C’EST BON
The LSU Eunice Lady Bengal softball team hopped a bus Tuesday for a 17-hour trek to Bloomington, Ill., and the National Junior College Athletic Association Division II championship tournament. The squad has compiled an impressive 37-16 record and is ranked sixth in the nation in NJCAA Div. II. That’s another feather in the athletic cap of LSUE, which has bejeweled the diamond with excellence over the last few years in both softball and baseball. You go, girls!
PAS BON
Known for their TV commercial slogan, “Get the E. Eric Guarantee,” Baton Rouge attorneys E. Eric Guirard and Thomas R. Pittenger now have some time to rethink their business model. The personal injury lawyers and partners in the firm E. Eric Guirard & Associates had their law licenses yanked for five years last week by a Louisiana Supreme Court that said “enough already.” The court’s vote was unanimous, suggesting Guirard’s and Pittenger’s sins were egregious even by ambulance-chasing standards; the justices, however, stopped short of the Louisiana Disciplinary Board’s recommendation that the pair be permanently disbarred. Bar investigators found that Guirard and Pittenger conscripted non-lawyer employees to quickly settle client cases for a cut of the settlement, in effect to practice law. When it comes to the legal profession, practice does not make perfect.
COUILLON
Members of his own party are calling for him to resign or publicly apologize, but so far Louisiana Republican Party Chairman Roger Villere is doing neither. Villere came under fire from fellow Repubs when he pulled off one of the more ham-fisted and embarrassing attempts at political intimidation in recent Louisiana history. After House Speaker Pro Tem Karen Peterson, a New Orleans Democrat, criticized Gov. Bobby Jindal for opposing a bill that would open up his office to greater public scrutiny, Villere fired off a public records request for documents pertaining to the schedules and e-mails of Peterson and her staff. Villere, however, is unlikely to pursue his gambit much further: House Clerk Butch Speer informed the GOP boss that it would cost nearly $200,000 to fulfill his request.
In rendering his ruling, District Judge John Trahan all but called the real estate developer a liar for inconsistencies in his accounts of what prompted him to punch a school teacher unconscious.
Frank’s Casing Crew, now doing business as Frank’s International, will make its final appearance on ABiz’s list of the Top 50 Privately Held Companies in Acadiana this year, and once again it will likely be at the top with more than $1 billion in annual revenues. The 75-year-old company specializing in tubular fabrication and installation services to the oil and gas industry plans to offer shares of its stock to the public for the first time.
The defeat, or rather highjacking of House Bill 420 in the final days of this year's Legislative Session, say Reps. Vincent Pierre and Terry Landry, is the result of the propaganda spread by one unidentified local media outlet and an unnamed former state Representative, but nothing to do with the original legislation's lack of checks, balances or details.
City-Parish Council Chairman Brandon Shelvin heaped steady doses of condescending ire on a Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Louisiana executive while failing to reveal his financial ties to a BC/BS rival.
Abbeville native David Primeaux was a popular professor until his death late last year, and while he was successful at camouflaging a dark past, he couldn’t outlive it.
Tehmi Chassion’s failure to recuse himself in the school board’s selection of a group health benefits provider raises ‘serious questions’ on whether he violated state ethics law.
He’s a singer. A songwriter. A piano man. A family man. He’s even got his own Wikipedia entry. He’s David Egan. And he knows ancient secrets about the monolithic stones of Stonehenge that he’s not willing to share.
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