Storms Law-Exprience

PRIMARY CONTACT

Tyler G. Storms
941 North Trenton Street
Ruston, Louisiana 71270

Phone: 318-255-7805
Fax: 318-255-7815
Email: tstorms@stormslaw.com

Areas of Experience

Construction & Commercial Real Estate
Trust & Estates
Eldercare
Wealth Protection

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.