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• Gov. Jindal announces new executive counsel

  January 18, 2013 4:36 PM

  BATON ROUGE - The top lawyer for Gov. Bobby Jindal's administration has resigned from the job after only three months. The governor's office gave no reason Friday for Gary Graphia's decision to leave the position of executive counsel that he took in October. Instead, Jindal simply announced his replacement while... more »

• Jindal continues staff shake-up

  October 15, 2012 6:26 PM

  BATON ROUGE - Gov. Bobby Jindal is switching up his top legal adviser. Jindal announced late Monday that Executive Counsel Liz Murrill is leaving the governor's office and going to the Division of Administration. No word was given for why Murrill was leaving. The governor's office did not immediately respond... more »

• New revenue secretary starts as executive counsel

  October 9, 2012 5:25 PM

  BATON ROUGE - Gov. Bobby Jindal's new revenue secretary Tim Barfield is on the job - but not officially as the secretary. Barfield has started working as executive counsel at the Louisiana Department of Revenue until the state Senate confirms his appointment as secretary, a move that won't happen until... more »

• Jindal's former counsel hired for education suits

  June 22, 2012 4:44 PM

  BATON ROUGE - Gov. Bobby Jindal has tapped his former chief lawyer to defend the governor's education laws in court. Jimmy Faircloth is the attorney representing the state, the education department and the state education board in lawsuits seeking to throw out the governor's signature education policies, including the creation... more »

• Former Jindal counsel fined by state ethics board

  April 15, 2011 4:27 PM

  BATON ROUGE - The Jindal administration's former chief lawyer, Jimmy Faircloth, has been fined by the Louisiana Board of Ethics for violating state ethics law. The board decided Friday that Faircloth shouldn't have entered into a contract to represent the Louisiana Tax Commission six months after he resigned as... more »