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What Katrina Can Teach Lawyers About Disaster Preparedness
Posted Feb 3, 2012 7:40 PM CST
By Debra Cassens Weiss
Judge Madeleine Landrieu of Louisiana’s court of appeals was a civil trial judge in New Orleans when Hurricane Katrina hit in August 2005.
She was among 16 out of the civil court’s 18 judges who lost their homes in the disaster. Landrieu evacuated with her family and moved them into to her sister’s crowded home. The city she left behind was devastated. Civil court records weren’t accessible. The court website was down. Communications were impossible. Lawyers were unavailable.
Landrieu recounted…
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