Louisiana Capital Assistance Center

The Louisiana Capital Assistance Center (LCAC) is a non-profit law office in New Orleans providing legal representation for over twenty-five years to poor people facing the death penalty. Our primary focus is trial-level representation, but we also represent clients in appellate, post-conviction, and habeas proceedings. The LCAC serves clients throughout Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas, and in state and federal court. The LCAC also conducts trainings and provides consult services to capital defenders statewide.

The LCAC has been at the cutting edge of capital defense litigation, particularly in areas such as prosecutorial misconduct, racial and religious discrimination, inadequate indigent defense funding, and the capital prosecution of those with serious mental impairments. In the context of our casework, we pursue impact litigation in critical areas so as to advance the position of indigent capital defendants more generally. The LCAC emphasizes excellence and creativity in capital practice as well as making the client the center of all efforts in the case.

The LCAC delivers capital defense services through a staff of dedicated attorneys and fact and mitigation investigators. The LCAC emphasizes team based defense and a holistic approach to questions of culpability and mitigation. In each aspect of our work, we strive to meet the LCAC’s four core values: achieving excellence; being client-centered; a spirit of service; and humility. Further details are available at our website: http://www.thejusticecenter.org/lcac/.