LSU on Friday announced that Paul M. Hebert Law Center Dean Alena Allen will end her tenure as dean at the conclusion of the academic year. But an attorney representing Allen said the dean had not agreed to resign her position when she was asked just a day earlier — and she was considering legal action over alleged whistleblower retaliation, racial and gender discrimination, and violations of LSU policy.

In a letter to LSU on Friday, Allison Jones, Allen's attorney, said the LSU Board of Supervisors "engaged in systematic discrimination and retaliatory conduct" against Allen after she raised concerns about "irregularities" in the LSU law school's finances.

According to documents provided to The Advocate | The Times-Picayune, Allen said she was concerned that the school's budget showed it

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