IgniteNOLA is part of the Ignite Series which started in 2006 by Brady Forrest and Bre Pettis.  The objective is for innovators to share their ideas with one another.  The tag line: “Enlighten Us, But […]

So, I guess the title of this post is a little misleading. Not because this isn’t about getting arrested at Jazz Fest – it is – but because many people who get arrested around this […]

Watching Treme on HBO, like everyone here in New Orleans, I am prone to look for what is true New Orleans, and what is not. And being a criminal defense attorney (and one who was back working during the fall of 2005) I tend to be more critical of those parts of the show portraying the criminal justice system…and there are many. So I am going to throw my hat in the ring with the many Treme critics, but only insofar as my thoughts on the accuracy of the show’s depiction of crime and criminal justice after the storm.

Well, I didn’t make the 2009 list of top lawyers in New Orleans, but it looks like someone thinks I know what I am doing. I include an excerpt from the blog post I just […]

A recent email I received from Virginia Schlueter, Chief Federal Defender in the Eastern District of Louisiana, details some big news regarding sentencing in Federal Court. I have copied the email in full:

On April […]