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    CAREER HIGHLIGHTS AND SKILLS                                                        

    •Practicing attorney since 1995
    •11 years conducting trials as District Hearing Officer (Magistrate)
    •9 years staff management, supervision, and recruiting
    •7 years seminar production and public speaking
    •5 years private sector litigation practice
    •25 years legal research, writing, and advising     
    (14 years judicial opinion writing, research and advising)
    •9 years facility management, compliance and event coordination and production


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    LEGAL WORK EXPERIENCE

    10TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA (Natchitoches Parish)
    •Court Counsel / District Hearing Officer
    Sept. 11, 2017 - Present
    As Court Counsel: I serve as legal advisor, researcher, analyst and
    writer for the District Court Judiciary in the adjudication of all matters
    (civil, criminal, juvenile, family) before the District Court; research and
    write all confidential bench memoranda, orders, judgments, and opinions,
    and prepare the Court for all cases to be heard with procedural, substantive
    legal analysis and commentary; verify citations and liaise with local and
    state bar, bench and agencies on matters of case management and
    procedures and concerns of this court, assist the judge during
    courtroom proceedings; and train and supervise judicial law clerks and
    interns.
    As District Hearing Officer (Family Law Magistrate), I conduct civil
    trials in paternity, child support, domestic violence, and uncontested
    divorces; pre-trial contested family law cases among self-represented
    litigants.  Other judicial appointments include Administrator of the
    District Court's Expedited Process Program.

    11TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA (Sabine Parish)
    •Court Counsel, October 2006 - August 25, 2017
    •District Hearing Officer, January 1, 2009 - August 25, 2017
    •Judicial Law Clerk to Hon. Stephen B. Beasley
    October 2005 - December 31, 2008
    Sole Judicial Law Clerk supporting Division C Civil, Criminal and
    Juvenile Courts.   

  • Corporate Law, PLPS 3050.  .
  • Law Office Administration, PLPS 3080.
  • Legal Research, PLPS 3020
  • Civil Litigation and Procedure, PLPS 3030
  • Family Law, PLPS 3070

    NEW YORK COUNTY LAWYERS’ ASSOCIATION (NYCLA)   New York, New York
    Senior Program Attorney
    2001 - 2004
    Researched, designed, coordinated and supervised substantive law programs and
    presentations for this major American municipal bar association in the heart of Manhattan's
    financial district.  Supervised work product of junior program attorneys.

    LAW OFFICE OF K. JACOB RUPPERT, J.D.  Queens County - New York, New York
    1996 - 2001      
    General litigation practice.  Landlord/Tenant, Family/Matrimonial, Estate, Immigration
    and Criminal law.  Also, Of Counsel to Rodriguez & Associates, Brooklyn, New York, a
    general practice firm with an immigration specialty.

    JOSEPH PAPP PUBLIC THEATER/NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL*+   
    New York, New York
    Director of Operations/Counsel
    1995 - 1996
    Legal research, contract drafting and management, counsel and representation when necessary
    to this Broadway non-profit producing agency.  Principal duties involved in the planning,
    management and supervision of 2 commercial Broadway ventures, 6 commercial Off-Broadway
    ventures, 2 classics in Central Park, one film festival and a  45,000 sq.ft.building with full-time
    staff of 85.

    CARIDI ENTERTAINMENT CORP.  New York, New York
    1994
    Legal Intern
    Interned with owner Carmella Caridi, Esq., co-founder of HBO and MTV, in the general counsel
    and business affairs office of this multi-media foreign/domestic distribution financing corporation.

    MAIN STREET LEGAL SERVICES, INC.  Queens County - New York, New York
    1992 to 1994
    Summer Associate
    Research, writing, in-court representation in under Student Practice Order for this municipal,
    state and federally funded indigent legal services organization.
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    OTHER RELEVANT WORK EXPERIENCE

    FACILITY MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION

    General Manager
    1987 - 1988
    NEW ORLEANS ORPHEUM THEATER* (2000 seat proscenium concert hall)
    Full management responsibility of facility then owned by the New Orleans Symphony
    (since renamed Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra).

    House Staff Manager (1980 - 1984, 1986)
    NEW ORLEANS THEATER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS (2317-seat proscenium)
    (Subsequently renamed Mahalia Jackson Theater for the Performing Arts)
    (subsequently renamed  Morris F. X. Jeff, Sr. Municipal Auditorium)
    NEW ORLEANS ORPHEUM THEATER*
    On-site management, supervision, staffing,
    payroll accounting of 35-50 personnel and
    volunteers for these three major New Orleans
    performance facilities.


    NETWORK TELEVISION PRODUCTION

    Assistant Coordinator
    Dolly!  with Dolly Parton
    Sandollar Productions in association with
    ABC Television, Los Angeles, CA
    1988, worked on this one-season-only weekly
    television variety show starring Dolly Parton.

    Production Assistant
    Comic Strip Live – Prime Time
    Fox Television, Santa Monica, CA
    1989, Worked one season for this
    stand-up comedy program filmed
    in a different US city each week.  




    Board of Directors:




            

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    PUBLIC SPEAKING

    •Guidelines for Determination of Child Support Deviations, March, 2013,
    •Proving Your Child Support Case: Discovery Tools, February, 2012;
    •St. Denis American Inns of Court, Natchitoches, LA; The Role of Judicial Law Clerks (CLE), Sept., 2010;
    •New York City Council testimony on behalf of the New York City Bar Association on the codification of
              the Koch-era domestic partnership executive orders, June 1998.

    Part III: Little Germanies: The Role of Beer and the German Immigrant Community of New York
    City.  American premier January, 2008;
    •Public Relations Coordinator for one summer theater season
    •Box Office Manager

    Certificado de Estudios Legales Cubanos, UNIVERSIDAD DE LA HABANA, Havana, Cuba
    Full Scholarship.  Program/Project study presented by the US Department of State and the City University
    of New York. Studies Cuban Civil Code and researched the quarantining of HIV Cubanos.

    Post-Baccalaureate Credit Certificate in Paralegal Studies, UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS (ABA).
    Honors:        
    •Dean’s List
    •Alpha Theta Epsilon Honor Society







                                                                                                       
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Homepage (cover) photo: Photo of the Third Avenue main entrance of our family's brewery in New York City (Jacob Ruppert
Brewery, 1867-1965).  The audio is from the Ruppert Family Library, a 1924 recording of the Männerchor (Men's Chorus) of the
New York Liederkranz singing Wanderschaft (“Das Wandern ist des Müllers Lust” or “To Wander is the Miller's Joy”) by Karl
Friedrich Zöllner (music) and Wilhelm Müller (lyrics).  Carl Richard Fuchs-Jerin, Musical Director and Conductor.  Generations of my
male Ruppert ancestors were members of this NYC German music society.
K. Jacob Ruppert, J.D.
Curriculum Vitae of


K. Jacob Ruppert, J.D.
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Below, Hon. Ed Koch and K. Jacob Ruppert speaking together on a
panel at the Association of the Bar of the City of New York (CityBar).
New York State Supreme Court, 60 Centre
Street in Manhattan. My old stomping grounds
where I was seemingly constantly being asked
to exit the rear because LAW AND ORDER was
filming on the courthouse steps.
Below, The Public Theater/New York Shakespeare Festival in the East Village
of Manhattan.  Designed by three different architects over three different
periods of expansion beginning in 1853, it is one of the largest facades
featuring Rundbogenstil architecture in NYC.
Left, The New Orleans Orpheum
Theater.  Designed by the da Vinci
of theater architects, G. Albert
Lansburgh, in 1918 and opened in
1921.  It is nationally known for its
uncanny acoustics and for being
the largest expanse of
poly-chromed terra cotta  in the
South.
New York State
Chief Justice
Judith Kaye and
K. Jacob Ruppert.
K. Jacob Ruppert in his office at
the Public Theater in
Manhattan.
Left,
The New Orleans Theater for
the Performing Arts.

Right,
The New Orleans
Municipal Auditorium.
My Life in Many, LA and in
Mansfield, LA
Association of the Bar of the City of New York (CityBar) in
mid-town Manhattan.  A neo-classical building designed by Cyrus
L.W. Eidlitz in 1898. His other works include One Times Square.
US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg and
K. Jacob Ruppert in the East Room of the US
Supreme Court.
AWARDS AND HONORS

•2010 Hearing Officer of the Year, Louisiana Support Enforcement Assn. (LSEA)
•President, Louisiana Hearing Officers' Association (LaHOA)
•Counsel to three (3) non-profit corporations
•Law Review and Law Journal work
•Past President, Law School Student Bar Association
•Past Chapter Chair, ABA-Law Student Division
•Two Full Scholarships for International Study (France and Cuba)
Below, New York County Lawyers' Association in Downtown Manhattan.  One
of the most stunning NYC examples of the genius of architect Cass Gilbert.
You are listening to the radio jingle for Ruppert Knickerbocker Beer recorded April 1, 1958,
for our beer's (then) new ad campaign, "Knick has the Knack!"
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Ruppert in his Louisiana Courthouse office.
Ruppert in his former NYC office.
City University of New York School of Law, New York City
Above, District Hearing Officers (Magistrates) K. Jacob
Ruppert and Rebecca Kennedy teach bench and bar at the
2013 LSEA Conference.
Oprah tickling
me in my early
days in network
television.
Counter
Left, group-autographed cover page from my
DOLLY! script back in 1988 when I worked in
network television.
From Left to Right: Hon. E. Leo Milones, John D. Feerick,
Susan N. Herman, Rita W. Gordon, Ruth Wedgwood and
K. Jacob Ruppert in the Great Hall of the Association of the
Bar of the City of New York after a 2003 panel discussion
before NYC's bench and bar entitled The Rule of Law in
Times of Terrorism.
11th Judicial District
Courthouse (Sabine)
10th Judicial District Courthouse
(Natchitoches)