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Visibility Rankings  | | #37 out of 318 lawyers in Alexandria, Louisiana | | #50,961 out of 890,538 total lawyers Overall |
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| Practice Areas | Commercial Litigation; Insurance Defense; Products Liability | | | Peer Review Rating | AV
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What's this? | | | Education | Louisiana State University and A. and M. College, J.D., 1983, Mississippi State University, B.S., cum laude, 1980 | | | Admitted | 1983, Louisiana, Supreme Court of Louisiana, U.S. District Court, Middle and Western Districts of Louisiana, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit and U.S. Supreme Court | |
| Memberships | Alexandria (Executive Committee, 1992-1993), Louisiana State (Chair, High School Essay Contest Committee, 1988-1989; Member, Sections on: Insurance, Negligence, Compensation and Admiralty Law; Civil Law and Litigation), Federal and American (Member, Sections on Tort and Insurance Practice; Labor and Employment Law; Litigation) Bar Associations; Bar Association of the Fifth Federal Circuit; Louisiana Association of Defense Counsel (Member, Board of Directors, 2007—); Defense Research Institute, Inc.; Crossroads-American Inn of Court of Alexandria-Pineville (Master of the Bench); American College of Barristers (Senior Counsel, 1991—); The College of Master Advocates and Barristers (Senior Counsel); Federation of Defense & Corporate Counsel. | | | Born | New Orleans, Louisiana, November 3, 1958 | | | Biography | Member, Louisiana Law Review, 1981-1983. Author: "Victim Fault," 43 Louisiana Law Review 1392 (1982); "Judicial Review of Conservation Orders," 43 Louisiana Law Review 1201 (1983). Lecturer: "Developing Evidence to be Used in Opening Statements and Handling Objections," Loyola University School of Law, Eleventh Annual Louisiana Evidence Law Conference, 1996; "Direct and Cross-Examination of Experts in Jury Trials," La. Dept. Justice Fall Trial Tactics Seminar, 1995; "Approaching the Deposition," Depositions From A-Z, 1994; "An Insurer's Fiduciary Duty to the Victim," Tenth Annual LADC Attorney-Client Seminar, 1992; "Handling the Expert Witness," LADC North Louisiana Seminar, 1996; First Annual Civil Defense Practice Seminar, LADC, 1997; Moderator-Lecturer, Second Annual LADC, Civil Defense Practice in Louisiana Seminar, 1998; LADC Counsel, 1999, Civil Defense Practice in Louisiana, "Jury Charges and Instructions and Jury Selection"; Moderator-Lecturer, "Post-Trial Remedies in the Trial Court," 4th Annual LADC Civil Defense Practice in Louisiana Seminar, 2000. Faculty: Louisiana State University Law School Trial Advocacy Training Program, 1996, 1998-2001, 2004, 2005, 2006; Tulane Law School Trial Advocacy Workshop, 1997. Attorney Member, 2002-2004, Chair 2004—, Louisiana Attorney Disciplinary Board Hearing Committee. Fellow: Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel Foundation; Louisiana Bar Foundation.(Certified as a Civil Trial Advocate by The National Board of Trial Advocacy) | | | ISLN | 908740220 | |
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