Professor Michelle Ghetti, Southern University Law Center - On Hurricane Katrina’s effect on the Administration of Justice
Brad Drell @ 5:17 pm

I’m sorry for not deleting the arrows and making other formatting changes; things have been a bit crazy to blog as I usually would. But, Professor Ghetti’s thoughts were very sobering. While lawyers are often the object of many jokes, this is simply no laughing matter.

>Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 8:22 AM
>Subject: Lawyers lives & the justice system devastated

>>I know your hearts, in particular, are for lawyers. Think of this…

>>5,000 - 6,000 lawyers (1/3 of the lawyers in Louisiana) have lost their>offices, their libraries, their computers with all information thereon,>their client files - possibly their clients, as one attorney who>e-mailed me noted. As I mentioned before, they are scattered from>Florida to Arizona and have nothing to return to. Their children’s>schools are gone and, optimistically, the school systems in 8>parishes/counties won’t be re-opened until after December. They must>re-locate their lives.

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