New La. Law School to Open in Building that Looks Like a Law School

A new law school in Shreveport, La., will open next year in a donated building built in 1904.

Louisiana College, owned by the Louisiana Baptist Convention, will house its new law school in the CNB/United Mercantile building, the Shreveport Times reports. The law school’s founding dean, J. Michael Johnson, is a Shreveport constitutional law attorney who was senior legal counsel for the Alliance Defense Fund, which promotes religious freedom, according to a press release published by TheTownTalk.com.

The building will be expanded to include a lecture hall, library, student center and a glass-enclosed tennis and basketball court, the Shreveport Times says. “It looks like a law school, doesn't it?” Johnson said at a news conference on Wednesday.