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The LSBA offers its members print and online publications to stay current on general legal issues and on Association projects and services. Members receive the LSBA's archived publication, the Louisiana Bar Journal, a bimonthly magazine containing substantive law articles and Association news. The Recent Developments section in each Journal is essential reading for lawyers to learn of changes in the laws. LSBA members also receive the online, bimonthly Bar Briefs. which features Association news.

Disclaimer: Contributions to the Louisiana State Bar Association’s website and the Louisiana Bar Journal are welcomed, but the right is reserved to select material to be published. Publication of any article or statement is not to be deemed a statement or an endorsement of the views expressed therein by the LSBA or any member of the LSBA, nor shall publication of any advertisement be considered a statement or an endorsement of the product or service involved by the LSBA or any member of the LSBA. Views expressed are those of the authors and contributors only.

The LSBA archives the Louisiana Bar Journal and the Bar Briefs online. To search for a specific article or to review the whole publications, you may query the publication database by month, year and/or keyword.  Review disclaimer information. 

Read the Louisiana Bar Journal, Volume I, Number I, July 1953.

Read the Louisiana Bar Journal, Volume 33, Number 4, December 1985, "Space Law for the Louisiana Practitioner" by Anthony P. Dunbar.

Louisiana Bar Journal: August/September 2025 - Vol. 73 No. 2
Whole Publication (19.35 MB)
President's Message (280 KB)
It's in Your Hands
Edward J. Walters, Jr., 2025-26 LSBA President
Featured Article (3.49 MB)
Retroactivity and the Vested-Rights Doctrine in the Wake of Louisiana’s Amended Direct Action Statute
K. Jacob Ruppert
Featured Article (2.90 MB)
The Role and Regulation of Pharmacy Benefit Managers: A Legal Perspective from Louisiana
Carrie LeBlanc Jones
Featured Article (7.44 MB)
Portraits & Perspectives: One on One with Louisiana Supreme Court Associate Justice John Michael Guidry
Bradley J. Tate and Justice John Michael Guidry
Featured Article (370 KB)
Q & A: Smokeball’s Free Trust Accounting / Time and Billing Tool Available to All LSBA Members A Q&A with Jane Oxley, Global Chief Revenue Officer and Co-Founder of Smokeball
Shawn L. Holahan
Featured Article (2.62 MB)
2025 LSBA Annual Meeting and LBJ / LSBA Joint Summer School Wrapup
LSBA Staff
Recent Developments (2.49 MB)
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