Practice Areas - Trial Practice
- Toxic Tort Litigation
- Environmental Litigation
| - Pharmaceutical Litigation
- Commercial Litigation
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| University | Tulane University, 1966-1968 |
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| Law School | Tulane University (J.D., 1971; LL.M. in Environmental Law, 1999) |
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| Admitted | 1971, Louisiana |
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| Memberships | Louisiana State (Environment Law Section) and American (Co-Chair, Mass Torts Committee 2008-2010, Litigation Section; Chair, Book Publications Committee, 2002-2003 and Chair, Fall Meeting, 2001, Section Council Member, 2010-2013, Section of Environment, Energy and Resources) Bar Associations; New Orleans Association of Defense Counsel; Louisiana Association of Defense Counsel; International Association of Defense Counsel; Defense Research Institute; Louisiana Bar Foundation (Grants Committee, 2004-2005); CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates) New Orleans (dealing with abandoned and neglected children, President 2004-2006); New Orleans Regional Leadership Institute (Member, Board of Directors, 2004-2005); Greater New Orleans, Inc. (Member, Board of Directors, 2008—); New Orleans Municipal Yacht Harbor Management Corporation, a public benefit corporation of the City of New Orleans (President, 2009-2011). |
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| Born | New Orleans, Louisiana, May 17, 1948 |
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| Biography | Co-Author: "Successful Partnering Between Inside and Outside Counsel" (West/American Corporate Counsel Association - Communications chapter, 2011). "Toxic Tort Litigation," Environmental Litigation: Law and Strategy, the American Bar Association's Section of Environment, Energy and Resources (May 2009). Chapter Co-Author: "Toxic Tort Litigation," published January 2007; "Mass Torts - Managing Tort Crisis on Multiple Fronts," American Bar Association annual joint seminar by the Litigation Section's Mass Torts, Environmental Litigation and Products Liability Committees, Vail, Colorado (January 2006); "Class Action Countdown: What's Hot on the Class Litigation Front," American Bar Association, Section of Litigation and the Center for Continuing Legal Education, 9th Annual National Institute on Class Actions, San Francisco, California (October 2005); "Katrina: We Won't Talk About Camille Any More," presentation to the Fall Meeting of the ABA Section of Environment, Energy and Resources, Nashville, Tennessee (October 2005); Moderator, "Class Actions and the Law of Unintended Consequences: How Lawyers in the Real World React to Changes in Procedural and Substantive Rules," American Bar Association, Section of Litigation and the Center for Continuing Legal Education, 10th Annual National Institute on Class Actions, San Diego, California (October 2006); "Novel Mass Tort Resolution Techniques," 4th Annual Class Action/Mass Torts Symposium, Louisiana State Bar Association (October 2003). Fellow: Louisiana Bar Foundation. |
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| ISLN | 905215974 |
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