2020 Distinguished Attorney

Linda Law Clark
Linda Law Clark is a partner in the firm of DeCuir, Clark & Adams, LLP. She and her family moved to Baton Rouge, LA in 1977. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology in 1972 from Wells College in Aurora, New York. She attended the Paul Hebert Law School at LSU, served on the LSU Law Review and graduated in 1993, Order the Coif. She worked as a solo practitioner until joining Winston G. DeCuir, Sr. in 1995 where they formed DeCuir and Clark, L.L.P. As an experienced Trial attorney in State and Federal Courts, her principal areas of practice are general civil litigation, administrative hearings for quasi-governmental and governmental bodies, education, employment law and public finance.
Prior to law school, she served in a variety of paid and voluntary non-profit organizations, focusing on health, education, children and womens issues. She served in multiple capacities on executive committees of different non-profit organizations in the State over the last forty years, including Louisiana PTA, Louisiana League of Women Voters, the YWCA, Presbytery of Louisiana and Louisiana Girl Scouts. She was named a Woman of Distinction by Girl Scouts Louisiana East in 2013.
As an attorney, she has served on executive committees in various capacities with Inns of Court, the Baton Rouge Bar, the Louisiana State Bar and the Louisiana Bar Foundation. She was recognized as the inaugural recipient of the Louisiana State Bar David Hamilton Lifetime Achievement Award in 2003. She has actively volunteered as a pro bono attorney over the years, proudly accepting recognition of one of the first attorneys in the Baton Rouge Bar to receive the 1000 Hour Award. In 2018 she had the honor of serving as President of the Baton Rouge Bar Association.
She has been married for over forty-nine years to her husband Christopher Clark, is the proud mother of two children, Andrew and Samantha, and grandmother to grandson Luke and granddaughters Anson, Lacie and Ella.