LSU Law Dean Alena Allen will step down from her position without contesting it, The Baton Rouge Advocate reported Friday.
Through a lawyer, she previously told the Reveille she was considering bringing a discrimination lawsuit against the university, which reportedly asked her to step down in August.
Allen also said she had not yet agreed to step down when the university announced that she was doing so.
Allen said then that the university was retaliating against her for bringing forth concerns about “irregularities” in the law school’s finances.
Allison Jones, Allen’s lawyer, now says there’s an “amicable resolution” for both sides, according to The Advocate, and Allen’s last day will be Sept. 19.
Allen will then transition to a full-time position in the law school’s faculty.
Allen was the law school’s first ever Black dean and the first woman to serve as the school’s dean.
Interim Provost Troy Blanchard reportedly told law school faculty that he was taking applications for an interim law school dean in the meantime.
