EXPERIENCE:
ATTORNEY
Storms & Storms - Ruston, Louisiana – 1999
to present
Commercial litigation, construction (heavy), casualty,
employment, contract
litigation and negotiation,
& real estate transactions.
Jones, Walker, Waechter, Carriere & Denegre,
LLP - associate, 1997 to 1998
Primarily assisted in commercial litigation, and appearances in
smaller casualty cases
and some
transactional assistance.
LAW CLERK
Shreveport, Louisiana - 1996 to 1997
Hon. C. A. Marvin, Chief Judge and President of the U. S.
Association of Chief Judges Court of Appeal, Second Circuit,
Shreveport, Louisiana
RESEARCH ASSISTANT
Tulane Law School - 1994 to 1996
Professor A. N. Yiannopoulos
Assisted in editing the Louisiana Civil Code, research and
revision of comparative law, real property, and maritime
publications.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
EDUCATION:
Tulane University
New Orleans, Louisiana
Juris Doctor
Cum Laude
(1996)
B.A., English
Magna Cum Laude, departmental honors (1993)
MEMBERSHIPS
Louisiana Law Institute (official
institution for continuous revision of Louisiana law): Rents and
Annuities committee (2008-), Domicile committee, before and
after Katrina
(2004-2008), law of loan committee (2002-2003);
Editorial board, Louisiana Bar Journal
(2007-); Rotary
International (1999-); Fred Fudickar, Jr. Inns of Court
(2001-).
HONORS
Continuing Legal Education (education of other lawyers or “CLE”)
speaker in LSU Law School’s Construction Law Seminar (Baton
Rouge, 2010), CLE presenter on Federal Civil Procedure (Monroe,
2008) and CLE speaker on recent developments in Family Law
(Monroe, 2009); CLE employment law speaker for the Louisiana
Attorney Disciplinary Board (www.ladb.org;
Monroe 2004 & Ruston 2005); Tulane Summer School presenter in
both Spetses and Rhodos, Greece to discuss comparative labor law
issues focusing particularly on US and EU sexual harassment
rules (2004); representative to the Louisiana Bar Association’s
House of Delegates for the Third Judicial District (2003-);
Lincoln Parish Bar Association: president (2004-2005);
president-elect (2003-2004); treasurer (2001-2003; 2007-2011);
Ruston Rotary Club president (2002-2003); PHI DELTA PHI: legal
honors fraternity; admitted pro hac viche in several
out-of-state matters; attended Aegean Institute of the Law of
the Sea and Maritime Law in Rhodos, Greece (1995); Top appellate
advocate award, Tulane Law School; SIGMA TAU DELTA: English
honors fraternity; Randall Gibson Honor Society and member of
Honor Board at Tulane College. Louisiana All-State Speech Team
(1988); “top speaker” intermediate cross-ex debate at Isadore-Newman
Speech Tournament in New Orleans; awarded full scholarship to
Northwestern State University as a high school sophomore in an
extemporaneous speaking contest. |