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2014 Suit Up for the Future

LSBA Suit Up 2014

Suit Up students Morgan Grant and Bria Hayes with Will Snowden.

Between June 17-20th, Orleans Public Defenders hosted six high school students participating in the Louisiana State Bar Association’s Suit Up For The Future: Summer Legal Institute program.

Paired with OPD staff attorneys Lauren Anderson, Adrienne Cousins, Anna Fecker, Max Gumina, Lindsey Samuel, Tina Peng and Will Snowden, these students received insight into the legal profession from the office to the courtroom through the LSBA’s “Shadowing Assignment.”

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