Lloyd J. Lunceford is a partner in our firm where he has been practicing law since 1984. Mr. Lunceford is engaged in a general civil practice with emphases in higher education, mass communications, commercial litigation, and church property laws. He also has expertise in the application of the Louisiana Public Records and Open Meetings Acts which affect all municipal, parish, and state agencies.

Mr. Lunceford is admitted to practice in all Louisiana state courts, in the federal district courts for the Middle and Eastern Districts of Louisiana, the United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the Bar of the Supreme Court of the United States. Mr. Lunceford is a former member of the committee on the First Amendment and Individual Rights and Responsibilities Section of the American Bar Association. He is a member of the Baton Rouge, Louisiana State, and American Bar Associations and is a master in the Wex Malone American Inns of Court. A member of the Louisiana Association of Defense Counsel, the Christian Legal Society, and the National Association of College and University Attorneys, Mr. Lunceford has served as a guest lecturer at the Manship School of Mass Communication of Louisiana State University, the LSU Law Center, and as a speaker at Continuing Legal Education seminars, and at church property symposia throughout the United States.

Mr. Lunceford is the co-author of "Libel and Privacy Law and Practice in Louisiana" (National Business Institute) and is the General Editor of A Guide to Church Property Law: Theological, Constitutional and Practical Considerations (2nd ed. 2010, Reformation Press). He has also authored articles on topics ranging from professional ethics, church/state relations, and document confidentiality which have appeared in the Louisiana Bar Journal, the Baton Rouge Bar Journal, and other publications.

Recent notable cases and related legal matters include

• Lead counsel in Louisiana Supreme Court case establishing right of public access under the Louisiana Public Records Act to applications for public employment;
• Lead counsel for the Louisiana Supreme Court’s Judicial Campaign Oversight Committee in federal litigation, obtaining pre-trial dismissal of challenge to constitutionality of campaign ethics code;
• Lead counsel in obtaining pre-trial dismissal on First Amendment grounds of public figure plaintiff’s defamation suit against media defendants;
• Lead counsel in appellate decision preserving constitutionality of case-specific epidemiological data gathered by state health officials and medical researchers;
• Lead counsel in appellate decision establishing constitutional right of access to most police internal affairs records upon concluding police investigations;
• Counsel in Louisiana Supreme Court case establishing scope of qualified immunity granted under state law to physicians engaged in medical peer review, obtaining pre-trial dismissal of state and federal suits;
• Successfully advised LSU Health Sciences Center Admissions Department in the application of new U.S. Supreme Court guidelines on the use of diversity in enrollment.

Mr. Lunceford is actively involved in the Baton Rouge community. He is a member of the Baton Rouge Area Foundation and Louisiana Bar Foundation. He has been a volunteer for the Istrouma Council of the Boy Scouts of America (Assistant Scoutmaster, Troop 7) and served as an arbitrator for the Baton Rouge City Court small claims division. He is an elder at First Presbyterian Church where he has chaired numerous committees. He is a former State Secretary for the Louisiana Civil Service League and former member of East Baton Rouge Parish GOP Executive Committee.

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