N.O. lawyers still not back
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Oct 25, 2005 05:06 AM
JOE GYAN J.
2theadvocate.com
NEW ORLEANS -- The Louisiana State Bar Association quietly reopened its St. Charles Avenue headquarters Monday, eight weeks after Hurricane Katrina struck. Now, the group needs its lawyers to come back home.
Pre-Katrina, there were more than 18,700 lawyers in Louisiana. But nearly 8,000 of them -- 5,500 in Orleans Parish, several thousand in neighboring Jefferson Parish and several hundred more in St. Bernard and Plaquemines parishes combined -- were displaced by the storm.
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