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Solo and Small Firms Section Officers

  Faun Fenderson, Chair (2005 to present)

A Nebraska native, Ms. Fenderson adopted New Orleans in 1983, following six years of study in Baton Rouge. Her education, like her life experience, is varied: B.A. in French Literature from Florida Atlantic University (1976); Master of Library Science from Louisiana State University (1977); and Juris Doctor from Southern University School of Law (1981). Ms. Fenderson has twenty-five years experience as a practicing attorney and legal library specialist, fifteen of those as a sole practitioner of wills and successions, real estate, and elder law.
faun@faunfenderson.com


  Carl J. Selenberg, Vice Chair

Mr. Selenberg is self employed in the private practice of law. His main areas of practice are successions, wills, domestic, and corporation law. Education: Tulane University School of Law, New Orleans, Louisiana. Degree of Juris Doctor,1970; University of Southwestern Louisiana, Lafayette, Louisiana, Degree of Bachelor of Arts in History, 1967. Courts Admitted to Practice: Louisiana State Supreme Court; United States District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana; United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.
carl@cselenberg.nocoxmail.com


  James F. Willeford, Immediate Past Chair (2002- 2004)

Mr. Willeford has been practicing law as a solo practitioner since 1992. He concentrates in business litigation, transactional practice, ERISA litigation and stockbroker liability.Mr. Willeford also provides services in connection with alternative dispute resolution, including arbitration and mediation. Mr. Willeford is a qualified NASD arbiter.


  J. Courtney Wilson, Past Chair (1998 - 2001)

Mr. Wilson was born in New Orleans in 1945. He is a graduate of Newman School (1963), UVA (1967), and Tulane Law School (1971). Mr. Wilson was admitted to practice before the California Bar in 1973 and the LSBA in1974. Mr. Wilson is married (1972), and has two children, Alyssa and Brooking. Areas of interest while chair of the S&SF Section: Republishing and websiteing "The Section Connection;" establishing a mandatory office management course in the third year of law school and a mandatory mentoring program for the first year of practice, possibly with Atticus as the provider; continuing our relation with Lawprose which entitles 5 or more members to a $15 discount.
cwilson@courtlaw.net


  Thomas E. Stirewalt, Jr., Past Chair (1995 - 1998)

A "Recovering Attorney" - Currently does computer consulting such as helping with your less-paper office, networking, hardware and software needs. He speaks the language and thinks like a lawyer, thereby minimizing communications misunderstandings. He went to the University of Virginia for B.A. and M.A., Duke for Ph. D., and Tulane Law School for J.D.. He is a past chairman of the Sole Practitioners & Small Firms Section of the Louisiana State Bar Association, and was an active sole practitioner in New Orleans for more than 25 years. He has been involved with computers since graduate school in 1968. He has taught computer/legal application courses through Tulane, Delgado, and the CLE circuit, is the author of a set of Louisiana Civil Practice forms in computer format, as well as The Completely Do-It-Yourself Uncontested Divorce Kit.
TomS@ComputerBrain.net


  Thorne D. Harris III, First Chair (1989 - 1995)

Thorne D. Harris III was born November 5, 1950, in New Orleans, Louisiana and received a B.A. from UNO in 1972 and received a JD from LSU Law School, graduating Order of the Coif, in 1974. He was the first chair of the LSBA Solo and Small Firms Section and is the author of The Legal Guide to Computer Software Protection (Prentice-Hall, Inc. 1985) and The Software Developer's Complete Legal Companion (Prima Publishing, 1994). He has also lectured on a variety of subjects, involving litigation support systems and Management, computer hardware and software for small firms and solo practitioners, and other related issues, as well as copyright and computer law issues. Mr. Harris has a full service general civil practice, including contracts, wills, successions, etc., and manages various complex toxic tort cases nationwide on behalf of certain corporate clients.
Thorne@ThorneDHarrisIII.com


  Cameron C. Gamble

Chair of LSBA Committee on Sole Practitioners and Small Firms, which became current Section (mid 1980s).
gamblelawoffice@bellsouth.net

 

 

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