 CLINTON
W. (WES) SHINN
Chief Operating Officer and Dean
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Dean Shinn received a B.S.
(cum laude) in 1969 from McNeese State University and a J.D.
in 1972 from Tulane Law School, graduating second in his class
and being elected to Order of the Coif. At Tulane, he served
as Editor-in-Chief and Assistant Articles Editor of the Tulane
Law Review. He received an LL.M. from Harvard Law in 1973,
and returned to Tulane as an Assistant Professor of Law from
1973 to 1975 (teaching Contracts, Evidence, Oil and Gas, and
Environmental Law). He was in private practice in New Orleans
with the firm of Stone Pigman from 1975 through 1998 (as a
partner from 1978 on), and in Covington, Louisiana with his
own firm during 1998-99, practicing primarily in the areas
of commercial real estate transactions and finance, oil and
gas, environmental law, probate, and estate planning. In 1999,
Professor Shinn returned to teaching full-time, at the Appalachian
School of Law until 2002 (teaching Property I and II, Law
Office Management, Secured Transactions, Natural Resources,
Estates and Trusts, and Property - Selected Policy Foundations,
and being named 1L Professor of the Year 1999-2000 and 2000-01),
and at the Mississippi College School of Law as Associate
Professor from the Fall 2002 semester through the Spring 2006
semester (teaching Property I and II, Evidence, Secured Transactions,
and three Louisiana civil law courses). He rejoined the Appalachian
Faculty as Professor of Law commencing with the Fall 2006
semester (teaching Property I and II, Secured Transactions,
and Will and Estates).
Dean Shinn is a member of the Louisiana Bar Association, the
American Bar Association, the Louisiana Bar Foundation (Charter
Fellow), the Charles Clark Inn of Court (Barrister), and is
a Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel.
He formerly served as an elected member of the Louisiana Bar
Association House of Delegates and as an Assistant Bar Examiner.
He is a Public Arbitrator for NASD Disputes Resolution.
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