Tim Doody, administrator for law firm Chaffe McCall, sent an email to his colleagues at 3:53 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 26, 2005. Subject line: “Katrina—The Hurricane.” Everyone at the firm’s main office at the Energy Centre in New Orleans was urged to close window blinds and doors, remove papers from desks, and generally do what
Louisiana’s oldest law firm has survived nearly two centuries—and one notorious hurricane.
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