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Distinguished Jurist, Attorney and Professor Awards Program 2007 Recognition is given to those individuals who, by reason of his or her professional activities, have distinguished themselves in their chosen profession and have brought credit and honor to the legal profession.
Judge Thomas F. Daley
Judge Daley is a member of the Louisiana Judicial College Board of Governors and currently chairs the Louisiana Judicial Council’s Court Costs Subcommittee. He is Chairman of the Louisiana Bar Foundation Education Committee. He has previously served on the Louisiana Supreme Court Committee on Judicial Ethics, the Supreme Court Committee on Preparation of Appellate Records, the Supreme Court Committee on Legal Internship, and the Lake Maurepas Park Commission. He was an Assistant Bar Examiner for the Louisiana Bar Association from 1993 to 2002. Judge Daley has co-authored a Treatise entitled "Louisiana Law on Lawyering" and "A Practical Digest of Louisiana Class Action Decisions." Judge Daley is an Adjunct Professor at LSU School of Law teaching Pre-trial Procedure, and is a recipient of the Honorary Order of the Coif from the LSU School of Law. He frequently lectures in CLE programs for the Louisiana Judicial College, Louisiana Bar Association, and LSU School of Law on topics ranging from Criminal Law, Civil Procedure, Appellate Procedures, Judicial Ethics, and Class Actions. Judge Daley is very active in the St. John the Baptist Parish community and chairs the Keep St. John Beautiful Committee. He is an active member of St. Joan of Arc Catholic Church. He is married to his high school sweetheart, Margaret Mary Versaggi, and has two daughters, Bernadette and Monique.
Harry S. Hardin III
As a trial attorney, Mr. Hardin has handled hundreds of commercial cases in diverse practice areas including antitrust, transportation, insurance, contract, patent, trademark and copyright, intellectual property, legal and accountancy malpractice, judicial misconduct, class actions, and appellate law, and he has more than 60 reported decisions. He was trial and appellate counsel in a complex multiparty toxic tort class action which was tried for five weeks to jury verdict, and involved approximately 20 reported decisions during the 10-year span of the case. He has been retained by and regularly represents railroads, the gaming industry, the entertainment and music industry, health care providers, trade associations, telecommunication companies, computer software and hardware companies, domestic and international manufacturers, banks, and insurance companies. In addition to his broad spectrum of representation, Mr. Hardin frequently lectures on ethics and professionalism, and is a leader in the organized bar. He is Chair of the Louisiana Supreme Court Judicial Campaign Oversight Committee and was commended for his work by the Chief Justice before the Joint Session of the House and Senate of the Louisiana Legislature. Thomas L. Lorenzi
Tom's professional accomplishments have been recognized by numerous organizations. He is a Fellow, American College of Trial Lawyers and was awarded the 2007 David Hamilton Lifetime Achievement Award by the LSBA. He received the Sam Dalton Capital Defense Advocacy Award in 2000 and the Justice Albert Tate, Jr. Award in 2003 from the Louisiana Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers; the 2006 Professionalism Award from the Judge Albert Tate American Inn of Court; and he has been named to "Best Lawyers in America" and "Super Lawyers". Tom is a long time member of the LSBA House of Delegates, served on the Board of Governors and currently serves on the Legislation Committee. He is a former president of the Louisiana Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and SW Louisiana Bar Association. With his wife, Stephanie ("Frou"), and their son, Dan, they operate a cow/calf commercial cattle herd. Tom is a member of the Louisiana and National Cattleman's Association. Time permitting, Tom loves riding his Harley with his friends and son, especially at Sturgis, SD.
Professor Cynthia Ann Samuel
Professor Samuel's primary teaching fields are the Civil Law subjects that concern family property: successions, donations, trusts, and community property. In these areas she has written numerous articles and is the co-author with William A. Reppy, Jr. of Duke Law School of Community Property in the United States, now in its sixth edition, and with Katherine Spaht and Ronald Scalise of the Paul M. Hebert Law Center of LSU of Successions, Donations, and Trusts: Cases and Readings. She has been a speaker on these subjects under the auspices of Tulane, LSU, The New Orleans Bar Association, The International Academy of Trust and Estate Law, The International Bar Association, and many other organizations. She also introduced the subject of intellectual property to the Tulane Law School curriculum and has written, spoken, and consulted on copyright law. Early in her career she became active in law reform projects. She served in 1977-79 as a member of the Advisory Committee to the Joint Legislative Committee on Louisiana Community Property Reform that produced the change in the law giving wives authority equal to that of husbands in the management of the community property. In 1982 she served in a similar capacity to the Joint Legislative Committee on Partition of Community Property and as a member of the Governor’s Advisory Committee on Women’s Issues, 1982-85. She is the reporter for the Louisiana State Law Institute’s committee on trusts and subcommittee on charitable trusts, and a long-time member of the Institute Council. She is a member of the American Law Institute and an academic fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel. As a private citizen and professor she has sought to improve the law by volunteering many hours at the state capitol to offer information and opinion on issues within her areas of competence. Professor Samuel has served as board member of The Riverside of Magazine Neighborhood Association, The Louise S. McGehee School, and the New Orleans Institute for the Performing Arts. She was also president of the St. Louis Cathedral Concert Choir, a fifty-year-old community choir dedicated to performing the works of the renaissance, baroque and classical periods.
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Judge Thomas F. Daley currently serves on the Louisiana Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal and has served on that Court since 1996. Prior to serving on the appellate court he served as District Judge on the 40th Judicial District Court beginning in 1991. Judge Daley received his Masters in Law from the University of Virginia School of Law, his Jurist Doctorate from Loyola University School of Law, and his Bachelor of Arts in Economics and English from Rutgers University.
Harry Hardin, a partner with Jones Walker, in the firm’s Business & Commercial Litigation Practice Group, has been practicing law at Jones Walker since 1971. Mr. Hardin received his A.B. from Harvard University and his J.D. from Tulane University Law School.
Thomas L. Lorenzi is a partner with Lorenzi, Sanchez & Barnatt, LLP in Lake Charles. He was born in New Eagle, PA and raised in the Monongahela Valley near Pittsburgh. Tom received his BA from Duquesne University, and his J.D. from Louisiana State University, Paul M. Hebert Law Center in 1975. He was employed by the law firm of Hunt, Godwin, Painter and Roddy to practice criminal defense. At this time there was no indigent defense system in existence and Tom was willing to handle their appointed cases. He was anxious to defend those who most needed help. In addition to handling nearly 50 capital cases, with no death verdicts, Tom represented lawyers to bring about judicial and legislative reform of funding indigent defense and was a cofounder of public interest law firms to provide cutting edge capital defense (Louisiana Capital Assistance Center) and the closure of abusive juvenile prisons with long term reform of the juvenile justice system (Juvenile Justice Project of Louisiana). 
Cynthia Ann Samuel, W.R. Irby Professor of Law at Tulane University in New Orleans, received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Louisiana State University in 1969 and her law degree from Tulane University in 1972, where she was a member of the Order of the Coif and Associate Editor of the Tulane Law Review. She spent the next year studying comparative family law at King’s College, University of London before returning to her home town of New Orleans to practice law with Stone, Pigman, Walther, Wittmann, and Hutchinson. In 1975 she began her career in law teaching on the faculty of Tulane Law School, where she has been fully and contentedly engaged for thirty-three years. She served as Associate Dean from 1984-87. 
