Attorney Profile

 

Laura Mauffray Borchert is licensed to practice law in the State of Louisiana, with over a dozen years of experience in Adoption Law and Succession/Estate Law.  Laura is a graduate of Loyola Law School, having received her Juris Doctor degree in 1998.  During law school, she served on the Honor Board, participated on the Moot Court staff, and got the asterisk for scoring the highest grade in her Successions class. 

 

Laura received her under-graduate degree in Radio-TV-Film, with a minor in French, at the University of Southern Mississippi in 1988, after attending Southeastern Louisiana University, where she pledged Alpha Omicron Pi sorority and enjoyed being the sweetheart for Kappa Delta Tau fraternity for two years. 

 

 

 

Laura is a past president of the Slidell Bar Association, a member of the Slidell,  Covington, Louisiana, and American Bar Associations, and serves on the Kids Chance Scholarship Committee and the North Shore Community Partnership Panel for the Louisiana Bar Foundation. She volunteered her time teaching a Street Law class through the Youth Service Bureau for nearly 10 years, and currently serves on the St. Margaret Mary Finance Council, the Slidell Train Station Commission, and the Slidell Motion Picture Advisory Committee.  Laura is active with the 22nd JDC Inn of Court, last year having directed a one-act play at the courthouse where she survived her first cello performance (playing Kermit the Frog’s “Rainbow Connection” edited with legal lyrics), and more recently having written/directed/performed in a one-act musical (“Lawspell”).

 

Laura is the past chairman of the Rolls-Royce Owners’ Club Legal Committee, and served as co-chairman for the 2009 RROC Annual Meet in New Orleans along with her husband, Bill Borchert, Slidell City Councilman for District “G”.  She vigorously volunteered and participated in school and extra-curricular activities with the couples’ three daughters, Sophie, Kristen, and Katie, who are all in college now. Besides putting families together, and settling family estates, when she finds time away from the office, Laura can be found painting, scuba diving, or sipping coffee on the Bayou Gypsy.