Events
The Advocacy Center hosts several events throughout the year. Collaboration among numerous programs with the Advocacy Center creates many opportunities for both annual and unique events. Each fall, the Advocacy Center hosts its Golf Classic, and each spring, the Center hosts the Fedoroff Lecture and celebrates student accomplishments at its Spring Banquet.
Internally, the Center hosts Lunch and Learns throughout the academic year where alumni present a topic of their choice to students in the renovated Advocacy Center located on the first floor of the law school library. The Center also provides support to the Louisiana Supreme Court when oral arguments are held at Loyola Law.
Loyola’s Annual Advocacy Center Golf Classic brings together practitioners, community members, and students for a day of relaxation and friendly sport. Teams of four compete in scramble format with a shotgun start. Food, beverages, a raffle, and various prizes are provided throughout the day.
2024 Advocacy Center Golf Classic
Registration is Now CLosed
The details:
Friday, September 27, 2024
8:00 a.m. Shotgun Start
The Golf CLub at Audubon Park
6500 Magazine Street, New Orleans, LA
We can't wait to welcome you back for our Fourth Annual Advocacy Center Golf Classic! This year's tournament promises to be bigger and better than ever. Golfers and guests will be treated to a round of golf at one of New Orleans' premier courses with breakfast, lunch, cocktails, and an exciting assortment of on-course drinks and bites provided. Prizes will be awarded to our first, second, third, and last-place teams, along with individual awards for longest drive and closest-to-the-pin. And this year we'll be offering two, yes, two $5,000.00 hole-in-one cash prizes!
We'll also raffle off other fabulous prizes! Our raffle list keeps growing, and prizes will be listed here as we receive them.
Your participation helps the Advocacy Center prepare and train the lawyers of tomorrow. Want to maximize your impact? Here are our sponsorship packages:
Sponsorship Packages
Title Sponsor - A sponsorship of $10,000 includes four foursomes, eight non-golfer attendees, listing of "Fourth Annual Advocacy Center Golf Classic presented by [NAME]" on all materials and publications, logo on all materials and publications, representative permitted to give remarks at the awards ceremony, and featured social media posts.
Gold Sponsor - A sponsorship of $5,000 includes three foursomes, six non-golfer attendees, logo on all Golf Classic promotional materials, and featured social media posts.
Silver Sponsor - A sponsorship of $3,000 includes two foursomes, four non-golfer attendees, and logo on all Golf Classic promotional materials.
Bronze Sponsor - A sponsorship of $1,000 includes one foursome, two non-golfer attendees, and listing on all Golf Classic sponsor lists.
Hole Sponsor - A sponsorship of $600 includes two non-golfer attendees and a sign display at the golf hole.
Entry Fees
Foursome team - $700 includes four golfer tickets (complete team)
Individual golfer - $200 includes one golfer ticket (to be combined with other individual golfers to form a team)
Non-golfer attendee - $50 includes one non-golfer ticket
For questions or to register and pay by check, please contact Professor Evan Bergeron, Advocacy Center Director, at ebergero@loyno.edu.
2024 Golf Classic Sponsors
Silver Sponsors
Alvendia, Kelly and Demarest
Bronze Sponsors
Candy Fleet, LLC
Donovan & Lawler
The Dugan Law Firm, LLC
EL ABOGADO – Casey Cowley Attorneys
Favret Demarest Russo Lutkewitte & Schaumburg
The Javier Law Firm, LLC
Tony Chachere’s Creole Foods
Zoo2U
Hole Sponsors
Branch Law
D’Arcy Vicknair, LLC
Genesis Information Services, Inc.
Law Office of Craig Leydecker
Phelps Dunbar, LLP
The Real Dick and Jane
Winston Bergeron, LLP
Raffle Sponsors
Aline Prints and Design
Barre3
The Chloe
Cooter Brown's
Crepe Rendezvous Cafe
Dat Dog
Dean Scanlan Farms, LLC
The Dickie Brennan Company
F45 Garden District
Goodbird
Grand Bear Golf Course
Kendra Scott
Lucy Boone
Mignon Faget
Natco
The National World War II Museum
Nothing Bundt Cake
Q Clothier
Skeeta Hawk Brewery
Tony Chachere’s Creole Foods
Food and Beverage Partners and Sponsors
Bayou Nights Craft Cocktail Syrups
Chick-fil-A
The Ruby Slipper
Urban South
Swag Sponsor
Perry Dampf
2023 Advocacy Center Golf Classic
Our Third Annual Advocacy Center Golf Classic was a huge success! Thanks to all our golfers and sponsors. See you next year on Friday, September 6, 2024!
2023 Golf Classic Sponsors
Welcome Cocktail Sponsors
King & Jurgens, LLC
Bronze Sponsors
Adams and Reese, LLP
Alvendia, Kelly, & Demarest
Candy Fleet Boats
EL ABOGADO – Casey Cowley Attorneys
Hahn Enterprises, Inc.
Irwin Fritchie Urquhart Moore & Daniels, LLP
The Javier Law Firm, LLC
Simon, Peragine, Smith & Redfearn, LLP
Hole Sponsors
Alvendia, Kelly, & Demarest
Batture, LLC
Flanagan Partners, LLP
Law Offices of Scott G. Jones, LLC
Jefferson Parish Sheriff Joseph Lopinto
Judge Trudy M White, Retired
Riess LeMieux, LLC
Robein, Urann, Spencer, Picard and Cangemi, APLC
Stone Pigman Walther Wittmann, LLC
Winston Bergeron, LLP
Raffle Sponsors
Hilton New Orleans Riverside
InSkin 101
Italian Gold and Diamond
Kendra Scott
The National World War II Museum
New Orleans Steamboat Company
Nothing Bundt Cakes
Parlay's
Food and Beverage Partners and Sponsors
Empanola
Faubourg Brewing Company
Favret, Demarest, Russo, Lutkewitte & Schaumburg, APLC
Natco Food Services
PJ's Coffee
Ye Olde College Inn
2024 Advocacy Center Banquet
The Advocacy Center held its 2024 Banquet on Wednesday, May 8, 2024 from 6pm to 9pm at The Rooftop on Basin, 501 Basin Street, New Orleans, Louisiana. The Advocacy Center congratulated its 2023-2024 board members, team members, and award winners.
2024 Banquet Sponsors
Gold Sponsors
Alvendia, Kelly & Demarest
EL ABOGADO – Casey Cowley Attorneys
Law Offices of Scott G. Jones, LLC
Silver Sponsors
Frischhertz & Impastato
Bronze Sponsors
Adams & Reese
Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC
Cannon & Livermore, LLC
Garrison, Yount, Forte & Mulcahy
Javier Law Firm
Scott Vicknair Injury Attorneys
Winston Bergeron, LLP
2023 Order of Barristers Inductees with Judge Mary Hotard Becnel
Every spring, the Advocacy Center gathers with students, faculty, friends, family, and practitioners to celebrate a successful year. The Advocacy Center Banquet recognizes the hard work of our programs' competitive teams and executive boards in a fun and festive atmosphere. Special awards are also given to outstanding students in the fields of alternative dispute resolution, appellate advocacy, and trial advocacy.
The College of Law is pleased to sponsor the Judge Gerald P. Fedoroff Lecture Series. The lecture series is made possible through generous donations by friends and family of Judge Fedoroff, who presided over Division E of Orleans Parish Civil District Court for more than 30 years, where he also served as chief judge. Judge Fedoroff was a life-long resident of New Orleans and attended Loyola Law School in the mid-1950s. He is well-known for a 1978 decision that declared Louisiana’s “head and master” scheme for community property unconstitutional. At the time, Louisiana law deemed the husband in a marriage to be the head of household with sole authority over the community property without his wife’s knowledge or consent. Judge Federoff’s decision struck down the law on grounds that it violated the Equal Protection Clause.
This years lecture will take place Friday, November 17, 2023 at the law school in Room 308 starting at 10 am.
Registrants will receive 2.0 CLE credit & lunch at the reception following the presentation.
Lunch and Learn events are a way for students to meet practitioners and learn about the nuts and bolts of an advocacy practice. These events are held periodically throughout the fall and spring semesters and provide students with exposure to many different facets of practice.
In previous events, students learned from alums Philip D. Lorio, IV (2012), Roderick "Rico" Alvendia (1998), and Michael S. Brandner, Jr. (2003) who spoke respectively on "Taking a Case from Start to Finish"; "Legal Career Pathways: Defense or Plaintff?"; and "Starting Your Own Firm in a Modern Time".
We are so thankful to our practitioners for sharing their time and experience and are excited for our next round of Lunch and Learns this semester!
As a first time event, the Advocacy Center hosted a debate for the candidates seeking to be elected in Louisiana’s 91st and 98th State Representative Districts on Thursday, September 26, 2019.
Promoting legislative advocacy by hosting a debate with candidates who sought to represent our school, our students, and our neighbors proved to be very exciting! Our hope is that these debates will encourage everyone to be more engaged in the democratic process.
A very special thanks to Walter J. Leger III, the termed-out House District 91 representative, and Neil C. Abramsom, the termed-out House District 98 representative, who did an incredible job as moderators. We honor all of the candidates for their time and dedication to their constituants and our great state, and congratulate Mandie Landry and Aimee Freeman who were elected to represent House District 91 and 98 respectively.
The Advocacy Center is looking forward to continuing these debates for elections in the future.
Please contact Program Director Evan J. Bergeron at evan.bergeron@loyno.edu or 504-861-5580 for giving opportunities.