In a letter to the editor published Jan. 31 and titled "A legal code on guilt for priest?," the author wrote that "in the Napoleonic Code an accused person was considered guilty until proven innocent.

Louisiana attorneys who’ve been displaced by Hurricane Katrina are worrying about whether they’ll know enough to pass the bar exam in another state. Meanwhile, law students from New Orleans who ...

There are many things that Napoleon Bonaparte was known for — his leadership abilities, his rise and fall, his height, his hand tucked in his coat, Josephine. In Louisiana, however, he is widely known ...