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John S. Foster, Esq., CHME, and his firm, Foster, Jensen & Gulley, LLC, Atlanta, Ga., represent several hundred meeting and convention professionals nationwide. Foster, a frequent speaker on legal topics at industry meetings, spoke with us on September 19, three weeks after Hurricane Katrina had hit the Gulf Coast, about possible implications for meetings and events scheduled for New Orleans (and other Gulf Coast locations) in Katrina's aftermath. At that point, all citywide conventions