Louisiana Revised Statutes Tit. 30, § 132. Attorney for the board

The attorney general shall be the attorney for the board, but the board shall have authority to employ additional counsel and fix and pay the compensation for additional counsel or counselors, subject, however, to the authority of the attorney general and the secretary of the Department of Conservation and Energy to approve the counsel, whereupon the attorney general shall issue, under his power of appointment of assistants, a commission to the counsel as assistant attorney general. However, any contract for legal services which exceed two hundred fifty thousand dollars shall be subject to approval by the Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget.