| Advisory opinion regarding whether Patrick Robinson, the former interim Director of the Louisiana Workforce Commission's Office of Workers' Compensation and workers' compensation judge, would be prohibited from representing clients before the workers' compensation court within two years of his termination of service with the Commission. |
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Patrick Robinson is currently employed as a workers' compensation judge for the Louisiana Workforce Commission. He presides over District 1W, which encompasses Caddo, Bossier, Webster, Bienville, Red River, DeSoto, and Claiborne Parishes. Between February 2015 to January 2016, he served as the interim Director of the Louisiana Workforce Commission's Office of Workers' Compensation before returning to his permanent position as a workers' compensation judge. Mr. Robinson seeks guidance on whether he can represent private clients in workers' compensation courts if he returns to private practice.
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La. R.S. 42:1121A(1) provides no former agency head or elected official shall, for a period of two years following the termination of his public service as the head of such agency or as an elected public official serving in such agency, assist another person, for compensation, in a transaction, or in an appearance in connection with a transaction, involving that former agency or render any service on a contractual basis to or for such agency.
La. R.S. 42:1121B provides no former public employee shall, for a period of two years following the termination of his public employment, assist another person, for compensation, in a transaction, or in an appearance in connection with a transaction in which such former public employee participated at any time during his public employment and involving the governmental entity by which he was formerly employed, or for a period of two years following the termination of his public employment, render, any service which such former public employee had rendered to the agency during the term of his public employment on a contractual basis, regardless of the parties to the contract, to, for, or on behalf of the agency with which he was formerly employed.
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Adopt proposed advisory opinion.
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| Assigned Attorney: |
Tracy Barker |
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