Guilty as Charged. Although Louisiana...I could offer no help since you guys adopted the French Code instead of the English Common Law. And guess where my oldest kid ended up....
I'm too old to even think about re-learning all the crap I forgot the day after the Bar, so a Kansan I shall ever be.
I don't know where the LSU law school ranks according to the guys who sit in ivory towers sipping expensive champagne nobody can pronounce congratulating themselves on being part of their own club, but I used to hear that one benefit of graduating from there was that you'd be prepared to practice anywhere, whereas graduates of many other law schools would be prepared to practice most places, but not Louisiana. Not prohibited, per se, but just unprepared for it, since as you say, Louisiana law is based on the Napoleonic Code. Apparently English Common law is covered at LSU (makes sense, since everybody else is based on it), whereas the French stuff is not covered elsewhere (also makes sense, because almost nobody uses it, why waste time on it?).
No idea if there's any truth to that.
Anyway, you said "you guys...." Just an FYI, I'm a Texan. I was born and raised in Louisiana, but I keep winding up here. And, I have to say, I'm okay with that.
I used to be a petroleum landman in Texas, which dealt a lot with oil and gas law of the state. Each state has its own laws, governed by its own state entity (it's the Railroad Commission in Texas, bizarrely enough). While nothing like being a lawyer, it was a crash course in property law, probate law, and oil and gas law. So what little I know about the law, I learned Texas' ways, and know very little about Louisiana. I was in the business long enough to to meet people who had worked in Louisiana, and when they'd give me the high points about some of the differences of landman work in Louisiana vs. Texas, it always seemed like Texas laws made
way more sense, though whether it's because they were objectively more intuitive or because it's what I learned first, I don't know.
The last crew I worked on, several of our guys were lawyers. One was in law school, and when he took the bar, he either had a sample copy to prepare, or he had a copy of his actual exam, or something. He showed us the Oil & Gas portion of the exam, which was pretty short. Our crew chief looked it over, snorted, and said he'd fire anybody who couldn't answer those questions. I think they were essay/short answer questions, but I was happy to say at the time, I thought I could adequately pass that little section of the bar.
