R. Patrick Vance, partner in the firm’s Business & Commercial Litigation Practice Group, participated in a panel discussion at the midyear meeting of the National Conference of Bar Presidents held in New Orleans, Louisiana, on February 3, 2012. Mr. Vance participated as the President of the New Orleans Bar Association along with a panel of other bar leaders. The program was titled, “Local Bar Involvement in the Judicial Election and Political Process – Best Practices and Lessons.”