North Louisiana Will Finally Get A Law School!!- Thank You Baptists

Well that is if Shreveport can come with the money. Thoughts below the article. Oh and Tip of the Hat to CenLamar via his twitter doodad.

NEWS UPDATE: Louisiana College will locate law school in Shreveport

SHREVEPORT — Louisiana College’s planned Christian-focused law school is bound for downtown Shreveport.
Initially intended for a central Louisiana home, the Judge Paul Pressler School of Law would be the state’s first outside Baton Rouge and New Orleans.

School officials offered few details Monday but confirmed local leaders’ vague announcement: a private doctoral program will open in the dilapidated former Joe D. Waggoner Federal Building.

But at least up front, the Southern Baptist institution likely will cost the public money.
Mayor Cedric Glover said during a City Council work session that he has been aware of the opportunity for about two years. Local attorneys and related organizations responded “very enthusiastically” when he asked them about the prospect.

Glover prompted a few particulars from Shreveport Downtown Development Authority head Don Shea, who is brokering the deal.
Shreveport will purchase the building – part of proceedings in the Rosbottom Bankruptcy Estate – for $450,000. The Downtown Shreveport Development Corp., an arm of Shea’s DDA, then would take possession of the site. That entity would cover the roughly $4 million to rid the structure of asbestos, mold and lead, among other health hazards.
The sale is dependent on approval from bankruptcy court, according to letter of intent from Shea to Rosbottom attorney Gerald H. Schiff. If the college backed out, it would have to repay the downtown corporation and city.
City leaders hope the law school will be another move to revamp struggling downtown, already the home of millions in taxpayer investment.
“They mayor used the word transformative,” Shea said, “and I believe that this is.”
Among unanswered questions was Councilman Calvin Lester’s: Where will the city get the $450,000?
“I’m not taking a position one way or the other,” said Lester, a disbarred attorney. “I’m not being argumentative.”
That facet, apparently, also will be worked out later.

Pineville-based Louisiana College announced news of the law school in 2007, with plans to start classes in 2009. It will have a “biblical worldview,” school leaders said, to train future lawyers to defend conservative Christian values in court, courtrooms and politics.
A spokeswoman for the 1,000-student school deferred further information until a Sept. 1 press event in Shreveport. College President Joe Aguillard said in 2007 that it would stay in Pineville despite an unnamed north Louisiana municipality’s bid to move it.
Pressler law school’s first class likely would have about 40 students. The start of their session depends on the timeline for property to transfer.
Louisiana’s current American Bar Association-accredicted law schools are at Tulane University, Southern University, Louisiana State University and Loyola University.

I have no problem with what I bold ed. I would hope that Catholic Law schools would get back to that in certain areas. If this school is RAN right then would be great for North Louisiana and Shreveport. Currently you have travel down south to go to any Law school.

Though of course for the school to be successful it will have to have a larger focus than defending Christian values in the Courtroom and in politics. There are a ton of lawyers that never enter a COURTROOM!! Also I am not sure there is a biblical world view on such things as succession law, tax law, oil and gas law, property law, administration law and all those things you got to know to pass the Bar and make a living. So it will have to be well rounded. But they are just beginning.

Louisiana College is a Legit Baptist College so that is good. Though they have had some controversy on the board recently about running the college. Still I think this is a positive.