Litigation: Securities

Our firm regularly represents clients in various types of litigation:

• Commercial: Breach of contract, products liability, construction defect, unfair trade practices, non-competition, breaches of fiduciary duty, construction, tax, business torts, and receivership cases
• Environmental: Plaintiffs in high-stakes environmental litigation in federal and state courts, focusing on claims arising from industrial contamination, contamination and other property damage from oil & gas operations, and land-loss in coastal wetlands
• Class Actions: Plaintiff and defense side
• Securities Litigation & Arbitration: States, municipalities, pensions, hospitals, and high net worth individual plaintiffs; also represent investors in court or in arbitration proceedings administered by FINRA, JAMS, or AAA
• Tax: The Louisiana Department of Revenue in cases seeking to collect corporate income, franchise, and sales taxes
• First Amendment & Media Law: Louisiana’s "go-to" firm
• Appellate: Plaintiffs and defendants in federal and state appeals (and providing appellate-oriented counsel at trial), under flexible fee arrangements, with certified appellate specialists and many former judicial clerks
• Post-Bankruptcy Specialty Litigation: Asserts claims on behalf of liquidating companies, bankruptcy trustees, or assigning creditors against officers and directors of the defunct company; also asserts Debtor’s claims against third parties
• Private International Arbitrations: Claimants before the ICC, UNCITRAL, and ICSID