re: Estate of Helen Plummer finally settled (EBRCOA related)

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Judge Clark should be up in front of some sort of judicial review for her conduct in the matter.

The fact that she delayed justice for that long by not immediately recusing herself should be a punishable offense.

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Look up how she got her seat.

Judiciary Commission wants nothing to do with her. That's why she's got her own table at Ruth's for Friday lunch courtesy of the local plaintiff's bar and no one bats an eye.

Just wait...she's supposed to term out for age (turns 70 during this term and cannot run again under the Constitution) and I am waiting for the age discrimination challenge.

Did you all read the article and comments carefully? It says that there may be provisions in the agreed upon settlement that indemnify both Tasha Clark-Amar and Judge Janice Clark.

Why would they need indemnification if they did no wrong? What is there to fear?

Regardless, I'll bet you a 6-pack of your favorite Abita beverages that the holdup centered around the family agreeing to include the indemnification and preventing them from suing.

I was told the matter was all but settled (b/t Clark Amar, the family, etc.) just before Nokamoto showed up, but someone got him to look into it before it did settle out of court. The Public was close to never knowing anything about all of this.

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Did The Advocate ever get the information they sued SULC for in regards to their internal investigation on Dorothy Jackson?

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Advocate

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A group of Southern Law Center faculty members has proposed stiff penalties, including a year off work without pay, for Dorothy Jackson, a professor whose work on a will for an elderly Baton Rouge woman who died last year grew into an escalating controversy.

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Jackson wrote Plummer’s will in July 2016 through Southern's Elder Law Clinic, meant to provide free legal services to indigent, older people. Jackson, who ran the clinic, is a Council on Aging board member, and she wrote in the will that Clark-Amar was to collect $500 a month — amounting to more than $100,000 over decades — to be the trustee and executor of Plummer’s estate.

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The State Office of Inspector General opened up a probe into how the two officials handled the will, subpoenas filed at court have shown. Transcripts from "administrative due process" hearings held by a panel of Southern Law faculty asked to investigate Jackson's actions reveal that the Louisiana Board of Ethics is also looking at the matter. The Louisiana Attorney Disciplinary Board, too, opened a case about Jackson, the transcripts noted.

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More than 600 pages of documents The Advocate received in a public records request show the panel found Jackson behaved unprofessionally with respect to Plummer and that her conduct was “seriously prejudicial” to the Southern University System and Southern University Law Center. The panel rejected one charge that her behavior was unethical or immoral.

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The faculty members recommended to the chancellor that Jackson serve a year-long suspension without pay, lose her tenure, and be demoted in rank to an assistant clinical professor. Pierre will decide whether to make the recommendation to Southern University System President Ray Belton, who will then decide how to punish Jackson. If Jackson disagrees with Belton's punishment, she can appeal his action to the Southern University Board of Supervisors, Pierre said.

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Pierre told The Advocate on Thursday that he is reviewing the evidence from the hearing and expects to make a decision "in the next few weeks."

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Another concern for the faculty panel was the dual role that Jackson took on for Plummer and Clark-Amar. She wrote the will through the Elder Law Clinic, which provides free legal services. But Jackson named herself in the will as the attorney for Plummer’s estate once she died. Doing so meant that Jackson handled the succession as a private attorney, because she was representing Clark-Amar, who was too young and earned too much money to qualify for clinic services. Acting as a private attorney also meant Jackson could get paid for her work on the succession.

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unreal but not really

How do they not have a better pic of her than that pixelated one? That the only pic that exists of her? That is the only pic they ever use for her

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How is she not disbarred yet?

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Why does Tarsha still have a job?

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“While Ms. Plummer was advised that Dytasha Clark-Amar would receive $500 a month for her services, she was never informed of the total amount of her estate that Ms. Clark-Amar would receive over the entire course of the trust, which would likely come to more than $100,000,” Law Center faculty members wrote in their recommendation report. “It is unlikely that Mrs. Plummer understood the full terms and consequences of the will that she was signing.”

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The panel rejected one charge that her behavior was unethical or immoral.

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The panel missed on that one.

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The faculty members recommended to the chancellor that Jackson serve a year-long suspension without pay, lose her tenure, and be demoted in rank to an assistant clinical professor.

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Not bad, but they should have removed her completely.

IWNHI

You are more lenient than I am. People like this really dont care.

And found this gem