LACDL • P.O. Box 82531 • Baton Rouge, LA 70884

Phone: 225-767-7640 • Fax: 225-767-7648

CADDO PARISH (SHREVEPORT) LOUISIANA SURRENDERS IN CIVIL WAR - Long since the fallen returned to dust, the Caddo Courthouse will lower the stars and bars, acknowledging the South lost, slavery lost and now racism may have lost. 11 3 11

What is LACDL?

The Louisiana Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers is the only professional association of counsel devoted exclusively to the profession of Criminal Defense.  In 2010 the original LACDL combined with the Louisiana Public Defenders Association in a invigorating unity of purpose: to preserve, protect and defend the Right to Counsel as created by the founding fathers and made part of the fundamental law of the United States and the State of Louisiana.

Annually, the Criminal Bar honors achievement in defense of that principle while also remembering the exceptional service of former Louisiana Supreme Court Justice and U.S. Fifth Circuit Judge Al Tate in a tribute banquet at New Orleans.  Public Defenders and Private Defense Counsel are recognized and honored at this dinner.  But the real core value of the is association is Due Process of Law and the Right to Counsel.

2012  EVENTS

JAZZ FEST CLE - April in New Orleans

SPECIAL REGIONAL ONE DAY PROGRAMS - Shreveport, Baton Rouge, Covington

RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN CRIMINAL LITIGATION -  Lafayette