Taylor Porter Managing Partner Skip Philips and Associate Kelley Dick have been named as Council Members of the Louisiana State Law Institute. Philips was elected as a Practicing Attorney Member of the Council, and Dick was elected as one of only three honor graduates of Southern University Law Center for junior honorary membership in the Institute. The LSLI is an official, advisory law revision commission, law reform agency and legal research agency of the State of Louisiana declared by the Legislature to promote and encourage the clarification and simplification of the law of Louisiana and its better adaptation to present social needs; to secure the better administration of justice and to carry on scholarly legal research and scientific legal work.

The Louisiana State Law Institute, originally authorized by the Board of Supervisors of the Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, with its domicile at the Law School of that University, was chartered, created and organized as an official law revision commission, law reform agency and legal research agency of the State of Louisiana, by Act 166 of the Legislature of 1938 (Chapter 4 of Title 24 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950).

The governing authority of the Institute is vested in a Council consisting of ex-officio and elected members representative of the executive branch of the government, the legislature, the judiciary and the law-teaching and practicing professions. There is a general membership of over 400. The general membership meets at least once a year at the Institute's annual meeting and at other times on the call of the Council. In compliance with the Institute's legislative charter, the annual meeting is organized for scholarly discussions of current problems in Louisiana law and particularly the projects under consideration by the Council, and for bringing together representatives of the legislature, members of the bench and bar, and representatives of the law-teaching profession.