Sydney G.
Rusovich
- Position
- Associate
- Office
- New Orleans
Sydney Rusovich is an associate in the Corporate Practice Group. She advises clients on a broad range of corporate law, governance, transactional, and related matters.
Sydney earned her juris doctor degree, summa cum laude, from Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, graduating in the top 2% of her class and earning the Crowe Scholar distinction. She received 10 highest-grade awards in various classes throughout law school. While earning her law degree, Sydney served as managing editor of the Loyola Law Review and earned Loyola Law Review awards for best casenote and outstanding candidate achievement. She also acted as secretary and co-founder of the Catholic Law Student Society, vice president of the Loyola New Orleans College of Law Chapter of the Federal Bar Association, and research assistant to Professor James É. Viator. In 2025–2026, Sydney will serve as judicial law clerk to the Honorable Dana M. Douglas of the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
Prior to starting her legal career, Sydney was project coordinator for the Arabic Language Flagship program at the University of Mississippi, one of six US Department of Defense-sponsored programs. As an undergraduate student, she spearheaded and was deeply involved in efforts to make safety, equality, and inclusion top priorities on campus. Among many other leadership roles, Sydney served as president and co-founder of Rallying Against Sexual Assault at the University of Mississippi and as the first undergraduate student delegate to the Chancellor’s Commission on the Status of Women.
Sydney spent significant portions of her undergraduate career studying Arabic language and culture in Jordan and Israel. For her research on the cultural and political nuances of the Israeli Druze population, Sydney was awarded the Terasawa Prize, the University of Mississippi Croft Institute award for best senior thesis.