Hope Phelps

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Hope Phelps focuses her legal practice on civil rights and employment discrimination matters, including working with survivors of sexual assault and domestic violence. She understands that many clients have experienced physical and emotional trauma and is sensitive to the heightened anxieties and vulnerabilities many clients experience when navigating through the civil legal system. Hope was selected to the 2022-2025 Louisiana Rising Stars lists published by Thomson Reuters.

She is a Fellow of Loyola’s Institute of Politics (2021), and completed the City of New Orleans Civic Leadership Academy (2019). Outside of the law office, Hope assists with communications for a local political organization, particularly in service of issue-based campaigns and in coalition with grassroots community organizations.

A New Orleans native, Hope graduated from Mount Carmel Academy, earned a dual degree in English Literature and Psychology from Louisiana State University, and returned home to pursue her J.D. at Loyola University New Orleans College of Law. While at LSU, she completed forty hours of training to volunteer with the Sexual Trauma Awareness and Response Center (STAR), where she responded to calls on the 24/7 crisis hotline and served as an advocate for survivors at the hospital during forensic exams.

At Loyola, Hope competed on and coached Loyola’s First Amendment Moot Court Team. She served as a Student Attorney with Loyola’s Family Law Clinic, clerked with the Louisiana Attorney Disciplinary Board, Southeast Louisiana Legal Services, and served as a judicial extern to the Honorable Jane-Triche Milazzo of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana. While in law school, Hope volunteered as a clinic escort and legal observer with the New Orleans Abortion Fund (NOAF).

Loyola Law Review published Hope’s casenote on an unconstitutional Texas abortion restriction, which anticipated the Supreme Court of the United States’ response to an identical Louisiana law. See Planned Parenthood v. Abbott: Evaluating the Admitting Privileges Requirement Under the Undue Burden Standard, 61 Loy. L. Rev. 437 (2015).

Bar Admissions

  • State of Louisiana

  • United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth District

  • United States District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana

  • United States District Court, Middle District of Louisiana

  • United States District Court, Western District of Louisiana