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Litigation Practice
- Pre-litigaton workout agreements
- Mediation
- Arbitration
• Commercial arbitration, with an emphasis on commercial lease disputes and disputes between business partners
• Construction arbitration
• International arbitration, including contract disputes under UNIDROIT and more specific sales disputes under CISG
- Appeals
• Louisiana state court appeals, including supervisory writs, appeals by right, writs and merits briefing to the Supreme Court of Louisiana
• Federal appeals to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit; petitions for writ of certiorari in the Supreme Court of the United States
• Bankruptcy appeals (to U.S. District Court and U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit)
• Administrative appeals (property tax, zoning, VCC, alcohol/ATC/ABO)
- Litigation (admitted in all state and federal Louisiana courts; U.S. District Court for Southern District of Texas, United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit; Supreme Court of the United States)
• Administrative hearings (local and state)
• Bankruptcy; creditors’ rights
• Breach of contract/lease
• Breach of fiduciary duty and fraud claims
• Collections and open account actions
• Construction disputes, including New Home Warranty Act and lien disputes
• Defamation-styled and malicious prosecution disputes
• Enforcement of judgments, including foreign judgments
• Internal disputes between shareholders/members, including demands by minority owners for judicial determinations of fair market value
• Landlord/tenant matters, including evictions
• Licensing and franchising litigation
• Trademark, Counterfeiting, and Copyright litigation
