A friend of mine went to Tulane law school, and he told me that the university has two different requirements for students who want to practice law in Louisiana and who want to work elsewhere in the USA.
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Louisiana follows a “civil law” system, which differs from the “common law” legal system found in the other 49 states (although California has some civil law tradition as well). In practice, the differences these days are much slighter than they were 200 years ago, and in many fields the law is no different in Louisiana than elsewhere. But there are still some oddball vestiges, especially in areas like property law.
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