R. Patrick Vance, a partner in the firm's Business & Commercial Litigation Practice Group in the New Orleans office, participated in the presentation of a program titled, "Professional or Not? You be the Judge," at the annual New Orleans Bar Association's ("NOBA") Bench Bar Conference in Biloxi, Mississippi, on April 21, 2013. Judges Helen G. Berrigan and Laurie A. White were also on the panel. Mr. Vance serves as NOBA's Immediate Past President.