Admissions Committee, 1996-1997
Member, Loyola Law School Student Recruitment and Career Services Committee, 1995-1996