Admitted
1976, Louisiana, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana and U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit; 1978, U.S. District Court, Western District of Louisiana; 1980, U.S. Supreme Court; 1983, U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit
Law School
Tulane University of Louisiana, J.D., 1976
Law School Graduation Year
1976
College
Louisiana State University and A. and M. College, B.S., magna cum laude, 1977
Memberships
New Orleans, Louisiana State (Member: Insurance, Negligence, Compensation and Admiralty Law), Federal and American (Member, Sections on: Tort and Insurance Practice; Litigation) Bar Associations; Bar Association of the Fifth Federal Circuit; The Association of Trial Lawyers of America; Louisiana Trial Lawyers Association; Maritime Law Association of the United States; Southeastern Admiralty Law Institute; American Inns of Court.
Biographical
Phi Kappa Phi; Phi Alpha Delta; Phi Eta Sigma; Beta Gamma Sigma; Order of the Coif. Board of Student Editors, Tulane Law Review, 1974-1976. Recipient: AmJur Award, Damages; Freshman Civil Procedure Award. Author: Admiralty-Wrongful Death-Estate of Deceased Seaman and Non Dependent Relatives not Proper Beneficiaries to Recover Loss of Prospective Inheritance under General Maritime Law, 50 Tulane Law Review 151, 1975; Maritime Personal Injury: The Jones Act: an Overview, The Maritime Lawyer, Fall, 1979. (Also Of Counsel to Mestayer and Mestayer)