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Kent Morrison practices in the areas of maritime law, general litigation, and insurance coverage, handling cases involving tort, cargo disputes, collisions, maritime personal injury, property damage, indemnity and insurance coverage disputes. He represents maritime employers, vessel owners, longshore employers, energy companies, dock and terminal owners and their underwriters in commercial disputes, personal injury defense litigation, collisions, allisions, wavewash/surge damage, groundings, salvage and cargo matters. He also provides representation with respect to coverage issues involving a broad range of energy, marine, general liability, excess and umbrella insurance policies, including representation of underwriters' interest in litigation arising out of coverage disputes. Mr. Morrison has represented his clients both locally and nationally in state and federal courts in all aspects of litigation. He has considerable trial experience and has handled innumerable cases through private mediation and court sponsored settlement conferences. Mr. Morrison enjoys AV recognition on Martindale-Hubbell, as rated by his peers.

Kenneth's practice focuses on helping people with daunting legal issues.  Such individuals may have been wronged by their employer(s), not paid their proper wages, injured in an accident, or deprived of their civil rights in some way.

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.

Kathleen is the founder of Gasparian Spivey Immigration a boutique immigration law firm in New Orleans. She is active in the American Immigration Lawyer’s Association (AILA) and NAFSA (Association of International Educators). She has served as the Chair and Treasurer of AILA’s Mid-South Chapter, and as the chair of AILA’s national liaison committee to the Executive Office for Immigration Review, and as a Regulatory Ombudsperson for Scholar Issues for NAFSA Region III.  She serves on the Board for the New Orleans Chapter of the Federal Bar Association, and as an Adjunct Professor of Immigration Law at Loyola University, New Orleans and at Tulane University.  Kathleen has authored and co-authored a number of articles on immigration including “An Immigration Primer for Primary and Secondary Schools” in The Admissions Review, and “Adjustment of Status for the Atypical Entrant” in the 2012 Immigration Practice Pointers, published by AILA.  Gambit, the alternative weekly in New Orleans, named her one of its “40 under 40” for her success as an attorney.  In 2014, she founded a program to match immigrant children with pro bono legal representation - PB&J: Pro Bono and Juveniles, and she was recognized by Super Laywers, the Louisiana State Bar Association, and the National Organization for Women for her efforts.

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.

Justin Warner practices in the area of admiralty.. During law school, Mr. Warner served as an intern for the Hon. Sylvia Steib-Dunn of the Department of Labor, Workers Compensation Division, District 7.

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.

Josh Gertler is an associate with the Gertler Law Firm, a New Orleans personal injury law firm.  The firm focuses on the following injury and accident practice areas:. General Personal Injury Practice: Office Location - 935 Gravier Street, Suite 1900, New Orleans, LA 70112 -

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.

Joseph A. Interiano has more than a decade of experience in the legal field and represents a wide variety of clients in many different legal situations. He specializes in auto accidents, personal injury, slip and falls accidents, workplace accidents, workers’ compensation claims, home and property owners’ insurance claims for property damages, business law and immigration.. Joseph is a member of the American Association for Justice, American Immigration Lawyers Association, Louisiana State Bar Association and New Orleans Bar Association. He has tried and won cases in most of the courts in southern Louisiana, including cases before the First and Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals where he has successfully argued on behalf of his clients.. Joseph diligently guides his clients towards recovery with confidence, empathy and a detailed plan that is proven to get results. He received his Bachelor of Science in Management Finance from Tulane University. He attended Loyola University Law School where he served as the president of the Hispanic Law Student Association and graduated with honors, cum laude.

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 was born in Jackson, Mississippi and is a product of public education. John went on to receive a Bachelor's degree in Biology from Xavier University of LA. After Xavier, John received a Master's degree in Biology from Alabama State University. John ultimately decided to devote his career to the practice of law and recieved a Juris Doctorate from the University of Arkansas in Little Rock.. John has dedicated his career to fighting for justice for his clients. John did this as an Assistant Attorney General for Consumer Protection for then Arkansas Attorney General Mike Beebe; as Legal Director for the American CIvil Liberties Union of Mississippi; and as a Staff Attorney for the Juvenile Justice Project of Louisiana.. Now, John fights for clients as founder of the Law Offices of John S. Williams.  John uses his extensive court room experience to focus his practice on personal injury cases including car accidents, bicycle accidents, pedestrian accidents, and Uber/Lyft accidents. John is licensed to practice in the courts of Arkansas, Mississippi, and Louisiana but his primary office is located in New Orleans, Louisiana.

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.

John Bolles practices in the areas of admiralty and tort litigation.  His trial experience includes various aspects of maritime law, including occupational disease, personal injury defense and mass torts. He represents the International Group of P&I Clubs’ Industrial Disease Subcommittee and has acted on behalf of the Group in Louisiana legislation matters.. Prior to joining Phelps Dunbar, John was with the Terriberry, Carroll, & Yancey, L.L.P. law firm in New Orleans.

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.

Jeremy Z. Soso maintains a diverse litigation practice with extensive experience representing individuals and corporations in the State and Federal Courts of Louisiana in the areas of personal injury and insurance coverage. Additionally, he assists clients in criminal proceedings and family law matters. He also has experience representing small businesses and advising them on the unique issues they face in today’s challenging business landscape.

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.

Jed Cain is an accomplished trial lawyer who has obtained multi-million dollar jury verdicts and settlements throughout the state of Louisiana. He has dedicated his career to representing injured workers and their families.. Originally from the small town of Natchitoches, Louisiana (made famous by the movie “Steel Magnolias”), Jed attended Hendrix College in Conway, Arkansas. Upon graduating from Hendrix, Jed spent a year teaching 5th grade at an elementary school in Shreveport, Louisiana before attending law school at Tulane University.  He would later come to appreciate that no jury would ever be so daunting as a classroom of 5th graders.. In 2014, Jed was awarded the F. Scott Baldwin Award by the American Association for Justice (AAJ).  AAJ, formerly known as the Association of Trial Lawyers of America (ATLA), is the world’s largest trial lawyer bar and supports victims’ rights worldwide.  The F. Scott Baldwin Award is presented each year to the “most outstanding young trial lawyer” in the country.. Jed is a 2015 graduate of the Trial Lawyers College, an invitation only program dedicated to training and educating trial lawyers who are committed to the jury system and to representing and obtaining justice for individuals. The College was founded and led by legendary trial lawyer, Gerry Spence, over the course of three weeks.. Beyond practicing law, Jed is a husband and father of three young children.  In 2016, he was appointed by Gov. Jon Bel Edwards to serve on the Board of Directors for the Jimmy D. Long, Sr. Louisiana School for Math, Science, and the Arts.  Jed is an actively involved Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) working on behalf of abused and neglected children within the court system.

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.