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Practice Areas:
Creditor-debtor relationships, bankruptcy and insolvency, corporate restructuring and reorganizations, commercial litigation, general commercial and banking law, and technology law. Involved in major commercial litigation, bankruptcy, and restructuring cases including Cajun Electric Power Cooperative, Entergy New Orleans, Inc., United Companies Financial Corp., Communications Corporation of America, Grand Palais and Crescent City Casinos, Hollywood Casino Shreveport, Perryville Energy, Good Hope Refineries, Borden Chemical, XCL China, Crown Vantage, Ormet Corporation, Orion Corporation, and Crystal Oil Corporation. Appointed as mediator by federal bankruptcy courts and special master in state court.
Professional Achievements:
Fellow, American College of Bankruptcy; Board certified - Business Bankruptcy Law - American Bankruptcy Board of Certification and Louisiana State Bar Association; Adjunct Professor of Law, Bankruptcy and Corporate Reorganizations, Louisiana State University Law School, 1989-______; American Bankruptcy Institute; Frequent lecturer in continuing legal education programs; Louisiana State Bankers Association, Security Device Task Force; Best Lawyers in America (first and all subsequent editions); Order of the Coif; Omicron Delta Kappa; Phi Kappa Phi; Associate Editor, Louisiana Law Review; Fellow, American Bar Association, Louisiana Attorney Disciplinary Board, 1997-2003; Baton Rouge (Chair, Bankruptcy Section, 2005), Louisiana State and American Bar Associations
Education:
Louisiana State University (1974) and Law Center (1978). | 