Membership Information

The Louisiana Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (LACDL) was formed by criminal defense lawyers for criminal defense lawyers. Membership in LACDL means joining your fellow defenders in the struggle for liberty, individual rights, the basic principle of due process, and the fundamental right to a fair trial. With membership in LACDL, you are not alone!

Membership Form, CLE Subscriber, Committee

Interest and Legislative Questionnaire Forms

For a printable membership/subscriber application, as well as a committee sign up sheet and a Legislative Questionnaire, click on the link below.

LACDL 2012 Member Dues Committee and Legislative Forms

Click on the link below to download a membership brochure.

LACDL 2012 Membership Brochure

Attention Attorneys:

Please pay your $10 to be a member of the LSBA Criminal Law Section. The section frequently gives scholarships to public defenders attending LACDL seminars. Your $10 dues payment makes those schlarships possible.

Membership Benefits

CLE Seminars

LACDL sponsors numerous CLE seminars each year, all at a discounted rate for members. LACDL's seminars feature the superstars of contemporary trial tactics and state and nationally recognized experts on legal issues facing the criminal defense bar. Each seminar provides you with opportunities to enhance your skills and knowledge, and to network with your colleagues.

Legislative Advocacy

LACDL has an aggressive program of legislative action in the State Capitol. We retain a lobbyist, who along with the Legislative Committee, provides continuous and aggressive representation on issues of importance to the criminal defense bar. Members volunteer their time to draft position papers, to testify, and to contact legislators.

LACDL List Serve

LACDL List Server subscribers are able to pose questions, seek help, exchange information, etc. with other members who subscribe. To participate, you must be a member of LACDL.

When subscribing below, PLEASE INCLUDE your first and last name

in your request to join the list serve.

If you are already member of our List Serve and would like to view the members or sign in and view archived messages you can click here.

Quarterly Newsletter

The LACDL Advocate, published quarterly, contains the most current criminal justice news and organizational information. To see recent issues, click here.

Amicus Action

Our Amicus Committee files briefs in state and federal courts each year, providing defense counsel and the judiciary with our expertise on issues affecting the constitutional rights of the accused.

Membership Directory

With LACDL's Membership Directory you'll have quick access to Louisiana's leading criminal defense lawyers. Be on the lookout the first of every June for your new and updated Membership Directory.

State Office

LACDL has its State Office in Baton Rouge, providing a full-time staff for assisting members.

Attorney Assistance

Our members are ready to step in when member attorneys are prosecuted, subpoenaed, or cited for contempt for their vigorous defense of their clients.

Jim Boren and John DiGiulio incognito at the first meeting
of the LACDL Charter Members held at Spanish Town Mardi Gras

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

Phone 225-767-7640 • Fax 225-767-7648

"The LACDL Listserve is the greatest thing since sliced bread. It is like being a member of a 400-lawyer criminal defense firm where you can pick the brain of the most senior partner anytime day or night-And, they are always willing to listen and respond with an example brief, a memo, some case citations or just some sound advice."
—Elton B. Richey, Jr.

"My association with LACDL has put me in touch with the most ethical and professional lawyers I have ever met. Being around these people and hearing how they approach tough issues has been tremendously helpful to me."
—Lester Gauthier

"As a young criminal defense attorney, just out of law school and newly moved to Louisiana, I was thrilled and more than a bit awed to join LACDL and rub elbows with the most famous and highly-regarded criminal defense attorneys in Louisiana. That has not changed as the years have passed by. All those hard-working, amazing lawyers have always been willing to answer any question I might have (no matter how dumb that question might be), to represent me when I have needed it (and I have needed it), and to both lend a shoulder to cry on when times were tough and raise a glass when it has been time to celebrate. LACDL helps me keep on remembering why I practice criminal defense law."
—Phyllis E. Mann

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