Areas of Practice
Education
- Paul M. Hebert Law Center, Louisiana State University, J.D. and D.C.L., 2011, summa cum laude; Order of the Coif; Senior Editor, Louisiana Law Review; Recipient of the W. Lee Hargrave Award
- University of Louisiana at Lafayette, B.S. in Finance, 2008, summa cum laude; Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society; Honors Business Society
Bar Admissions
- Louisiana, 2011
Thomas Hooks practices out of the firm's New Orleans office as an associate with the Business & Commercial Transactions Practice Group. He is a recent graduate of the Paul M. Hebert Law Center, Louisiana State University, where he received his juris doctor degree and a Diploma in Comparative Law. While at LSU, he served on the Board of Editors for the Louisiana Law Review and was the recipient of the W. Lee Hargrave Award.
Mr. Hooks' previous experience includes acting as research assistant to Lucy S. McGough of the Paul M. Hebert Law Center and a judicial extern with the Honorable W. Eugene Davis of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. In addition to his juris doctor, he holds a bachelor of science degree from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, where he graduated summa cum laude.
News
Publications
- "A Rock, A Hard Place, and a Reasonable Suspicion: How the United States Supreme Court Stripped School Officials of the Authority to Keep Students Safe"
71 La. L. Rev. 269 (2010),
