NEW ORLEANS - Chaffe McCall announced the election of Julie D. Livaudais as the firm’s new managing partner. A lawyer with Chaffe McCall since 1982, Julie has served on the management committee and as practice are coordinator of the firm’s Labor…
NEW ORLEANS - Baker Donelson has added 19 new associates across the Firm. The new associates and their primary areas of practice are: Atlanta, Georgia Scott Robertson (Advocacy) Baltimore, Maryland Kyle S. Kushner (Construction) Reba Letsa (Advocacy) Birmingham, Alabama Xeris…
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Conservation and community groups sued the Trump administration Wednesday, challenging environmental permits for a Taiwan company's planned $9.4 billion plastics complex in Louisiana. The lawsuit filed in federal court in Washington accuses the Army Corps of…
BATON ROUGE — Adams and Reese is pleased to announce lobbyist Jordan D. Gleason has joined the firm’s Government Relations practice and Baton Rouge office as a government affairs advisor. Gleason’s years of experience advocating for clients’ interests at all…
NEW ORLEANS – Stone Pigman Walther Wittmann LLC announced that Erin Kriksciun has become a member of the firm. "We are excited to have Erin join the firm's Membership," said Michael Walshe, chair of Stone Pigman's management committee. “She’s an outstanding…
BOSTON (AP) — The founder and former top employees of a pharmaceutical company are facing a reckoning for their role in a bribery scheme that prosecutors say boosted sales of a powerful, highly addictive painkiller and helped fuel the national…
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — IKEA has agreed to pay $46 million to the parents of a 2-year-old boy who died of injuries suffered when a 70-pound (32-kilogram) recalled dresser tipped over onto him, the family’s lawyers said Monday. Jozef Dudek, of…
BATON ROUGE (AP) — After an election season in which conservative Republicans made Louisiana's high car insurance rates a campaign issue, GOP lawmakers expect efforts to try to limit damages awarded in car wreck lawsuits to be front and center…
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The federal appeals court ruling striking down the Affordable Care Act’s requirement that people have health insurance left hanging key questions about what happens to other provisions of the law, like coverage for preexisting conditions. President…
NEW ORLEANS - Baker Donelson has appointed Katie L. Dysart and Nyka M. Scott to leadership roles in the Firm's New Orleans Pro Bono Committee. Ms. Dysart has been named chair of the New…
NEW ORLEANS - U.S. News & World Report’s 2020 Best Law Firms rankings have been released and Stone Pigman was recognized nationally in four practice areas including project finance law, energy law, oil and gas law and venture capital law.…
NEW ORLEANS, La. – Louis Colletta, JD, attorney at law, has been appointed general counsel for LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans. His practice covers a wide range of areas including civil litigation, health care and compliance as well as…
NEW ORLEANS – Lugenbuhl, Wheaton, Peck, Rankin & Hubbard welcomes associates Lorin Scott, Coleman Torrans and Ryan Tucker to its New Orleans headquarters. Scott focuses her practice in maritime law, including corporate and commercial litigation, employment, marine insurance, contracts and…
NEW ORLEANS – Jones Walker LLP is pleased to announce the addition of 14 new associates: Stacey Moore Buchanan, Litigation Shawn J. Daray, Tax Vanessa W. Graf, Corporate Todd Heffner, Litigation Christopher A. Henry, Litigation Michael J. O’Brien, Litigation Samantha…
CLEVELAND (AP) — The nation's three biggest drug distributors and a major drugmaker reached a $260 million settlement with two Ohio counties over the deadly havoc wreaked by opioids, just hours before the first federal trial over the crisis was…
NEW ORLEANS – Stone Pigman Walther Wittmann L.L.C. is pleased to announced that member, Susan Talley, has been named to the New Orleans Business Alliance Board of Directors. The firm shared the announcement in a press release. "We are honored to…
NEW ORLEANS — Adams and Reese announced the inclusion of attorneys throughout the firm’s regional footprint in the 2020 edition of The Best Lawyers in America (by BL Rankings, LLC). The firm shared the announcement in a press release. Several…
NEW ORLEANS — Riess LeMieux has welcomed Michael Blackwell to the firm as Of Counsel in New Orleans. Blackwell brings additional depth of experience and expertise to the firm’s growing practice in construction law, commercial litigation, and transactional matters. Details…
BATON ROUGE, La. – Kean Miller announced the addition of Brian Klaslo as director of business development. Klaslo has more than 17 years of legal industry, client service and law firm marketing experience. According to a press release, he will be responsible…
NEW ORLEANS – Lugenbuhl, Wheaton, Peck, Rankin & Hubbard welcomed trial attorney Stephen Butterfield as an associate in its New Orleans office. Butterfield brings experience in insurance coverage, casualty defense and trial and appellate litigation. Details were shared in a…
NEW ORLEANS – Stone Pigman Walther Wittmann L.L.C. announced that member Wayne Lee received the Greater New Orleans Louis A. Martinet Legal Society’s Lifetime Achievement Award on Sep. 14, during the organization’s annual scholarship and jazz brunch. According to a press…
NEW ORLEANS — Civil District Court Judge Piper D. Griffin was chosen as a winner of the 2019 Thurgood Marshall Award by the Louisiana Judicial Council, state affiliate of the National Bar Association Judicial Council (LJC/NBA). Details were shared in a press…
NEW ORLEANS — With support from a nearly $1 million gift from the Stanton Foundation, Tulane Law School will launch a new law clinic dedicated to First Amendment rights. David Meyer, the dean of Tulane Law School, made the announcement…
NEW ORLEANS – The Hon. Nannette Jolivette Brown, Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, has been elected president of the New Orleans Chapter of the Federal Bar Association. Details were shared in…
NEW ORLEANS — Noah Kressler, a shareholder in the New Orleans office of Baker Donelson, has been elected a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation. Details were shared in a press release. An independent, nonprofit organization for more than 65…
NEW ORLEANS — Kean Miller announced in a press release that seven of its New Orleans attorneys have been selected by their peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America 2020. Published since 1983, The Best Lawyers in America…
NEW ORLEANS - McGlinchey Stafford law firm announced in a press release that Associate Camille Bryant was named 2019 Outstanding Young Lawyer by the National Bar Association’s Women Lawyers Division. Bryant will also receive the 2019 A.P. Tureaud Award from the Greater…
NEW ORLEANS — Adams and Reese law firm announced that Philip B. Sherman has joined the firm’s real estate practice and New Orleans office as special counsel. Details were shared in a press release. In his real estate-focused practice, Sherman…
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — They were badly burned by the "Nola no-call," but the New Orleans Saints have joined the NFL in opposing a fan's lawsuit seeking damages over the missed penalty that helped the Los Angeles Rams beat…
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A lawsuit filed against Louisiana's Supreme Court and the Louisiana State Bar Association says attorneys in the state are unconstitutionally forced to pay bar association dues. New Orleans attorney Randy Boudreaux filed the lawsuit Thursday…
