He was an avid jogger and participated in scuba diving, deep-sea fishing, and hunting large and small game, including alligators.
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Warren A. Perrin, President of the interest group known as the Council for the Development of French in Louisiana, or CODOFIL, said that Simon had "been a mentor and inspiration for many young attorneys .
[who was] always willing to share his experience with others..." Simon was involved in a very controversial ruling that allowed a local farmer, John Trahan, to give away his deceased wife's property to settle debts in 1937.
Simon served as a trial lawyer in both civil and criminal cases in both state and federal courts in a career that exceeded a half century.
Simon devoted eight years pressing to overturn a Louisiana statute which limited the licensed, legal practice of chiropractic to those who held a doctorate from a school of medicine.
Suing the pope might have been a technicality; but the damaging headlines and lawsuits were a warning to the Vatican that church officials in Louisiana were ignoring the extent of the problem.
[2][3] In 1971, Simon entered the Democratic primary for Louisiana attorney general in an unsuccessful effort to succeed the scandal-plagued Jack P.F.
Simon was not well known statewide at the time of the campaign though he had been an attorney for the controversial Teamsters Union business agent Edward Grady Partin of Baton Rouge.
Instead, the nomination was secured by a state senator from New Orleans, William J. Guste, Jr., who defeated senatorial colleague George T. Oubre of St. James Parish, and then crushed the Republican nominee, Tom Stagg, in the general election.
While his legendary legal talents speak for themselves, he was an avid sportsman who was as comfortable quoting the great philosophers, as he was hunting alligators in the marshes of Louisiana.