Attorney Profile

Preparatory education:

• Louisiana State University
• University of New Orleans
• University of Louisiana at Lafayette

Graduate studies:

• Louisiana State University School of Law 1977

Bar Admissions:

• Louisiana 1977
• Florida 1989

Practice

• All State Courts in Louisiana and Florida
• All Federal Courts in Louisiana

Board certification:

• National Board of Trial Advocacy, Civil Trial Law, 1995

Associations:

• Co-founder of Madisonville Wooden Boat Festival
• Vice President of Citizens for a Clean Tangipahoa
• Executive Counsel to World Studies Institute of Louisiana, Inc.

Work experience:

• construction, survey and seismic crews
• oiler, roughneck and service hand
• inside and outside sales
• research assistant
• chemical plant operator
• taxi driver
• cross country truck driver

International and Maritime experience:

• export of vessels to Caribbean
• formation of international business corporations
• work on numerous oil rigs and support vessels in Louisiana and Texas 1969-1975
• sailed small vessels thousands of miles in waters of Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean, Atlantic, and Pacific.