Practice Areas:

• Commercial Litigation
• Contract Litigation
• Property
• Class Action Litigation
• Levee Boards
• Toxic Tort Litigation
• Environmental Law

Bar Admissions:

• Louisiana, 1979
• Washington D.C., 1987
• Mississippi, 1990

Court Admissions:

• 1980, U.S. Supreme Court
• 1987, District of Columbia
• 1990, Mississippi
• U.S. District Court, Eastern, Western and Middle Districts of Louisiana
• U.S. District Court, Northern and Southern Districts of Mississippi
• U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit

Education:

• Loyola University, New Orleans, J.D. 1978
• Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, B.A. 1975

Professional Associations:

• District of Columbia Bar
• The Mississippi Bar
• Louisiana State Bar Association (Member, Bar Governance Commitee and Right to Counsel Committee)
• American Bar Association
• Defense Research Institute
• Fifth Circuit Bar Association
• NOBA

Other:

• Former Assistant Parish Attorney for the Parish of East Baton Rouge and city of Baton Rouge, 1979-1984
• Former Senior Litigation Counsel, Shell Oil Compmany, 1986-2003