Degrees

J.D., Loyola University New Orleans, 1989; B.A., University of New Orleans (with distinction), 1986

Short Bio

Professor Algero is the director of the Loyola Legal Research and Writing Program and is the co-director of the Westerfield Fellows Program. She is the author of Louisiana Legal Research (Carolina Academic Press 2009), and is the president-elect of the Association of Legal Writing Directors www.alwd.org. She also serves on the editorial board of Legal Writing: The Journal of the Legal Writing Institute. She teaches courses primarily focused on civil procedure, federal courts, legal research and writing, and ethics. She has also taught comparative judicial process at the University of Vienna as part of the Loyola study abroad program. Her scholarship has focused on these same areas of law and includes work on the Louisiana legal system as well as the federal judicial system. Prior to joining the faculty of the Loyola New Orleans College of Law, she practiced law with the New Orleans law firms of McGlinchey, Stafford, Mintz, Cellini & Lang and Pulaski, Gieger & Laborde, primarily in the areas of aviation, admiralty, and products liability. In law school she served as the editor in chief of the Loyola Law Review.
 

Courses Taught

• Civil Procedure I and II
• Advanced Civil Procedure Seminar
• Legal Profession
• Legal Research & Writing
• Advanced Legal Writing
• Moot Court
• Law & Poverty

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