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
Law School
Louisiana State University and A. and M. College, J.D., 1983
Law School Graduation Year
1983
College
Mississippi State University, B.S., cum laude, 1980
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; Lecturer, Depositions From A-Z, 1994, Approaching the Deposition), 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 (Lecturer: 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, Louisiana Association of Defense Counsel, 1998; Lecturer, 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); Defense Research Institute, Inc.; Crossroads-American Inn of Court of Alexandria-Pineville (Master of the Bench); American College of Barristers (Senior Counsel, 1991—). Louisiana Attorney Disciplinary Board Hearing Committee (2002—)
Biographical
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 Objects, Loyola University School of Law, Eleventh Annual Louisiana Evidence Law Conference, 1996; Direct and Cross-Examination of Experts in Jury Trials, La. Department of Justice Fall Trial Tactics Seminar, 1995; Approaching the Deposition, Depositions From A-Z, 1994. Faculty: Louisiana State University Law School Trial Advocacy Training Program, 1996, 1998-2001; Tulane Law School Trial Advocacy Workshop, 1997. Fellow: Louisiana Bar Foundation. (Certified as a Civil Trial Advocate by The National Board of Trial Advocacy)