In what is great news for the Louisiana green industry, the industry is hosting its first annual conference in New Orleans between April 26 – 28, 2010.

I’m happy to be among a number of great experts to speak at the conference, and among some attorneys who are good friends of ours from twitter and blogs such as Christopher Hill (who I’ll present with on green litigation), Shari Shapiro and Tim Hughes.

The conference hopes to pull in great attendance based upon its location (New Orleans = greatest city in the world), the time of year (sandwiched between the two weekends of New Orleans Jazz Festival) and a line-up of very significant speaks including:

• New Orleans Mayor Elect, Mitch Landrieu
• James Carville, political consultant
• Susan Dorn, General Counsel of US Green Building Council
• Roberta Lang, General Counsel, Whole Foods
• Steve Harmon, Sr. Director Legal Services, Cisco

If you’d like to learn more about the conference, or to register to attend, please visit www.greenlegalmatters.com.

• EFCA – Amidst all of the controversy, three mega-retailers proposed an alternative to the currently pending EFCA act. Those retailers?   Starbucks, Whole Foods and Costco.
• Green building law blogger Shari Shapiro went to a green building conference and asks the question:  Is construction law Where The Boys Are…and The Girls Aren’t.
• The Business Pundit reports that the Knauf Drywall Fiasco could be the Biggest Home Defect Case In U.S. History.  The question then becomes…are you prepared for that?  Wolfe Law has been blogging on Chinese Drywall here, and they have published an Avvo Legal Guide titled:  What To Do If You Installed or Supplied Chinese Drywall.
• The Stimulus is still in the news.  Here is a searchable spreadsheet published by the Contractor’s Blog of the 18,000+ Infrastructure projects.
• Wolfe Law Group news?   Check out an interview with founding member Scott Wolfe Jr. on New Orleans’ Fox 8 about Chinese Drywall.   Also, the firm announced a new practice group to represent, advise and defend builders, contractors, suppliers and other construction industry participants who are implicated by the imported drywall crisis.