Jones Walker attorney Rick Schroeder was quoted in the February 20 Reuter's article on Yahoo! News, “New Orleans courts face Mardi Gras amid crisis.”  Schroeder was appointed as an advisor by Judge Calvin Johnson in an investigation into the failure of the New Orleans criminal court system to obtain lawyers for thousands of indigent city-jail inmates now dispersed across Louisiana due to Hurricane Katrina.  “It’s an unimaginable situation where the court has to face the total collapse of resources,” Schroeder is quoted as saying.  “The sheer passage of time—more than six months—would suggest that evidence is being lost.”  According to the article, there are more than 4,000 pending cases, with at least 3,000 inmates lacking a lawyer.