Brungardt Law's Lagniappe

"Send a text sharing your thoughts about the episode." New Orleans is celebrated around the world for its music, art, food, and traditions. So, what protects the people who create that culture? In this episode, Maurice Brungardt speaks with Ashlye Keaton and Gene Meneray of The Ella Project about the legal, business, and policy challenges facing Louisiana artists. From intellectual prope...

"Send a text sharing your thoughts about the episode." What happens when corruption stops being an isolated scandal and becomes part of the operating system itself? In this episode of Brungardt Law’s Lagniappe , Maurice Brungardt speaks with Jodi Vittori about the intersection of corruption, illicit finance, national security, and institutional decline. Drawing from her experience with t...

"Send a text sharing your thoughts about the episode." Organizations cannot succeed when leadership fails to clearly define mission legitimacy, objectives, or measurable outcomes. Yet it is individuals who bear the cost. In this episode of Brungardt Law’s Lagniappe , Maurice Brungardt speaks with Vietnam veteran Rick McAllister, who served with the U.S. Army’s 101st Airborne Division in...

"Send a text sharing your thoughts about the episode." In this quarterly reflection, Maurice Brungardt examines Louisiana’s coastal crisis and the recent Supreme Court ruling involving Chevron through a lens rarely applied to environmental litigation: culture as institutional infrastructure. Drawing from conversations with diplomats, artists, military leaders, educators, and civic figure...

"Send a text sharing your thoughts about the episode." In this episode, we hear from retired U.S. Ambassador Timothy Davis whose career encompassed the Foreign Service and the Marine Corps. Whether he was leading our diplomatic mission in Qatar, serving as executive assistant to several U.S. Secretaries of State, or guiding troops in the field, Ambassador Davis shares lessons learned fro...

"Send a text sharing your thoughts about the episode." New Orleans has long been a mix of tradition and innovation in the arts. From its early role in shaping opera in the New World to its continued influence across musical genres, the city remains a place where history and ingenuity meet. It is where artists find their means of expression. In this episode, we explore what it takes to bu...

"Send a text sharing your thoughts about the episode." In this deeply candid conversation, former Diplomatic Security Service Special Agent Kemmi Sadler reflects on a 26-year career spanning local law enforcement, post-9/11 deployments, and high-risk diplomatic assignments overseas. From an officer-involved shooting just days into her law enforcement career to the devastating loss of a c...

"Send a text sharing your thoughts about the episode." From a childhood in Harlem and Queens to the highest levels of American diplomacy, retired U.S. Ambassador Harry K. Thomas Jr. reflects on a career defined by leadership, resilience, and service. In this conversation, Ambassador Thomas shares how early family influences, lessons from mentors, and firsthand experiences in global crise...

"Send a text sharing your thoughts about the episode." In cities like New Orleans, culture isn’t a luxury—it’s infrastructure and people. Sustaining that infrastructure and retaining the people requires more than creativity. Culture demands leadership, financial discipline, and a willingness to confront hard truths about institutions, communities, and ourselves. In this episode, Raelle M...

"Send a text sharing your thoughts about the episode." For years now, transnational activities are increasingly originating at the local level. Foreign relations in furtherance of economic interests are no longer the sole purview of the diplomatic functions of the national government or its embassies abroad. In today's current geopolitical and technological climate, local and state...

"Send a text sharing your thoughts about the episode." Although leadership comes in all shapes and sizes, we tend to focus on the squares, circles, and triangles while overlooking the trapezoids and rhombi. Although artists are profound influential sources of societal change and positive direction, society tends to equate leaders with those who wield power, possess wealth, or enjoy fame....

"Send a text sharing your thoughts about the episode." What does it take to prevent catastrophe in a world where the stakes include nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons? This conversation explores the quiet, often unseen work of negotiation that has helped reduce global threats over decades—from Cold War arms control to the dismantlement of weapons programs in regions of conflict. T...

"Send a text sharing your thoughts about the episode." Diplomacy in the Caribbean rarely dominates headlines, yet it sits at the intersection of U.S. security, economic interests, and regional resilience. In this episode, retired U.S. Ambassador Linda Taglialatela reflects on a four-decade career in government service that culminated in leading the U.S. diplomatic mission responsible for...

"Send a text sharing your thoughts about the episode." A wide-ranging conversation with David Meale on China’s economic statecraft, global influence, and what individuals must understand to navigate competition, interdependence, and decision-making in an increasingly contested international landscape. A seasoned Foreign Service professional with over thirty years of experience, David ref...

"Send a text sharing your thoughts about the episode." Retired U.S. Ambassador Luis Moreno shares a candid, wide-ranging conversation shaped by more than three decades of service in some of the world’s most demanding environments. From serving in Bogotá and helping implement Plan Colombia, to leading during political violence in Haiti, coordinating civil-military alignment in Iraq, and s...

"Send a text sharing your thoughts about the episode." In this episode, we examine the non-legal consequences of large-scale immigration enforcement operations and how execution determines whether an initiative strengthens or weakens public safety. Drawing on leadership insights from former senior national security officials, law enforcement professionals, and legal scholars, we explore...

"Send a text sharing your thoughts about the episode." In this quarterly reflection episode, I step back from twelve wide-ranging conversations to trace a single common thread: institutions increasingly function not because they are well designed, but because individuals quietly absorb strain. From emergency medicine to education, national security to science, libraries to shrimping, eac...

"Send a text sharing your thoughts about the episode." Drawing from lived experience in high-stress government service, Ron Holloway explores warning signs that often go unnoticed, how institutions respond when people break, and why true strength lies not in endurance alone, but in adaptation. Ron is a former U.S. Department of State Diplomatic Security Service (DSS) special agent and Fo...

"Send a text sharing your thoughts about the episode." Shrimp is the most consumed seafood in the U.S. Annually Americans consume on average per person almost six pounds of shrimp. Today imports not only account for 90% of the shrimp we consume, but also have gravely impacted our domestic shrimping industry. Although a leading provider of high-quality shrimp in the U.S. and the Gulf of M...

"Send a text sharing your thoughts about the episode." In this episode Paul Lemle, president of the Maryland State Education Association and longtime public-school educator, discusses and assesses the role of public education in sustaining democracy, civic life, and economic stability. Drawing on his personal journey from Jesuit education and music to special education teaching and union...

"Send a text sharing your thoughts about the episode." Today’s guest is Brian Greenberg,  the General Manager of Tipitina’s, a popular and familiar club in New Orleans named after a song by the musician Professor Longhair who performed there until his death in 1980. After working in radio, Brian started with Tipitina's over two decades ago and has been responsible for keeping its he...

"Send a text sharing your thoughts about the episode." An exploration of the leadership, governance, and evolving culture of USA Fencing through an in-depth discussion with CEO Phil Andrews and General Counsel Jess Saxon. Andrews reflects on the sport’s rapid growth, the challenges of expanding access, and the balancing act between innovation, sustainability, and community stewardship. S...

"Send a text sharing your thoughts about the episode." Today’s guest is Mr. Joshua Hong . He is the regional director at the American Guild of Musical Artists (AGMA), a national labor union of 7,000 singers, dancers, and staging staff in the United States. As an opera singer, Mr. Hong has performed with Opera Pacific, Washington National Opera, and Wolf Trap Opera. Our conversation explo...

"Send a text sharing your thoughts about the episode." Today’s guest is Mr. Ghislain Arsenault, President and CEO of Truck N’Roll , a Canadian company leading in live-entertainment transport in North America. As the founder and head of Truck N’Roll, he has spent decades navigating one of the most complex, high-pressure forms of logistics: moving entire concerts, productions, and touring...

"Send a text sharing your thoughts about the episode." Today’s guest is Ms. Amanda Jones, a librarian in Livingston Parish, Louisiana, anti-censorship advocate, and past president of the Louisiana Association of School Librarians. Despite being cruelly defamed, shunned by members of her own community, and subjected to death threats, Ms. Jones has steadfastly been a voice of reason agains...