Louisiana State Bar establishes relief fund Due to the widespread destruction that Hurricane Katrina has had on the Metropolitan New Orleans area, the Louisiana State Bar Association has established the Hurricane Katrina Legal Community Relief Fund to help assist lawyers who lost their homes and offices in the storm. "The Red Cross and FEMA are poised to help citizens cope with their personal losses but I am confident members of the legal community will come together to help their colleagues whose law practices and families have been displaced by this unprecedented disaster," LSBA President Frank X. Neuner Jr. of Lafayette said of the fund. "Lawyers from across the state and country have contacted me in the past few days to determine what they can do to assist other members of the profession," Neuner added. "We created the fund to provide a mechanism for these caring members of the legal community to assist their colleagues in this time of need." The Relief Fund is being administered by the Baton Rouge Bar Foundation. Donations should be sent to: Hurricane Katrina Legal Community Relief Fund c/o Baton Rouge Bar Foundation 544 Main Street Baton Rouge, LA 70802 Questions on the fund should be directed to Baton Rouge Bar Association Executive Director Ann G. Scarle at (225)344-4803 or ann@brba.org. The LSBA is in the process of establishing a temporary office in Lafayette. The Louisiana Bar Center, located in downtown New Orleans, will be closed indefinitely. Contact information will be posted at LSBA.org as soon as it is available.