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june bar luncheon FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 2013 • BY LARANDA MOFFETT WALKER LSU Men’s Basketball Head Coach Johnny Jones to speak The Young Lawyers Section of In 2010, Jones was named a the BRBA is hosting the June Bar finalist for the Ben Jobe Award, Luncheon Friday, June 14, at 11:45 which is given annually to the a.m. at De La Ronde Hall. The nation’s top minority coach. luncheon will feature LSU Men’s Grab your law clerks and come Basketball Head Coach Johnny learn more about Coach Jones and Jones as guest speaker. his plan for the Tigers. Partners or Jones, who is a DeRidder, La., associates will introduce summer native, played four years at LSU and law clerks during the luncheon. was a member as a freshman of the Cost to attend the luncheon is $20 1981 NCAA Final Four team under per BRBA member; $30 per guest. Coach Dale Brown. Nicknamed Law clerks may attend at the BRBA “The Bullet,” Jones started 54 member rate. We accept payment career games, led the team in assists in advance and at the door. VISA, as a junior, and was ranked among MasterCard, American Express and the top five in the SEC that year. Discover are accepted. He served 13 years on the coaching Register online at www.brba. staff at LSU, and was on the staff org or RSVP by sending the form when the Tigers became, at that below to Meredith French by time, the first 11-seed to advance fax (225)344-4805 or by email: to the NCAA Final Four in 1986. meredith@brba.org by 4:30 p.m. Jones is the only person in LSU Monday, June 10, 2013. Checks Coach Johnny Jones history to both play and coach in should be made payable to the an NCAA Final Four. Baton Rouge Bar Association, and mailed to P.O. Box Prior to returning to LSU, Jones spent time coaching 2241, Baton Rouge, LA 70821. at Memphis, Alabama and North Texas. Please complete this form and fax this entire page to the Baton Rouge Bar Association at (225) 344-4805 by 4:30 p.m., Monday, June 10, 2013. Bar Roll No.__________________________ Please check applicable boxes: ❏ BRBA member ❏ non-member ❏ summer law clerk Name____________________________________________________ Firm__________________________________________ Address_________________________________________________________________________________________________ City ________________________________________________________ State ____________ Zip _______________________ Phone ___________________________________________________ Fax ___________________________________________ Email ___________________________________ ❏ YES, register me for the JUNE BAR LUNCHEON at De La Ronde Hall, which will take place FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 2013, at a cost of $20 for members of the Baton Rouge, and at a cost of $30 for non-members or guests. Reservations may be transferred, but not canceled, after 4:30 p.m. Monday, June 10, 2013. “No shows” will be billed. To register for this luncheon online and pay by credit card, go to www.BRBA.org, select the EVENTS tab, then click on LIST and choose the appropriate event. If paying by credit card, please include the following: Name on credit card_________________________________ Type of card: (circle one): MC VISA AmExp Discover Card Number:______________________________________ Exp. Date: ___________________ Security code: _________ 6 Around the Bar June 2013
tales from the bar side BY VINCENT P. FORNIAS Fewer areas have been as revolutionized by The Age of Computers as the field of courtroom demonstrative evidence. I still recall back in the days of Disco the inimitable “Chick” Moore making a cottage industry out of lecturing to a collection of spellbound lawyers on such cutting edge tools as slide projections or full poster blow ups. PowerPoint Digitalized animations Not even remotely imaginable. Our setting is sometime in the early presidency of Bush the Elder, and the proceedings were in the 23rd Judicial District Court in the newly renovated courthouse in Donaldsonville. Our own Gail Stephenson represented the defendant. Plaintiff’s attorney, who will remain unnamed, apparently felt a need to appeal to the instincts of a rural jury, so in his closing argument he summoned a chalkboard and started drawing the frontal vestiges of what appeared to be some sort of bovine creature in the midst of a pastoral scene with the sun shining above, birds in the sky, and grass carpeting the pasture. Then he stopped his artistry and got to his point, Drawing your own conclusions which was the forgiving nature of his burden of proof. He admonished the jury that he did not have to draw the rest of his picture for them to know what his case was about: “We have a cow standing in a pasture.” Even if the picture was partly incomplete, he noted, they were to use their own common sense and powers of fair play in deciding that he had drawn enough of the picture to establish that it was more likely a cow than not. When he sat, Gail, summoning her own rural roots, paced matter-of-factly to the half-drawn landscape and, eraser in hand, declared to the jury that without additional key facts it was very difficult to tell a cow (see Gail draw and then eviscerate the udder from the picture) “from just plain bull.” (Gratefully, Gail spared the jury her own prospective anatomical confirmation of the sex of the beast.) The jury was charmed, and heaven knows where plaintiff’s counsel’s artistic leanings took him on rebuttal. What we do know is that soon thereafter the jury returned with a verdict for the defense. Volunteer writers needed to submit substantive legal articles for publication in future Around the Bar issues. Contact Pamela Labbe at pamela@brba.org or 225-214-5560 for more information. BATON ROUGE BAR ASSOCIATION LAW EXPO 2013 & October Bar Luncheon Thursday, Oct. 3 L’Auberge Casino & Hotel Baton Rouge 777 L’Auberge Ave. • Up to 3.0 hours of CLE available • Come listen to H. Alston Johnson III’s Annual Legislative Update • October Bar Luncheon • Tradeshow booths • Great Give-Away Items For booth rental info., contact Pamela Labbe at pamela@brba.org or 225-214-5560. June 2013 Around the Bar 7
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