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Louis J. Cosenza is a Family Law Specialist who is certified by the Louisiana Board of Legal Specialization. He is one of eleven family law specialists with offices in Baton Rouge and the only board-certified specialist with an office in Ascension Parish. In his 43 years as a lawyer, Mr. Cosenza has had experience as a skilled litigator in diverse areas including tort law, medical malpractice, lawyer disciplinary proceedings, criminal defense and prosecution. He has practiced in state and federal district and appellate courts and before military Courts Martial.. A native of New Orleans, Louis evacuated after Hurricane Katrina and decided to settle in Gonzales, Louisiana. He established a new practice devoted exclusively to family law cases with an emphasis on divorce and the division of marital property, including high net value divorces.. Louis is married with four children and five grandchildren. He is an avid baseball fan, whose favorite likes are good food, classical music and jazz, the New Orleans Saints and the New York Yankees. Someday he hopes to get back on the golf course where he spent many hours as a young attorney.

Locke Meredith was born in Baton Rouge, La. in December 1960. He attended Louisiana State University where he received his B.S. in 1983 and a J.D. in 1987. Later in 1987, Mr. Meredith was admitted to the bar of Louisiana where he practiced before the Louisiana and United States District Court, First Circuit (1988). Mr. Meredith has also had the privilege to practice before the United States Courts of Appeals, Fifth Circuit (1988), and the United States District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana.

Linda S. Melancon – Linda S. Melancon is an attorney practicing in the areas of Estate Planning,Elder Law, Medicaid and VA benefit’s planning, Special Needs Planning, and EstateAdministration (Probate, Successions and Trust Administration).Linda is a Board Certified Estate Planning and Administration Specialist, certified by theLouisiana Board of Legal Specialization. She is also accredited by the Veterans Administration togive advice regarding veterans’ benefits.. Linda graduated magna cum laude from Mercer University with a double major in businessadministration and history and then attended Louisiana State University’s Paul M. Hebert LawCenter where she graduated with her law degree in 1997.. While in law school, Linda received the Order of the Coif award for graduating in the top 10% ofher class and was a member of the Louisiana Law Review. She is a member of the LouisianaElder Law Task Force, the Life Care Planning Law Firm Association, the Academy of SpecialNeeds Planners and ElderCounsel.. Also active in the community, Linda has served as a board member for Ascension Parish Councilon Aging and the ARC of East Ascension. She is also a member of the Baton Rouge Associationof Women Attorneys and the Baton Rouge Aging Network. Linda also regularly presentseducational seminars for the public, as well as professional groups, on the importance of properplanning.

Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows. It's a very mean and nasty place, and I don't care how tough you are, it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain't about how hard you hit. It's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward; how much you can take and keep moving forward. That's how winning is done! Now if you know what you're worth, then go out and get what you're worth, but you gotta be willing to take the hits, and not pointing fingers saying you ain't where you wanna be because of him, or her, or anybody. Cowards do that and that ain't you. You're better than that!

Leah Neupert practices in the area of business, with a focus on real estate.

Kris Perret joined The Law Offices of Ossie Brown in September of 2005. His practice focuses on personal injury, trial litigation and criminal defense. He primarily handles car accidents, slip and fall injuries and DWI’s and drug offenses. Mr. Perret has helped hundreds of people injured through no fault of their own protect their legal rights and recover millions of dollars in damages. Mr. Perret has also defended hundreds of people in criminal matters in both city and state courts.. Mr. Perret is well known in the courtrooms of East Baton Rouge, West Baton Rouge, Iberville, Ascension, Livingston and Tangipahoa Parishes. However, he not only represents people in the Greater Baton Rouge area, he also has represented people in cases in locations such as Las Vegas, Nevada; Miami, Florida; Denver, Colorado; Houston, Texas; and Montreal, Canada.. Mr. Perret is an active member of the American, Louisiana and Baton Rouge Bar Associations. He has served on several leadership committees and has lectured in the areas of DWI defense and trial litigation.. Mr. Perret has called Baton Rouge home since 1993, when he returned from Washington, D.C., to attend LSU and play football for the Tigers. As a member of the 1996 team that “Brought the Magic Back” to Tigertown, Mr. Perret was a special teams captain, a two-time letterman, earned All-SEC Academic Honors and received the LSU Scholar Athlete Award his senior year. Mr. Perret received his undergraduate degree in Communications and Public Relations from LSU in Baton Rouge in 1997.

Kevin Welsh practices in the area of insurance and reinsurance, with a focus on insurance coverage, professional liability defense, bad faith counseling and litigation.

Kelsey Kornick Funes represents both plaintiffs and defendants in their disputes involving public and private construction projects. She has represented owners, contractors, subcontractors, suppliers and design professionals in state and federal courts in Louisiana, as well as mediation and arbitration across the Gulf Coast region. Ms. Funes has handled matters involving all aspects of the construction process, including public bid protests, delay and inefficiency claims, claims involving construction defects, enforcement of payment and lien claims, as well as claims against performance and payment bonds. Ms. Funes also represents contractors before the Louisiana State Licensing Board for Contractors. Ms. Funes regularly counsels clients in the drafting and negotiation of construction contracts. She has extensive experience drafting and negotiating AIA documents, design/build and EPC contracts. Outside of the construction arena, Ms. Funes has successfully represented clients in a variety of commercial matters including tax sale redemption, products liability, premises liability, anti-trust, professional liability and environmental insurance coverage. In addition to her legal practice, Ms. Funes leads the firm’s E-Discovery Team and oversees the firm’s efforts to ensure that our lawyers are on the cutting edge of the evolving legislative and jurisprudential rules which govern electronic discovery and have the best tools available to efficiently collect, review and produce electronic data for the firm’s clients. The E-Discovery Team also works with clients to develop strategies for electronic data organization, retention and collection – both before and during litigation – so that they are prepared to actively avoid, pursue or defend disputes in the most efficient way possible. Ms. Funes regularly speaks at seminars and briefings on construction-related topics. She is also the author of a number of published works relating to Louisiana construction law, the use of electronic documents in Louisiana and Louisiana’s rules of professional conduct.

Karleen Green has a blended labor and employment practice which concentrates on employee benefits and employment matters for both public and private employers, including compliance with federal and state employment laws as well as ERISA, HIPAA, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and COBRA. She represents clients in various industries, including construction, healthcare, public utilities, package and freight delivery, financial services, fueling, gaming, industrial equipment, insurance, real estate, food service, education, and state and local government. Ms. Green handles issues related to plan qualification under the Internal Revenue Code and compliance with the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, and COBRA. She regularly counsels clients on administration of pension and welfare benefit plans and cafeteria plans as well as plan correction issues. Ms. Green also drafts benefit plans and various plan documents such as summary plan descriptions and plan amendments and reviews prototype plan documents and service agreements. She advises employers on nonqualified deferred compensation matters, employment agreements, and severance arrangements. She handles ERISA litigation involving issues of breach of fiduciary duty and wrongful denial of benefits. Ms. Green has spoken numerous times on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the impact on employer-provided group health coverage and counsels clients on compliance issues.. Ms. Green counsels employers on issues related to Title VII, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, the Family and Medical Leave Act, the Fair Labor Standards Act, the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act, and state laws related to discrimination and retaliation, wage payment, and noncompetition and defends clients in administrative proceedings and litigation asserting claims under these laws. She frequently counsels clients on the administration of employee benefits during leaves of absence under the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act, the FMLA, and other federal and state laws. She regularly drafts and reviews employment policies and conducts training sessions on employment laws.

Joy Allement Reily, a native of Baton Rouge, received a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Louisiana State University in 2000. She spent nearly two decades building a career in the Baton Rouge business community, holding various positions in accounting, finance, management and marketing. Seeking greater fulfillment from her career, Joy decided to further her education and received her Juris Doctor from Louisiana State University Paul M. Hebert Law Center in May 2016. She also earned a Graduate Diploma in Comparative Law and a Gradate Certificate in Energy Law and Policy.. After working as an associate in a small firm for a year, Joy knew it was time to start her own practice and officially opened her Louisiana practice early 2018. Her areas of practice in Louisiana include Estate Planning, Successions, Special Needs Planning, Real Estate and Debt Settlement. In 2021 Joy was admitted to the Florida State Bar and began practicing with My Pink Lawyer in August 2022, where she focuses solely on Estate Planning.  Currently she splits her time between her Louisiana practice and My Pink Lawyer in Pensacola, Florida.

Jon Benda practices in the areas of contract preparation and negotiation, mergers and acquisitions, documentation of commercial loans, commercial real estate transactions, joint ventures, and general corporate and business law.

John Shortess practices in the areas of environmental litigation and environmental regulatory and commercial transactional counseling. He represents a number of industry clients including electric utilities, oil and gas companies, chemical manufacturing plants, agricultural and industrial manufacturing plants, and railroad transportation companies. His regulatory practice has involved the defense and resolution of numerous enforcement actions and permitting matters before the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality and in state court, counseling on water, air, solid waste, reporting, remediation and corrective action, brownfields, and other regulatory issues involving both state and federal regulators and environmental compliance counseling. His commercial transactional practice involves counsel to sellers, buyers, and lenders concerning environmental due diligence, permitting, and compliance issues. His litigation experience involves the defense of oil and gas related property damage claims, train derailment related claims, and other environmental contamination claims.. From 1992 to 1996, Mr. Shortess worked at the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality where he was employed as a Geologist in the Ground Water Protection Division. He oversaw and evaluated the development, implementation and performance of ground water monitoring and corrective action plans at sites throughout the state of Louisiana.

John Shirley practices in the area of business law, having represented public utilities before the Louisiana Public Service Commission for over twenty years. His practice consists of representing electric, gas, water and sewer utilities, motor carriers, telecommunications companies, and wind and other renewable energy companies before the Louisiana Public Service Commission. He also consults and lobbies elected public service commissioners, the Louisiana Bond Commission, executive staff and the Louisiana legislature on behalf of his clients.. Prior to joining the firm, he was the founding partner of Shirley, Ezell, Guarisco & Marionneaux, LLC.

Jody Anderman earned his undergraduate degree in Accounting fromLouisiana State University in 1985 and then attended LSU Law School. Aftergraduating from law school in 1988, where he was the recipient of the AmericanJurisprudence Awards in Louisiana Civil Procedure and Louisiana Sales, he beganhis legal career as a defense attorney with one of Baton Rouge's largest lawfirms. Although he gained valuable experience as a defense lawyer, he had astrong desire to represent working men and women, aggrieved consumers andothers who have suffered significant losses and began doing so in 1992.. Since 1992, Mr. Anderman has represented thousands of individuals whohave been injured in accidents or exposed to hazardous substances, such as Asbestos. He has also represented thousands of consumers who have been victimsof fraud. Most notably, he was lead counsel in several class actions filedagainst insurance companies involving "vanishing premium" lifeinsurance policies. Many of those cases resulted in multimillion-dollarsettlements. The insurance cases were based on representations that monthlypremiums would vanish after a stated number of years. Mr. Anderman wasinstrumental in negotiating settlements valued at $70 million against NationalLife of Vermont, $128 million against Allmerica Financial Life, and $69.4million against Lincoln National Life Insurance Company. Mr. Anderman was alsolead counsel in a number of other similar cases, all-resulting in substantialsettlements.. For the last decade, Mr. Anderman has primarily focused his practice onhelping those injured as a result of being exposed to Asbestos.  He has been instrumental in thecollection of millions of dollars of verdicts and settlements for his clients.. Mr.Anderman is a member of the Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and American BarAssociations, as well as the Louisiana and American Trial Lawyers Associations.

Jess Huffman practices in the area of labor and employment law. She represents primarily employers in civil litigation, arbitrations and administrative proceedings regarding claims involving all areas of labor and employment, including employment discrimination, ERISA, sexual harassment, employee defamation and other employment-related tort claims, employment contracts, OSHA, union matters, wage and hour, and drafting and implementing employment policies. Ms. Huffman also represents employers in prosecuting and defending cases involving alleged breaches of non-competition agreements, and employment or business-related tort claims. Additionally, she counsels and assists employers regarding compliance with various applicable federal and state labor and employment laws, including the preparation and/or review of employment contracts, severance agreements, and employee handbooks and policies.. Ms. Huffman represents clients in in federal and state litigation, arbitrations and administrative proceedings. Ms. Huffman represents employers in a wide variety of industries, including construction, oil and gas exploration and production, petrochemical, restaurant, insurance, health care, retail, and financial services.

Jeffrey S. Wittenbrink is the owner of Wittenbrink Law Firm (Jeffrey S. Wittenbrink, Attorney at Law, LLC).  He is a Board Certified Family Law Specialist, certified by the Louisiana Board of Legal Specialization, and has practiced primarily family law for over thirty-three years. He is the Past Chairman of the Family Law Section of the Louisiana State Bar Association, and a former member of the LSBA Legislation Committee as well.   His practice includes complicated divorce and custody matters involving child support, spousal support and community property partitions, protection against family violence, adoptions and grandparent custody issues.  He has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal and the Boston Globe on family law issues.  In addition, he has wide practice experience in general civil litigation including defamation, personal injury and insurance claims, property and boundary disputes, homeowner's association claims and defenses, landlord-tenant issues and wills and successions.  He is presently also advising clients and litigating against Covid-19 proclamations in favor of First Amendment and other Constitutionally protected rights, most recently receiving national recognition for the successful defense of Pastor Tony Spell of Life Tabernacle Church in Baton Rouge, who was arrested for having church services during the Covid-19 debacle.  He has advised clients on mental health care law and regulatory issues.  Mr. Wittenbrink previously served as a Supervising Attorney at Capital Area Legal Services where he started and supervised the Battered Women's Section and supervised Rural Legal Services Delivery. Mr. Wittenbrink is admitted in all Louisiana state and federal courts and the United States Supreme Court. He is a member of the Louisiana State Bar Association where he serves on the Family Law Section council, the Baton Rouge Bar Association where he served as past Chair of the Family Law Section, Education,  Membership and Law Day committees and where he presently serves on the publications and pro-bono committees. He is the previous recipient of the President's award (twice) and Century Club awards (five times) for pro-bono services from the Baton Rouge Bar Association. He is rated AV-by Martindale-Hubbell Peer Review Rating and is a Platinum Client Champion for 2020, 2021 and 2022 in Martindale-Hubbell, rated "Superb" on Avvo rating services and has a five-star Client rating on .

Jeff Tomlinson is a Louisiana real estate attorney practicing with a concentration in the areas of commercial real estate, oil and gas and negotiating industrial facility agreements with contractors and suppliers. His real estate practice includes negotiating and drafting purchase agreements; oil, gas and mineral leases; mineral opinions; mortgages; servitudes, restrictions and covenants; and handling the formation of limited liability companies, corporations and other entities.. Mr. Tomlinson focuses a major part of his practice on addressing title insurance and oil and gas matters. In addition, he has experience representing and assisting industrial facilities and contractors in a wide array of service, rental and product supply arrangements.

Jeff Barbin practices in the areas of business and finance with an emphasis on business transactional and regulatory matters related to casino gaming transactions. In particular, he focuses on gaming transactions requiring local gaming regulatory approvals and other complex transactional and regulatory matters, often working closely with the firm’s gaming lawyers in Mississippi to achieve efficiencies for the client in both jurisdictions. In this context, he has represented casino operators, management, investors, lenders, manufacturers and other vendors in their Louisiana gaming regulatory matters. His practice has also involved complex commercial real estate transactions, representing lenders, and developers in acquisitions, development matters, divestitures, and commercial loan closings. He has worked on the development of Louisiana banking forms, business entity formation, stock sales and entity mergers, alcohol licensing and other general business matters.

Jarrett Ambeau is a distinguished criminal defense attorney and founder of The Ambeau Law Firm in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. With over 14 years of experience and more than 50 felony jury trials to verdict, Jarrett has built a reputation for his unwavering commitment to justice and his clients’ rights. His practice focuses on serious criminal charges, including violent crimes, homicide, sexual assault, and forensic-intensive cases. As a court-qualified expert in Forensic DNA Interpretation, Jarrett holds a Master of Science in Forensic DNA and Serology from the University of Florida and has testified in high-profile cases across Louisiana. He also trains legal professionals on interpreting and challenging DNA evidence. A U.S. Army veteran, Jarrett served in the JAG Corps' Trial Defense Service, including a combat deployment to Iraq, where he defended soldiers in criminal matters. He earned his law degree from LSU’s Paul M. Hebert Law Center, where he excelled in moot court competitions, and completed his undergraduate philosophy degree while deployed. Widely recognized for integrating forensic science into defense strategies, Jarrett’s work has been featured in national programs and the Netflix documentary “I Just Killed My Dad."

Jamie Cashio is a premiere personal injury attorney in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

James S. Fargason has been a member of the auditing and legal. professions for more than 25 years and has extensive experience. auditing legal services, including legal departments and external. law firms. He has worked with a variety of reputable organizations,. including many Fortune 500 companies and large consulting firms.. He has a degree in international and comparative law and currently. serves as a full-time faculty member at Louisiana State University.

James A. Spokes is Partner at The Scott Law Firm, LLC in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. His primary practice is in the area of criminal defense in both state and federal courts throughout the State of Louisiana, with a specialization in representing non-citizen defendants facing potential immigration consequences.. Additionally, he serves on the Criminal Justice Act (CJA) Panel in the Middle District of Louisiana and he also practices in the areas of personal injury and immigration.

Jack Stanley practices in the area of litigation, with a focus on commercial and environmental litigation. He has served clients in a wide spectrum of industries including education, health care, energy, and insurance on a state and national level. He has experience in large scale litigation, including handling and resolving various types of discovery disputes.