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Patrice “Patti” Oppenheim concentrates her practice in the area of Family Law, including Mediation, Divorce, Custody, Child Support, Spousal Support, Adoption, Grandparent Rights and Community Property. Patti offers a seasoned and unique perspective on Family Law, having worked for the 22nd Judicial District Court Family Court for the past 10 years.. She earned a B.A. (1984) from Louisiana State University and her J.D. (1991) from Loyola University, New Orleans, College of Law. She was a member of the Loyola Law Review and was the Casenote/Quantum Editor. Patti published Wooten v. Pumpkin Air, Inc.: A Watery Grave for State Conflicts of Law Analysis on the Outer Continental Shelf, 35 Loy. L. Rev. 1453 (1990). She graduated in the top 15% of her class.. Patti served as the Staff Attorney and Hearing Officer for Judge Mary Devereux, 22nd Judicial District Court from January 2009 until August 2018 where she helped the two newly elected Family Court judges re-shape the practice of Family Law in the 22nd JDC. She was instrumental in creating forms for the Family Court’s Self-Help Resource Center which allow people to represent themselves in limited circumstances. Patti organized National Adoption Day for Family Court for several years while with Family Court and then volunteered to re-start the program to Judge Scott Gardner in 2018 after returning to private practice.. She became certified as a Family Law Specialist in 2010 and embraces alternative dispute resolution as a trained Family Law Mediator.. Patti is a member of the Louisiana State Bar Association, the 22nd Judicial District Court Bar Association and the Washington Parish Bar Association. She is the Administrator and Counselor for the 22nd JDC Inns of Court which promotes attorney professionalism. Patti is active in our community including her current Board of Director position with the Northshore Food Bank, past President of the Junior League of Greater Covington, Leadership St. Tammany, former board member of her subdivision, member of the Republican Professional Women of St. Tammany, Delegate to the Louisiana State Bar Association’s House of Delegates and member of the Louisiana State Bar Association’s Self-Represented Litigant Committee and its Forms Committee. Additionally, she is the Secretary of the Family Law Section of the Louisiana State Bar Association and the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts (national and state).. Patti is married to Dan Oppenheim who is an owner and runs a locally owned finance company. She and Dan are the proud parents of Rachel, Rebecca and Ryan, all of whom graduated from Mandeville High School.

My practice focuses on family law, personal injury, wills & successions, and miscellaneous civil law issues.  I am originally from New Orleans East and am a proud graduate of Lake Castle Elementary, Benjamin Franklin High School.  I have  Bachelor's Degree in Anthropology and Civil Law, and a Juris Doctorate, all from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge.. I moved back to New Orleans in the summer of 2005 (bad timing).  I first started practicing as an associate attorney for Roy Bowes in Gretna, Louisiana.  After four years in which I gained valuable experience and knowledge of the surrounding court systems, I started the Shepherd Law Firm at the very end of 2009.. My first office was on Canal St., in Mid-City.  I later moved to Metairie.  Meanwhile, as my family grew we moved our home to Mandeville, Louisiana.  I have since moved my home office to Mandeville also.. I also have arrangements to meet clients in offices in Metairie, Mid-City, and Gretna.  I am quite familiar with all state courts in St. Tammany, Jefferson, Orleans, St. Charles, Lafourche, and St. John.  I have practiced throughout Southeast Louisiana.

Attorney Lindsey S. Olsen is a lifelong resident of the Northshore. She graduated from Fountainbleau High School and later received a bachelor of arts from Louisiana State University. She attended Loyola University New Orleans College of Law and provided legal representation to indigent clients as a student practitioner in the family law section of the Stuart H. Smith Law Clinic. While in law school, Lindsey became aware of her love for family law and quickly broadened her perspective to include successions and estate planning in her education.

Andrea Erwin Potter was born in New Orleans and spent most of her early childhood in Metairie, Louisiana.  At the age of 10 she moved about 60 miles west of New Orleans to a small town on the bayou, Thibodaux.  She graduated from Thibodaux High in 1998.  Missing the vibe of the city, she returned to New Orleans and received her B.A. in Public Relations from Tulane University in 2006, the first semester after Hurricane Katrina. Then she went on to receive her J.D. degree from Loyola University College of Law, graduating with a 3.369.. While attending Loyola, Mrs. Potter served on the Journal of Public Interest, Loyola’s Trial Advocacy Organization and represented clients under Professor Cheryl Buchert in the Stuart H. Smith Law Clinic and Center for Social Justice.  She was selected as a teaching assistant by Dr. JoAnne Sweeny for Legal Research and Writing.  She was honored by the American Bar Association as a third-place winner of the Schwab Memorial Essay hosted by the Family Law Section.  Her article, Sexting and Louisiana’s Punishment for the Children the Law Intends to Protect from Prosecution Under Child Pornography Statutes, was published in the American Bar Association Family Law Quarterly, Vol. 45, No. 3.  Moreover, her article, Juvenile Justice, was also published in the American Bar Association Student Lawyer Magazine in February of 2013.  She was awarded the Best Direct Examination by the Trial Advocacy Board of 2011.. Andrea’s emphasis in her law practice stems from her own childhood as a product of divorce.  As she grew up her curiosity was piqued as to why she could not live with her father all the time.  So, while attending law school she decided her focus would be family law and child advocacy.  In 2010, Andrea worked for the Honorable Mary Devereux at the 22nd Judicial District Court where she learned divorce methods, community property settlements, co-parenting guidelines including visitation, custody and support, and prenuptial agreements.  In 2011, Andrea clerked for the Honorable Nancy Amato Konrad at Jefferson Parish Juvenile Court where she learned the importance of rehabilitation of minors in order to provide them with a chance to become productive members of society.  Furthermore, she gained advocacy experience in juvenile criminal defense.  Upon entering the legal industry Mrs. Potter joined a New Orleans Firm, Venezia & Associates in 2013.  Then she and her husband decided to move to Mandeville, and she opened a family law practice.

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