team-member

Kelly Carmena

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Licensed for 12 years

Law Degree

Awards

Primary Practice Area

Criminal Defense

Language

English

About

Since receiving my law license in 2009, I have practiced criminal defense with the East Baton Rouge Parish Office of Public Defender as a misdemeanor and felony Assistant Public Defender. Throughout the course of my practice, have handled a multitude of criminal cases, including Second Degree Murder, Aggravated and Forcible Rape, Distribution Charges, and many more. Prior to working as an attorney with the Public Defender's Office, I had the opportunity to work with Hillar Moore, III as a legal assistant and with the law firm Moore, Walter, Thomas, Thompson, Papillion, and Cullens, LLC as a receptionist/"gopher". My experience with both helped me succeed in law school and prepared me for the actual practice of law. I received my law degree at Southern University Law Center in 2009 where I attended school while working full time. I received my Bachelors from Louisiana State University where I double majored in English Literature and Women's and Gender Studies. I attended high school at Lakeside High School in Lake Village, Arkansas.  Currently, I am now the Clinical Professor for Southern University Law Center's Criminal Clinic where I am able to use my experience from the Public Defender's Office to help third year law students trasition from the role of student to the hopeful role as a practicing attorney in the field of criminal defense.  Through the Criminal Clinic, I am able to provide representation to those indigent defendants that the Office of Public Defender is otherwise unable to represent.

Practices Areas

Criminal Defense

Family

Language

English

Contact

Southern University Law Center2 Roosevelt Steptoe DrBaton Rouge, LA, 70813-0001

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