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events;
                                         YLD district reps will continue to be involved in their local bars and
                                         attend local bar association meetings throughout 2020-2021, 2021-
                                         2022 and 2022-2023.
                                     ▪  Create a list of bullet points of what services lawyers offer and what they
                                         do for the public that they can reference when being criticized by the
                                         public;
                                     ▪  Solicit articles for the Louisiana Bar Journal once or twice a year about
                                         the Rule of Law; and
                                         October-November 2019 Journal, ABA President Judy Perry
                                         Martinez’s article and her the installation speech focused on the Rule
                                         of Law.
                                         LASC Chief Justice Bernette Joshua Johnson discussed aspects of
                                         the Rule of Law in her farewell interview published in the December
                                         2020-January 2021 Journal.
                                         LASC Chief Justice John L. Weimer discussed rule of law in his
                                         Journal interview in February-March 2021.
                                         LSBA President Alainna R. Mire discussed rule of law as part of her
                                         speech given at the investiture of Chief Justice Weimer, published in
                                         the February-March 2021 Journal.
                                         Solicitation of Rule of Law topics/articles is placed on every Journal
                                         Editorial Board meeting agenda. At the 8-27-21 Editorial Board
                                         meeting, a specific request was made for Rule of Law-related articles
                                         and one Board member is working with SULC professors to produce
                                         articles on the Rule of Law for future issues.
                                         The first SULC-solicited Rule of Law article by Prof. Nadia E. Nedzel
                                         was published in the June-July 2022 Journal (“The Rule of Law: What
                                         Is It and Is It Still Relevant?”). The second Rule of Law article will be
                                         published in the October-November 2022 Journal, written by Prof.
                                         Adam Crepelle, on “The Reservation and the Rule of Law: Primer on
                                         Indian Country’s Complexity.” Another Rule of Law article, “Challenges
                                         for Non-English Speakers in the American Justice System,” written by
                                         Gina L. Signorelli and Ivan A. Orihuela, was published in the
                                         December 2022-Janury 2023 Journal. A Rule of Law-related article,
                                         “Programming Digital Privacy Into Public Policy” by Jeff D. McAlpin,
                                         was published in the April-May 2023 Journal. Additional Rule of Law-
                                         related articles are under consideration by the Journal’s Editorial
                                         Board.
                                     ▪  Share relevant articles with the local press and authorize reprints of
                                         same.
                                         To date, there have not been any articles that were relevant to share
                                         with local press.
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