Securities lawyers in Louisiana Bruce Schewe to Patrick J.

Firm: Phelps Dunbar

Canal Place , New Orleans , Louisiana 70130

Practice Areas: Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Appellate , Arbitration, Civil , Copyrights, Energy , Securities , Commercial, Commercial, Commercial, Commercial, Commercial, Commercial

Bruce Schewe concentrates in arbitrations and trials, appellate matters, corporate and securities law, antitrust issues, business litigation and energy law.  During his more than 30 years of practice, he has tried/arbitrated to judgment/award more than 70 actions. A portion of his practice includes representing numerous broker dealers, registered representatives and claimants in arbitrations that the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA, formerly the National Association of Securities Dealers) administers. Mr. Schewe additionally represents many broker dealers and registered representatives in audits that FINRA or the SEC conducts or in enforcement actions or inquiries that FINRA or the SEC initiates. He has served on numerous panels of arbitrators that adjudicated actions in FINRA’s system. He also represents a number of clients in the areas of real estate transactions, corporate matters, expropriation, antitrust, intellectual property and oil and gas. In 1978, Mr. Schewe received a commission as a Second Lieutenant in the United States Army. He served in the United States Army reserves and the Louisiana Army National Guard until his discharge in 1983 (as a First Lieutenant).

Firm: Loeb Law Firm

1180 W Causeway Approach , Mandeville , Louisiana 70471

Practice Areas: Business , Corporate , Drugs & Medical Devices, Insurance , Products Liability, Securities , Toxic Substances, Litigation, Litigation

Lauren Fajoni Bartlett has been an active member of the Florida bar since 2002, and she has been practicing law in Louisiana since 2003. While in Florida, she practiced real estate litigation and, in Louisiana, she maintains an active general litigation defense practice particularly in the areas of:. • Insurance Defense• Drug and Medical Device• General Product Liability Litigation• Contract Disputes. She also maintains an active general commercial litigation practice, which consists of a heavy motion practice, alternative dispute resolution and appellate review. Lauren has also developed a specialized practice in the area of Medicaid law and Medicare/MSP compliance and serves as the firm’s in-house consultant on cases that may be affected by the Medicare Secondary Payer laws, including those involving Medicare beneficiaries or claimants who may require long term future care.. Lauren is an active member in good standing in all state and federal courts in Florida and Louisiana. Her legal experience includes aggressively advocating on behalf of insurance companies, major corporations and small businesses, arbitrating and mediating cases, trial advocacy, appellate practice, and she maintains an active pre- and post-trial motion practice.. She currently holds a position on the steering committee for DRI’s Product Liability Group, and she continues to publish with the Trucking and Insurance Law committees as well.. Lauren is also a regular speaker for the National Business Institute, which organizes CLE programs both on the national and local level. Prior to attending law school, she worked for the Executive Office of the Governor before gaining employment as a freelance political consultant.

Firm: Barrasso, Usdin, Kupperman, Freeman & Sarver, LLC

LL & E Tower909 Poydras St Ste 2400 , New Orleans , Louisiana 70112

Practice Areas: Corporate , Insurance , Regulatory , Securities , Litigation, Litigation, Litigation, Litigation, Litigation, Litigation, Litigation, Litigation

Firm: Correro Fishman Haygood Phelps Walmsley and Casteix, L.L.P.

Place St Charles   46th Floor , New Orleans , Louisiana 70170

Practice Areas: Corporate ,Mergers & Acquisitions,Securities

Firm: Phelps Dunbar, LLP

365 Canal St Ste 2000 , New Orleans , Louisiana 70130

Practice Areas: Corporate , Securities , Corporate & Incorporation, Corporate & Incorporation, Corporate & Incorporation, Corporate & Incorporation, Corporate & Incorporation, Corporate & Incorporation

Mark Jeanfreau practices in the area of business law, with a focus on corporate and securities law and mergers and acquisitions. He has particular experience in all aspects of public and private company representation, including public offerings, private placements, reporting obligations under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, proxy contests, general corporate governance matters, as well as mergers and acquisitions for both publicly-traded corporations and privately-held firms. His practice includes the securities aspects of the executive compensation and employee benefits areas, as well as matters arising under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976. Mr. Jeanfreau also represents investors in venture capital and private equity transactions.

Firm: Graffagnini, L.C.

127 Camp Street , New Orleans , Louisiana 70130

Practice Areas: Bankruptcy, Business , Intellectual Property , Securities , Technology and Science, Securities Offerings, Securities Offerings, Securities Offerings, Securities Offerings, Securities Offerings

I founded Graffagnini, L.C. in 2010 after working as an associate in one of the top large law firms in Palo Alto. I represent companies and invesotrs in venture capital, angel capital, M&A and securities issues. With offices in New Orleans, Louisiana and Palo Alto, California, we serve an international client base and usually provide outside general counsel services for fast growing companies. We also represent individuals and businesses in litigation and regulatory matters. We represent 2 companies on Entrepreneur Magazine's 100 Brilliant Companies, and our clients are on the fast track to major IPOs or acquisition exits. We put skin in the game and take a modern approach to our work, meaning that we can help you scale more quickly without taking all of your financing funds in our fees. We prefer to use flat fee engagements on financing and M&A matters. Graffagnini, L.C. is a quickly growing law firm, and our clients prefer our approach to working with them to scale their businesses.

Firm: Phelps Dunbar

Canal Place , New Orleans , Louisiana 70130

Practice Areas: Banking & Finance, Corporate , Mergers & Acquisitions, Securities , Business, Business, Business

Mark Fullmer practices in the areas of business and finance and corporate and securities. He represents start-up companies as well as companies in the mature stages of their growth cycle. His practice in the area of corporate and securities includes all aspects of public and private company representation, including public offerings, private placements, corporate governance, compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley, and mergers and acquisitions. He has also represented both venture capital funds and investors in private equity transactions.

Firm: Adams & Reese, LLP

One Shell Square701 Poydras St Ste 4500 , New Orleans , Louisiana 70139

Practice Areas: Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Business & Commercial, Corporate , Education , Securities , Antitrust & Trade Law, Antitrust & Trade Law, Antitrust & Trade Law, Antitrust & Trade Law, Antitrust & Trade Law

Firm: Fishman Haygood Phelps Walmsley Willis & Swanson, LLP

201 Saint Charles Ave Fl 46 , New Orleans , Louisiana 70170

Practice Areas: Corporate , Securities , Business, Business, Business

Firm: Barrasso, Usdin, Kupperman, Freeman & Sarver, LLC

909 Poydras St Ste 2400 , New Orleans , Louisiana 70112

Practice Areas: Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Arbitration, Civil , Corporate , Securities , Securities & Investment Fraud, Securities & Investment Fraud, Securities & Investment Fraud, Securities & Investment Fraud

Firm: Jones Fussell, LLP

Northlake Corporate Park 1001 Service Rd E Hwy 190 Ste 103 , Covington , Louisiana 70433

Practice Areas: Business & Commercial, Corporate , Employment & Labor , Intellectual Property , Mergers & Acquisitions, Natural Resources, Real Estate , Securities , Business, Business, Business

Firm: Peiffer Rosca Abdullah & Carr, LLC

201 Saint Charles Ave Ste 4610 , New Orleans , Louisiana 70170

Practice Areas: Civil , Corporate , Securities , Securities & Investment Fraud, Securities & Investment Fraud, Securities & Investment Fraud, Securities & Investment Fraud, Securities & Investment Fraud, Securities & Investment Fraud

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.

Firm: Stone Pigman Walther Wittmann, LLC

909 Poydras St Ste 3150 , New Orleans , Louisiana 70112

Practice Areas: Corporate , International & Trade, Mergers & Acquisitions, Securities , Business, Business

Firm: Harper Law Firm

213 Texas St , Shreveport , Louisiana 71101

Practice Areas: Business & Commercial, Business , Corporate , Intellectual Property , Securities , Intellectual Property, Intellectual Property, Intellectual Property

Firm: Jack G. Wheeler Law, L.L.C.

929 W Mcneese St Ste B , Lake Charles , Louisiana 70605

Practice Areas: Arbitration, Business & Commercial, Civil , Corporate Finance, Estate Planning, Mergers & Acquisitions, Probate , Securities , Taxation - State & Federal, Trusts, Tax

Firm: Lambert Zainey Smith & Soso

701 Magazine St , New Orleans , Louisiana 70130

Practice Areas: Admiralty & Maritime, Aviation & Aerospace, Class Actions, Consumer Protection, Drugs & Medical Devices, Environmental , Personal Injury, Products Liability, Securities , Toxic Substances, Personal Injury, Personal Injury

Hugh Lambert founded The Lambert Firm (now Lambert Zainey Smith & Soso) in 1977 and has since grown the firm to one of the most prestigious and well respected firms in New Orleans, representing individuals and businesses alike in a wide range of legal matters. In addition to his legal representation, Hugh Lambert is a frequent lecturer across the United States on class actions and mass torts. He has also authored and published legal articles. He has held a broad range of leadership positions in many organizations devoted to law, civic and charitable pursuits. He is a member in good standing of numerous state and federal courts throughout the United States in which results favorable to the firm’s clients have been achieved.. ADMISSIONS. State of Louisiana US District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana US District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana US District Court for the Western District of Louisiana US District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan US Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals US Federal Claims Court. PRO HAC APPEARANCES. Alabama Arizona California Illinois Maine Maryland Michigan Mississippi New Jersey North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Rhode Island South Carolina Tennessee Texas West Virginia

Firm: Donald L. Beckner & Associates

Building 7   A , Baton Rouge , Louisiana 70808

Practice Areas: Bankruptcy,Business & Commercial,Construction ,Securities

Firm: Deutsch Kerrigan LLP

755 Magazine St , New Orleans , Louisiana 70130

Practice Areas: Aviation & Aerospace, Business & Commercial, Environmental , Products Liability, Securities , Toxic Substances, Mesothelioma & Asbestos, Mesothelioma & Asbestos, Mesothelioma & Asbestos, Mesothelioma & Asbestos, Mesothelioma & Asbestos

I represent clients in serious personal injury, property damage and wrongful death claims arising from aviation, oil and gas activities, products liability and chemical exposures. I defend under professional E&O coverage (legal, insurance broker, accounting). I've handled insurance coverage litigation involving aviation and CGL coverages, as well as business and contractual disputes.. I also have an appellate practice in the above areas of law and have participated in complex litigation.

233 North College Road , Lafayette , Louisiana 70506

Practice Areas: Automobile Accidents,Personal Injury,Securities

Firm: Montgomery, Barnett, Brown, Read, Hammond & Mintz, LLP

3200 Energy Centre   1100 Poydras Street Louisia , New Orleans , Louisiana 70163

Practice Areas: Banking & Finance,Bankruptcy,Estate Planning,Probate ,Securities