Carol T. Richards is recognized as a Board Certified Family Law Specialist by the Louisiana State Board of Legal Specialization. She received her Juris Doctorate cum laude from the Tulane University School of Law in 1982 and was admitted to the Louisiana Bar the same year. During law school, Carol was Research Assistant to Professor A. N. Yiannopoulos. She was acknowledged for her assistance with with Louisiana Civil Law Treatise on Property (2d ed.) and the Louisiana Civil Law Treatise on Personal Servitudes, as well three editions of the Louisiana Civil Code published by West in paperback.

Her undergraduate degree is from Louisiana State University, and she has an M.A. from the University of Texas at Austin. Carol has had an AV Preeminent rating from Martindale-Hubbell for 36 years. In 1989 Carol was appointed to the Louisiana Supreme Court Task Force on Women in the Courts, which body rendered its final report in 1992. She is a past chair of the Family Law Section of the Louisiana Association of Justice and a past-president of the Association for Women Attorneys in New Orleans. For her service to the AWA, she was awarded a lifetime membership. Carol Richards is a member of the Louisiana State Bar Association Ethics Advisory Service Subcommittee, as well as the Louisiana State Bar Committee for Continuing Legal Education. Carol has been named one of the top 50 Family Law practitioners and a Louisiana Super Lawyer for the years 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012. In 2007, she was named one of the Top 25 Women Lawyers in the State of Louisiana, another Super Lawyer award. In 2009, New Orleans Magazine named her one of the Top Lawyers in the New Orleans area in the field of Family Law. Carol has been a member the Louisiana State Law Institute Committee on Child Custody since 2009. She is also a member of the Louisiana Association for Justice, the 22nd Judicial District Bar Association and its Family Law Section. She is the principal in The Richards Law Firm, LLC, which she started in 2011, and she was a partner in Tusa & Richards, LLC for 28 years.

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