James M. "Monty" Truett

Overview

Monty is a member of Butler Snow’s Business Services Group.

Experience

  • Clerkship, Honorable Eva J. Dossier, United States Magistrate Judge for the Eastern District of Louisiana, March 2025 to May 2025
  • Clerkship, Honorable Wendy B. Vitter, Chief United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Louisiana, May 2025 to August 2026

Bar Admissions

  • Louisiana, 2025

Education

  • Paul M. Hebert Law Center, Louisiana State University, J.D./D.C.L., 2024
    • Dean’s Scholar – Fall 2024
    • Dean’s Council Scholarship Recipient – Fall 2024
    • U.S. District Court Middle District of Louisiana Judges Memorial Scholarship Recipient – Fall 2024
    • Law Class of 1981 Scholarship Recipient – Fall 2024
    • Thomas W. Leigh Memorial Scholarship Recipient – Fall 2024
    • Senior Associate for Volume 84 of the Louisiana Law Review
    • CALI Award for Highest Grade, LA Civil Procedure I – May 2023
    • Dean’s Scholar – Spring 2023
    • Paul M. Hebert Scholar – Fall 2022
    • CALI Award for Highest Grade, Civil Law Property – May 2022
    • CALI Award for Highest Grade, Legal Research & Writing II – May 2022
    • Dean’s Scholar – Fall 2021 and Spring 2022
    • Dean’s Scholarship Recipient – Paul M. Hebert Law Center
    • Federalist Society
    • Student Bar Association Safety and Sustainability Committee
  • Louisiana State University, M.B.A., 2024
  • Louisiana State University, B.S., Finance, 2020

Associations

  • American Bar Association
    • Business Law Section
    • Young Lawyers Division

Papers, Presentations & Publications

  • Comment, Congress, Tear Down this Educational Wall: The Biden Administration’s Unconstitutional Student Loan Cancellation Plan & Congress’ Responsibility to Address the Root Cause of the Student Loan Crisis, 84 La. L. Rev. 625 (2024)
  • Blog Post, Carte Blanche: SCOTUS Issues a Puzzling Decision on Texas and Louisiana’s Challenge to the Biden Administration’s Compliance with 8 U.S.C. § 1226 and § 1231, Louisiana Law Review Lagniappe, November 2023
  • Student Gallery, Florida’s Homestead Exemption: Ensuring an Equal Application of the Law, XLII ABI Journal 5, 30-31, 50-51, May 2023

James M. "Monty"

Truett

Overview

Monty is a member of Butler Snow’s Business Services Group.

Experience

  • Clerkship, Honorable Eva J. Dossier, United States Magistrate Judge for the Eastern District of Louisiana, March 2025 to May 2025
  • Clerkship, Honorable Wendy B. Vitter, Chief United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Louisiana, May 2025 to August 2026

Bar Admissions

  • Louisiana, 2025

Education

  • Paul M. Hebert Law Center, Louisiana State University, J.D./D.C.L., 2024
    • Dean’s Scholar – Fall 2024
    • Dean’s Council Scholarship Recipient – Fall 2024
    • U.S. District Court Middle District of Louisiana Judges Memorial Scholarship Recipient – Fall 2024
    • Law Class of 1981 Scholarship Recipient – Fall 2024
    • Thomas W. Leigh Memorial Scholarship Recipient – Fall 2024
    • Senior Associate for Volume 84 of the Louisiana Law Review
    • CALI Award for Highest Grade, LA Civil Procedure I – May 2023
    • Dean’s Scholar – Spring 2023
    • Paul M. Hebert Scholar – Fall 2022
    • CALI Award for Highest Grade, Civil Law Property – May 2022
    • CALI Award for Highest Grade, Legal Research & Writing II – May 2022
    • Dean’s Scholar – Fall 2021 and Spring 2022
    • Dean’s Scholarship Recipient – Paul M. Hebert Law Center
    • Federalist Society
    • Student Bar Association Safety and Sustainability Committee
  • Louisiana State University, M.B.A., 2024
  • Louisiana State University, B.S., Finance, 2020

Associations

  • American Bar Association
    • Business Law Section
    • Young Lawyers Division

Papers, Presentations & Publications

  • Comment, Congress, Tear Down this Educational Wall: The Biden Administration’s Unconstitutional Student Loan Cancellation Plan & Congress’ Responsibility to Address the Root Cause of the Student Loan Crisis, 84 La. L. Rev. 625 (2024)
  • Blog Post, Carte Blanche: SCOTUS Issues a Puzzling Decision on Texas and Louisiana’s Challenge to the Biden Administration’s Compliance with 8 U.S.C. § 1226 and § 1231, Louisiana Law Review Lagniappe, November 2023
  • Student Gallery, Florida’s Homestead Exemption: Ensuring an Equal Application of the Law, XLII ABI Journal 5, 30-31, 50-51, May 2023