For the second year in a row, Mouledoux Bland Legrand & Brackett is proud to have been a sponsor of the Greater New Orleans Martinet Legal Society & Foundation Annual Jazz Brunch & Scholarship Gala. Entitled “Steering Democracy Through Legal Leadership,” the Gala was held on September 16, 2023, at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in New Orleans, Louisiana. Ashley DeMouy (Louis A. Martinet Society Member), Ava Wolf, E. Quinn Hamilton, and Lauren Paysse were in attendance
The annual event benefits the New Orleans Martinet Legal Foundation, Inc., the 501(c)(3) non profit branch of Martinet, which provides scholarship funds to both undergraduate and law students at local universities and also funds Martinet’s community service efforts that effectuate change and benefit our community-at-large.
About the Greater New Orleans Martinet Society
The objective of the Louis A. Martinet Society is to encourage the interchange of ideas, promote legal scholarship, advance the science of jurisprudence, promote the administration of justice, uphold the order and ethics of the courts and the profession of law, and promote the welfare of the legal profession in Louisiana. The Louis A. Martinet Society was founded in 1957 by—Earl J. Amedee; Israel M. Augustine; Louis Berry; Lionel Collins; Robert F. Collins; Niles R. Douglas; Norman C. Francis; Benjamin J. Johnson; Alvin Jones; Vanue B. LaCour; Ernest N. Morial; Justice Revius Ortique, Jr.; J. T. Powell; James Smith; A. P. Tureaud; Freddie Warren and Lawrence Wheeler. These African-American lawyers, committed themselves, just as Martinet Society members do today, to combating racial injustices and inequalities in and outside of Louisiana’s courtrooms.
The Martinet Society has chapters throughout the state of Louisiana.