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Suit Up for the Future 2025 Program Agenda


Week 1 Schedule



Monday, June 9, 2025
8:45 AM to 9:00 AM
Arrival and Check-In
Suit Up Photo IDs

9:00 AM to 9:15 AM
Welcome

Presenter: Edward J. Walters, Jr., LSBA President 2025-2026

9:15 AM to 9:45 AM
Welcome
Choose Law Video (American Young Lawyers Division)

Presenter: Honorable Karen Wells Roby, Just the Beginning (JTB) (Magistrate Judge, United States District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana), New Orleans, LA

9:45 AM to 10:30 AM
Welcome
Orientation/Program Overview
Introduction of Interns

Presenter: Members of the Pipeline to Diversity and Outreach Subcommittee, Co-chair(s) Tiffany L. Delery, Chehardy Sherman Williams Recile & Hayes, Jefferson, LA; Scherri N. Guidry,15th JDC Public Defender Office - Lafayette Parish, Crowley, LA; Suit Up Interns

10:30 AM to 10:45 AM
Break
Suit Up Photo IDs

10:45 AM to 11:00 AM
Icebreaker

Presenter: Members of the Pipeline to Diversity and Outreach Subcommittee, Co-chair(s) Tiffany L. Delery, Chehardy Sherman Williams Recile & Hayes, Jefferson, LA; Scherri N. Guidry,15th JDC Public Defender Office - Lafayette Parish, Crowley, LA; Suit Up Interns

11:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Introduction of Mock Problem for Oral Argument

Presenter: Members of the Pipeline to Diversity and Outreach Subcommittee, Co-chair(s) Tiffany L. Delery, Chehardy Sherman Williams Recile & Hayes, Jefferson, LA; Scherri N. Guidry,15th JDC Public Defender Office - Lafayette Parish, Crowley, LA; Suit Up Interns

11:30 AM to 12:30 PM
Lunch
Suit Up Photo IDs

12:30 PM to 4:00 PM
Legal Research and Writing

Presenter: Professor Emily A. Bishop, Director of the Lawyering Program and Professor of Practice, Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, New Orleans, LA

1:30 PM to 1:45 PM
Break

2:45 PM to 3:00 PM
Break

4:00 PM to 4:30 PM
Mock Legal Problem/ Questions, Mock Legal Argument Team Assignments; Suit Up Evaluation

Presenter: Suit Up Interns

4:30 PM to 4:45 PM
Sign Out and Transportation Arrival

Tuesday, June 10, 2025
8:45 AM to 9:00 AM
Arrival and Check-in

9:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Memorandum Outline Preparation
Discussion of Mock Problem and Case Law

Presenter: Suit Up Interns

12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
Lunch

1:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Contracts

Presenter: Professor Kenya J. H. Smith, Associate Law Professor, Paul M. Hebert Law Center (LSU), Baton Rouge, LA

2:00 PM to 2:15 PM
Break

3:00 PM to 3:15 PM
Break

4:00 PM to 4:30 PM
Suit Up Evaluation

4:30 PM to 4:45 PM
Sign Out and Transportation Arrival

Wednesday, June 11, 2025
8:45 AM to 9:00 AM
Arrival and Check-in

9:00 AM to 11:00 AM
Memorandum Outline and Oral Argument Preparation
Viewing of Past Oral Arguments

Presenter: Suit Up Interns

11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Resume Preparation

Presenter: Suit Up Interns

12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
Lunch

1:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Memorandum Outline Preparation

Presenter: Suit Up Interns

4:00 PM to 4:30 PM
Suit Up Evaluation

4:30 PM to 4:45 PM
Sign Out and Transportation Arrival

Thursday, June 12, 2025
8:45 AM to 9:00 AM
Arrival and Check-in
MEMO OUTLINE ASSIGNMENT DEADLINE

9:30 AM to 10:00 AM
Break

10:30 AM to 12:00 PM
Constitutional Law

Presenter: Professor Angela A. Allen-Bell, B. K. Agnihotri Endowed Professor, Southern University Law Center, Baton Rouge, LA

12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
Lunch

1:00 PM to 3:00 PM
Oral Argument Workshop: How to Deliver an Oral Argument

Presenter: Professor Jeffrey C. Brooks, Assistant Professor of Professional Practice, LSU Paul M. Hebert Law Center, Baton Rouge, LA

2:00 PM to 2:10 PM
Break

3:00 PM to 3:15 PM
Break

3:15 PM to 4:00 PM
Memorandum Preparation

Presenter: Suit Up Interns

4:00 PM to 4:30 PM
Suit Up Evaluation

4:30 PM to 4:45 PM
Sign Out and Transportation Arrival

Friday, June 13, 2025
8:45 AM to 9:00 AM
Arrival and Check-in
DRAFT OF RESUME ASSIGNMENT DEADLINE

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