Message from Frank X. Neuner, Jr., President Louisiana State Bar Association

The following message from Frank X. Neuner, Jr., President Louisiana State Bar Association was sent out by email on September 13, 2005

resident''s Message
For those lawyers and their families who have been displaced by Hurricane Katrina, we hope that you have found adequate shelter and office space to continue your practices. We are attempting to anticipate the needs of displaced lawyers and develop programs to assist them with reestablishing their practices. In that regard, we are working with other Bar Associations to schedule seminars for lawyers who have lost their offices and/or access to their files.

The Louisiana State Bar Association website www.LSBA.org continues to be our primary and most effective means of communication. We know that many of you are having trouble with telephone service, and if you need to reach me the most effective way is to email me at fneuner@LN-LAW.com.

I have been working closely with the Louisiana Supreme Court and Attorney General Charles Foti''s office to coordinate our efforts in meeting the needs of the public and the lawyers of Louisiana with regard to the justice system. The LSBA will continue to post on our website orders from the Louisiana Supreme Court and other Louisiana Courts. I urge you to visit www.LSBA.org on a daily basis for new information and services.

The LSBA owes a special debt of gratitude to the State Bar of Texas for sending five key staff members to Lafayette for several days in the week following the hurricane. These individuals were instrumental in establishing our temporary offices and organizing the Bar’s disaster legal assistance seminars.

Finally, while the Bar Center is operating from its temporary offices in Lafayette, I ask for your patience and consideration. Like many of you, members of the staff have had their personal lives turned upside down and are displaced. Despite this, may of them have been working long hours since the week Katrina hit to update the website and otherwise assist members of our Association and the public. Your patience and understanding when dealing with the LSBA staff will be greatly appreciated.

Regards,
Frank X. Neuner, Jr., President
Louisiana State Bar Association