Correspondence from Menefee to Bowers

    BLACKSHER, MENEFEE & STEIN, P.A. 

ATTORNEYS AT LAW 

405 VAN ANTWERP BUILDING 

P. O. BOX 10851 

MOBILE, ALABAMA 36633 

March 28, 1985 
JAMES U. BLACKSHER TELEPHONE 

LARRY T. MENEFEE (205) 433-2000 

GREGORY B. STEIN 

WANDA J. COCHRAN 

Patricia Bowers, Esquire 
Assistant Attorney General 
Louisiana Department of Justice 
New Orleans, Louisiana 70112 

RE: Major v. Treen 

Dear Patricia: 

This is in response to your letter of March 36(sic) 1985. I have 
previously sent to you the federal express bills of the New 
Orleans attorneys and the bills of expert witness Gordon 
Henderson. According to your letter and the statements to the 
court in the telephone conference, I gather you haven't received 
them and I am enclosing an additional copy. 

This is yet another example and continues to raise concern about 
the apparent difficulty you have receiving documents in your 
office. Last Friday you called and told me that you had received 
no documents from my office, yet, upon checking, Federal Express 
stated that the package of documents had in fact been received in 
your office at least two days earlier and signed for by a person 
named "J. Vincent". We have had to send you three copies of our 
interrogatories even though the first copy was hand delivered by 
Jim Kellogg to you and the third copy which, at your request, we 
sent federal express several weeks ago. Similarly, your 
statement during the telephone conference that you had received 
no documentation concerning approximately $42,000.00 in expenses 
is seriously misleading. Over half of the expenses are in Ms. 
Guinier's affidavit and that production was not due on Tuesday. 
Clearly you had received the travel expenses and should have 
received the federal express and Gordon Henderson's bills, 
mentioned above. 

Additionally, the expert witnesses bills were filed with the 
motion and all of the deposition expenses were fully itemized and 
your office already has copies of bills for those depositions. 
However, as you requested we will supply signed verification by 
each of the experts that the statements included in the motion 
accurately reflect the work they performed and the charges to 
this litigation. I am enclosing with this letter copies of those 
bills for the depositions as you requested. 

First, I would like to ask that you check with your own office  



Patricia Bowers, Esq. 

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March 23, 1985 

staff, in particular receptionists and others who receive mail 
and express deliveries to help insure that in fact your office 
has not received documents you claim to be missing. Second, a 
more accurate statement of what in fact you do not have would be 
far more helpful than the overstatements that you have asked me 
to respond to in the past. For example, you have yet to inform 
me whether or not you ever received the box of materials that 
federal express supposedly delivered to a J. Vincent? 

Finally, I am sorry I could not accommodate you and your 
husband's plans for a weekend in the Washington-Philadelphia area 
and the need for the super-saver fare. I would have been glad to 
have tried to accommodate your desire if you had informed me 
earlier. 

Sincerely, 

BLACKSHER, MENEFEE & STEIN, P.A. 

/ 2 Pres Ml 

Larry of Menefee 
LTM: nw 

CC Honorable Alma Chasez {w/0 encl) 

 



BLACKSHER, MENEFEE & STEIN, P.A. 

ATTORNEYS AT LAW 

405 VAN ANTWERP BUILDING 

P. O. BOX 1051 

MOBILE, ALABAMA 36633 

JAMES U. BLACKSHER 10K TELEPHONE 
LARRY T. MENEFEE : 2 (205) 433-200C 

GREGORY B. STEIN 

WANDA J. COCHRAN 

Patricia Bowers, Esquire 
Assistant Attorney General 
Louisiana Department of Justice 
234 Loyola Building, 7th Floor 
New Orleans, Louisiana 70112 

RE: Major v. Treen 
  

Dear Patricia: 

Please find enclosed the documents for Lani Guinier. Enclosed are 
the following items: 

1. Time slips for law clerk Janice McCaghan; 

2. Pleadings relating to the case of Valteau v. Edwards, a 
case which your office handled and you have easily access to more 
of those documents if you need them As you are aware, Ms. 

Guinier settled that simple voting case for an excess of $150.00 
per: hour. 

3. Time slips for Ms. Guinier. 

4. Federal express and other bi 

5. No telephone logs are maintained by Ms. Guinier. The 
document request does not require it but we have included copies 
of numerous telephone bills denominating the charges to this 
litigation. If you wish more documentation on the telephone 
charges claimed by LDF, we will make available for your 
inspection all of the still existing teiepnone biiis at LDF. 

6. Also included are the other expense vouchers for travel 
rooms, meals, expert witness, photocopying, and other 
miscellaneous expenses claimed in Ms. Guinier's affidavit. 

Sincerely, 

BLACKSHER, MENEFEE & STEIN, P.A. 

Larry 1. Menefee 
LTM: nwp ’ 

cc Honorable Alma Chasez