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Lee Adler practices primarily in the areas of general business relationships and finance. He has an extensive transactional-based practice representing clients in a wide variety of fields. Finance transactions include real estate finance, vessel finance, accounts receivable-based finance and equipment and inventory finance, representing both borrowers and lenders. Prior to joining Phelps in 1992, Mr. Adler was an attorney at a large multi-practice firm in New York.

Lauren's practice primarily consists of environmental litigation, particularly oil and gas matters and NORM litigation. She is licensed in Texas, Louisiana and California and regularly practices in both state and federal court. Lauren is active in the ABA Section of Litigation and Section of Environmental, Energy, and Resources, as well as the Louisiana State Bar Association. She is a frequent volunteer for the Pro Bono Project of New Orleans. She is a member of the Krewe of Muses and the Down Syndrome Association of Greater New Orleans.

Lauren Pilié is part of the new generation of lawyers, and they don’t look like they used to. Your personal injury lawyer needs to be bold, scrappy, compassionate, and determined. Lauren has demonstrated these qualities her entire life.. While attending college at the University of Georgia, Lauren worked as a mechanic at Tires Plus to help support herself. Despite getting her hands dirty in the garage daily, Lauren maintained an A average, earning her undergraduate degree with honors.. In law school, also at the University of Georgia, parking was difficult on campus, so Lauren fixed up an old Kawasaki LTD motorcycle so that she could save time by parking directly outside of her classes.. Though a college job and driving a motorcycle might not seem relevant to her career, those prior life skills are used in every case that she handles. Lauren believes that a fancy law degree is pointless if an attorney is unable to relate to a client and meet them at their level.. Another advantage Lauren has over most personal injury attorneys is that she used to be a defense attorney. After graduating from law school, Lauren worked at a prominent defense firm in Georgia, representing insurance companies. While there, she gained invaluable insight into the inner workings of insurance companies and their defense strategies.. After three years billing hours at a defense firm, Lauren switched to the Plaintiff’s side and has never looked back. She has represented injured folks and their families for over 10 years now.. A few years ago, Lauren made the unusual decision to attend trucking school in order to better represent her clients hurt by negligent truck drivers. You will not find many lawyers willing to go that extra mile. After 15 years of practice, she is known as an accomplished attorney and a formidable advocate for her clients, having handled over 1,000 cases, hundreds of which were trucking cases.. In her free time, Lauren focuses on her husband and her three little girls. She also enjoys playing tennis and is such an avid reader that she belongs to three separate book clubs.. Lauren is licensed in both Louisiana and Georgia.

Lauren Burk practices in the area of insurance and reinsurance. Ms. Burk recently worked in the insurance industry as a claim adjuster for a global art insurer. Prior to joining Phelps Dunbar, Ms. Burk served as an extern with U.S. District Court Judge Carl Barbier in the Eastern District of Louisiana.

Lance McCardle is a dogged, diligent advocate for his clients-evidenced by the number of thank you notes sent from clients who are ever grateful for his work in recovering their investment losses.  His clients appreciate his honest assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of their case and the on-going advice he shares as their case progresses.

Kris handles general and complex civil litigation involving numerous fields of law for insurers, businesses, and individuals. A majority of his work involves commercial general liability, products liability, trucking and transportation liability, construction defects, corporate and commercial litigation, and bad faith litigation.. Kris is a native New Orleanian and a graduate of Jesuit High School. He attended Louisiana State University and graduated from the University of New Orleans in 1981. After a few years working in the private sector, Kris was admitted to Loyola Law School’s evening program. He received his Juris Doctor from Loyola University School of Law in 1986.. Upon graduation from law school, Kris was honored with a judicial clerkship for the Honorable A. J. McNamara, United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Louisiana, with whom he worked until joining Lugenbuhl in 1987. Kris became a shareholder at Lugenbuhl in 1993.. Kris has represented numerous clients for more than 28 years at Lugenbuhl. As a married father of four children, his legal experiences have been as diverse as the community and culture which surrounds his practice. He is a member of the New Orleans, Louisiana State, and American Bar Associations and maintains an active trial practice. He is admitted to practice law in the state and federal courts of Louisiana. Kris believes that thorough investigation and a well-focused action plan result in efficient representation for clients, and his case management strategy results in progressive resolution of his clients' cases.. Kris has experience representing both insurers and businesses in civil litigation, at both the trial and appellate courts of Louisiana, as well as in mediation and arbitration. He has represented insurers in defending class actions and in multi-district litigation.. His ability to counsel clients on matters involving personal injury, transportation, general maritime, construction, products, and contracts affords clients an appreciation of risk which necessarily overlaps in the fast-paced industries surrounding New Orleans.

Kim Boyle practices in the areas of labor and employment, civil rights, constitutional law, commercial, tort and general litigation. Her employment practice includes representing employers in employment related claims, such as retaliation and discrimination claims as well as workplace harassment. She also handles EEOC charges and other administrative complaints through the administrative and judicial process. Her practice also includes the representation of public and private clients in a wide variety of commercial disputes, including breach of contract, business torts, misappropriation of trade secrets, unfair trade practices, and class actions, as well as representation of a number of governmental entities on a wide array of legal issues. Ms. Boyle is known for her persuasive oral argument skills in both trial and appellate courts, and for her ability to take a matter from inception through verdict at trial by jury or judge. Many of the matters that Ms. Boyle handles have been resolved through trial, and she has completed a number of oral arguments before state and federal appellate courts. She speaks often on employment-related topics, litigation and issues of procedure, as well as ethics and professionalism issues.. Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Boyle served as Judge Pro Tempore, Division I, for the Civil District Court for Orleans Parish. She is also a former assistant professor of law at Loyola University School of Law in New Orleans.. Ms. Boyle is very active in local, state, and national bar activities, as well as community organizations and initiatives. She served as the first female African-American President of the Louisiana State Bar Association (“LSBA”) for the 2009-2010 term and formerly served as Treasurer as well as a member of the LSBA Board of Governors. She also previously served as the first African-American President of the New Orleans Bar Association (“NOBA”). Ms. Boyle served as pro bono legal counsel to Covenant House of New Orleans. She was the first African-American woman to serve as Co-Chair of the NO/AIDS Task Force Board of Trustees, and also previously served as a board member of Aids Law Louisiana. She formely served on the board of trustees for Princeton University, and currently services on the boards of trustees for Touro Infirmary, Tulane University and Dillard University. She serves on the Board of Directors of the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under the Law. In addition, she was a member of the Louisiana Recovery Authority (“LRA”) and served as Chair of the LRA Healthcare Committee. Ms. Boyle previously served on the Bring New Orleans Back Commission, which focused upon rebuilding the city post-Katrina, and served as Chair of the Health/Social Services Committee of the Commission.

Kevin LaVie practices in the area of admiralty and tort. He has a very broad-based practice involving nearly all aspects of maritime law including personal injury and death claims; cargo damage claims; dock damage and collision claims; Limitation of Liability matters; charter party and related commercial disputes (including ship arrests and Rule B attachments); insurance coverage disputes; oilfield indemnity actions; pollution matters; and various Coast Guard and immigration matters. His practice covers both the offshore energy or “brownwater” industry and traditional “bluewater” shipping.. Litigation is a major focus of Mr. LaVie’s practice, and he has tried personal injury and death cases (including Jones Act and 905(b) cases) in all federal courts in Louisiana, many state courts, and in federal courts in other states on a pro hac vice basis. He has also tried a number of cargo damage claims. A sub–specialty of his litigation practice involves maritime products liability claims, including machinery and equipment failures. Due to the number of cases he has tried, Mr. LaVie has handled numerous appeals, including over two dozen appeals in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.. Prior to joining Phelps Dunbar, Mr. LaVie was with the Terriberry, Carroll, & Yancey, L.L.P. law firm in New Orleans.

Kenneth L. Tolar focuses primarily on general intellectual property matters including patent, trademark and copyright prosecution, intellectual property litigation and licensing on behalf of both corporations and independent inventors nationwide, patentability and trademark availability opinions, inter partes practice before both the Patent Trial and Appeal Board and the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board; during his career, he has secured over 350 patents on behalf of independent and corporate inventors.. Mr. Tolar also engages in general commercial litigation, insurance defense, labor disputes arising under The Fair Labor Standards Act, personal injury and first-party insurance claims.

Katie Whitman Myers practices in the area of insurance and reinsurance. She counsels insurers on third-party liability and first-party insurance coverage and litigation issues involving the laws of multiple states, including Louisiana, South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, Texas, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee and many others. Her experience extends to a wide variety of coverage issues, including those arising out of claims involving construction defect, automobile (garage, uninsured motorist, personal injury protection), professional liability, directors and officers liability, premises liability, property loss, and environmental and toxic tort, as well as issues of multiple-year trigger and allocation, additional insured and contractual indemnity, and extracontractual liability.

Katherine Quirk practices in the area of insurance and reinsurance. She serves as local, regional and national coverage counsel for both foreign and domestic insurance companies. She counsels clients, resolves coverage disputes and manages litigation involving a myriad of insurance issues under the laws of states in all regions of the United States. Her experience extends to a wide variety of coverage issues, including those arising out of third-party claims involving environmental and toxic tort, marine/oil and gas, construction defect, auto (transportation, garage, uninsured motorist), personal and advertising injury, and first-party property loss. Ms. Quirk routinely counsels clients and resolves complex coverage matters involving issues of multi-year trigger and allocation, additional insured and contractual indemnity, as well as extra-contractual liability arising of state-specific claims handling guidelines or time limit demands. In addition to post-claim advices to clients, she counsels clients on effective claims handling practices, risk management and avoidance procedures and provides underwriting assistance for manuscript policy language. Ms. Quirk hires and manages lawyers around the country in her capacity as national coordinating counsel and, within the firm, she mentors and manages a team of coverage attorneys in the Insurance and Reinsurance practice.

Kara Anne Larson is of counsel at the Law Office of Sam Winston. Kara is a graduate of the Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, where she graduated magna cum laude and in the top 5% of her class. While in law school, she was on the editorial board of the Loyola Law Review and competed in Moot Court. Kara also has previous federal clerkship experience for the Honorable Patricia Minaldi of the Western District of Louisiana.. In her spare time, Kara enjoys playing with her dog, reading comic books, and traveling. .

Kaja grew up in Maplewood, New Jersey and attended Rutgers University where she obtained her undergraduate degree in Political Science and Journalism, summa cum laude. She earned her J.D. at Seton Hall University School of Law where she served as a Senior Editor of the Law Review and participated in the Civil Rights & Constitutional Litigation Clinic, graduating cum laude. During law school, Kaja studied abroad in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, where she met her husband, a New Orleans native. After graduation, Kaja relocated to New Orleans. She was admitted to practice in the State of Louisiana in 2014.

Julie C. Tizzard graduated from Loyola New Orleans School of Law in 1999.  She started her career as a prosecutor in the Orleans Parish District Attorney's Office where she remained for nearly four years.  She has been handling criminal defense work for the remainder of her career.  Ms. Tizzard handles trials, appeals and post conviction matters.  She was nomiated thrice by fellow attorneys as one of the top attorneys in her field in a poll conducted by New Orleans Magazine.  She was also inducted in the National Trial Lawyers top 100 in 2014.

Joseph R. Marriott focuses his practice on business and real estate transactions exclusively.  He is a graduate of Tulane University and Loyola University New Orleans College of Law. At Loyola, he served as the Real Estate Law Society president for two years and as a VITA volunteer for two years while he held law clerkships with Babovich and Speadle, NAI Latter & Blum, Spera Law Group, and Quality Title Services.. Mr. Marriott is an active member of the Louisiana State Bar Association, New Orleans Bar Association, Jefferson Bar Association, New Orleans Chamber of Commerce, Jefferson Chamber of Commerce, and YLC. Mr. Marriott has guest lectured at Loyola on the topics of New Orleans real estate legal market and real estate compliance issues. Mr. Marriott is the managing member of GCC Title as well as the founder and lead of Gulf Coast Corporate Attorneys real estate section.

Joseph focuses on several insurance coverage practice areas including environmental and toxic tort liability coverage, construction defect liability coverage, and oil-and-gas liability coverage.. Joseph’s practice is devoted to representing insurance companies in coverage disputes and property claims. He is routinely enlisted by clients to handle large, complex insurance coverage matters of all kinds, including general liability claims, public sector claims, oil-and-gas claims, first-party property claims and bad faith claims. Many of his matters have involved multi-million dollar claims in the commercial setting, and have included individual claims of more than $300 million; however, he has substantial experience with smaller liability and property claims as well.. Joseph has successfully handled more than 200 coverage actions in state and federal courts in Louisiana and other states in the South. He has argued before state and federal courts in Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi, and Tennessee, and before Louisiana state appellate courts and the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.. Joseph has been with Lugenbuhl since 2000, and has been a shareholder of the firm since 2005. Prior to joining Lugenbuhl, Joseph served from 1996 to 2000 as an associate independent counsel in New Orleans, Louisiana, and Washington, D.C., where he assisted with several prosecutions and appeals, including arguing a case of first impression before the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. During law school, he served as a law clerk for two years with the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Louisiana.

Jon V. Steele is proud to be a public servant. After 20 years with the New Orleans Police Department, he retired after sustaining a work-related injury. He then entered Loyola University’s College of Law where during his final year he was a Law Clerk for the Orleans Parish District Attorney's Office. After graduation, he assisted a young attorney in establishing a family law practice where he handled nearly all of the firm's protective orders, civil injunctions, and adversarial child custody cases. Jon is now building his own family law practice and is also expanding into criminal defense to help you or your loved one navigate the maze of the criminal judicial system.. Like a lot of young men of blue-collar families, Jon started out working off shore in the oil industry. He transitioned in to construction and became a pipefitter with Brown & Root's Petro-Chemical Division. In 1985 he started his law enforcement career with the Orleans Parish Criminal Sheriff's Office and in 1987, he joined theNew Orleans Police Department. As a New Orleans Police Officer, Jon was a Narcotics Detective, Field Training Officer, Recruiting Investigator, and Expert Finger Print Examine.

Jon Bethune is the founder of The Law Office of Jon G. Bethune, LLC, in New Orleans, Louisiana, aiding those in New Orleans and the surrounding areas with their divorce, custody and personal injury matters. His areas of focus in family law matters include contested and uncontested divorce cases. Mr. Bethune is also well-versed in issues related to custody, child support, and interim and final spousal support. His personal injury cases involve truck, auto and motorcycle collisions, slip-and-fall accidents and other premises liability matters, workplace injuries and offshore worker claims.. A recipient of a Bachelor of Arts in English from New York University in 2001, Mr. Bethune went on to be awarded his Juris Doctor from Loyola University New Orleans College of Law in 2005. A member of the American, Louisiana State and New Orleans bar associations, he is admitted to practice in Louisiana and before the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern and Western Districts of Louisiana, as well as the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida.. Prior to founding his own firm in 2010, Mr. Bethune was an associate at two other Louisiana firms. From completing initial consultations to taking a case to court, he uses his legal knowledge to advise clients and to provide thorough and knowledgeable representation. Mr. Bethune is committed to involving clients, providing timely updates and maintaining a high level of interaction throughout every step of their cases. His trial experience includes complex personal injury lawsuits and divorce cases involving custody disputes, restraining orders, allegations of adultery and other complicating factors.

John is licensed to practice law in the State of Louisiana, the District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, and is a Notary Public for the State of Louisiana, with State-wide jurisdiction. Several firms rely on John’s understanding of criminal consequences in immigration and civil cases. During his career, John has been a member of the Orleans Public Defenders Board’s Conflict Counsel Panel and held a position as Of-Counsel for Sidney L. Shushan, APLC.. John was born in Somerville, MA, grew up in Orlando, FL, and currently lives in the Gentilly neighborhood in New Orleans. John received his bachelor’s from Florida State University where he studied Political Science and Art History. He earned his law degree from Loyola University New Orleans College of Law in 2009, where he focused his studies on criminal defense advocacy, international law, and Louisiana’s civil code. While attending Loyola, he was a member of the Criminal Defense Clinic, which gave him the opportunity to represent indigent clients in court as a law student. Prior to founding Crescent City Law, John worked at the 9th Judicial Circuit Court of Florida, Office of the Public Defender.

Joe is the managing member of Peiffer Rosca Abdullah Carr & Kane. His practices consist of representing individuals and institutions that have been harmed by investment banks and brokerage firms, prosecuting ERISA class actions, and representing victims of labor trafficking and those who have suffered catastrophic injury. He has co-authored a treatise Litigating Business and Commercial Tort Cases, which is published by Thompson West.. Joe has also taught and lectured extensively. He co-created and taught a class entitled Storytelling and Advocacy at Loyola Law School. Also, at Loyola Law School, he has taught a course entitled “The Basics of Arbitration” and he also serves as an adjunct professor teaching Trial Advocacy. He has guest lectured at Tulane Law School in its Securities Regulations class and Syracuse Law School on securities arbitration. He has spoken at many national conventions on a variety of topics including prosecuting large, multi-client claims, broker’s deficient advice to retire and FINRA arbitration.. Joe has represented hundreds of individual retirees against their brokers in FINRA arbitration. The highlights of this practice include representing 32 Exxon retirees in a 90-day FINRA arbitration against Securities America that resulted in a $22 million verdict — one of the largest ever awarded by a FINRA arbitration panel. He has also represented hundreds of Xerox and Kodak retirees against their broker resulting from the broker’s fraudulent advice to retire and subsequent unsuitable investments. He has represented hundreds of families in cases involving private placements and Ponzi schemes.. His financial services fraud practice also includes representing about 25 hospitals and municipalities around the country in cases involving their issuance of auction rate securities. He also filed several ERISA class actions against large financial services firms alleging that they did not prudently invest retirement money and had conflicts of interest. He also is on the plaintiffs’ steering committee in a nationwide antitrust class action involving the illegal tying of cable set-top boxes to the provision of premium cable services.. Joe also currently represents hundreds of clients in cases involving serious injuries sustained by pharmaceutical products such as Pradaxa, Nuvaring, Granuflo, and Lexapro.. Finally, he represents victims of human trafficking and labor exploitation. In one such case, the plaintiffs have alleged that the defendants have failed to pay overtime, improperly deducted for employee housing, and held the plaintiffs passports while in the United States. He has travelled extensively to the Philippines for this case and another one involving a rig explosion where two of his clients working on a rig owned by Black Elk exploded.. Joe was one of three Louisiana lawyers ranked by Chambers USA for securities litigation in 2011. He has been named a 2013 Rising Star by his peers in the Class Action Administration organization. He has been quoted by USA Today, Wall Street Journal, the Associated Press, New York Times, New York Daily News, The Los Angeles Times, Business Week, Investment News, and many other publications. Mr. Peiffer has also appeared on CNN. He was named as one of the fifty Leaders in Law by New Orleans City Business Magazine.. He has also successfully risen into the leadership of several national bar associations. He twice served as the chairman of the Business Torts Section of the American Association for Justice. He has served on the Board of Directors of PIABA – a nationwide bar association of lawyers that represent individuals and institutions in arbitrations to recover money lost by investment banks and brokerage firms. He was recently elected Executive Vice President of PIABA and will become PIABA President in October, 2014.. Joe graduated from Tulane School of Law, cum laude, in 1999. While at Tulane, he served on the Tulane Law Review and was involved with the Tulane Legal Assistance Program. Prior to attending Tulane, he graduated from Bowling Green State University in 1996 with a major in communications. While at Bowling Green, he worked as the General Manager of the campus radio station and City Editor of the daily newspaper.

Jim Stuckey practices in the areas of commercial finance, real estate, business, project financing, and leasing. His commercial experience includes complex loan transactions in real estate, construction, project finance, oil and gas, line of credit and asset based loans, as well as leveraged lease and utility securitization financings, and real estate and commercial transactions. His lending practice includes representing lenders and borrowers in oil and gas loans, real estate and construction financings, leveraged leases, and secured working capital loans. He advises clients in negotiations of a wide variety of contracts, including major purchase, lease, and project development and financing agreements. He has represented clients from many industries, including banks and other financial institutions, public utilities, oil companies, chemical and product manufacturers, governmental entities, and universities. He serves as the practice coordinator of the business group in New Orleans.

Jennifer R. Kretschmann practices in the area of insurance and reinsurance. She counsels insurers on first-party and third-party insurance coverage disputes. Her experience extends to a variety of coverage issues, including those involving commercial property losses, loss of business income, extra expense, general liability, issues of multiple-year trigger and allocation, additional insured status, contractual indemnity, and extra-contractual liability.. Ms. Kretschmann also has experience representing insurers in complex coverage litigation in both state and federal court with a particular focus on coverage issues relative to property damage, pollution, toxic tort and long-latency disease exposure. She has defended insurers in “bad faith” actions and class action litigation arising out of major hurricanes.

Jennifer Priebe has dedicated her legal career to advocating for the rights of injured workers in Louisiana and Mississippi. She is known for her expert ability to navigate the claims process and address denied claims.. Jennifer frequently helps those who have suffered fractures, back and neck injuries, and shoulder and knee injuries. She has also handled cases involving amputation, burn injuries, vision loss, forklift accidents, permanent, partial, and total disability benefits, and wrongful death.. Jennifer earned her law degree at Tulane University Law School, where she received the Dean’s Scholarship. Here, she was a member of the Honor Board and a student attorney in the Tulane University Law School Domestic Violence Law Clinic.

Jay Sever is a partner in the Insurance and Reinsurance group of Phelps Dunbar. He is also the Practice Coordinator for the Insurance and Reinsurance group in the New Orleans office. He serves as local, regional and national coverage counsel for both foreign and domestic insurance companies. He counsels clients, manages disputes and tries cases involving a wide variety of insurance coverage issues, including matters arising from bad faith, construction defects claims, third-party liability claims, first-party claims, professional liability claims, crane and rigging claims, racing and competitive sport claims, entertainment claims, transportation claims, environmental claims, general and toxic tort claims, advertising, copyright and trademark claims, media liability claims, multiple-year trigger and allocation issues, marine liability claims, Louisiana direct action claims and numerous others. In addition to handling cases in Louisiana and California courts in which he is admitted, Mr. Sever also has acted as lead counsel in cases pending in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and Washington. Mr. Sever's practice, both litigation and counseling, involves attorneys from all of Phelps Dunbar's offices in the Gulf South and, where necessary, local counsel in states throughout the United States.. Mr. Sever serves as the Practice Coordinator for the Insurance and Reinsurance group in the New Orleans office.

Jay graduated from Brother Martin High School in 1987. In 1992 Jay graduated from Tulane University with a Bachelor of English degree. Jay went to Graduate School at Touro College in 2008 and earned his Master’s Degree in Education. From 2006 to 2013 Jay taught school in Louisiana and New York. Jay graduated from Loyola University and was appointed to the Louisiana Bar on October 16, 2017. Jay brings over 30 years of experience in the area of customer satisfaction to the practice of law. Diamond Law takes GREAT pride that each of our clients work directly with Jay side by side to a final resolution of their case.